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From: robf@mcs213j.cs.umr.edu (Rob Fugina)
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Subject: PAL/GAL/EPLD's
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Date: 27 Mar 91 02:06:37 GMT
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In article <970023@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com> ahill@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Andy Hill) writes:
>Shoot, if you only need three of the silly things, why don't you just
>program it into a PAL?  More expensive than TTL, but beats buying 300
>items...

Since someone mentioned these things a few days ago, I've tried to find info
about them...  A few people on the net have been very helpful, as have been
some people in the EE department of my campus.  I went to the EE hobbyists'
club and asked if they had a PAL programmer and the person I talked to said
"No, but I've been looking for one, so if you find one..."  The department's
resident computer engineer turned out to have one that I can use.  No source
on campus for the actual chips, though.  I went back to the hobby club and
they let me borrow some books...(Lattice, TI, Cypress, and Altera data books)
but the books have nothing specific about the format of the spec file needed
to program the chips.  The computer engineer said he had only one copy of the
manual for the software that goes with the programmer.  Would this be the
only book that would have this info?  I'd like a beginner-type book on this
stuff...

And before anybody says it, I can't find the second edition of "The Art of
Electronics"...

Rob  robf@cs.umr.edu