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Engineering Digital Design
book

Engineering Digital Design

by Richard F. Tinder
January 2000
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
884 pages
29h 39m
English
Academic Press
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CHAPTER 7
Programmable Logic
Devices
7.1 INTRODUCTION
A class of devices called programmable logic devices (or PLDs) can be thought of as
universal logic implementers in the sense that they can be configured (actually programmed)
by the user to perform a variety of specific logic functions. So useful and versatile are these
PLDs that one might question why any other means of design would ever be considered.
Well, the answer is, of course, that there is a time and place for a variety of approaches to
design — that is, no one single approach to design satisfies all possible problem situations.
However, the option to use PLDs offers the logic designer a wide ...
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ISBN: 9780126912951