Lattice was founded on April 3, 1983, by C. Norman Winningstad, Rahul Sud, and Ray Capece. Lattice is an American manufacturer of high-performance programmable logic devices (FPGAs, CPLDs, SPLDs). Lattice 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 Certus-NX series of general purpose FPGAs, CrossLink FPGAs for video bridging and processing, iCE FPGAs for low-power applications, and MachXO FPGAs for control and security. Lattice products are used in a variety of end uses, such as flat-panel televisions and laptops. Lattice strongly encourages its customers to purchase all products through Lattice’s authorized sources: either directly from Lattice or through a Lattice-authorized distributor...