2826 - Lattice Diamond: What does "APIO" stands for in the Lattice Diamond Map Report?

2826 - Lattice Diamond: What does "APIO" stands for in the Lattice Diamond Map Report?

The term "APIO" refers to Application Specific Integrated Circuits Programmed Input Output (ASIC PIO) for Serializer-Deserializer (SerDes) I/Os.
For example for a LatticeECP3-150 device ,there are 2 pairs of differential signals in each Channel (4 I/O pins). Also, one pair of Reference Clock (REFCLK) pins for every Quad. Resulting in total (4*4 + 2 = 16 + 2 = 18) 18 I/O pins for each SerDes quad.
The Map Report will references to available 72 (18*4 = 72)APIO pins, which equals to 4 quads.