program storage. A good example is where a CPLD is used to load configuration data for an FPGA from non-volatile memory.

Distinctions

CPLDs were an evolutionary step from even smaller devices that preceded them: programmable logic arrays (PLA) (first shipped by Signetics) and PALs. These in turn were preceded by standard logic products, which offered no programmability and were used to build logic functions

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