SAN JOSE, Calif. — Programmable-logic vendor Altera Corp. this week unveiled its plan to give high-volume customers a migration path to lower-cost mask-programmable devices. By doing so, the company ...

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 ...

Texas Instruments has introduced six programmable logic devices with between 8 and 14 pins “with the ability to integrate up to 40 combinational and sequential logic and analogue functions into one ...

Texas Instruments (TI) has introduced programmable logic devices (PLDs) that enable engineers to streamline their logic designs for any application. Credit: Texas Instruments With the ability to ...

Designers often develop a single board that can be configured using different firmware for multiple end-user applications. This approach allows companies to reuse critical intellectual property and ...

Members can download this article in PDF format. For market growth to occur at desired levels, suppliers must meet consumer demand for compact electronic devices that integrate multiple functions. To ...

Embedded Systems Conference, San Francisco, Calif., April 12, 2001-Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR), a leading programmable logic device supplier, announced today their WindLink? partnership with ...

I just received an email that posed an interesting question as follows: “Hi Max, I have a question regarding who was the first PLD manufacturer. A couple of us here at work were talking about that the ...

Programmable logic has come a long way from the simple devices we started out with. Remember Programmable Array Logic, or PALs? In bipolar technology the ICC on even a small PAL was over 100mA, and ...

Yeah I am still a little pissed that the competition is still around and we aren’t, and by “we” I mean Commodore Business Machines (CBM). It was Commodore that had the most popular home computer ever ...