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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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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.

As the complexity of these programmable devices increase their power supply design also required careful considerations ... where both levels are programmable Programmable Array Logic (PAL) : Refers ...

The paper describes how, with a SOPC (System on a Programmable Chip) architecture embedded with a 32-Bit NIOS-II, a Layer 2 Ethernet switch can be implemented in a FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array ...