Lattice gives iCE40 more power, I/O and memory

Lattice Semiconductor has increased the specification of its iCE40 range of low power FPGAs for mobile applications such as wearables and drones.

By Richard Wilson, Dec. 12, 2016 – 

The new devices, dubbed UltraPlus, have more memory (1.1 Mbit RAM), twice the digital signal processors (8x DSPs), and improved I/Os over previous generations.

Typically they are used for application specific processing offload in battery-powered systems. These applications include: voice recognition, gesture recognition, image recognition, haptic and graphics acceleration.

According to Lattice: "More DSPs offer the ability to compute higher- quality algorithms, while increased memory allows data to be buffered for longer low-power states. The flexible I/Os enable a more distributed heterogeneous processing architecture."

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