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Programmable logic: A practical introduction for beginners

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, ...
Electronic Design

Bandwidth or Function? What to Focus on When Designing High-Density Circuits

Improving density in circuit design is an ongoing challenge. One solution is to reconsider circuit layouts from the ...
EDN

Standardized programmable power management — An imperative for modern circuit board design

In this article, power management is defined simply as the management of all power sources (including DC-DC Converter, LDOs, etc.) on the circuit board. Power management includes the following ...
Electronic Design

Programmable Analog Functions Are Going Mainstream

We have always had programmable analog circuits. Any circuit that makes outputs change as a function of inputs is in some way programmable. Examples include gain change as a function of voltage or ...