Visit the Zuken web site
Click on the advert above to visit the company web site

Product category: Programmable Logic Devices
News Release from: Lattice Semiconductor UK | Subject: ORSPI4
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 21 November 2003

ASIC and FPGA come together to optimise
SPI4.2

Request your FREE weekly copy of the Electronicstalk email newsletter. News about Programmable Logic Devices and more every issue. Click here for details.

The ORSPI4 is a novel a field-programmable SPI4.2 SoC that efficiently integrates ASIC and FPGA technologies.

The ORSPI4 is a novel a field-programmable SPI4.2 SoC that efficiently integrates ASIC and FPGA technologies By combining the two approaches, Lattice has developed a more highly integrated, higher performance, lower cost and lower power SPI4.2 solution when compared to a full FPGA implementation

The pre-engineered ASIC block on the ORSPI4 contains two SPI4.2 interface blocks, a high-speed quad datarate (QDR II) SRAM memory controller, four channels of 600Mbit/s to 3.7Gbit/s serdes, 8b/10b encoding/decoding and other supporting logic.

Connected to the ASIC block is a high performance FPGA with over 16,000 FPGA logic elements plus embedded block RAM.

The ORSPI4 FPSC is the world's most highly-integrated field programmable SoC targeted at line card applications for high-speed communications systems in the metro space.

"The ORSPI4 FPSC is the tenth FPSC product that Lattice has introduced into the market, but the first targeted specifically at a growing line card segment", said Stan Kopec, Vice President of Corporate Marketing at Lattice.