FPGAs for Advanced Sensor are ideal for feature-rich device designs

Mouser now offers the iCE40UP3K and iCE40UP5K iCE40 UltraPlus FPGAs from Lattice Semiconductor. The newest additions to the company's iCE40 product family, the UltraPlus FPGA and sensor manager devices claim to deliver eight times more memory, twice the number of DSPs and improved programmable input and outputs (I/Os) compared to earlier generations of the products. The devices are both based on an advanced 40nm ultra-low-power process and offer up to 1024kbits of single-port RAM and a standby current as low as 100 µA. They provide 21 total I/Os that can operate as either GPIOs or as SPI/I2C interface ports, with two programmable I/Os that can be managed to interface to the higher-performance MIPI I3C bus for sensor-based applications. The products typically differ in density, embedded block RAM (EBR), and DSPs: The iCE40UP3K FPGA features a density of 2800 LUTs, 20 EBR, and four DSP blocks. The more powerful iCE40UP5K FPGA offers 5280 LUTs, 30 EBR, and eight DSP blocks. Claimed to be among the industry’s most programmable MHC solutions, the FPGA devices can interface with virtually all mobile sensors and application processors, allowing functions like voice recognition, facial recognition, gesture detection, and multi-layer graphics acceleration. These highly programmable products are perfect for feature-rich devices, such as wearables, smartphones, drones, IoT edge devices, and human-machine interfaces.