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- From: sgolson@trilobyte.com (Steve Golson)
- Subject: Re: Why no tri-state outputs in FPGA cells?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.013854.11226@trilobyte.com>
- Organization: Trilobyte Systems
- References: <1992Dec14.221541.25270@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 01:38:54 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec14.221541.25270@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> pichet@coos.dartmouth.edu (Pichet Chintrakulchai) writes:
- >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.
- >
- >Does anybody have any idea why they didn't make these cell outputs tri-state?
-
- Possibly for the same reason that gate array vendors often don't allow
- tri-state buses inside a design: it's hard to guarantee that you always
- have only one driver on the bus (i.e. no multiple drivers, and no
- floating buses).
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- -seg
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- Steve Golson -- Trilobyte Systems -- Carlisle MA -- sgolson@trilobyte.com
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