Certus-N2 CT16 vs XCSU150P
A comparison of the Lattice Certus-N2 Certus-N2 CT16 and the AMD Spartan UltraScale+ XCSU150P using the data from both vendors' selection guides.
Side-by-side specifications
| Certus-N2 CT16 | XCSU150P | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor / family | Lattice Certus-N2 | AMD Spartan UltraScale+ |
| Logic (LUT4-equivalent) | 98,000 | 100,800 |
| LUTs as published | 98,000 LUT4 | 63,000 LUT6 |
| Vendor logic figure | 160,000 LC | 138,000 SLC |
| DSP | 360 18×18 multipliers | 384 DSP slices |
| Block RAM | 8 Mb | 5.9 Mb |
| Large RAM | — | 4.5 Mb |
| Max. user I/O | 298 | 572 |
| Transceivers | 8 × SERDES 16 Gb/s | 8 × GTH 16.3 Gb/s |
| Hard PCI Express | None | Gen4 x8, Gen4 x4 |
| Hard processor | None | None |
| Process | 16 nm | 16 nm |
| Configuration memory | SRAM | SRAM |
| Packages | 4 | 5 |
| Design tool | Lattice Radiant | AMD Vivado |
Highlighted values are higher. Logic is compared in LUT4 equivalents; see how FPGA vendors count logic.
Key differences
Both devices offer similar logic capacity: 98K and 101K LUT4 equivalents.
They use different logic architectures: the Certus-N2 CT16 is built from LUT4 and the XCSU150P from LUT6, so the raw LUT counts (98K vs 63K) are not directly comparable.
For arithmetic, the XCSU150P has 384 DSP slices against 360 18×18 multipliers on the Certus-N2 CT16.
The XCSU150P has more on-chip memory (10.4 Mb vs 8 Mb).
Both have transceivers: 8 at up to 16 Gb/s on the Certus-N2 CT16 and 8 at up to 16.3 Gb/s on the XCSU150P.
The Certus-N2 CT16 is designed with Lattice Radiant and the XCSU150P with AMD Vivado.
Full specifications
See the complete spec sheets with packages and grades: Certus-N2 CT16 (Certus-N2) and XCSU150P (Spartan UltraScale+).