Leuven, Belgium and San Jose, California, US – March 8, 2010 – Imec and Altos Design Automation, Inc. today announce that they have entered into an agreement to set up a library re-characterization service based on Altos ultra-fast characterization tools. With this collaboration, imec will extend its ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) prototyping and volume fabrication service with library re-characterization which is essential when designing in 65nm and 40nm nodes.

Imec and Altos will collaborate to offer re-characterization of standard foundry or library vendor libraries including core and IO cells at different process, temperatures and/or voltages. The library re-characterization is based on Altos’ Liberatetm cell characterization product. Validation of the re-characterization will be performed using Altos’ Liberate LV library validation system.

When designing in 65nm and 40nm nodes, re-characterization of standard cell libraries is becoming increasingly necessary in order to get the delay, timing constraints, switching power, leakage and noise for all the corners needed for accurate design signoff. Standard design libraries offered by foundries or library vendors are characterized for certain conditions but the de-rating factors do not apply to all temperatures and voltages. To guarantee first time right designs, library re-characterization becomes essential for 65nm and 40nm technologies.

“The demands of advanced process nodes are driving the requirement to have cells characterized at more temperatures and voltage levels than ever before;” said Jim McCanny, CEO at Altos. “This is because accurate modeling of instance specific voltage and temperature variations cannot be achieved with only one temperature and voltage choice per process corner. In addition the prevalent use of low power design methods means that designers can no longer afford to over-design to extreme corner conditions but need to target library corners that are more relevant to their design application”

Imec has offered an ASIC prototyping, fabrication, testing and packaging service for more than 20 years. The imec ASIC service provides on the one hand European fables companies access to TSMC technologies through imec’s emerging business program. On the other hand, European universities and R&D centers can prototype or fabricate their ASICs at reduced cost via the Europractice IC service supported by the European Commission. “As many of our customers are moving to 65nm and 40nm, there is a strong need for a library characterization service;” said Carl Das, Director imec ASIC services. “This collaboration with Altos will enable us to use Liberate and Liberate LV to rapidly qualify library views for electrical signoff of timing, noise and power which is an important asset for our customers.”

About imec

Imec performs world-leading research in nanoelectronics. Imec leverages its scientific knowledge with the innovative power of its global partnerships in ICT, healthcare and energy. Imec delivers industry-relevant technology solutions. In a unique high-tech environment, its international top talent is committed to providing the building blocks for a better life in a sustainable society.

Imec is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium, and has offices in Belgium, the Netherlands, Taiwan, US, China and Japan. Its staff of more than 1,750 people includes over 650 industrial residents and guest researchers. In 2008, imec’s revenue (P&L) was 270 million euro.

Further information on imec can be found at www.imec.be.

Imec is a registered trademark for the activities of IMEC International (a legal entity set up under Belgian law as a “stichting van openbaar nut”), imec Belgium (IMEC vzw supported by the Flemish Government), imec the Netherlands (Stichting IMEC Nederland, part of Holst Centre which is supported by the Dutch Government) and imec Taiwan (IMEC Taiwan Co.).

About Altos

Altos Design Automation provides ultra-fast, fully-automated characterization and validation technology of library views for timing, signal integrity, leakage and power. Altos advanced modeling solutions are used by both corner-based and statistical-based design implementation flows to reduce time to market and improve yield. Altos’ Liberatetm and Liberate LV products are used by leading foundry and IP providers to reduce the cost, improve the quality and greatly enhance the productivity of IP view creation. Privately held, Altos was founded in 2005 in Santa Clara, CA. Its corporate headquarters is at 4020 Moorpark Ave., Suite 100, San Jose, CA 95117. Telephone: (408) 980-8056. On the Web at: www.altos-da.com

HILLSBORO, OR — MARCH 8, 2010 — Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC) today announced that it has shipped over 200 million ispMACH® 4000 complex programmable logic devices (CPLD). The Lattice ispMACH 4000 CPLD family provides a variety of design solutions, from glue logic and general purpose I/O expansion to voltage level translation and LED drivers. Engineers around the globe have widely adopted the ispMACH 4000 CPLD as a standard due to its balance of price, power and packaging options.

“Congratulations to Lattice Semiconductor on this significant business achievement in shipping over 200 million units of the ispMACH 4000 CPLD family. Samsung uses the ispMACH 4000 devices in Mobile WiMAX projects because Lattice has consistently met our standards for quality, delivery and price,” said Seung Gu Kang, Vice President, H/W Group Telecommunication Network Business, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. “I appreciate Lattice Semiconductor as a supplier because Samsung has become considerably more competitive in the market by virtue of their devices. I expect Lattice to continue to strongly support Samsung with the best device quality and price for us to strengthen our worldwide market share in the future.”

CPLDs continue to be a popular alternative to discrete digital logic, given the flexible nature of in-system programmable logic and I/O buffers that support a variety of signal standards and voltage levels. Compared to FPGAs, CPLDs offer the advantages of low cost solutions with predictable and very fast timing characteristics. With tiny packages down to 4x4mm, static power consumption down to 10uA and prices starting as low as $0.50, the ispMACH 4000ZE CPLD family is an ideal design solution for battery-powered or low standby power devices such as smartphones, portable GPS products and home appliances like digital set-top-boxes.

“The ispMACH 4000ZE CPLD family offers customers a low price, low power solution that continues to be used at an accelerating rate by both consumer and system focused customers,” said Chris Fanning, Lattice Corporate Vice President and General Manager of Low Density and Mixed Signal Solutions. “Shipping over 200 million ispMACH 4000 CPLDs is an important milestone for both Lattice and the programmable logic industry, because it demonstrates the value CPLDs offer to a myriad of digital system designs. It’s important as well to customers, who demand immediate availability and reliability from their supply chain partners.”

Reference Designs and Easy-to-Use Development Kits

To reduce the development time and risk for ispMACH 4000ZE designs, Lattice offers free HDL reference designs, a battery-powered evaluation board with the ispMACH 4000ZE Pico Development Kit and fine-pitch BGA breakout and routing examples to ease PCB integration. The $69 ispMACH 4000ZE Pico Development Kit is an easy-to-use platform for evaluating and designing with ispMACH 4000ZE CPLDs. Using the preloaded Pico Power Demo design, designers can measure power draw in a variety of operating modes and view common CPLD applications. The PCB board design itself demonstrates best low-power design practices to minimize current leakage.

About the ispMACH 4000 CPLD Family

All ispMACH 4000 CPLDs are fully production qualified and feature a broad range of densities, packages and speed grade options. ispMACH 4000 CPLDs are available for ordering via the Lattice online store at www.latticesemi.com/store and through authorized Lattice distributors at www.latticesemi.com/sales

ispMACH 4000 CPLDs are available for $0.50 for 32 macrocells in volumes of 250K units. For more information about the Lattice ispMACH 4000ZE CPLD family, visit www.latticesemi.com/products/cpldspld/ispmach4000ze

For more information on all Lattice CPLD development kits, visit www.latticesemi.com/products/developmenthardware/cpldboards

The design software for the ispMACH 4000 family, ispLEVER® Classic software, can be downloaded from the Lattice website at www.latticesemi.com/products/designsoftware/isplever/ispleverclassic

About Lattice Semiconductor

Lattice is the source for innovative FPGA, PLD, programmable Power Management and Clock Management solutions. For more information, visit www.latticesemi.com