Lattice Semiconductor Corporation. The Group's principal activity is to design, develop and market high performance programmable logic devices (PLDs) and related software. Programmable logic devices are widely-used semiconductor components that can be configured by end customers as specific logic circuits and thus enable shorter design cycle times and reduced development costs. The Group pioneered the development of in-system programmability (ISP). Recently, the Group pioneered the development of XP, or extended programmability, technology. The end customers of the Group are primarily original equipment manufacturers in the communications, computing, industrial, automotive, medical, consumer and military end markets. In Jan-2002, the Group acquired the field programmable gate array business of Agere Systems, Inc. Further, on 26-Aug-2002, the Group completed the acquisition of Cerdelinx Technologies, Inc.