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Programmable Logic Devices
News Release from: Lattice Semiconductor UK
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 26 March 2004
Fujitsu is fab for Lattice
Fujitsu is to manufacture Lattice Semiconductor's next-generation FPGA products on its leading-edge 130 and 90nm CMOS process technologies.
Fujitsu is to manufacture Lattice Semiconductor's next-generation FPGA products on its leading-edge 130 and 90nm CMOS process technologies, as well as a 130nm technology with embedded Flash memory being jointly developed by Fujitsu and Lattice Fujitsu has agreed to manufacture next-generation FPGA products for Lattice, a leader in programmable logic devices
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 23 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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In particular, Fujitsu is a pioneer in the use of cutting-edge technologies such as copper wiring and low-k materials for its high-end servers.
Fujitsu already manufactures products using 90nm CMOS technology at its Akiruno Technology Centre, located in western Tokyo.
Fujitsu offers total manufacturing solutions, from process technology to testing and packaging, and provides customers such as Lattice advanced technology, high reliability, and integrated solutions capabilities.
Lattice plans to invest in a new 300mm wafer fab which Fujitsu has scheduled for operation in spring 2005, and which will enable a long-term, stable, 300mm advanced technology wafer supply for Lattice.
In conjunction with construction of the new fab, Fujitsu will strengthen and expand its leading-edge semiconductor foundry business with various strategic customers, including Lattice.
Toshihiko Ono, Group President of Fujitsu's Electronic Devices Business Group, said that FPGAs are among the fastest growing semiconductor products and ideal for Fujitsu's foundry services.
Ono said: "This agreement represents an excellent opportunity for Fujitsu to expand its foundry services.
Fujitsu and Lattice have enjoyed a mutually rewarding and trusting relationship for several years.
Lattice was seeking a foundry partner with strong expertise in advanced submicron processes and embedded Flash technology, and Fujitsu was seeking an opportunity to fabricate mainstream, high-volume, next-generation FPGAs.
In retrospect, our partnership seemed almost inevitable".
Lattice CEO and Chairman Cyrus Tsui noted that Fujitsu has proven to be an exceptional partner.
"Fujitsu is providing us with process technologies that have not been generally available in the open foundry market", Tsui said.
"Fujitsu's production-proven technology and capacity will be very important as Lattice becomes the programmable logic company that drives new standards in FPGA products.
It is essential that Lattice FPGAs take advantage of the most advanced technologies, and Fujitsu has demonstrated its commitment and capability to continually expand the boundaries of what is technologically possible", Tsui concluded.
The initial result of the partnership agreement between Fujitsu and Lattice will be the planned introduction throughout 2004 of three distinctly focused FPGA product families.
Lattice identified its highest density products as the LatticeSC family of ultra high-performance, 90nm CMOS FPGAs.
This family will incorporate an efficient programmable fabric supporting devices with over 10 million system gates and 10 million bits of embedded RAM, as well as optimised, embedded system functions.
The LatticeXP family, on the other hand, is a family of nonvolatile, infinitely reconfigurable 130nm FPGAs incorporating embedded Flash for "instant-on" operation.
Finally, the LatticeEC family provides a range of ultra-low-cost FPGAs based on Fujitsu's production-proven, low-k, copper metallisation 130nm process.
Lattice CEO Tsui said the first family of this new generation of products would be introduced in mid-2004, with introduction of the remaining families expected by year-end.
Volume shipments will begin by the end of 2004.
"These new product families anticipate customer requirements for FPGAs over the next three to five years", said Tsui, "and are targeted to the FPGA market segments that we believe will grow most rapidly".
Tsui added that the new product families address market segments first pioneered by earlier Lattice devices, such as the company's revolutionary field programmable system chip (FPSC) devices, the industry's first FPGAs with embedded 3Gbit/s serdes technology; and the company's "instant-on" ispXPGA FPGA families.
"Lattice established a viable market for FPGAs with embedded system functions as well as nonvolatile and infinitely reconfigurable FPGAs", Tsui said.
"Now, with these new products, Lattice is poised to dramatically expand that market".
Tsui also noted that the LatticeEC product family is a "precise and targeted response" to the market's exploding demand for low-cost, architecturally streamlined FPGAs.
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