Chris Francis

How much math do you need to know to design electronics?

January 25, 2016 By Chris Francis

Education for electronics design tends to have a fair amount of math in it but how much is really required nowadays in order to design electronics? You certainly…

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Starting out with Verilog

December 12, 2014 By Chris Francis Leave a Comment

If you are from a software background coming into digital design using CPLD/FPGAs (complex programmable logic devices/field programmable gate arrays) then you need to adopt a different way of thinking for designing logic. While Verilog and VHDL look like a conventional programming language, the way it is interpreted is different. With software for a microprocessor […]

IGLOO NANO FPGAs: How to Choose?

December 6, 2013 By Chris Francis 2 Comments

By Chris Francis Xilinx CoolRunner-II Most of my design is for battery operated equipment, requiring low power devices. While I have used a lot of CPLDs and FPGAs over the years, most devices available are not usually “low power” so you have a limited choice. Philips (now NXP) did the CoolRunner CPLDs which were sold […]