The Course and Development of PLD
Liu Xian · Electronics & Packaging · 2008
The Programmable Logic Device has gradually became the main direction of microelectronic technology. The article outline the Programmable Logic Devic(ePLD)classification ,the historical de- velopment and the present situation of development; the Field Programmable Gate Array(FPGA)and Complex Programmable Logic Device(CDLP)are the PLD technology’s two branches which extend differently according to its internal structure, And the article makes the comparison to them and discusses their respective good and bad points; The article introduces specially the FPGA product’s main manufacture, as well as four big factories and their respective products’ s application domain, gives Xilinx Corporation’s and Altera Corporation’s FPGA separately the product spectrogram; Finally, forecasts the FPGA product future trend of development.