Certus-N2 CT20 vs XCSU150P
A comparison of the Lattice Certus-N2 Certus-N2 CT20 and the AMD Spartan UltraScale+ XCSU150P using the data from both vendors' selection guides.
Side-by-side specifications
| Certus-N2 CT20 | XCSU150P | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor / family | Lattice Certus-N2 | AMD Spartan UltraScale+ |
| Logic (LUT4-equivalent) | 135,000 | 100,800 |
| LUTs as published | 135,000 LUT4 | 63,000 LUT6 |
| Vendor logic figure | 220,000 LC | 138,000 SLC |
| DSP | 520 18×18 multipliers | 384 DSP slices |
| Block RAM | 12 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
The Certus-N2 CT20 has about 34% more logic capacity (135K vs 101K LUT4 equivalents).
They use different logic architectures: the Certus-N2 CT20 is built from LUT4 and the XCSU150P from LUT6, so the raw LUT counts (135K vs 63K) are not directly comparable.
For arithmetic, the Certus-N2 CT20 has 520 18×18 multipliers against 384 DSP slices on the XCSU150P.
The Certus-N2 CT20 has more on-chip memory (12 Mb vs 10.4 Mb).
Both have transceivers: 8 at up to 16 Gb/s on the Certus-N2 CT20 and 8 at up to 16.3 Gb/s on the XCSU150P.
The Certus-N2 CT20 is designed with Lattice Radiant and the XCSU150P with AMD Vivado.
Full specifications
See the complete spec sheets with packages and grades: Certus-N2 CT20 (Certus-N2) and XCSU150P (Spartan UltraScale+).