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Lattice low power FPGA technology helped the Swissloop design team engineer an award-winning hyperloop pod.

Enhancements to version 4.0 of the award-winngin Lattice sensAI solution stack include support for the Lattice Propel design environment and the Lattice sensAI Studio design environment for end-to-end ML model training, validation, and compilation.

At a security seminar in March of 2021, Lattice Semiconductor addressed the concepts of cyber resiliency and protecting supply chains from cyberattack.

Using MachXO3D FPGAs, automotive system developers can implement hardware security so a car’s electronic systems can protect, detect, and recover from unauthorized access.

The Lattice Propel design environment lets hardware and software developers quickly and easily develop Lattice FPGA-based applications in minutes.

Read the latest comms and computing news from Lattice: Low power wireless Heterogenous Networks development and upgrade security with Lattice’s MachXO3D FPGA.

Read the latest automotive and industrial news from Lattice: New MachXO3D FPGA brings secures entire systems with hardware root-of-trust, Crosslink bridge connects industrial displays to mobile processors, new 3D Depth Mapping demo, new Scaler IP core for ECP5, and a new version of Diamond Software v 3.11 adds support for MachXO3D.

We live in an increasingly connected world, filled with communication systems, cloud computing and Edge devices working together to increase safety, comfort and convenience. But with that connectivity comes risk. We’re all familiar with how hackers exploit vulnerabilities in software to illegitimately access systems, but hardware is also vulnerable.

There is an emerging, though not widely known attack vector for hacking a server: firmware. Last month, researchers at ESET published a report on Lojax, a rootkit (firmware hacking tool) believed to have been developed by Sednit, the notorious cyberespionage group linked to Russian military intelligence.

You may be asking yourself, “What does a nineteenth century architect have to do with FPGAs?” A key decision facing many system architects is which FPGA families to use in their next project. Lattice currently offers four classes of FPGAs: iCE, ECP, Mach and CrossLink. It is often tempting to think of FPGAs as just a blank canvas, ready to be filled with digital logic.

A key benefit of programmable logic devices, such as FPGAs and CPLDs, is their programmability. These devices are typically deployed with a unique design intended to address application-specific problems. And because of these problems, many embedded systems that deploy programmable products benefit greatly from the ability to update their design and configuration after manufacturing. An upgrade feature is useful for multiple end-applications.

Building designs around state of the art microcontrollers and embedded processors brings along a specific challenge: not enough I/Os and interfaces. Today’s embedded systems have more real-time data and control requirements than ever.

Celebrating its 50th birthday, CES 2017 did not disappoint. Hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Las Vegas to get a first look at the latest technology for the upcoming year. During the 4 days, the biggest names in consumer electronics and startups alike wowed us with products and technologies that promise to make our lives easier and more efficient. Here are some of the trends we saw at the event and how we can support them.

Today’s designers face a major challenge: How do I pack more functionality into a board, and do it faster and cheaper? The go-to approach to solving this problem is to implement data path or payload functions using highly integrated ASICs and SoCs. However, the design is not complete by simply connecting all the large devices together.