Abstract:
This chapter discusses the microprocessor, microcontroller, and PLD devices and also talk about how to select these devices for desired application. This chapter gives the family tree of PLD devices and helps designer to select best PLD devices based on application. The chapter also gives the overview of major PLD market players and programming aspect of VHDl, Verilog, and ABEL. There are several separate books available in the market which discusses in detail about VHDL, Verilog, and ABEL programming. Here, we simply focused more on the basic part of hardware descriptive programming language.
