The PAC-Designer tool suite continues to address the needs of circuit board design engineers who need easy to use tools that optimize clock and power management designs, said Chris Fanning, Lattice corporate vice president and general manager of Low Density and Mixed Signal Solutions. Lattice’s Power Manager devices enable the integration of various supply management functions such as hot-swap, sequencing, supervision and reset generation, both at lower cost and with in-system programmability. This latest release reduces the cost of implementation further by enabling smaller devices to integrate more complex power management functions.
ispClock5400D Design Support:
The PAC-Designer environment makes ispClock5400D design entry and verification easy with an interactive graphical user interface schematic diagram, which provides access to all ispClock device options such as reference frequency, output buffer driver type and divider settings. Programmable analog blocks, like the FlexiClock I/Os and CleanClock PLL of the ispClock5400D device are easily modified to accommodate a variety of circuit board requirements.
Improved Quality of Results:
Lattice ispPAC Power Manager devices integrate programmable analog and PLD technologies to support digital power management solutions. The PAC-Designer 5.0 software includes an upgrade to the LogiBuilder component, which can reduce the logic consumption of PLD core macrocell resources 20-30%. LogiBuilder now supports sequencer instructions with concurrent output expressions. This instruction style can dramatically reduce the number of macrocells required to implement the embedded state machines used for intelligent power sequencing.
About the Lattice PAC-Designer Tool Suite:
The PAC-Designer software is a complete design environment, including everything needed for design, implementation, simulation and programming of supported devices.
Lattice Semiconductor Corporation is a US based developer of programmable logic products and related software.
