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Altera_Forum
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13 years ago

Max V doubt

Hello. I'm new in the digital hardware world. And i need help. I'm studding CPLD architecture, with especial interest in max v device. For what i know CPLD is it's a device that have mul...
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13 years ago

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There are non-volatile FPGAs fom companies such as Actel and Lattice.

Xilinx also had a Spartan3 variant with integrated configuration memory.

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Thanks for the clarification. I guess the point I was trying to make is that often times I hear other engineers refer to non-volatile FPGAs as CPLDs simply because they don't require a configuration device. This generalization may be, at least in part, because of Altera's effort to cast the Max devices as CPLDs.