The folks at Lattice Semiconductor are on a roll today. They tell me that they've now shipped over 25 million MachXO PLDs, which they tend to regard as being the Swiss Army Knife of PLDs.

Broadly adopted in a wide range of high volume, cost sensitive applications, the guys and gals at Lattice say that customers around the world are using the MachXO PLD family due to its 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.  The MachXO PLD family offers customers an "All-in-One-PLD" by providing distributed and embedded memory, built-in PLLs, high performance LVDS I/O, remote field upgrade (TransFR technology) and a low power sleep mode, all in a single device.

The folks at Lattice say that, since their introduction, MachXO PLD sales have ramped up very quickly in a variety of end markets including communications, consumer, computing, industrial and medical, and the MachXO device continues to be one of Lattice's fastest growing products.

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.

Pricing and Availability
All MachXO PLDs are fully production qualified and have been shipping for four years.  MachXO PLDs feature a broad range of densities, packages and speed grade options and are available for ordering via the Lattice Online Store and through authorized Lattice Distributors.

MachXO PLDs are available for $1.25 for 256LUTs and $2.00 for 640 LUTs in volumes of 250K units.  Click Here for more information about the Lattice MachXO PLD family; Click Here for more information on MachXO development kits. The free ispLEVER Starter software can be downloaded from the Lattice website at by Clicking Here.