Cache Logic FPGAs for building adaptive hardware

In the instrumentation market, as in most high-tech markets, increased competition and time-to-market pressures are making system developers pursue two often conflicting goals: make the system as flexible as possible; and bring it to market as quickly as possible. Adaptive hardware-that is, standard circuitry that can conform to different application requirements-can help system designers successfully meet these two goals, but until now adaptive hardware has been limited and costly in the instrumentation market. A new enabling technology has been patented-Cache Logic-that makes it possible to use adaptive hardware in a variety of instrumentation applications. This paper looks at how Cache Logic might be used in a data acquisition product