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From: markwm@magic.UUCP (Mark W. Beckner)
Newsgroups: net.arch
Subject: Re: Logic Cell Arrays (LCAa)
Message-ID: <794@magic.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Sep-86 11:07:14 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 22 11:07:14 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 23-Sep-86 23:09:57 EDT
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Dave Haynie    {caip,ihnp4,allegra,seismo}!cbmvax!daveh writes...
> ...I'd really like to 
>be able to program these things on a Sun or Apollo, though the support
>may have to come from Xilinx; the last time I talked with them, they were
>planning to be really protective of the internals of the device and how
>its actually programmed.

When we purchased the LCA development tools for the PC, I had
Xilinx write into the contract that our licenses could be transferred
to future implementations on Suns.
They gave me the impression that porting their tools to UNIX workstations
was in the cards since all the tools (besides SILOS, I think) are
written in C.

Mark Beckner
Bell Communications Research
.