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- From: philip@xilinx.com (Philip Freidin)
- Subject: Re: Why no tri-state outputs in FPGA cells?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.184340.26605@xilinx.com>
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- Organization: Xilinx Inc.
- References: <1992Dec14.221541.25270@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 18:43:40 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec14.221541.25270@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> pichet@coos.dartmouth.edu (Pichet Chintrakulchai) writes:
- >Hello,
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- >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.
- >
- >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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