Semiconductor Engineering

AI Starting To Simplify Design Of Programmable Logic

AI/ML and agentic tools are getting better at helping design and compile FPGAs, but downstream programming is slower to benefit. FPGAs historically have been designed using Verilog or VHDL, but higher ...
Hackaday

Brain Transplant Makes One Arcade Machine Play Games From Another

We’re used to games consoles in which the same hardware plays a variety of different games, but if we were to peer inside arcade cabinets of an older vintage we’d find custom boards unique to every ...
IEEE

SSTAF: Security Settings-Based Threat Assessment Framework of Programmable Logic Controllers

Abstract: Industrial control systems (ICSs) govern the production activities of various critical infrastructures, where programmable logic controllers (PLCs) are essential devices for controlling ...
IEEE

Evaluation of an Optically Programmable Digital Impedance Surface (DIS) for Antenna and Reflect Array Applications

Abstract: This article presents the design and experimental validation of an optically programmable digital impedance surface (DIS). Utilizing discrete binary impedance switching, a novel triangular ...