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Lattice Ships 25 Millionth MachXO Programmable Logic Device
Lattice Semiconductor has announced that it has shipped over 25 million MachXO PLDs. Broadly adopted in a wide range of high volume, cost sensitive applications, customers worldwide are using the MachXO PLD family due to its unparalleled ease-of-use, flexibility, system integration and price.
We uThe MachXO PLD family's system integration benefits have fueled its increasing adoption in a wide range of low-density applications that require general purpose I/O expansion, interface bridging and power-up management functions. The MachXO PLD family offers customers an All-in-One-PLD by providing distributed and embedded memory, built-in PLLs, high performance LVDS I/O, remote field upgrade (TransFRTM technology) and a low power sleep mode, all in a single device.
The overwhelming customer acceptance of MachXO PLDs confirms that we are meeting our customers' expectations for an easy-to-use, cost-effective, flexible and integrated solution that provides a compelling alternative to high risk ASICs and inflexible ASSPs, said Chris Fanning, Lattice Corporate Vice President and General Manager of Low Density and Mixed Signal Solutions. Since their introduction, MachXO PLD sales have ramped up very quickly in a variety of end markets including communications, consumer, computing, industrial and medical, and the MachXO device continues to be one of Lattice's fastest growing products.