December 2009

Lattice Ships 25 Millionth MachXO PLD 

Versatile architecture drives rapid adoption in first four years of product availability.

More than 25 million MachXO programmable logic devices (PLD) have been shipped by Lattice since their introduction just four years ago. This device family has been broadly adopted in a wide range of high-volume, cost-sensitive applications, including communications, consumer, computing, industrial and medical. Designers worldwide are using the MachXO PLD family for its unparalleled ease-of-use, flexibility, system integration and price. The 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.

Reference Designs and Easy-to-Use Development Kits

In order to accelerate development time, 28 popular reference designs and the easy-to-use MachXO Mini Development Kit are available for prototyping cost-sensitive low-density applications. Using the preloaded mini system-on-chip (mini SoC) design provided with the development kit, designers can now test within minutes I²C, SPI and UART interfaces in addition to the 8-bit LatticeMico8 microcontroller and low-power sleep mode functionality. Designers can then build their own designs using the free downloadable reference design source codes, implementing these features in less than an hour.

Targeted for system control applications, the MachXO Control Development Kit enables designers to rapidly prototype typical board control functions such as temperature and current monitoring, power supply sequencing, fault logging, reset distribution and fan control used in system control designs.

To Learn More

For more information about the MachXO PLD family, visit the Lattice website or contact your local Lattice sales representative.