Comments by "Alexander Sylchuk" (@sshko101) on "The History of the FPGA: The Ultimate Flex" video.

  1. Great video! It feels like microcontroller video is somewhere in the making. One of my professors in his lecture course was explaining to us the architecture of PSoC. He explained to us their ingenious invetion by Cypress semicondutor when they used CMOS in order to make any analog componet via switching transistors with different frequencies using their capacitive resistance. I still remember writing complex resistance equation on the blackboard, but I was a bit sceptical at the time (that it was solely their invention) since he might've been simply connected with that company. He might've known that for sure (he used to fly to San Jose every year to visit some related conferences), but I still couldn't find it on the internet (I didn't try that hard to be fair) whether it's just marketing or PSoCs are actually completely different things from other microcontrollers. That's funny when you remember learning PLAs and PALs when FPGAs were already around for a long time. All these conjunctive normal forms, disjunctive normal forms, and converting it in the end into Zhegalkin polynomial... We had this specific type of torture in having to write all this down by hand which was like 50 A4 pages with all the schematics (also had to be drawn by hand carefully) including all the junctions between AND and OR arrays.
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