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[From the Show Floor]
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Lattice Shows FPGAs with Sonifex
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~ April 14, 2008
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Lattice Semiconductor Corporation is showing its LatticeECP2M field programmable gate array (FPGA) chip in the Sonifex booth (N4919), where it has been designed into the Sonifex RM-HD1 HD-SDI expansion card for the RM-2S4, RM-2S10 and RM-4C8 line of Reference Monitors. The on-chip SERDES (serializer/deserializer) capability and other programmable features of the LatticeECP2M FPGA are used to de-embed audio from an SDI source (SD/HD) and to reclock the SD data on the transmit side.
The LatticeECP2M family maintains all of the compelling features of the 90nm LatticeECP2 family that are required for high-volume, cost-sensitive applications, while increasing memory capacity (ranging from 1.2 Mbits to 5.3 Mbits), DSP resources (ranging from 24 to 168 multipliers) and adding up to 16 channels of 3.125Gbps SERDES on-chip.
The five devices in the series, ranging in size from 19K to 95K lookup tables (LUTs), provide a cost effective alternative for implementing PCI Express, Ethernet, Serial RapidIO and CPRI/OBSAI interfaces. A flexible PCS layer that includes 8b/10b encoding, an Ethernet link state machine and rate matching circuitry also are built onto the chip.
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