PLD portfolio helps engineers go from concept to prototype in minutes

Building on its industry-leading logic portfolio, Texas Instruments has introduced PLDs that empower engineers to streamline their logic designs for any application. With the ability to integrate up to 40 combinational and sequential logic and analog functions into one device, its new PLD portfolio can help decrease board size by as much as 94% – and lower system costs – compared to discrete logic implementations. Furthermore, the new portfolio delivers significant space savings compared to similar programmable logic devices on the market.

Leveraging the company's easy-to-use InterConnect Studio tool, engineers can design, simulate, and configure their devices for evaluation in minutes without needing to code any software. The tool expedites the logic design process with a drag-and-drop GUI and integrated simulation feature. Designers also benefit from click-to-program and direct ordering features that simplify programming and procurement, helping to speed up time to market.

"Engineers are increasingly considering programmable logic devices as a way to reduce design complexity and board space, simplify supply chain management, and accelerate their time to market," said Tsedeniya Abraham, vice president and general manager of Interface at Texas Instruments. "But existing programmable logic devices are more complex than many applications require, involve programming expertise, or come in limited packaging options. Our new programmable logic portfolio builds on TI's 60 years of experience in logic design. It offers small form factors in industry-standard packaging as small as 2.56mm2, low power consumption, AEC Q-100 qualification and a temperature range of -40°C to 125°C for applications including automotive, industrial and personal electronics."

The company's PLD portfolio includes the industry's smallest leaded package across all markets, measuring 2.1mm x 1.6mm with a 0.5mm pitch. This leaded package is 92% smaller than competing devices, supporting manufacturers' need for solderability – at a fraction of the size. Its automotive-grade PLDs are as much as 63% smaller than their closest competitors. The portfolio also provides QFN packaging options that allow automated optical inspection, ensuring safety and long-term system reliability.

With a quiescent current of less than 1µA and 50% less active power than similar devices on the market, these new PLDs offer low power consumption to help extend battery life in products such as electric vehicles, power tools, battery packs, and gaming controllers.

The company's new PLDs support general-purpose input/output, look-up tables, digital flip-flops, pipe delays, filters, and resistor-capacitor oscillators. The TPLD1201 and TPLD1202 devices also integrate analog functions such as analog comparators, with internal selectable voltage reference options and hysteresis. The TPLD1202 offers added elements such as SPI, I2C, a watchdog timer and a state machine.