Lattice Semiconductor Silicon Partners and Interoperability Program

Overview

At Lattice, we strive to provide our customers end to end solutions through collaboration with other leading semiconductor vendors. By establishing co-development and co-marketing relationships with our strategic partners, we provide an interoperable ecosystem that allows a truly plug and play FPGA based solution using our leading edge LatticeSC and LatticeECP2M silicon platforms.

Lattice Interoperabililty Resources

• Lattice SC Interoperability Reports
• Lattice ECP2M Interoperability Report

Strategic Partners

Bay Microsystems  

Bay Microsystems is a global leader in high-performance, programmable network and transport processors. Bay's products enable the delivery of converged voice, video, data and multimedia and have been deployed in mission-critical service provider, enterprise and government networks.  Bay Microsystems, Lattice Semiconductor Corporation, Enigma Semiconductors, IDT, and IP Infusion are founding members of the Road to 100G Alliance.

The LatticeSC/M devices with the SERDES/flexiPCS blocks and the embedded SPI4.2 MACO block provide an ideal platform for developing 10G and 40G bridging solutions to Bay's Network Processors.

Broadcom 

Broadcom Corporation is a major technology innovator and global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications. Broadcom products enable the delivery of voice, video, data and multimedia to and throughout the home, the office and the mobile environment.

The LatticeSC/M devices with the SERDES/flexiPCS blocks and the embedded MACO blocks provide an ideal platform for developing bridging solutions to Broadcom's Ethernet switching portfolio.
Lattice offers the industry's lowest power, smallest-footprint programmable XAUI/HiGig/HiGig+ to SPI4.2 Fabric Interface Chip solution for customers using Broadcom's Ethernet switching devices.  

The LatticeECP2M devices with SERDES/PCS blocks in a low-cost FPGA fabric provide the ideal low-cost bridging solution to Broadcom’s Ethernet switching portfolio.

Related Resources:

• LatticeSC/M 1GbE PMA/PCS Interop With StrataXGS
• LatticeSC/M 2.5GbE PMA/PCS Interop With StrataXGS
• LatticeSC/M XAUI PMA/PCS Interop With StrataXGS
• LatticeSC/M HiGig+ PMA/PCS Interop With StrataXGS

Cypress 

Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the PSoC^® Programmable System-on-Chip™, USB controllers, general-purpose programmable clocks and memories.

The LatticeSC/M embedded high-speed memory controllers provide the industry's fastest memory interfaces to Cypress' QDR I, QDR II, and QDRM II+ memory devices. The LatticeECP2M family provides full-featured soft implementations of memory controllers that provide the industry’s memory interfaces in a low-cost FPGA family.

EZChip Technologies 

EZchip Technologies is a fabless semiconductor company providing high-speed, highly-integrated, network processors. EZchip's network processors integrate packet processing, classification search engines and traffic management in a single chip, at throughput rates of 10-Gigabit and beyond. 

The LatticeSC/M devices with the SERDES/flexiPCS blocks and the embedded MACO blocks provide an ideal platform for developing SPI4.2 bridging solutions to EZChip's Network Processors. Lattice offers the industry's lowest power, smallest-footprint programmable XAUI/HiGig/HiGig+ to SPI4.2 Fabric Interface Chip solution for customers using EZChip's Network Processors.

The LatticeECP2M devices with SERDES/PCS blocks, and the industry's only full-featured SPI4.2 core in a low-cost FPGA fabric provide the ideal low-cost bridging solution to EZChip's Network Processors.

Marvell

Marvell Technology Group, Ltd. is an industry leader in storage, communications, and consumer silicon solutions. Marvell's product line includes switching, transceivers, and wireless chipsets.

The LatticeSC/M devices with the SERDES/flexiPCS and the embedded MACO blocks provide an ideal platform for developing bridging solutions to Marvell's Ethernet switching portfolio. Lattice offers the industry's lowest power, smallest-footprint programmable XAUI to SPI4.2 Fabric Interface Chip solution for customers using Marvell's Ethernet switching devices.

The LatticeECP2M devices with SERDES/PCS blocks in a low-cost FPGA fabric provide the ideal low-cost bridging solution to Marvell’s Ethernet witching portfolio.

Related Resources:

• LatticeSC/M 1GbE PMA/PCS Interop With Marvell Alaska
• LatticeSC/M SGMII PMA/PCS Interop With Marvell Alaska
• LatticeSC/M XAUI PMA/PCS Interop With Marvell Alaska
• LatticeECP2M 1GbE PMA/PCS Interop With Marvell Alaska
• LatticeECP2M SGMII PMA/PCS Interop With Alaska

Micron

Micron Technology, Inc. is one of the world's leading providers of advanced semiconductor solutions. It is a market leader for DRAM and Flash components.

The LatticeSC/M embedded high-speed memory controllers provide the industry's fastest memory interfaces to Micron's DDR I, DDR II, RLDRAM I, and RLDRAM II memory devices. 

The LatticeECP2M family provides full-featured soft implementations of these memory controllers that provide the industry’s fastest memory interfaces in a low-cost FPGA family.

Raza Microelectronics, Inc.  

Raza Microelectronics, Inc. (RMI^®) is a fabless semiconductor company providing highly-integrated feature-rich products ranging from power-optimized System-on-a-Chip (SoC) solutions to High-Performance Processors for the Digital Consumer, Wireless, Networking and Security markets.  RMI offers the most advanced and most complete MIPS-based^® processing solutions with both 32-/64-bit architectures supporting frequencies from 300 MHz to 1.2 GHz.

The LatticeSC/M devices with the SERDES/flexiPCS blocks and the embedded MACO blocks provide an ideal platform for developing SPI4.2 bridging solutions to RMI's Network Processors.

The LatticeECP2M devices with SERDES/PCS, and the industry's only full-featured SPI4.2 core in a low-cost FPGA fabric provide the ideal low-cost bridging solution to RMI's Network Processors.

Silicon Laboratories  

Silicon Laboratories is  an industry leader in the innovation of high-performance, analog-intensive, mixed-signal ICs. Silicon Labs’ diverse portfolio of highly-integrated, easy-to-use solutions offers significant advantages in performance, size, cost and power consumption. Silicon Lab's product lines include Timing, CDR/Transceivers, Power, Wireline, Broadcast, and Microcontroller ICs.

The LatticeSC/M devices provide customers with the industry's only programmable logic platform with SERDES and SONET PCS. The LatticeSC/M devices together with the Silicon Lab's multi-rate SONET/SDH CDR, XO/VCXO, and Any-rate Clock ICs provide a SONET/SDH Jitter-complaint solution to customers.

Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments helps customers solve problems and develop new electronics that make the world smarter, healthier, safer, greener and more fun. A global semiconductor company, TI innovates through manufacturing, design and sales operations in more than 25 countries.

The LatticeECP2M and LatticeXP2 devices with pre-engineered source synchronous I/O with LVDS interface, provide ideal platform for interfacing the low-cost FPGA with Serialized LVDS interface Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADC) from TI such as the ADS6000 family.

To facilitate quick evaluation of the ADS6000 ADCs operating at 125MSPS, Lattice provides an ADC evaluation platform.

Strategic Industry Alliances

Road to 100G Alliance 

The Road to 100G Alliance is a global community of leading innovative silicon, software and equipment vendors, along with service providers, dedicated to accelerating the adoption and ongoing development of a new era of next generation networking platforms. The Alliance is a nonprofit corporation formed by its Members for the purpose of providing seamless interoperability among the disparate, standards-based components required in building such high capacity network elements.

Lattice is a Founding member of the Road to 100G Alliance. The LatticeSC/M devices with the SERDES/PCS blocks and the embedded MACO technology provide the industry's best 10G/40G bridging solutions.

AMD Torrenza Innovation Community  

Torrenza represents the industry’s first open, customer-centric x86 innovation platform, capitalizing on the Direct Connect Architecture and the AMD64 platform to enable other processor and hardware providers to innovate within a common ecosystem. This collaboration allows partners with acceleration technology to increase system performance, scalability, and flexibility.

Lattice is a Torrenza Ecosystems Partner. The LatticeSC/M devices provide the industry’s fastest HyperTransport™ I/O support available in an FPGA family. The high-speed I/Os, coupled with SERDES, a high performance fabric, and industry-leading embedded ASIC technology, provide designers with a powerful platform for coprocessing applications.

Hypertransport Consortium 

The HyperTransport Technology Consortium is a membership-based, non-profit organization that manages, promotes and licenses HyperTransport Technology. The HyperTransport Consortium consists of over 40 industry-leading member companies interested in licensing the royalty-free use of HyperTransport technology and intellectual property.

Lattice is a member of the Hypertransport Consortium. The LatticeSC/M devices provide the industry’s fastest HyperTransport™ I/O support available in an FPGA family. The high-speed I/Os, coupled with SERDES, a high performance fabric, and industry-leading embedded ASIC technology, provide designers with a powerful platform for coprocessing applications.

Intel® Communications Alliance  

The Intel Communications Alliance is a community of communications and embedded developers and solutions providers committed to the development of modular standards-based solutions on Intel technologies.

Lattice is a member of the Intel Communications Alliance. The LatticeSC/M devices with the SERDES/PCS blocks and the embedded MACO technology provide an ideal platform for developing bridging solutions to Intel's communications portfolio.

The LatticeECP2M devices with the SERDES/PCS blocks in a low-cost FPGA fabric provide the industry's lowest-cost programmable PCI Express bridging solution to Intel's communications portfolio.