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

Modular Array ASIC – Extending Custom Logic

A modular array ASIC is a mask-programmed custom integrated circuit, created by mapping a logic design into an array of identical building-block logic primitives (modules) that comprise the basic ...
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

Programmable Logic Now Bestows Configurability Upon All Kinds Of Chips

Programmable logic is going mainstream. Programmability, or rather configurability, will no longer be confined to glue logic, datapath chips, or special processing functions. Instead, programmable ...
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 ...
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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 ...