EDN - January 8, 2004

Recent advances in silicon-process technology have greatly benefited the makers of programmable logic. The high density of logic possible at process geometries such as 130 nm (0.13 microns) and, now, 90 nm has suited the high densities that programmable logic needs to pack in not just the active logic gates, but also the overhead of the programming infrastructure that it must carry.

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