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 ...

A programmable logic controller, or PLC, is a software-based equivalent of a relay panel.

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 7, 2011 -- Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced that Yokogawa ...

Ronak Desai, Cypress Semiconductor EETimes (1/31/2012 3:00 AM EST) This article discusses the design of a control system featuring a microcontroller plus ASIC or microcontroller plus programmable ...

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 flexible designs.

The programmable logic controller is fitted with 32 Inputs offering : 16 x digital 4-30V, 8 x analog 0-10V, 4 x analog 0-5V, 4 x analog 4-20mA) and 20 Outputs (8 x relay 250V/5A, 2 x open ...