The past few months have seen an increase of announcements from programmable-logic hardware and design-tool vendors touting significant product introductions and enhancements. First came Altera's ...

In the 1990s, programmable logic was being touted as the technology of the future. The ability to do with it almost what you wanted was seen as the route to true systems on chips and programmable ...

Strategies for EDA tool usage will change course as gate levels, and ultimately costs, rise in programmable logic designs. For designs below 25,000 gates, the basic tools from logic vendors and many ...

At densities ranging from half a million to 5 million gates, programmable devices still do not match the gate count of application-specific integrated circuits and system-on-chip designs that use ...