With the venerable programmable logic controller (PLC) marking its 40th anniversary last year, I got to thinking about its timeline. It goes way back in my engineering career - the career before my ...

Programmable logic controllers Oct. 1, 2013 The Vision130 family now includes flat-fascia Vision130 units, which are suitable for the food and pharmaceutical industries.

Automation controller applications are widespread-as are the overlapping capabilities of programmable logic controllers (PLCs), programmable automation controllers (PACs), and industrial PCs (IPCs).

Solid state isolators (SSIs) can be an effective tool for providing isolation for programmable logic controllers (PLCs).

Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) and microcontrollers (MCUs) are becoming ubiquitous in the automation of a wide range of industrial and consumer applications. The PLC Laboratory houses six state ...

As the largest programmable logic devices (PLDs) continue to grow, they quickly lose the advantages of programmable logic—a quick turn of design and short time to a working chip on a board.

This article discusses the design of a control system featuring a microcontroller plus ASIC or microcontroller plus programmable logic SoC for an automotive electric power steering system. Such a ...

ASIC designers can obtain programmable logic's reconfigurability. Adaptive Silicon's RAM-based reprogrammable logic IP for ASICs, the MSA2500, has up to 25,000 ASIC gates for ...

The global programmable logic controller (plc) market size is estimated to grow by USD 3.01 billion from 2025 to 2029, according to Technavio. The market is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 3.5% ...