Designing With Fpgas and Cplds (Innovative Technology Series)

PGAs are emerging as the largest growing area in electronic markets for logic type ICs, and many designers and engineers will need to get up to speed in this area as quickly as possible. This book covers the entire field of PGAs in a single volume--describing all products within a comparative framework that highlights the strengths and weaknesses of individual PGAs and their application potential. This book introduces elementary concepts of devices and software; details eight distinct architectures; contains speed and capacity tables for comparing products; provides simple, straightforward worked examples for each architecture, and describes the differences among them in this context; and outlines a specific, practical method for selecting a programmable gate array--with a detailed decision process/matrix.