PCB Systems Design Blog

Altera goes back to 1984, when you could get 720KB on a floppy.  After all these years, FPGAs still provide the right mix of being flexible like software while still being fixed and fast like hardware.  Why does this cool idea persist in new product designs? Fortunately the big FPGA vendors, such as Xilinx, have continued to invest in R&D.  Innovations from internal genius and acquisitions have … Read More

FPGA

Since FPGAs, field programmable gate arrays, are in their very nature fluid and changing, how do you force them into your electronics design techniques that all assume fixed parts?  Hardware design uses, well… hardware, physical chips and resistors that have fixed functionality.  We pull parts from libraries, wire them up, lay etch and build the gizmo.  FPGAs throw out the definition of hardware … Read More

FPGA