Founded in 1983, lattice semiconductor company is a company that
designs, develops and sells high-performance programmable logic devices
and related system development software. Since the invention of the
first ISP (in system programmable) PLD in 1992, lattice semiconductor
company has been a leading supplier of such devices. At present, there
are more than 300 ISP products with different performance, package and
temperature range. Generally, the standard PLD device requires 12V
programming signal, so when writing, it must be removed from the printed
board and special hardware equipment should be used. ISP devices use 5V
or 3.3V programming signals, so they do not need to be removed from the
circuit board when writing, so they can shorten the design cycle,
reduce the production cost, and provide data files through computer
disks and serial data lines to realize simple and low-cost field
reorganization. In addition, lattice semiconductor company also provides
ISP software development tools for users. Its latest software
development tool is ispexpress, which runs on PC and UNIX platforms.
Users can input, verify and debug design programs, carry out logic
simulation, time domain analysis and ISP device programming. It's very
powerful.