Lattice Semiconductor

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Lattice Semiconductor
Lattice logo
Type Public (NASDAQ: LSCC)
Founded 1983, public since 1989
Headquarters Hillsboro, OR
Key people Stephen A. Skaggs, Jan Johannessen
Industry Integrated Circuits
Products FPGAs, CPLDs
Website www.latticesemi.com

Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC) is a United States based manufacturer of high-performance programmable logic devices (PLDs). The Oregon based company is the number four ranked company in world market share for FPGA devices,[1] and number three for PLDs.[2]

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In addition to PLDs, Lattice also manufactures field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), programmable mixed-signal and interconnect products, related software and intellectual property (IP). At the 90nm node, Lattice offers a variety of FPGA devices.

The company also makes a CPLD.

Lattice was incorporated in Oregon in 1983 and reincorporated in Delaware in 1985. The company is headquartered in Hillsboro, Oregon in the high-tech area known as the Silicon Forest. For fiscal year 2006 Lattice posted a profit of $3.1 million on revenues of $245.5 million, this was the first annual profit for the company since 2000.[3] In 2004 the company settled charges with the United States government that it had illegally exported certain technologies to China, paying a fine of $560,000.[4] Among its chief competitors are Xilinx, Altera, Actel and Quicklogic.

Company headquarters in Hillsboro.
Company headquarters in Hillsboro.

  1. ^ Baldwin, Kevin Morris (June 22, 2006). Dangling Propositions. FPGA and Structured ASIC Journal. techfocus media. Retrieved on 2007-02-02.
  2. ^ Baldwin, Howard (June 22, 2006). Dynamic Duo Still Dominate Programmable Logic. Movers and Shakers 2006. Reed Business. Retrieved on 2007-02-02.
  3. ^ Earnshaw, Aliza (January 25, 2007). Lattice: First annual profits since 2000. High Tech - Semiconductors. Portland Business Journal. Retrieved on 2007-02-02.
  4. ^ Lattice Semiconductor Settles Charges of Illegal Exports to China. U.S. Department of Commerce (Sep 13, 2004). Retrieved on 2007-02-02.


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