Lattice Unveils First FPGAs on FD-SOI

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Power slashed to a quarter of competing devices' consumption

eetimes.com, Dec. 11, 2019 – 

Lattice Semiconductor has launched a new FPGA technology platform for its low-power FPGAs based on 28nm fully depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) process technology. The company also announced its first FD-SOI product, CrossLink-NX.

Lattice announced its intention to transition to FD-SOI for new products a couple of years ago, in order to take advantage of the process technology's inherent strengths in power consumption and reliability. The company's Nexus FD-SOI platform continues its focus on small form factor, low power FPGAs, and is optimized for devices with 10-200k logic cells.

"We are using Nexus to enable the development of some FPGA families that provide up to 75% reduction in power compared with competing families, are 100 times more reliable in terms of soft error rate, are able to deliver the smallest form factor. They have some of the performance features that we see people are needing in high performance edge computers," said Gordon Hands, director of product marketing, Lattice Semiconductor.

Gordon Hands, Lattice

Gordon Hands (Image: Lattice)

The Nexus platform is based on the 28nm FD-SOI process at Samsung Foundry. Moving forward, this platform will be used to develop new products more quickly, since it allows design reuse and lowers development cost, Hands said. Nexus includes system-level solutions that combine design software and pre-engineered soft IP blocks with evaluation boards, kits and reference designs.

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