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New $29 battery-powered MachXO2 Pico Development Kit from Lattice
Clive Maxfield4/25/2011 12:04 PM EDT
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Dr DSP
This is a great board for the price. Snap it up quick so you don't miss the ...
Max the Magnificent
I always worry when I see things like "3X more logic, 10X more power..." ... but ...
The folks at Lattice Semiconductor have just announced the immediate availability of their new $29 MachXO2 Pico Development Kit for prototyping low power, space constrained consumer designs.
Built on a low power 65-nm process featuring embedded Flash technology, MachXO2 devices provide designers of low density PLDs a mix of low cost, low power, and high system integration in a single device. These devices are ideal for low power applications such as smart phones, mobile computing, GPS devices and digital cameras, and for control PLD applications in end markets such as telecom infrastructure, computing, high-end industrial and high-end medical.
“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. “The MachXO2 Pico Development Kit provides designers with a flexible and low cost platform to rapidly evaluate and verify their designs in hardware.”
About the MachXO2 Pico Development Kit
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, an LCD display and capacitive touch sense buttons. Using the preloaded Environment Scanning system-on-chip (SOC) design provided with the development kit, designers can now optimize power using multiple operating modes that are typical of low power consumer applications.
They can also test, within minutes, popular interfaces such as UART, SPI, I2C and LCD control using the integrated 8-bit LatticeMico8 microcontroller in conjunction with the MachXO2 Embedded Function Bock (EFB). Designers can then build their own designs using the free downloadable reference design source code, implementing these features in less than an hour.
The MachXO2 Pico evaluation board can be powered up using a battery or a USB cable. The development kit includes a USB cable for device programming and QuickSTART documentation. The associated free reference designs and free Lattice Diamond design software can be downloaded from the Lattice website, www.latticesemi.com.
Pricing and availability
Promotional pricing for the MachXO2 Pico Development Kit is $29 and is good for kits ordered via the Lattice online store and through authorized Lattice distributors through July 29, 2011 or while promotional quantities last. Click Here for more information regarding the MachXO2 Pico Development Kit.
Click Here for more information about the Lattice MachXO2 PLD family. Customers can start designing with MachXO2 devices and the MachXO2 Pico Development Kit today using Lattice Diamond v1.2 software, which can be downloaded for free from the Lattice website.
About the MachXO2 PLD family
The MachXO2 devices provide designers of low density PLDs a mix of low cost, low power, and high system integration in a single device. Built on a low power 65-nm process featuring embedded Flash 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 to as low as 19uW and up to 30% lower cost compared to the prior generation MachXO PLD family.
These devices are ideal for control PLD applications in end markets such as telecom infrastructure, computing, high end industrial, high end medical, and low power applications such as smart phones, GPS devices and digital cameras.
Built on a low power 65-nm process featuring embedded Flash technology, MachXO2 devices provide designers of low density PLDs a mix of low cost, low power, and high system integration in a single device. These devices are ideal for low power applications such as smart phones, mobile computing, GPS devices and digital cameras, and for control PLD applications in end markets such as telecom infrastructure, computing, high-end industrial and high-end medical.
“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. “The MachXO2 Pico Development Kit provides designers with a flexible and low cost platform to rapidly evaluate and verify their designs in hardware.”
About the MachXO2 Pico Development Kit
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, an LCD display and capacitive touch sense buttons. Using the preloaded Environment Scanning system-on-chip (SOC) design provided with the development kit, designers can now optimize power using multiple operating modes that are typical of low power consumer applications.
They can also test, within minutes, popular interfaces such as UART, SPI, I2C and LCD control using the integrated 8-bit LatticeMico8 microcontroller in conjunction with the MachXO2 Embedded Function Bock (EFB). Designers can then build their own designs using the free downloadable reference design source code, implementing these features in less than an hour.
The MachXO2 Pico evaluation board can be powered up using a battery or a USB cable. The development kit includes a USB cable for device programming and QuickSTART documentation. The associated free reference designs and free Lattice Diamond design software can be downloaded from the Lattice website, www.latticesemi.com.
Pricing and availability
Promotional pricing for the MachXO2 Pico Development Kit is $29 and is good for kits ordered via the Lattice online store and through authorized Lattice distributors through July 29, 2011 or while promotional quantities last. Click Here for more information regarding the MachXO2 Pico Development Kit.
Click Here for more information about the Lattice MachXO2 PLD family. Customers can start designing with MachXO2 devices and the MachXO2 Pico Development Kit today using Lattice Diamond v1.2 software, which can be downloaded for free from the Lattice website.
About the MachXO2 PLD family
The MachXO2 devices provide designers of low density PLDs a mix of low cost, low power, and high system integration in a single device. Built on a low power 65-nm process featuring embedded Flash 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 to as low as 19uW and up to 30% lower cost compared to the prior generation MachXO PLD family.
These devices are ideal for control PLD applications in end markets such as telecom infrastructure, computing, high end industrial, high end medical, and low power applications such as smart phones, GPS devices and digital cameras.
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Max the Magnificent
4/25/2011 12:16 PM EDT
I always worry when I see things like "3X more logic, 10X more power..." ... but then when I see that someone is comparing themselves to an earlier version of their own product I think "OK, that's fair enough..."
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Dr DSP
4/28/2011 11:57 AM EDT
This is a great board for the price. Snap it up quick so you don't miss the promotional price/quantity limitation than put together a cool battery-based design. The MachXO2 is a great alternative to an MCU since it has the dedicated peripherals that are most common in MCU designs...
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