This tutorial offers an in-depth introduction into programmable logic controllers (PLCs). The article starts with an overview of the history and the role PLCs in factory automation. The basic ...

Configurable logic blocks (CLBs) house the logic for the FPGA. Typically, these CLBs contain enough logic to create a small state machine. A CLB normally contains RAM to create arbitrary combinatorial ...

This course covers the fundamentals of Online logic and an introduction to programmable logic controllers (PLCs) in a complex mechatronic system with a focus on the Siemens automation controller and ...

That EPROMs, EEPROMs and kin can be used as programmable logic should probably not come as a major surprise, but [Jimmy] has created a Lisp-based project that makes using these chips as a logic array ...

Now is the time to invest in programmable logic devices (PLDs), and there’s no better way to do that than through Altera and Xilinx. Here are six reasons why. Logic is used to manage the interchange ...

TWIN FALLS — The College of Southern Idaho Workforce Development and Training Department will offer “Introduction to Programmable Logic Controllers” from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 18. It will meet in ...

Figure 2: Principle of operation of the MR-element employed as logic gate. Although at first sight a two-step procedure appears to be a drawback in speed compared to CMOS technology, our concept ...

Industry leaders join forces to combine industry's first 64-bit open-source multi-core, multi-threaded microprocessor with industry-leading 65nm Virtex-5 high-performance FPGA HEIDELBERG, Germany -- ...

ASIC designers can obtain programmable logic's reconfigurability. Adaptive Silicon's RAM-based reprogrammable logic IP for ASICs, the MSA2500, has up to 25,000 ASIC gates for flexible designs. Typical ...

HILLSBORO, OR – DECEMBER 5, 2011 – Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC) today announced that it has shipped more than 75 million MachXO™ PLDs (programmable logic devices) since their ...