Re: gEDA-user: Re: How to program PAL/GAL?

[Ben Jackson <ben@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 07:18:43AM +0100, Richard Balogh wrote:
> I still use GALs, especially GAL16V8 for simple projects e.g. decoders,
> special chars generators etc. For compiling equations to JEDEC format
> I use free OpalJr. - simple and minimalistic but does it's job. Problem
> is with programming, I use a proffesional programmer and I don't know
> about any simple interface simillar to JTAG for Xilinx. So the only
> problem for easy GAL programming is programmer.

You could probably buy a lot of CPLDs before the cost of a programmer
offset the unit cost.  In fact, these days the CPLD might be outright
cheaper.

-- 
Ben Jackson AD7GD
<ben@xxxxxxx>
http://www.ben.com/


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