Electronic Design
As the functional requirements of electronic systems become increasingly sophisticated and demanding, it is necessary to properly exploit advances in integrated circuit technologies in order to restrict circuit board sizes and control costs. Several years ago we transferred most of our logic designs to programmable devices in the form of FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays). We have remained at the forefront of system design using these devices. Specific examples where the implementation of circuits within FPGAs benefited enormously were a real-time video processing system and a multi-channel high-speed temperature controller. While most layouts still include independent microcontroller and DSP devices when needed, even the functionality of these is gradually migrating to the increasingly dense FPGAs.