FPGAs enhance differentiating features for mobiles

15th July 2014

Nat Bowers

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Enabling mobile consumer device manufacturers to quickly implement differentiating features, Lattice Semiconductor has introduced the iCE40 Ultra FPGA family. The company claims that it delivers unsurpassed integration of emerging infrared remote, barcode, touch, user identification and pedometer functions with sufficient customisation capabilities.

Delivering five times more functionality with a 30% smaller size than competing solutions, iCE40 Ultra FPGAs consume 75% less power than previous devices. This enables designers to give their systems more compact form factors and a longer battery life. This FPGA family integrates LED drivers, multipliers and accumulators, serial interfaces and more hardened IP. This ASSP-like integration reduces system power and speeds implementation so designers can spend more time on the customisation.

Designed to provide the fastest time to market for a diversity of capabilities in smartphones, tablets, wearables and other mobile devices, Lattice's iCECube2 tool provides additional software support.

The smallest iCE40 Ultra device is supplied in a WLCS (wafer level chip scale) package measuring just 1.7x2.1x0.45mm. Lattice has claimed that no other solution on the market delivers so much capability and flexibility at low power in such a small package.

“Lattice’s iCE40 Ultra family further frees designers to customise any way they want in order to win big in their markets by implementing amazing features their customers can’t live without,” commented Darin Billerbeck, President and CEO, Lattice Semiconductor.

iCE40 Ultra family devices are available now.