Lattice

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “We've had good experiences with Lattice parts. Their software tools are free for all of their basic chips.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-24

• “Lattice is not perfect but it legitimately seems to be designed by people who understand that it's not actually useful to anyone and that the best user experience is just to make it as easy as possible to phone it in”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-10-09

• “I honestly feel that if Lattice embraced open source further, they could be a leading player in the space”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2025-06-24

• “If you want to use Lattice commercial tool chain you have to re-apply for a free license each year”

  NEGATIVE · features · Reddit · 2025-05-19

• “the lattice tools make it pretty easy to assign signals to pins”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Reddit · 2025-05-17

• “current Lattice iCE40 FPGAs have the equivalent of the 8051's EA pin”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-03-29

• “Someone asked the teacher why a struct would not work on Lattice C. The instructor looked at the code, sat down at the students computer, typed in a small program compiled it, and camly put the disks in the box with the manual and threw it in the garbage.”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2025-03-24

• “Lattice is 1000x better than any corporate SAPesque nightmare I've used in the past”

  POSITIVE · features · Reddit · 2025-03-15

• “the dystopian HR software Lattice which offers weekly updates with an emoji scale. I don't fill it out, I get poked to please fill it out. I hit "neutral" and I get questions about why my mood is changed. My sentiment, or lack thereof, shown in emoji is apparently very helpful to my manager. I even like emoji, but this makes me want to find the nearest bridge.”

  NEGATIVE · features · Reddit · 2025-03-14

• “Perf reviews benefit enormously from LLMs, but that's already built into Lattice for us.”

  POSITIVE · features · Reddit · 2025-02-28