Electronics Weekly

Microchip’s 32 LUT programmable logic block for PICs

Microchip has introduced a 32 logic elements programmable logic array into a microcontroller. Each logic element can simulate AND, OR, NAND or NOR gate, a buffer or inverting buffer, a D or JK ...
Design-Reuse

Embedded Systems: Programmable Logic -> FPGA tools need hardware assistance

Reconfigurable systems make it possible to create extremely high-performance implementations for many different types of applications. While techniques such as logic emulation provide a new tool ...
Electronic Design

Drilling Down Into FPGAs

How do they get a complete logic analyzer in that tiny package? The advent of programmable logic devices (PLDs) started discrete-logic ICs on the road to extinction years ago. The expansion of PLDs to ...
Nature

Birth of the programmable optical chip

Advances in silicon photonics, compound III–V semiconductor technology and hybrid integration now mean that powerful, programmable optical integrated circuits could be within sight. The recent ...