Lattice Unveils MachXO2 Pico Development Kit

Allowing users to prototype low power, space constrained consumer designs, Lattice Semiconductor announced the immediate availability of its new $29 MachXO2 Pico Development Kit.

Combining an optimized look-up table (LUT) architecture with 65-nm embedded Flash process technology, the MachXO2 family delivers a 3X increase in logic density, a 10X increase in embedded memory, more than a 100X reduction in static power and up to 30 percent lower cost compared to the prior generation MachXO PLD family.

MachXO2 devices provide designers of low density PLDs an unprecedented mix of low cost, low power and high system integration in a single device and are built on a low power 65-nm process featuring embedded Flash technology. In end markets such as telecom infrastructure, computing, high end industrial and high end medical, these devices are ideal for low power applications such as smart phones, mobile computing, GPS devices and digital cameras, and for control PLD applications.

“Designers of consumer applications are faced with the increasing challenge of delivering new standards and features within a short time-to-market window,” said Shantanu Dhavale, senior product marketing manager for low density solutions at Lattice. “The MachXO2 Pico Development Kit provides designers with a flexible and low cost platform to rapidly evaluate and verify their designs in hardware.”

Apart from providing an LCD display and capacitive touch sense buttons, the MachXO2 Pico Development Kit features the MachXO2 LCMXO2-1200ZE device, 1 Mbit SPI Flash, I2C temperature sensor, an expansion header for JTAG, SPI, I2C and GPIO interfaces. Designers can now optimize power using multiple operating modes that are typical of low power consumer applications, using the preloaded Environment Scanning system-on-chip (SOC) design provided with the development kit.

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