EDN

Programmable Logic: FPGAs get flexible for PCI Express

As the electronics industry shifts from the widely used PCI standard to PCI Express, FPGA vendors are poised to capitalize on the rapid expansion. They are offering products that address a range of ...
Semiconductor Engineering

AI Starting To Simplify Design Of Programmable Logic

Designing and deploying DSPs FPGAs aren’t the only programmable hardware option, or the only option challenged by AI. While AI makes it easier to design DSPs, there are rising complexities due to the ...
EDN

Programmable logic: Lattice tips 90-nm nonvolatile FPGAs

Since the very early days of FPGAs, the technology has provided watchers with an enjoyable ping-pong match between the two biggest vendors: Altera Corp. and Xilinx Inc. There are other contenders, but ...
Hackaday

Using 5V Programmable Logic Here In The 2020s

Do you speak GAL? [Peterzieba] does, and has pulled together a collection of documents and tools so that you can too. There’s a dividing line in electronic engineering education, between those who ...
Electronic Design

Compact 16-nm FPGA Loads Up on Programmable Logic

Lattice Semiconductor’s new Avant architecture is purpose-built to extend the company’s focus on high power efficiency, small form factors, and performance to mid-range FPGAs. The company said the ...
Design-Reuse

Lattice MachXO devices provide new low cost alternative to CPLDs and FPGAs

Embedded Flash Plus SRAM Technology Enables Crossover Programmable Logic Devices to Expand Beyond Traditional CPLDs and FPGAs HILLSBORO, OR - July 18, 2005 - Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: ...
Design News

What’s Next in Programmable Devices?

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 ...
WatersTechnology

Algo-Logic Updates 40G Endpoint Device to Speed FPGA Data

The product will enable firms that have deployed FPGA-accelerated devices in datacenters for data streaming applications to transfer "massive volumes of data with the lowest possible latency and power ...
The Next Platform

What Will AMD Do With Programmable Logic And Other Xilinx IP?

AMD has finished its acquisition of Xilinx, which ended up costing close to $49 billion instead of the original $35 billion projected when the deal was announced in October 2020 thanks to the rise of ...
Business Wire

Renesas Enters FPGA Market With the First Ultra-Low-Power, Low-Cost Family Addressing Low-Density, High-Volume Applications

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced that it is entering the Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) ...
Hackaday

Emulating A 74LS48 BCD-to-7-Segment Decoder/Driver With An Altera MAX 7000 “S” Series Complex Programmable Logic Device

Over on the [Behind The Code with Gerry] YouTube channel our hacker [Gerry] shows us how to emulate a 74LS48 BCD-to-7-segment decoder/driver using an Altera CPLD Logic Chip From 1998. This is very ...
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 ...