Acal BFi and Lattice Semiconductor Corporation announces they have signed a distribution agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, Acal BFi is authorized to sell Lattice’s complete portfolio of innovative low power, low cost FPGA, PLD and programmable power management design solutions across France.

“This agreement represents a unique opportunity for Acal BFi France to provide additional design and logistic services to our French customers with Lattice’s innovative FPGA and CPLD design solutions,” said Vincent Courty, Acal BFI France’s Managing Director. “We are proud that our semiconductor team’s expertise has been recognized by Lattice Semiconductor as an effective way to drive the long term success of Lattice’s products in France.”

“Lattice makes every effort to offer our customers a distribution network of technically focused companies who understand and support our products as well as our customers’ needs,” said Stacy Fender, Lattice Corporate Vice President of Worldwide Sales. “With the addition of Acal BFi in France, we are providing another business and technical support option for our customers in the region. We are pleased to have Acal BFi as part of our distribution network, and look forward to a very successful partnership for many years to come.”

Lattice Semiconductor Corporation today announced the transfer of its Standard Military Drawing (SMD) product portfolio to Arrow Electronics Inc., effective immediately. Lattice’s SMD products include the GAL® family (GAL16V8, GAL20V8 and GAL22V10) of simple PLDs and the ispLSI®1000 family (ispLSI 1016, ispLSI 1024, ispLSI 1032 and ispLSI 1048) of complex PLDs. Lattice’s SMD products were formally discontinued by Lattice via its Product Change Notification (PCN) process in 2011. A copy of PCN 05A-10 can be found here. By transferring the SMD product family to Arrow Electronics, Lattice SMD customers now have a new supply channel that can support the ongoing demand for these popular devices.

Arrow Electronics has a strong history of providing support for discontinued SMD products, and supports a broad array of military-grade products in the Programmable Logic, Memory and Analog market segments. “This agreement and others like it make it possible for Arrow to fulfill our commitment to long-term support for our aerospace and defense customers. By acquiring finished goods, die-level products, and the necessary test equipment, Arrow Electronics will support delivery of these critical components for many years to come,” said Tyler Moore, Director of Supply Assurance for Arrow Electronics.

“This is great news for Lattice customers, who now have an ongoing source of supply for the SMD versions of the GAL and ispLSI 1000 device families,” said Steve Stark, Lattice’s Director of Business Group Operations. “Importantly, this new source of supply is Arrow Electronics, an industry leader in the support of discontinued products to the military marketplace.”

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Digi-Key Corporation today announced the addition of Lattice’s MachXO2 Programmable Logic Devices.

Lattice Semiconductor’s MachXO2 family of infinitely reconfigurable Programmable Logic Devices (PLDs) offers designers of low density PLDs an unprecedented mix of low cost, low power and high system integration in a single device. Combining an optimized look-up table (LUT) architecture with 65 nm embedded Flash process technology, the MachXO2 family delivers an increase in logic density, an increase in embedded memory, and a reduction in static power compared to the prior generation, the MachXO PLD family.

The MachXO2 family offers system designers the benefits of increased system integration, improved system robustness and reduced static power consumption. In addition, the MachXO2 family includes hardened implementations of some of the most popular functions used in system applications (telecom infrastructure, computing, high end industrial, high end medical, etc.) and consumer applications (smart phones, GPS devices, mobile computing, digital cameras, etc.). Through the provision of these features, the MachXO2 family offers designers a “Do-it-All PLD” for system applications.

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Electronic components distributor Digi-Key Corporation, recognized by design engineers as having the industry’s broadest selection of electronic components available for immediate shipment, and Lattice Semiconductor have announced the signing of a global distribution agreement.

“Digi-Key is pleased to partner with Lattice in the global distribution of their full product line-up of low power design solutions,” said Mark Zack, Digi-Key’s vice president of semiconductor product. “Lattice will enable us to provide our world-wide customer base with a full range of FPGA and PLD solutions.”

“We are excited to work closely with Digi-Key as Lattice continues to expand its global presence,” said Stacy Fender, Lattice’s corporate VP of worldwide sales. “Digi-Key’s ability to quickly get Lattice’s products into the hands of our customers and design engineers around the world supports our commitment to meet the design needs of a very diverse customer base and provides us with an extremely easy to use and flexible channel to do so.”

Under the terms of this global distribution agreement, Digi-Key is authorized to sell Lattice’s complete portfolio of innovative, low-power, low-cost FPGA, PLD, and programmable power management design products.

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Lattice Semiconductor and Arrow Electronics EMEA today announced they have signed a distribution agreement for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Headquartered in Hillsboro, Oregon, Lattice is a supplier of innovative low power, low cost FPGA, PLD and programmable power management design solutions. With development, manufacturing and sales offices worldwide, Lattice primarily addresses customers in communications, computing, consumer and industrial end markets.

“Lattice is an important addition to enhance our offering as a provider of technology solutions in Europe,” said Brian McNally, president of Arrow Electronics in EMEA. “Their strong portfolio of innovative PLD, FPGA and unique power management devices will allow Arrow to offer our customers differentiated programmable solutions, particularly in terms of low power, cost effectiveness and time to market.”

“We are pleased to have Arrow as a distribution partner in Europe. Arrow’s comprehensive supply chain and logistic capabilities, combined with its history of demand generation and superior customer service, will be invaluable assets as we expand our presence in the European market,” said Darin G. Billerbeck, Lattice President and Chief Executive Officer.

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RS extends FPGA portfolio, adding 150 devices including new Cyclone and
Spartan families from Altera and Xilinx

RS Components is adding more than 150 products to its FPGA portfolio for mainstream industrial, scientific and medical applications, providing more options for system-on-chip designers seeking fast, convenient access to established, price-competitive device families and supporting development tools.

For RS, Paul Webster, Head of Product Management, Electronics said: “Today’s mid-range FPGAs and highly-featured CPLDs help designers meet aggressive cost and power targets, as well as speeding up time to market and increasing design agility. They are often chosen in preference to a microcontroller or ASIC-based design in projects where a variety of sensing, networking, signal processing, Gigabit-I/O and general-purpose capabilities are required”.

The broad range of devices now available from RS Components includes Altera’s APEX, Cyclone®, FLEX® and Stratix® architectures including APEX 20K, Cyclone II, Cyclone III and Stratix II families. Xilinx device families include CoolRunner™-II, Virtex®-4, Virtex-5 and multiple Spartan® families including Spartan 3E/3A/3AN and Spartan 3A DSP. A dramatically extended portfolio of devices from Lattice Semiconductor will also be announced shortly.

“The ever-increasing choice of competitively priced FPGAs targeting mainstream industrial applications is an extremely important trend, often overshadowed by news of leading-edge innovations,” continued Webster. “As the leading European distributor offering one-stop-shop catalogue facilities, we provide the easiest possible access to this technology, including convenient, rapid delivery free of restrictions such as minimum order quantities.”

Supporting the company’s strategy offering convenient access to low-cost, low-power custom-programmable design is a comprehensive range of development boards and kits. These enable designers to familiarise themselves with device features and design techniques and take advantage of application examples and reference designs that help accelerate project completion.

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Lattice Semiconductor today announced that effective immediately Nu Horizons Electronics Corp.  will distribute the full range of Lattice products on a global basis. Nu Horizons currently distributes Lattice products throughout the Asia Pacific region.

“Nu Horizons Electronics is very excited to expand globally with Lattice,” said Kent Smith, President of Nu Horizons Global Distribution Division. “Lattice is one of the world’s leading providers of FPGAs, PLDs, Programmable Clock and Power Management devices, software design tools and IP cores, and our sales and engineering teams around the world are extremely familiar with programmable logic technologies. Lattice is an ideal match, enabling us to provide innovative product choices for our customers in every region.”

“Lattice is extremely pleased to welcome Nu Horizons Electronics as one of our global distribution partners,” said Stacy Fender, Lattice’s Corporate Vice President of Sales. “Nu Horizons is well-known for its demand creation abilities, seamless global infrastructure, world-class logistics, expert technical knowledge and award winning customer service. We are pleased with Nu Horizons’ performance in Asia, and are confident they will provide superb customer support and expand our opportunities to reach new customers.”

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