The folks at Lattice Semiconductor have announced a LatticeECP2 and LatticeECP2M (LatticeECP2/M) FPGA interface reference design supporting Texas Instruments' ADS6000 family of ADCs.
LatticeECP2/M FPGAs provide a high-speed glueless interface capable of acquiring 14bit ADC data at rates up to 120MSps from the two to four serial channels found in ADS6000 ADC family devices.
Systems migrating to higher sample rate/resolution ADCs often require an FPGA with an interface speed of approximately 800Mbps to bridge between existing hardware and the newer interface provided by the higher speed ADC. Previously, only more expensive, high-end FPGAs could satisfy this requirement. Now, the LatticeECP2/M FPGA family is able to provide these bridge functions in an optimally sized FPGA at a significantly lower cost. With the LatticeECP2/M FPGA devices, designers can focus on processing the ADC data within the FPGA and routing it to other parts of their system without having to worry about the timing details of high-speed ADC interfaces.
To facilitate design verification, the default configuration of the reference design utilizes a new hardware interface card developed by Lattice to work with existing TI and Lattice evaluation boards. This complete hardware/software package gives designers a working model from which they can quickly create their own custom solutions.
The ADS6000 family consists of dual and quad, 12bit and 14bit ADCs available in speeds of 65-, 80-, 105- and 125MSps. Each device in the family delivers exceptional spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR), high SNR, high IF capability and low power per channel. By incorporating single- or dual-stream serialized LVDS outputs, the devices are said to reduce board space by sixty percent compared to previous CMOS output solutions.
The LatticeECP2/M family is claimed to provide performance and features that typically are available only on competitive, more expensive high-end FPGAs. The LatticeECP2/M family supports logic densities from 6K LUTs up to 95K LUTs, has high performance DSP blocks, supports DDR2 memory interfaces at 533Mbps and up to 840Mbps generic LVDS performance.
Smart platform
Some of the high-end features incorporated into the LatticeECP2M family include embedded SERDES I/O and the most on-chip memory in its class. The LatticeECP2M family supports up to 16 channels of embedded SERDES operating up to 3.125Gbps, as well as protocols such as PCIe, Ethernet (1GbE and SGMII), CPRI and OBSAI. LatticeECP2M Embedded Block RAM capacity ranges from 1.2Mbits to 5.3Mbits.
The TI ADC interface card, available immediately from the Lattice website, enables the interfacing of the ADS6425EVM evaluation board directly with the LatticeECP2 advanced evaluation board. The reference design uses about 5 percent of the FPGA logic to transfer the ADC codes on the serial source synchronous bus to its embedded block RAM memory.
The interface card, LFE2-H-IC-EV, is available immediately for sale on the Lattice website at a suggested price of $195.00.
The LatticeECP2 Advanced Evaluation board and ADS6425EVM boards are available now from Lattice and TI, respectively.
- Clive Maxfield
Programmable Logic DesignLine
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