PLD/PAL

[Curtin, Steven D (Steven)]

Hi Paul-

Have you found an ISP yet?

I had very good luck with the Philips CLPDs, which have since been bought by
Xilinx.  It looks like they're going to keep and product line and support
intact, just changing the owners.   For $100, I bought their "PLD contest
kit" which was for a contest which is now long expired.  This includes a
very useful little board with an 84 pin PLD, programming language and
downloader that hooks up to the parallel port of a PC.  I've since moved
over to the Lucent ORCA parts since they have more pins and I can program in
VHDL, but this is a great way to start and I recommend it.  Check out
www.coolpld.com.  

Steve C

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> ----------
> From: 	Paul Maddox[SMTP:space_banana at hotmail.com]
> Sent: 	Monday, July 19, 1999 11:45 AM
> To: 	synth-diy at mailhost.bpa.nl
> Subject: 	PLD/PAL
> 
> Dear all,
> 
>   I sthere anyone out there who can recomend a cheap PAL/PLD starter kit? 
> Ive looked at some and they seem expensive... anyone offer *ANY* advice
> when 
> it comes to these? I have some stuff I want to do but I reckon its gonna 
> need some hefty logic, and It would be nice to do it on one chip rather
> than 
> 2 dozen.
> 
>   Yours
>   Paul Maddox
> 
> 
> 
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