Fastbus at the Front End

It is this author's view that we are in an era of great change in electronic equipment for high energy physics. Microprocessors and their cousins, the smart controllers, being incorporated in many designs. We are also now seeing devices such as FPLA's, PAL'S, etc. becoming larger, faster, and more useful in replacing large amounts of "discrete" logic. On our doorstep are gate-arrays of all types. Smaller (100-1000 gates) in ECL provide the high speed we need; larger (1000-10,000+ gates) ' slower logic families can be designed iir certain specialized computations for physics.