LATTICE SEMICONDUCTOR SHIPS INDUSTRY'S FASTEST PLDs
February 12, 1996, 2:37 PM EST
* Company Announces Production Availability of 4 ns, 3.3-Volt GAL22LV10D and 3.5 ns, 3.3-Volt GAL20LV8D
HILLSBORO, Ore., Feb. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (Nasdaq:LSCC) today announced the production release of two new ultra-high-performance E2CMOS(R) GAL(R) programmable logic devices (PLDs): the GAL22LV10D and GAL20LV8D. With industry-leading 4 ns and 3.5 ns logic propagation delays (Tpd) and 182 MHz and 200 MHz
operating frequencies (Fmax), respectively, these fast 3.3-Volt GAL 22V10 and 20V8 PLDs are the world's fastest 28-pin PLDs and save 40-60 percent of the power required by standard 5-Volt 22V10 and 20V8 devices. These devices implement the two most widely-used 28-pin low-density PLD architectures shipped today.
"As the market begins its transition to 3.3-Volt-based PLDs, customers continue to demand high-performance simple PLDs for leading-edge performance," noted Steve Stark, Lattice's director of marketing. "With these new devices, Lattice Semiconductor continues to meet and
exceed its customers' demands, at prices that compete with leading-edge-performance 5-Volt PLDs."
Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (LSC) introduced its first sixth-generation GAL device in September of 1995, the 3.5 ns GAL16LV8D-3, which is now joined by the GAL20LV8D-3 as the fastest PLD available anywhere. Including the newly announced 4 ns GAL22LV10D-4, LSC's high-performance 3.3-Volt GAL family can support logic applications which previously were impossible using PLDs. With their high speed and low power consumption, the devices are ideal for high-performance, low-voltage logic applications such as serial data encoders/decoders, address decoders, cache controllers, and arbitration state machines. The GAL22LV10D's 182 MHz operating frequency and 3 ns clock-to-output time and the GAL16LV8D and
GAL20LV8D's 200 MHz operating frequency and 2.5 ns clock-to-output time allow the devices to operate in systems incorporating today's fastest microprocessors, including those based upon the Pentium, Alpha and PowerPC architectures. The devices are also fast enough to be used as work arounds for ASIC/system bugs, frequently without impact to system clock frequency.
"While other PLD vendors are hitting a wall at 5 ns, LSC has developed and produced a whole family of industry-leading-performance 3.3-Volt PLDs," continued Mr. Stark. "Today, LSC's triumvirate of 3.3V GAL devices -- GAL22LV10D-4, GAL16LV8D-3, and GAL20LV8D-3 -- are the leaders of the 3.3-Volt generation, surpassing all competitive speed offerings. Previously, LSC was first to market with every generation of CMOS GAL devices at 5, 7.5, 10, 15 and 25 ns speed performance levels. The new devices, based on LSC's proprietary UltraMOS VI process technology, reaffirm LSC's position as the leading PLD speed performance company in the market."
Programmer support for the GAL22LV10D, GAL16LV8D, and GAL20LV8D is available from Data I/O, Stag Electronic Design, SMS Sprint, Logical Devices and others. Design compiler software support is available from Data I/O (ABEL), Logical Devices (CUPL), Accel Technology (Tango PLD), OrCAD (OrCAD PLD), Minc (PLD Designer), ISDATA (LOG/iC) and Omation
(SchemaPLD).
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