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- From: jsnow@moons.sim.es.com (John Snow)
- Subject: Re: Why no tri-state outputs in FPGA cells?
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- Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp.
- References: <1992Dec14.221541.25270@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 19:13:47 GMT
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- pichet@coos.dartmouth.edu (Pichet Chintrakulchai) writes:
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- >Hello,
-
- >I've been working on a project designing a processor with FPGA's. One severe
- >limitation I found is that their cells do not have tri-state outputs and thus
- >forcing me to use MUXes on buses consuming a lot of the resources.
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- >Does anybody have any idea why they didn't make these cell outputs tri-state?
-
- >Thanks.
- >Pichet Chintrakulchai (pichet@dartmouth.edu)
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- Xilinx FPGAs do have tri-state buffers that can be used to create buses or to do
- wired-OR type logic.
-
- --John
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