Date: 09/10/2008

ECP2M family development kit for fast PCI express design

Lattice Semiconductor announced the availability of a new PCI Express development kit for its LatticeECP2M family of 90nm FPGAs. Based on a new PCI Express x1/x4 evaluation board, the kit accelerates development of PCI Express designs using the LatticeECP2M family.

The new kit includes four key capabilities as explained below.

1. The kit enables users to bring up running PCI Express hardware in thirty minutes or less.
2. Various demo executables address control plane through data plane performance requirements.
3. Source files for the demos are available that enable rebuilding designs up to a known good starting point.
4. The kit enables a rapid transition to design exploration through the included software tools, IP enabled evaluation process and project source directories.

The demos available include a control plane application, a throughput demo for high-bandwidth applications, and two demos supporting scatter-gather DMA capabilities: a color bar demo and an image transfer demo (which also makes use of the Lattice Scatter-Gather DMA IP core). All of the demos use the new LatticeECP2M PCI Express x1/x4 endpoint ispLeverCORE IP, version 3.3.

Pricing: $895.00.

For more information, visit: www.latticesemi.com