Lattice Semiconductor CertusPro™-NX Sensor to Ethernet Bridge Board

Lattice Semiconductor CertusPro™-NX Sensor to Ethernet Bridge Board features the CertusPro-NX-100 FPGA and CrossLink-NX-17, which receive sensor data and output it to the host system over Ethernet. The Sensor Bridge Reference Design, CertusPro-NX Sensor to Ethernet Bridge Board, and NVIDIA IGX Orin/AGX Platform allow designers to rapidly design connectivity-bridging applications from sensors to compute.

The design simplifies and accelerates the deployment of intelligent edge systems that require diverse sensor input interfaces and protocols. The Sensor Bridge Reference design is implemented on the Lattice CertusPro-NX Sensor to Ethernet Bridge Board, which supports low latency, flexible sensor configuration and interfacing, and an Ethernet Packetizer. The design integrates seamlessly with Nvidia Holoscan Sensor Bridge, delivering easy programmable system control, ready-to-use configurable FPGA IP, and a complete stack solution for data acquisition and processing leveraging NVIDIA Holoscan on NVIDIA IGX Orin and Orin AGX. Also included is a standard API with support for streaming DMA, control interfaces, transport abstraction layer, ConnectX Smart NIC acceleration with GPUDirect RDMA, Linux sockets, and the ability to incorporate various sensors and drivers.

Features

  • Full stack solution ensures data provided at the FPGA sensor interface port arrives in DRAM
  • Support Sensor Interfaces such as AXI stream port and APB control bus
  • Support up to 2x 10G Ethernet channels
  • Ready to use open-source software
  • Low-latency, high throughput, and scalable sensor streaming enabled by NVIDIA Holoscan

Applications

  • Smart SFP+ and optical modules
  • Control plane security and hardware management
  • Machine vision
  • Frame grabbers
  • Smart camera AI processing

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Published: 2025-03-24 | Updated: 2025-04-03