A use for programmable logic is presented targeting microelectronic circuit test engineering education. These devices offer strengths in cost, time and flexibility in an educational environment. The rationale for this work is to support electronic hardware design, fabrication and test for mixed-signal integrated circuits typically used in mixed-technology systems.

1 Jim Grover, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio 44325, [email protected] 2 Okechukwu Ugweje, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Akron, Akron OH, 44325, [email protected] Abstract  This paper discusses the application of programmable logic devices (PLDs) to enhance the understanding of digital design at the University of Akron. Switching and...

Programmable logic devices enable users to exploit the tremendous concurrency benefits of hardware in their compute solutions without requiring them to go through a silicon production process. The most powerful among these devices are fieldprogrammable gate arrays (FPGAs) that provides hundreds of thousands of logic slices, each one of the capable of computing any arbitrary boolean 6-input func...

The first implementation of a new programmable logic device using LUT(Look-Up Table) cascade architecture is developed in 0.35um CMOS logic process. Eight 64Kb asynchronous SRAMs are simply connected to form an LUT cascade with a few additional circuits. Benchmark results show that it has a competitive performance to FPGAs. 1. Introduction RAMs and PLAs (Programmable Logic Array) are used for p...

—After the appearance of Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), several systems have been built using FPGAs,thus called Reconfigurable System. The essence of Reconfigurable System is dynamically changing the circuit at runtime with the reconfigurable characteristic of Programmable Logic Devices to give the system advantages of both hardware and software. The thesis here starting from the basic t...

101 The Design of an SRAM-Based Field-Programmable Gate Array, Part II: Circuit Design and Layout Paul Chow, Soon Ong Seo, Jonathan Rose, Kevin Chung, Gerard P aez-Monz on and Immanuel Rahardja Abstract|Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are now widely used for the implementation of digital systems and many commercial architectures are available. Although the literature and data books conta...

Abstract. This paper investigates the application of function-level Evolvable Hardware (EHW) to the adaptive equalization of digital communication channel. EHW is hardware that is built on programmable logic devices such as eld programmable gate arrays. Its architecture can be recon gured by using genetic learning to adapt to new, unknown environments in real time. We propose an EHW-based adapt...

Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter (UART) is a popular two wire serial communication interface between two microcomputer based systems. The programmable logic devices can be used for such application by developing core for UART. This design included transmitter, receiver and baud rate generator. By using hardware descriptive language UART simulation can be tested before it can be loade...

A Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) with optical I/O is described. FPGAs with optical I/O can have their functionality specified in the field by downloading a control bit stream, and can be used in a wide range of applications, such as optical signal processing and optical interconnects. Our device implements six state-of-the-art Programmable Logic Arrays (PLAs) on a 2x2 mm die. The device w...