CERTUS™-NX
Reinventing the Low-Power General Purpose FPGA
Built on the 28 nm FD-SOI Lattice Nexus™ platform, the Certus-NX family of FPGAs lead the general-purpose
FPGA market in I/O density, delivering up to twice the I/O density per mm2 in comparison to similar competing
FPGAs, and provide best-in-class power savings, small size, reliability, instant-on performance, and support fast
PCI Express (PCIe) and Gigabit Ethernet interfaces to enable data co-processing, signal bridging, and system
control.
Certus-NX FPGAs target a range of applications, from data processing in automated industrial equipment to
system management in communications infrastructure.
Key Features
■ Smallest Form Factor
■ Design security
• 3x smaller than competition.
• ECDSA bit stream authentication.
• Package sizes as small as 6 mm x 6 mm.
• Robust AES-256 encryption.
■ High I/O
■ Lattice Nexus Platform advantages:
• Highest I/O count per package.
• Up to 2x more I/O per mm2 than competition.
• Up to 4x lower power vs. similar FPGAs.
• 100x higher reliability, due to 100x lower
Soft Error Rate (SER) from 28 nm FD-SOI
technology.
■ High-speed Interfaces
• Up to 70% faster differential I/O
• Instant-on configuration: I/O configures in 3 ms,
(vs. similar FPGAs) at 1.5 Gbps.
and full-device as fast as 8 ms.
• Supported interfaces: 5 Gbps PCIe, 2.25 Gbps
SGMII (GigE) and 1066 Mbps DDR3 memory.
Features
Certus-NX-17
Certus-NX-40
17K
0.4
2.5
24
Logic Cells
39K
1.5
1
EBR (Mbits)
Large RAM Blocks (Mbits)
DSP (18 x 18 Mults)
PLLs
56
3
2
5G PCIe1, SGMII CDR, ADC
Hard Blocks
Temperature Grades3
Packages
C, I, A
C, I, A
IO Count (WR, HP, ADC)2
121csfBGA (0.5 mm)4
196caBGA (0.8 mm)4
256caBGA (0.8 mm)4
6 x 6 mm
12 x 12 mm
14 x 14 mm
82 (24, 58, 0), x1 PCIe
157 (93, 58, 6)
78 (24, 48, 6)
192 (112, 74, 6), x1 PCIe
1 Available on Certus-NX-40
2 WR: Wide-Range I/O, HP: High-Performance I/O, ADC: Dedicated ADC inputs
3 C = Commercial, I = Industrial, A = Automotive
4 Available in Automotive Grade
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