Exam question: What does PLA stand for?

[Unsickle]

ROFL, and some others: EPROM, FET, RAM, etc. etc. No problems here. Don't laugh though, these simple questions were just the beginning of a three hour final.

Quoted from an email sent by my TA:

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Postscript: You may be disturbed to see Matt and I laughing in front of you guys over your exams. We were only laughing about your answers to the acronym "PLA." Here are some answers that we found:

People's Liberation Army
Palestinian Liberation Army (Actually, it should be the Palestinian Liberation Organization)
Presbyterian Law Association
Poolla's Logic Analyzer
Please Let my grade be A

One person spelled FET as Fundamental Electronic Transistor
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[prodigy]

"Please Let my grade be A"

That's a good one. 😀

 

[Pretender]

I dunno

 

[Passions]

Programmable Logic Array (PLA): An array of gates having interconnections that can be programmed to perform a specific logical function.

 

[Mule]

FYI: PLA's have programmable OR's and AND's while PAL(Programmable Array Logic) have programmable AND's and fixed OR's. PROM(Programmable Read Only Memory) have programmable OR's and fixed AND's.

AND's and OR's are logical gates.