The guys over at hackshed have been busy. [Carl] is making programmable logic design easy with an 8 part CPLD tutorial. (March 2018: Link dead. Try the Wayback Machine.) Programmable logic devices ...

Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Engineers can turn to compact programmable logic devices to reduce component counts and shrink PCB footprints in their ever-more-complex designs.

Now is the time to invest in programmable logic devices. Good news for chipmakers, Altera and Xilinx.

Well, before we answer this, we first have to decide exactly what we mean by “PLD”. Generally speaking, PLD stands for “Programmable Logic Device,” by which we mean a silicon chip whose function can – ...