Lattice sticks with open RISC

Most of the attention in the release on Lattice Semiconductor’s Version 8.0 of ispLEVER was on the software’s expansion of DDR support – all well and good, mind you, given the expansion of DDR2 in the embedded space. But I was more interested in the expansion of the RISC Lattice Mico32 development system. The environment now includes a newer version of a GNU compiler, and a triple-speed MAC IP core.  Lattice also announced it would be working with Beyond Semiconductor on compiler tools for Mico32.

There are wags out there who will say that “Those who can, brand their RISC, those who can’t, go open source.

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