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 ...
Electronic Design

Programmable Analog Functions Are Going Mainstream

We have always had programmable analog circuits. Any circuit that makes outputs change as a function of inputs is in some way programmable. Examples include gain change as a function of voltage or ...