Hackaday

A Better Way To Plug A CPLD Into A Breadboard

If you read my first post about a simple CPLD do-it-yourself project you may remember that I seriously wiffed when I made the footprint 1” wide, which was a bit too wide for common solderless ...
EDN

New Tool Consolidates CPLD Logic Design

Xilinx, Inc. the world's leading programmable logic supplier, announced availability of the CPLD Logic Consolidator. This analysis tool permits digital designers and production managers to compare ...
EDN

Practical low power CPLD design

Any engineer involved with portable or handheld products knows that minimizing power consumption is an absolute requirement for today's designs. But only the veterans understand the subtle yet ...
Electronic Design

Quadrature Encoder-Decoder Is Implemented In A CPLD

Quadrature encoders have many uses in position-sensing applications. This implementation uses a Xilinx complex programmable logic device (CPLD) to count the pulses from the encoder and determine the ...
CNN

Lattice Announces Improved Synthesis and Power Optimization in CPLD Design Tools

Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC) today announced the immediate availability of Version 1.4 of its ispLEVER® Classic design tool suite. The ispLEVER Classic design software has been ...
Electronic Design

VHDL Code Offloads LED Blinking Task To A CPLD

An earlier Idea For Design (“Hardware-Based LED Blinking Control Eliminates Software Overhead,” Sept. 27, 2007, p. 52) described a very interesting way to offload the software overhead required for a ...