[sdiy] Proposed DSP board

[cheater cheater]

What is the difference between FPGA's and FPLA's? In layman terms*

*I bet you hate me now :(

Cheers 8^)
D.

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Neil Johnson
<neil.johnson97 at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Rainer Buchty wrote:
>> On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, cheater cheater wrote:
>>
>> > I think Neil might be refering to the fact that FPGAs used to be
>> > one-time-burn-only (they're not anymore)
>>
>> They never were. In fact, Antifuse-FPGAs are the exception from the
>> norm, FPGAs (as invented by Xilix) were always SRAM-based.
>
> Original (F)PLAs and (F)PALs on the other hand started off as fuse (PROM) based, and only became reprogrammable later in life (Lattice Semi, I believe, hitting the market first with their EEPROM-based "isp" devices).
>
> Neil
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