February 2008
Lattice Semiconductor announced that Praesum Communications, a switching and bridging solutions provider for networking and telecommunications applications, has optimized its high-performance Serial RapidIO® Interface Endpoint solution for the LatticeECP2M™ family of low-cost 90nm FPGAs, which feature integrated SERDES I/O. Moreover, Praesum has joined Lattice's ispLeverCORE™ Connections IP partner program. Lattice and Praesum plan to develop and deliver complete system solutions targeting digital signal processing, embedded computing, military/aerospace and communications infrastructure for their mutual customers who require high-performance Serial RapidIO connectivity as well as low-cost, low power, and tight form-factors.
The Praesum core supports RapidIO 1x connectivity at data rates up to 3.125 Gbps. Depending upon the chosen feature set, the RapidIO 1.3 compliant core consumes 50 - 70% of an LFE2M20, the smallest member of the LatticeECP2M family. This makes available significant device resources for implementing customer applications like bridging to data plane interfaces, such as CPRI, or control plane interfaces, such as PCI Express. In spite of its small footprint, the core supports advanced features such as the RapidIO Error Management Extensions.
“Our partnership with Praesum is yet another example of Lattice’s strategy to deliver ‘More of the Best’ solutions for high-speed serial protocols with our industry-leading LatticeECP2M low-cost SERDES technology,” said Stan Kopec, Lattice corporate vice president of marketing. “Lattice is pleased that Praesum, an industry pioneer in providing Serial RapidIO solutions for FPGAs, recognizes the advantages in power, size, scale and value that the LatticeECP2M brings to this applications space. Praesum’s technology has been proven with established leaders in the Serial RapidIO market and with industry-leading processors, embedded systems and communications switches. We believe the Serial RapidIO user community will be quite receptive to the value proposition the LatticeECP2M family offers compared to traditional and more expensive high-end FPGA and ASSP devices.”
“Praesum sees significant opportunity for its LatticeECP2M-based Serial RapidIO solutions in the wireless systems infrastructure market. The LatticeECP2M’s unique combination of high-speed SERDES for multiple protocols, miserly power consumption, small scale packaging and outstanding value lends itself well to current Serial RapidIO design trends, especially where multiple protocols are involved,” said Kent Dahlgren, president and CTO of Praesum Communications. “When combined with our RapidIO End Point IP, the LatticeECP2M devices significantly reduce the cost to connect application specific functions to a RapidIO fabric.”
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