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Programmable Logic Devices

Programmable Logic Devices have become extremely popular. PLDs can provide design security and copy protection. They enable a design to be changed simply and cheaply without making expensive and time consuming PCB changes as earlier random logic designs required. Finally, PLDs are a lot more "fun" to work with than random TTL or CMOS logic! This page provides links to a number of PLD manufacturers, PLD Application examples as well as providing links to State Machine and other design, simulation and analytical PLD Tools.

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PLD Links & Information
PLD Manufacturers
PLD Application Examples
Reference Books on PLDs
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PLD Links & Information

Xilinx: What is Programmable Logic
Programmable Logic Definitions
EE Times: Technology Trends - PLDs/FPGAs
-- interesting article dated 10/31/00
Netrino: How Programmable Logic Works
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-- interesting 1999 article by Michael Barr

EBN Online: Market Focus - PLDs/FPGAs
-- another neat article dated 02/23/01

EBN Online: PLDs - As densities increase, vendors strive to add functionality - a feature story dated 04/10/01

Programmable Logic: What's it To Ya? Article by Michael Barr on programming embedded systems in C and C+

EDN Community: Programmable Logic

Bitpipe's Technical Paper Search: Programmable Logic Devices

Wikipedia's Section on Programmable Logic Devices — good basic tutorial if it hasn't been hacked

DMOZ's Open Directory Listings for PLDs

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PLD Manufacturers

Click on one of the logos below to go to the manufacturer's website.

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PLD Application Example Links

Build & Test an Eleven Bit Barker PN Generator

Xilinx 2001 paper: Decrease Power Consumption Using a Programmable Logic Device, by Jennifer Jenkins

ALTERA's Linear Feedback Shift Register Solution Brief

ALTERA's Early/Late Gate Synchronizer Megafunction Solution Brief

ALTERA's Binary Pattern Correlator Megafunction Solution Brief

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Reference Books on Programmable Logic Devices:

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Buy This Book	*Programmable Logic Controllers: Principles and Applications, by John W. Webb, Ronald A. Reis Hardcover: 480 pages (June 2002). Our Price: Click Title for Price.*	Buy This Book	*Programmable Logic Controllers, Third Edition, by W. Bolton. Paperback: 256 pages (May 2003). Our Price: Click Title for Price.*
Buy This Book	*Digital Systems Design and Prototyping: Using Field Programmable Logic and Hardware Description Languages, by Zoran Salcic and Asim Smailagic. Hardcover: 648 pages, second edition (September 2000). Our Price: Click Title for Price.*	Cover not Available	*Low-Energy Fpgas: Architecture and Design (Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, 625), by Varghese George and Jan M. Rabaey. Hardcover: 192 pages (October 2001). Our Price: Click Title for Price.*
Buy This Book	*Digital Designing in the Programmable Logic Devices, by John W. Carter. Hardcover - 417 pages first edition (June 23, 1996). Our Price: Click Title for Price.*	Buy This Book	*Field-Programmable Gate Arrays : Reconfigurable Logic for Rapid Prototyping and Implementation of Digital Systems, by John V. Oldfield and Richard C. Dorf. Hardcover: 360 pages (January 1995). Our Price: Click Title for Price.*
Buy This Book	*Digital Design with CPLD Applications and VHDL, by Robert K. Dueck. Hardcover - 896 pages Bk&Cd-Rom edition (June 28, 2000). Our Price: Click Title for Price.*	Buy This Book	*Programmable Controller Circuits, by Roger M. Bertrand. Paperback - 240 pages 1st edition (October 9, 1995). Our Price: Click Title for Price.*
Buy This Book	*Digital Electronics With Pld Integration* , by Nigel P. Cook. Hardcover - 996 pages 1 edition (December 12, 2000). Our Price: Click Title for Price.	Buy This Book	*Programmable Logic Handbook: PLDs, CPLDs and FPGAs, by Ashok K. Sharma. Hardcover - 500 pages (May 4, 1998). Our Price: Click Title for Price.*
Cover not Available	*Practical Programmable Circuits : A Guide to Plds, State Machines, and Microcontrollers* , by James D. Broesch. Hardcover - 286 pages (September 1991). Our Price: Click Title for Price.	Buy This Book	*Programmable Logic : Plds and Fpgas, by Richard C. Seals, G. F. Whapshott (Contributor). Hardcover - 300 pages (April 1997). Our Price: Click Title for Price.*