EDN

New Devices, Design Tools Fuel Programmable Logic Resurgence

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 ...
New Electronics

The future’s bright … the future’s programmable logic

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 ...
Electronic Design

Programmable Logic: To HDL Or Not To HDL?

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 ...
Electronic Design

Ultra-low-power programmable logic

Eight new reference designs, a $49 development kit for the ProcessorPM POWR605 power manager device, and a $69 ispMACH 4000ZE Pico Development Kit are now available. The new kits are ideal for ...
Design-Reuse

Embedded Systems: Programmable Logic -> Programmable-chip methods get fresh look

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 ...