Certus-NX Versa Evaluation Board

The Lattice Semiconductor Certus™-NX Versa Evaluation Board allows designers to investigate and experiment with the features of the Certus-NX Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). The features of the Certus-NX Versa Evaluation Board can assist engineers with the rapid prototyping and testing of their specific designs.

The Certus-NX Versa Evaluation Board features the Certus-NX FPGA in the 256-ball caBGA package which is built on Lattice Nexus™ FPGA platform using low power 28 nm FD-SOI technology. The board has the ability to expand the usability of the Certus-NX FPGA with DDR3, soft D-PHY, 1Gbps Ethernet and 1x PCIe (Gen2) channel. Easy to use board resources of the jumper, LED indicator, push button and switch are available for user-defined applications.

Connectivity platform with 5G PCIe and SGMII – Enables designers to evaluate connectivity features of the Certus-NX FPGA, including PCI Express (5 Gbps), SGMII (1.25 Gbps), DDR3 memory interface (1066 Mbps x 16 data width) and camera sensor interface (using D-PHY soft IP).

Efficient processing and expandable usability – Features Certus-NX low-power general purpose FPGA with 40K logic cells in a 256-BGA package. Board functions can be expanded via three Digilent Peripheral Module (Pmod™) headers available on the board.

Rapid prototyping and proof-of-concept demos – Assists engineers with rapid prototyping and testing of their Certus-NX designs. Several demos and reference designs targeting this board are available for download from the Lattice Solutions page to speed-up development of PCI Express, SGMII, DDR3, soft error correction (SEC) and soft D-PHY camera interface functions.