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 popularity among the industry has increased due to its capability to shorten leadtime while also increasing design flexibility. This has led to the need for engineers with experience in programmable devices and hardware description languages such as VHDL. In response to this, many universities are introducing this topic into undergraduate engineering curricula; facing a numbe...

One of the approaches used to partition inputs consists in modifying and limiting the input set using an external transcoder. This method is strictly related to output coding. This paper presents an optimal output coding in PAL-based programmable transcoders. The algorithm can be used to implement circuits in PAL-based CPLDs.

The emerging technology of programmable logic devices enables a new kind of architecture for massively parallel. For such systems the traditional way of chip configuration is not useful anymore. This paper presents a concept for configuring massively parallel reconfigurable architectures. Furthermore a proof of concept is given by applying the configuration scheme to an reconfigurable architect...

new types of sophisticated field-programmable devices (FPDs) has dramatically changed the process of designing digital hardware. Unlike previous generations of hardware technology in which board level designs included large numbers of SSI (small-scale integration) chips containing basic gates, virtually every digital design produced today consists mostly of high-density devices. This is true no...