EDN

Programmable logic: A practical introduction for beginners

The PAL family continued to evolve into the late 1980s, with faster, lower-power devices, including ones that could be reprogrammed. The most complex device type developed was probably the PAL22V10, ...
Electronic Design

Add Programmable Logic IP To Your ASICs Or ASSPs

ASIC designers can obtain programmable logic's reconfigurability. Adaptive Silicon's RAM-based reprogrammable logic IP for ASICs, the MSA2500, has up to 25,000 ASIC gates for flexible designs. Typical ...
EDN

Standardized programmable power management — An imperative for modern circuit board design

In this article, power management is defined simply as the management of all power sources (including DC-DC Converter, LDOs, etc.) on the circuit board. Power management includes the following ...
Design-Reuse

The future of programmable logic

Before long, platform FPGAs containing fixed or configurable processors and custom hardware will dominate the field of hardware design. By then, hardware/software codesign will be the norm. Fifteen ...
Design-Reuse

SoC Configurable Platforms -> Programmable logic joins SoC game

Recent advances in pro-grammable logic device (PLD) density and capability enable entire systems to be designed into a single programmable device. High levels of integration have been achieved in ...
sciencex

Electromagnetic-circuit co-design approach leads to dynamically programmable holographic terahertz metasurfaces

With the help of integrated CMOS technology and electromagnetic design, Princeton researchers have demonstrated a key device that could potentially enable high-speed wireless links at terahertz ...
Electronic Design

Bandwidth or Function? What to Focus on When Designing High-Density Circuits

Improving density in circuit design is an ongoing challenge. One solution is to reconsider circuit layouts from the perspective of bandwidth optimization.
Hackaday

Die Photos Reveal Logic From Commodore 128 PLA Chip

The 8721 PLA, or programmable logic array, was one of the chips that had to be invented to make the Commodore 128, the last of the 8-bit computers that formed the leading edge of the early PC ...