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Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC) is a United States based manufacturer of high-performance programmable logic devices (FPGAs, CPLDs, & SPLDs). The Oregon based company is the number four ranked company in world market share for FPGA devices,[1] and number two for CPLDs & SPLDs.[2]
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In addition to CPLDs & SPLDs, Lattice also manufactures field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), programmable mixed-signal and interconnect products, related software and intellectual property (IP). Lattice's main products are the ECP and XP series of FPGAs (field-programmable gate arrays), the Mach series of CPLDs (complex programmable logic devices), the ispPAC POWR series of programmable power management products (programmable mixed signal) and the ispLEVER software. At the 90nm node, Lattice offers a variety of FPGA devices.
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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.
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