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 ...

It has been a long time since plain vanilla programmable logic circuits known as field programmable gate arrays have been available in a raw form. For many years, Xilinx, Altera, and others making ...

System engineers are pressured to cut costs and improve the reliability of circuit boards. An often overlooked opportunity to do this is to reduce the number of components used for FPGA, ...

Industrial manufacturers must often attempt to forecast equipment requirements when installing a new system or building a new factory. Projecting communication ...

Ladder logic uses switch or relay contacts to implement Boolean expressions. In years past, ladder logic was made possible with discrete relays and was sometimes termed “relay logic.” Today most ...