Hackaday

Programmable Logic I – PLA/PAL

Yeah I am still a little pissed that the competition is still around and we aren’t, and by “we” I mean Commodore Business Machines (CBM). It was Commodore that had the most popular home computer ever ...
Design-Reuse

I-fuse: Most Reliable and Fully Testable OTP

OTP stands for “One-Time Programmable”, a device that can only be programmed once to store data permanently but ideally read infinite times. Traditionally, testability has been an issue for OTP. Every ...
Electronic Design

Reprogrammable Electronic "Fuses" Leverage CMOS Logic Processes

Thanks to an embedded nonvolatile memory core, chip designers can arm themselves with a multiple-time-programmable (MTP) fuse that's manufacturable via standard CMOS logic processes. Unlike several ...
NextBigFuture

3D FPGA – Field-programmable gate arrays With ASIC densities

Serial entrepreneur Zvi Or-Bach is touting a three-dimensional field-programmable gate array (FPGA) technology that he claims could achieve the densities of an application specific integrated circuit ...
EDN

Power to Programmable Logic Devices is becoming more of an issue

This post sponsored by Texas Instruments. Programmable logic has been around since the days when new 8-bit microcontrollers were flourishing. And while 8-bit microcontrollers are still flourishing, ...