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 ...

Since 1972, scientists have known there are four basic circuit components, but if you’ve spent any time in an electrical engineering classroom, you probably only have experience with three: capacitor, ...

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, ...

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 ...

The decision to migrate from PLDs and FPGAs to lower cost ASICs seems easy at first glance but may be more complicated than you think. Do a little research and analysis before you proceed, and ...

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 ...