Programmable Input for Nanomagnetic Logic Devices

Programmable logic devices

Advances in programmable logic devices' architectures are making PLDs suitable for a plethora of applications. The devices now find use in state machines and other highly sequential circuits. In the past two years, bipolar PLD operating speeds have doubled, and emerging CMOS PLDs offer four times the circuitry per chip than the older bipolar versions offered. CMOS PLDs also offer lower operatin...

Programmable Logic Devices

Programmable Logic Devices: A Test Approach for the Input/Output Blocks and Pad-to-Pin Interconnections

In the last few years, an increasing use of Programmable Logic Devices (PLDs) in the development of new embedded and systems-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions created the need of new test procedures for this kind of components. Several approaches, depending on the type of PLDs used, were proposed in the literature, addressing the test of the configurable logic array, the interconnection arrays and the ...

Thermal Testing on Programmable Logic Devices

In this work, an FPGA-oriented temperature monitoring scheme is presented. A control circuit enables a ring-oscillator during a short period and measures its output frequency, a magnitude that is a function of the die temperature. Several sensors have been constructed using Xilinx chips, obtaining sensitivities between 17 kHz per °C and 77 kHz per °C. The characterization of self-heating, match...

Rapid Prototyping Using Field-Programmable Logic Devices

0272-1732/00/$10.00  2000 IEEE Traditionally, undergraduates in electrical and computer engineering study the design and implementation of a simple computer and then develop their own designs. In recent years, computer design courses have for the most part taken a simulation-only approach. Rapid prototyping techniques and a new generation of large field-programmable logic devices (FPLDs) enabl...