gEDA-user: PALs GALs and SPLDs going the way of the Dodo?

[Ormund Williams <ormundw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All

I'm designing a circuit and needed a few gates, 8 3-input AND, 4 2-input
XOR, 10 inputs and 8 outputs, it seemed to me that this would fit
perfectly into a 16v8.  Now the last time I used SPLDs was '98 and it
annoyed me back then that no open-source tools existed to support
development now it looks like this segment of semiconductors is dieing.
I just went through the latest issue of Circuit Cellar and there isn't a
single add for a universal device programmer (nice article DJ).  None of
the few manufacturers left seem to be making any improvements to these
devices, like chip scale packaging or low voltage (<3.3v).

Am I correct in thinking that it would be unwise to use these in new
designs?  Do you use SPLD? What do you use to program them? How about
the ISP versions?

Thanks for indulging my rant.

__
Ormund




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