Advanced logic design techniques using field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), programmable logic devices, programmable array logic devices, and other forms of reconfigurable logic. Architectural ...

Over the years, it has become a vital part of design. It had a humble beginning, back when programmable array logic (PAL) devices could replace a mere 10 to 20 gates of logic. Today, complex ...

Mass quantity production pricing brought the cost down to pennies and nickels, even after the $2.5million NRE cost to design. PLA And Or Array So ... for the Programmable Logic Device (PLD ...

Two-level and multi-level combinational circuits. Gate conversion. Decoders, encoders, multiplexers, and demultiplexers. Programmable logic devices: read-only memories, programmable logic arrays and ...

Well-placed PALs could be reprogrammed to correct design mistakes quickly and easily, without management ever knowing. Then Xilinx came up with the SRAM-based field programmable gate array (FPGA) that ...

Programmable-chip methods get fresh look By Bernard Cole, EE Times February 16, 2001 (1:08 p.m. EST) URL: http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20010216S0024 At densities ...

This Design Idea describes a simple alternative to a nonvolatile gating function you typically implement using PAL (programmable-array logic), GAL (gate-array logic), or a CPLD ...

PAL (programmable-array logic) was relatively new at the time, and tools to program these devices were crude. We could do a lot with a PAL device, but reducing the Boolean equations of the design to ...

FPGAs were an outgrowth of the programmable array logic (PAL) business in the late 1970s. These devices enabled design engineers to replace discrete logic chips with one programmable chip.

Back in the bad old days, if you needed a little bit of custom logic you would whip out a tiny chip known as a PAL. A Programmable Logic Array is just what it sounds like and is the forerunner of ...