Lattice Semiconductor CertusPro™-NX Versa Holoscan Kit
Lattice Semiconductor CertusPro™-NX Versa Holoscan Kit provides a hardware platform for the customizable holoscan bridge sensor interfaces reference design. The evaluation board features the CertusPro-NX FPGA. The Lattice CertusPro-NX Versa Holoscan Kit allows designers to physically incorporate and experiment with the reference design's capabilities — specifically, rapid prototyping, MIPI CSI-2 aggregation, and 10Gbps Ethernet transmission—crucial for validating Edge AI applications within the NVIDIA ecosystem.
By implementing NVIDIA's Holoscan Sensor Bridge solution, the design integrates smoothly into the broader NVIDIA ecosystem, facilitating high-performance sensor data processing, real-time AI inference, and visualization with minimal latency.
Features
- Sensor interface
- Supports one or more camera sensors
- Designed to be customizable, allowing flexible configuration of the MIPI CSI-2 RX D-PHY interface
- Enables integration of various camera types
- The interface type can be configured to support either the MIPI CSI-2 RX interface or the LVDS DDR receiver interface
- Hololink IP
- Acts as a bridge between the sensor interface and the host system
- Implements Ethernet packetization and supports streaming DMA, control interfaces, and transport abstraction
- Enables low-latency, high-throughput data transfer from sensors to compute platforms
- Supports Precision Time Protocol (PTP) per IEEE 1588-2019 specification. PTP synchronizes the Hololink IP’s internal time with the host time, enabling the host to act as the Time Transmitter and send PTP packets
- Host Interface (Ethernet link)
- Supports Ethernet channels with a link speed of 1GbE or 10GbE
- Uses UDP over Ethernet to stream sensor data directly to GPU memory
- Enables real-time AI inference and visualization with minimal latency
- In testing, the CertusPro-NX Versa Board was used with a single Ethernet port configured for either 1GbE or 10GbE
Applications
- Smart SFP+ and optical modules
- Control plane security and hardware management
- Machine vision
- Frame grabbers
- Smart camera AI processing
Kit Contents
- Lattice CertusPro-NX Versa board
- IMX258 camera sensor module
- Ethernet 10GBase-T (Cat 6 RJ-45) SFP+ module (Ethernet 10G support)
- 10/100/1000BASE-T SFP module (Ethernet 1G support)
- CAT6 Ethernet cable (supports 1G/10G)
- USB cable for programming via PC (USB-A to Mini-B)
- 12V AC/DC adapter and international plug adapters
Additional Resources
Associated FPGA
Lattice Semiconductor CertusPro™-NX General-Purpose Low-Power FPGAs
Features up to eight SERDES lanes supporting up to 10.3Gbps per lane and ranges from 9mm2 to 27mm2.
Board
Lattice Semiconductor CertusPro™-NX Sensor to Ethernet Bridge Board
Features the CertusPro-NX-100 FPGA & CrossLink-NX-17, which output to a host system over Ethernet.
Nexus Platform
Lattice Semiconductor Nexus Platform
Enables low power, high reliability, and high-performance design.
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