Since Microchip acquired Atmel, the fields of battle have fallen silent. The Crusaders have returned home, or have been driven into the sea. The great microcontroller holy war is over. As with any ...

Altera Stratix FPGAs and Nios II Processors Contribute to Development Time and Cost Savings Consumer Electronics Show, Las Vegas, January 5, 2006—Sanyo is relying on Altera Corporation’s (Nasdaq: ...

Do you speak GAL? [Peterzieba] does, and has pulled together a collection of documents and tools so that you can too. There’s a dividing line in electronic engineering education, between those who ...

Texas Instruments has introduced six programmable logic devices with between 8 and 14 pins “with the ability to integrate up to 40 combinational and sequential logic and analogue functions into one ...

A Programmable Logic Controller, commonly known as a PLC, is a robust industrial computer designed to control manufacturing processes and machinery. Initially developed to replace relay logic systems, ...

I was at the Globalpress Summit last week in Santa Cruz, California listening to presentations by some of the large FPGA vendors. They each had their own view of what the future holds for programmable ...

Multimedia devices or systems can range from a very basic consumer audio video player to a highly complex audio video capture, edit, and playback system used in a professional studio environment.

Members can download this article in PDF format. For market growth to occur at desired levels, suppliers must meet consumer demand for compact electronic devices that integrate multiple functions. To ...

The PAL family continued to evolve into the late 1980s, with faster, lower-power devices, including ones that could be reprogrammed. The most complex device type developed was probably the PAL22V10, ...