Lattice Semi releases FPGA design tools

Lattice Semiconductor Corporation announced Version 1.0 of its Lattice Diamond™ FPGA design software, its flagship design environment for Lattice FPGA products. The firm said Lattice Diamond software provides “a complete set of powerful tools, efficient design flows and a modern user interface that enables designers to more quickly target low power, cost sensitive FPGA applications.”

Mike Kendrick, Lattice’s manager of software product planning, said Diamond software provides an intuitive design environment that addresses the critical design issues of cost sensitive, lower power applications. “As designs become larger, and FPGAs are increasingly being used in more cost sensitive, high volume applications, designers need an easy to learn, flexible design environment for exploring different implementations to achieve their cost, power, and performance targets,” he said.

Kendrick added that Diamond software provides features previously released within Lattice’s ispLEVER^® design environment, which is used for configuring automotive-qualified CPLDs.

Video demonstrations of the Lattice Diamond design software can be viewed at www.latticesemi.com/latticediamond/videos. Additional information on automotive solutions is available at http://www.latticesemi.com/solutions/marketsolutions/automotive/index.cfm?source=topnav.