digital-design

Finding prime factors to large numbers using specially-crafted CPUs

My understanding is that many public key cryptographic algorithms these days depend on large prime numbers to make up the keys, and it is the difficulty in factoring the product of two primes that makes the encryption hard to break. It is also my understanding that one of the reasons that factoring such large numbers is so difficult, is ...

Programmable Logic Devices

Dear all, I have a confusion in understanding the structure of PAL device. My first question is that if we buy a PAL device , then how can we know that how many min terms are added by each OR gate in the OR array? In other words I am asking, is there any standard by which we can know the number inputs each OR gate has in the OR arr...