Gowin Semiconductor Corporation Announced New Non-volatile FPGA Devices -- GW1N

Foshan, Guangdong, Aug. 18, 2015 – 

Gowin Semiconductor Corporation, a leading FPGA programmable solution provider in Guangdong, China, announced a new family of non-volatile FPGA devices today - GW1N family. This family of devices is based on TSMC 55nm embedded flash process, focusing on low cost, small form packages application. There are 2 devices in this family as for now, GW1N-1K and GW1N-9K.

GW1N family is the 2nd generation of devices after the successfully launched GW2A mid-range FPGA family by Gowin Semiconductor last year. One highlight of innovations from this new family is an on chip user flash memory block. Unlike other solutions in current market, this flash block can be random accessed by user logic just as a normal NOR flash memory. This will make user so easily to implement their design. GW1N FPGA is fabricated with fully qualified embedded flash process at TSMC with high reliability standard such as 10 years data retention and 10 thousands cycle's endurance for the flash cells.

Figure 1. GW1N FPGA

GW1N devices provide many resources for customer design（GW1N-9K number is preliminary）, including up to 9K LUTs; up to 198K embedded block SRAM bits and nearly 20K Shadow SRAM bits; up to 2 Million user flash memory bits; up to 20 dedicated 18x18 multipliers and accumulators; up to 276 I/O which include 44 true LVDS output. It also support PLLs and DLLs applications.

GW1N provide various package types such as WLCSP25, QFN32, LQFP100, LQFPQ44, MBGA160, BGA204, PBGA256, and PBGA484. This allows users find the best option for their designs. This non-volatile GW1N can do "instant on" when powering up device. It supports 2 type of core Vcc devices - LV device and UV device. It supports many IO standards and protocols. It supports JTAG，MSPI configuration. It supports dual boot option.

　　Figure 2. Various package options

　　"Non-volatile FPGAs are very popular in areas such as consumer electronics, industry control, automobile industry, etc. These fields are very competitive and important to many FPGA vendors today." Jason Zhu, VP and CTO of Gowin Semiconductor Corp., said, "After carefully evaluated by our marketing team on many aspects such as cost, features, packages, non-volatile, etc., Gowin's non-volatile offering is fully optimized on architecture, performance, and power. We believe GW1N family will help us greatly in penetrating these market segments mentioned above."

Current Gowin software tools are supporting GW1N-1K. The front end of Gowin design flow is supported by Synplify® of Synopsys, including all the functions of SynplifyPro®. Gowin Semiconductor Corp is the only Chinese FPGA vendor who has Synopsys tool support. The backend of the design flow is supported by Gowin Semiconductor's own GOWIN® tools. From HDL/RTL to bit stream data file generation, the entire design follow is fully covered.

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Current Gowin software tools are supporting GW1N-1K design. We expect to provide engineering sample and evaluation board in Q4, 2015.

For more information, please visit www.gowinsemi.com.cn

About Gowin Semiconductor Corp

Gowin Semiconductor Corporation was founded in January 2014 in Foshan, Guangdong, China. The company is developing and manufacturing FPGA IC products. The main focus is to provide very competitive, highly cost effective, total programmable solutions to customers such as Design Tools, soft IPs, Reference Design, and Evaluation board.

For more information, please visit www.gowinsemi.com.cn

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