Digital Systems Design with FPGAs and CPLDs

CHAPTER 1 Introduction to Programmable Logic

1.1 Introduction to the Book

Increasingly, electronic circuits and systems are being designed using technologies that offer rapid prototyping, programmability, and re-use (reprogrammability and component recycling) capabilities to allow a system product to be developed in a minimal time, to allow in-service reconfiguration (for normal product upgrading to improve performance, to provide design debugging capabilities, and for the inevitable requirement for design bug removal), or even to recycle the electronic components for another application. These aspects are required by the reduced time-to-market and increased complexities for applications—from mobile phones through computer and control, instrumentation, ...