The Axion extends SEL’s automation and control product family by providing a high-density, highly configurable modular RTU and programmable logic controller (PLC) system. With flexible system ...

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 ...

The world has faced many geopolitical, environmental, economic, and technological changes over the past several years, and with these have come new learnings and opportunities to refine our practices ...

Programmable logic chips (PLDs) that are programmed after they are attached to the circuit board. Also called "in-circuit programmable," devices that use static RAM (SRAM) are in-system programmable ...

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 ...

End applications continue to demand increased flexibility, configurability and performance, along with reduced power demands, board space and cost. To address the increasing pressure for integration ...

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 ...

Such programmable system chip (PSCs) give developers several advantages over nonprogrammable ones: First, they avoid the costly and lengthy implementation cycles of an ASIC; second, they allow for a ...

AMD has finished its acquisition of Xilinx, which ended up costing close to $49 billion instead of the original $35 billion projected when the deal was announced in October 2020 thanks to the rise of ...

A dozen or so years ago, there were few sophisticated control systems in the scrap metal recycling industry. However, as the complexity of the systems has increased over the years, improved control ...

This course will give you the foundation for FPGA design in Embedded Systems. You will learn what an FPGA is and how this technology was developed, how to select the best FPGA architecture for a given ...