Date: 09/05/2012

Production release of mobileFPGA device families from Lattice

Lattice Semiconductor Corporation has announced that eight devices of its iCE40 "Los Angeles" mobileFPGA family have been fully qualified and released into volume production. The LP640, LP1K, LP4K and LP8K devices of the iCE40 low power LP-Series, and the HX640, HX1K, HX4K and HX8K devices of the higher performance iCE40 HX-Series, have been production released with 17 different device/package combinations.

The iCE40 mobileFPGA family is fabricated on non-volatile 40nm technology and follows the 65nm iCE65 family.

The iCEblink40-HX development kit comes with an iCE40HX1K-VQ100 device and the iCEblink40-LP (low power) development kit comes with an iCE40LP1K-QN84 device. Both devices offer 1280 look up tables of logic, 64K bits of on-chip memory, and 67 user I/O. The USB-powered iCEblink40 development kits include features such as 1Mbit of SPI Flash memory, capacitive touch buttons, LEDs and access to all user I/Os.

The iCEblink40 development kit costs $39.