LatticeECP3 FPGA Family Is Product Of The Year

Product of the Year recognition from Electronic Products is among the most prestigious and fiercely contested awards in the electronics industry. The award is held in such high regard due in part to the longevity of the competition (annually for the past 34 years), and its selectivity: the editors of Electronic Products evaluated thousands of products launched in 2009 and judged them against three criteria:

* A significant advancement in a technology or its application
* Innovative design
* A substantial achievement in price/performance

We concluded that the ECP3 FPGA family brings compelling features to the mid-range FPGA table, including 16 channels of 3.2 Gbit/s SERDES with 10GbE XAUI jitter compliance that take just 110 mw each, said Jim Harrison, West Coast editor for Electronic Products. The DDR3 interfaces, up to 6.8 Mbits of memory and 500 MHz DSP slices, plus lower active and standby power, made the ECP3 FPGA the clear choice for us. These are devices that many engineers will be eager to put to good use in their designs.

The 2009 Product of the Year Awards were announced in the January 2010 issue of Electronic Products with a cover feature and a brief description of each product chosen. Additionally, the winning products appear on the Electronic Products website, http://www2.electronicproducts.com/productyear.aspx.

Our ECP3 FPGA family has received several awards, and none are more appreciated than this Product of the Year honor from Electronic Products, regarded by many as the gold standard for industry recognition, said Sean Riley, Lattice Corporate Vice President and General Manager of High Density Solutions. We went in a different direction when we defined a new class of mid-range FPGA, and both industry accolades and worldwide customer acceptance of our ECP3 family confirm the direction we took was the right one. Even though other FPGA vendors now are finally offering mid-range devices, this award confirms that the ECP3 continues to excel in terms of its best-in-class features, low power consumption and low cost. Designers are leveraging these unprecedented mid-range benefits in wireless, wireline access and image processing applications.