My long running series titled “How the FPGA Came To Be” (referenced below) chronicles the development of programmable logic starting with programmable diode matrices developed and marketed by Harris Semiconductor starting in the mid-1960s. These diode matrices along with a Mask Programmable Logic Array (MPLA) from National Semiconductor were the inspirations for the short-lived Intersil IM5200 Field Programmable Logic Array (FPLA) and the more successful Signetics 82 … Read More → "How the FPGA Came To Be, Part 7: Did General Electric invent the PLD and EPLD in 1971?"
I feel like an old fool (but where are we going to find one at this time of the day?). Almost everything I hear on the technology front these days causes me to have a knee-jerk reaction along the lines of, “Things have certainly changed since those far-off days when I was a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, newly-minted engineer!”
As I’ve mentioned before, I … Read More → "Want Automated, Certification-Level RISC-V Verification Coverage?"
I’m still chafing under the impositions imposed by the punctuation police. I speak of those who don the undergarments of authority and stride the corridors of power. Those despicable despots who dictate I can no longer terminate the titles to my columns with exclamation marks, all the time muttering inscrutable incantations to their SEO gods. Fortunately, I’m not bitter. …
Read More → "No Slacking! Put Your Sem;colons to Work [Exclamation Mark Goes Here]"As we discussed in the initial installment of this 2-part extravaganza, some people pursue a predictable path on their way to engineer-hood (where “-hood” comes from the Middle English “-hode,” which itself comes from the Old English “-hād,” meaning “state of being”). Others, like your humble narrator, end up taking a more circuitous route, which may involve Lady Luck finagling the dice in their favor (I … Read More → "There’s More Than One Way to Become an Engineer (Part 2)"
I was born in 1957. If you are on the younger side of things, I bet you’re thinking something along the lines of, “Wow! That’s AGES ago!” You’re right. It is. That’s why it’s taken me such a long time to get from then to now (I took the scenic route).
Along my rambling (some may … Read More → "There’s More Than One Way to Become an Engineer (Part 1)"
I remember when the first FPGA waved a cheery hello to the world back in 1985. (I know I’ve talked about this before, but there are always new members to the EE Journal Community who weren’t around when many of the technologies we now take for granted originally appeared on the scene.) This little scamp was the Xilinx XC2064, which boasted an 8×8=64 array of configurable logic … Read More → "GOWIN’s “Golly Gosh” Low-Cost High-Performance FPGAs"
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