Memory man or similar

[Stopp,Gene]

Also I am curious what the current investment cost is for an Altera
development system. I used this at my old job and it was quite powerful
- draw the schematic and program it into the chip.
I think we use it where I'm currently at - unfortunately I'm not in
hardware development this time around, but I can probably find out how
much a setup is.

 - Gene

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From: Steven Curtin
To: synth-diy at mailhost.bpa.nl
Subject: Re: Memory man or similar
Date: Thursday, February 26, 1998 10:35AM

These days a lot of the jellybean TTL logic for a project like this
could
be rolled into a gate array or PLD.  I've started trying things out with
a
great little $100 xPLD eval board sold by Philips- it includes free
development software and a cable for downloading that works with the
parallel port on a PC.  The tech support is good too, helping me out
when
it turned out eventually that I had a bad parallel port card.  There's
no
reference for the XPL language that it uses, but there are lots of
example
files you can modify and book stores have a number of good introductory
texts on PLDs and FPGAs.

check it out:

http://www.coolpld.com/

Steve C