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Zack,

As you say others do better,
The Xilinx Webpack is free, and will let you use upto 400KGate devices.
Both of these examples really beg the question, why bother with the FPSLIC?
go for altera or Xilinx and embed your own sparc (leon) processor.

Paul


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Zack Widup" <w9sz@prairienet.org>
To: <AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: [AVR-Chat] FPSlic


> As an aside (this doesn't refer to AVR's), Altera will evidently give you
> a 6-month license for their programs for CPLD's (MAX+PLUSII and Quartus).
> After the 6 months is up, you can just renew it free.
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> The license isn't even needed if you just want to program the CPLD's with
> an already assembled file (.pof).  It is needed if you want to write code
> for them.
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> Zack
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> On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Paul Maddox wrote:
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>> Dave,
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>> > Has anyone on here done any development with the FPSlic?
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>> yeah, i had a go with it.
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>> > I'm a bit put off by the licensing requirements for the toolchain,
>> > but this appears an attractive option for an upcoming project.
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>> I got annoyed with the licensing, 90 day trial? I mean thats just not 
>> long
>> enough.
>> I think there was an option where you could have a license for 6 months, 
>> and
>> then it expired unless you gave them some code they could 'own', then you
>> could have another 6 months.. sheer lunnacy...
>>
>> Paul
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