Avnet introduces LatticeECP3 development kit

The kit has been developed to accelerate the evaluation of Lattice PCI Express technology, demonstrate a range of solutions that match typical application requirements and speed users to design exploration.

It features four key capabilities for quick evaluation and rapid prototyping of low-cost PCI Express system design.

First, the kit enables users to generate functional PCI Express hardware in 30 minutes or less.

Second, various demos included in the kit address control plane through data plane performance requirements.

Source files for the demos are available that enable rebuilding designs up to a known good starting point.

Finally, the kit enables a rapid transition to design exploration through the included software tools, IP-enabled evaluation process and project source directories.

The low-cost PCI Express evaluation board enables both x1 and x4 endpoint evaluation and design.

A variety of demo executables - basic demo for control plane applications, throughput demo for high-bandwidth applications, colour bar demo and an image transfer demo - show how to address different design performance requirements.

A 60-day software tools licence and included x1/x4 endpoint IP core and scatter-gather DMA IP core get users up and running immediately.

The kit is available on both Windows and Linux platforms.