PROM
and PLD (Programmable Logic Devices) are the two fields which FPGA industry
germinated from. Both of these had the course of action of being programmed in
groups in a factory of in the field (in case of the field programmable).
Nevertheless, programmable logic was permanently connected within logic gates.
At
the last of 1980s, Steve Casselman proposed for an experiment to build a
computer which would apply six lacs reprogrammable gates. This experiment was
funded by the Naval Surface Warfare Center. A patent concerned to the system
was issued in 1992 after a successful test by Casselman.
Patents
were awarded to David W. Page and LuVerne R. Peterson in 1985 in which many of
the industry's foundational concepts and technologies for programmable logic
arrays, gates, and logic blocks were established.
In
1983, Altera was established and brought the industry’s maiden reprogrammable
logic device in 1984 – the EP300–which had a extra feature of quartz window in
the package which allowed users to shine an ultra-violet lamp on the die to
erase the EPROM cells that held the device configuration.
The
XC2064- the first commercially viable field-programmable gate array invented in
1985 by Xilinx co-founders Ross Freeman and Bernard Vonderschmitt.
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