Lattice Semiconductor today announced the immediate availability of the PCI Express Root Complex (RC) Lite solution based on the LatticeECP3 and LatticeECP2M FPGA families for use in simple bridging application to any legacy host bus. Using a low cost programmable FPGA platform, designers can implement the specific bridge function that matches the interface available on their particular host CPU. Designers will also have the flexibility to impl...

Lattice Semiconductor announced its plans for electronica 2010, one of the largest and most anticipated electronic trade shows in the industry. Held every two years, Electronica attracts thousands of companies and tens of thousands of attendees, including over 700 journalists from 34 countries. Electronica 2010 runs from November 9 through November 12 in Munich, Germany.

This video provides an overview of the Platform Manager product family, which can reduce cost, improve reliability and lower risk. In addition, this video shows a live demonstration of the Platform Manager development kit in operation, along with the PAC-Designer software tool.

Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC) today announced the availability of a fully integrated evaluation and demonstration platform supporting its Serial RapidIO 2.1 endpoint core utilizing the award winning LatticeECP3 FPGA family. The platform, including the hardware and demonstration software, is based on the industry standard Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC) form factor and offers users the ability to investigate the lowest cost, lowe...

Lattice Semiconductor Corporation today announced that an independent panel of judges has named the Lattice Diamond design software environment a finalist in Elektra 2010, the European Electronics Industry Awards competition.

Lattice Semiconductor today announced the immediate availability of a comprehensive video display interfaces suite for High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI 1.3a), Digital Visual Interface (DVI), and 7:1 LVDS Interface. All of these display interfaces are available as free Reference Designs for the award winning, mid-range LatticeECP3™, while selected free Reference Designs can also be ported to the LatticeECP2M™ and LatticeXP2™ FPGA ...

Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC) today announced the availability of halogen- and lead-free packages for its ispMACH® 4000ZE CPLD family, a popular programmable logic solution for high-volume consumer electronics. Bromine and chlorine, halogens associated with ozone depletion, have been replaced with metal oxides or red phosphorous. Lead and halogens have been eliminated from several components of the ispMACH 4000ZE IC package ...

Lattice Semiconductor today announced the immediate availability of its full rate SPI-4.2 solution based on a low cost, low power FPGA fabric. Consisting of a LatticeECP3™ FPGA and a Lattice-developed soft Intellectual Property (IP) core, the solution is fully compliant with the Optical Internetworking Forum’s (OIF) System Packet Interface Level 4 (SPI-4) Phase 2 Revision 1 Standard, a popular parallel interface found in telecom/datacom appl...

Lattice Semiconductor today announced the immediate availability of Version 1.4 of its ispLEVER® Classic design tool suite. The ispLEVER Classic design software has been upgraded with the addition of Synopsys Synplify Pro with the HDL Analyst feature set, and an improved ispMACH® 4000ZE CPLD fitter with improved power optimization.

Lattice announced that it has released more than 90 reference designs optimized for the MachXO™ and ispMACH® 4000ZE PLDs. Reference designs enable the quick and efficient design and deployment of commonly used functions such as general purpose I/O expander, I2C bus master / slave, LCD controller and SD Flash controller, as well as other interfaces, in a variety of markets including consumer, communications, computing, industrial and medical. ...

Lattice and Helion GmbH today announced that they have released Intellectual Property (IP) cores for the video security and surveillance camera market. Targeting the LatticeXP2, LatticeECP2M™ and LatticeECP3™ FPGA families, Helion has demonstrated its IONOS video pipeline IP and Vesta evaluation platform.

Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC) today announced that it has partnered with Affarii Technologies to successfully demonstrate the industry’s lowest cost, low power Remote Radio Head (RRH) solution at 1300mW per antenna. The integration of all RRH processing has been achieved on a single LatticeECP3-150 device, part of Lattice’s award-winning, high value LatticeECP3 FPGA family.

Lattice Semiconductor announced Version 1.0 of its Lattice Diamond FPGA design software, the new flagship design environment for Lattice FPGA products. Lattice Diamond software provides a complete set of powerful tools, efficient design flows, and modern user interface that enable designers to more quickly target low power, cost sensitive FPGA applications. Video demonstrations of the Lattice Diamond design software can be viewed here: http:/...

Lattice Semiconductor announced that Axelsys LLC, a Silicon Valley-based contract electronic design services company specializing in leading edge embedded electronic product development and manufacturing, has joined the Lattice LEADER Design Services Program, a highly select global network of companies. Axelsys will apply its expertise in electronic product and embedded software development to expand the range of products into which Lattice devic...

Lattice Semiconductor Corporation today announced the immediate availability of a new versatile LatticeXP2 Brevia Development Kit and 28 new silicon-proven reference designs, which are ideal for developing high volume, cost sensitive, high density applications. The low cost Brevia Development Kit is currently available for a promotional price of only $29. The instant-on, easy to use LatticeXP2 FPGA family offers users the benefits of increased ...

Lattice Semiconductor Corporation announced the addition of a new, higher performance device to its second generation Power Manager II product family. The ispPAC®-POWR1220-02 device integrates a higher voltage charge pump with programmable current to control MOSFETs in Hot-swap and Sequencing applications. The new device is pin compatible with existing Power Manager II devices and integrates power management functions that typically require mu...

Lattice Semiconductor announced that Wipro Technologies (NASDAQ: WIT), one of the largest providers of design services for integrated business, technology and process solutions, has selected the MachXO™ PLD family for use in their new server platforms. The MachXO device performs many of the general purpose I/O expansion, interface bridging and power-up management functions required for the new server designs.

Lattice Semiconductor Corporation announced plans to interoperate between Cavium Networks’ OCTEON II CN63XX processors and the LatticeECP3™ FPGA family via a Serial Rapid IO (SRIO) Specification 2.1 link. SRIO is commonly used in 3G/4G wireless base stations and wireline switches and routers where low latency is critical. Cavium’s OCTEON II processor incorporates two to six cnMIPS64® cores, the most advanced third generation hardware ac...

Lattice Semiconductor just announced the electronic publication of “Power 2 You,” a book that guides board designers in the implementation of board power supply management solutions that reduce costs, improve reliability and manage risk. Lattice also announced four additional reference designs and the new Hercules Development Kit, which will enable customers to accelerate time to market for these power management applications.

Lattice Semiconductor announced the availability of a new low cost PCI Express development kit for its award winning LatticeECP3 family of high value, low power FPGAs. Based on a new ECP3 PCI Express solutions board, the kit accelerates development of PCI Express designs. The kit has been developed from the ground up to accelerate the evaluation of Lattice PCI Express technology, demonstrate a range of solutions that match typical application r...