Lattice Supplies Extreme Chips

HILLSBORO, Ore. -- Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (Nasdaq:LSCC - News) and Extreme Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq:EXTR - News) today announced that Extreme Networks has utilized Lattice's ORLI10G FPSC within their flagship core-switching platform.Extreme Networks has deployed the 10GLRi modules in its BlackDiamond® 6800 core switching family, designed to provide advanced resiliency and carrier-class fault tolerance for IP data networks, with scalability from 10/100 Megabit-per-second (Mbit/s) to 10 Gigabit-per-second (Gbit/s) data rates. At the heart of Extreme Networks' 10GLRi module is Lattice's 10 Gigabit-per-second line interface field programmable system chip (FPSC), the ORLI10G.Extreme Networks will be demonstrating maximum Ethernet scalability with its 10-Gigabit Ethernet modules using Lattice's ORLI10G FPSCs at the fall 2002 Networld+Interop exhibition, being held in Atlanta, Sept. 10-12. "Lattice's programmable networking system-chip technology is the perfect solution for the emerging next-generation systems, such as Extreme Networks' BlackDiamond 6800 core switches," said Stan Kopec, vice president of marketing at Lattice Semiconductor."By coupling high-speed embedded core macros with high-performance field programmable gates on silicon, together with system-level Intellectual Property cores for instantiation into the programmable logic, we give system designers like Extreme Networks the ability to bring innovative products to market quickly," added Kopec. Lattice's PCS IP core implements all the functions of the physical coding sublayer for 10GbE applications, including a 64/66B encoder/decoder, scrambler/descrambler, and XGMII interface for coupling the ORLI10G to a 10GbE MAC.Lattice Semiconductor Corp.Extreme Networks Inc.