History of CPLD

1984 Altera Corporation was an American manufacturer of programmable logic devices (PLDs),
reconfigurable complex digital circuits. The company released its first PLD in 1984.Altera's
main products are the Stratix, Arria and Cyclone series FPGAs, the MAX series CPLDs ,
Quartus II design software and Enpirion PowerSoC DC-DC power solutions.
First re-programmable logic device. Previous devices could only be programmed once. EP 300
by Altera. The first product. An erasable programmable logic device (EPLD) was manufactured
using a 3-micron CMOS EPROM technology and required ultraviolet light to erase the device
prior to reprogramming. The EP300 device had 300 gates and 8 macrocells. Followed by larger
parts such as EP 1200, with 1,200 gates and 28 macrocells.
1987 First PLD to include a dedicated I/O bus interface greatly simplifies creation of devices to
be attached to a standard bus. Altera
1988 First high-density complex programmable logic device: programmable logic begins the
evolution from executing a simple logic function to implementing a subsystem. : MAX 5000
High-density complex programmable logic device (CPLD). Patented redundancy technology
delivers reduction of defects and increased yields (first introduced in 650-nm, this key
technology continues to deliver increased yields in Altera 65-nm devices today).
1989 First integrated, graphical design environment combines schematic input, compilation,
design simulation, and device programming software into a single environment.
1992: Flex 8000. Altera's first field programmable gate array (FPGA).
2000 CPLD & FPGA architectures became similar
Other manufacturers of CPLD:

Atmel Corporation was founded in 1984, by George Perlegos. Atmel was an acronym for
advanced technology for memory and logic. Perlegos had worked in the memory group
of Intel in the 1970s and had co-founded Seeq Technology to manufacture EPROM
memory.
Cypress Semiconductor Corporation is an American semiconductor design and
manufacturing company. It offers NOR flash memories, F-RAM and SRAM Traveo
microcontrollers, the industrys only PSoC programmable system-on-chip solutions,
analog and PMIC Power Management ICs, CapSense capacitive touch-sensing
controllers, Wireless BLE Bluetooth Low-Energy and USB connectivity solutions. It was
founded by T. J. Rodgers and others from Advanced Micro Devices. It was formed in
1982 with backing by Sevin Rosen and went public in 1986. The company initially
focused on the design and development of high speed CMOS SRAMs, EEPROMs, PAL
devices, and TTL logic devices.

Lattice Semiconductor Corporation is a United States based manufacturer of highperformance programmable logic devices (FPGAs, CPLDs, & SPLDs). Lattice was
founded on April 3, 1983, by C. Norman Winningstad, Rahul Sud and Ray Capece
Xilinx, Inc. is an American technology company, primarily a supplier of programmable
logic devices. It is known for inventing the field-programmable gate array (FPGA) and as
the first semiconductor company with a fabless manufacturing model. Ross Freeman,
Bernard Vonderschmitt, and James V Barnett II, who all had worked for integrated
circuit and solid-state device manufacturer Zilog Corp, founded Xilinx in 1984.