The logic itself is a CPLD IC from the Altera Max family with two versions that fit the board with either 32 or 64 macrocells. A macrocell is the basic logic building block and it is programmed ...

Using an external MCU as a crude clock source for the Altera CPLD. (Credit: [Doug Brown]) One exciting feature of hardware development involving MCUs and FPGAs is that you all too often need ...

Altera CEO Sandra Rivera denies a report that Intel is planning to outright sell its programmable chip business. ‘We are executing to the plan, which is not a sale of Altera, but rather it is ...