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I hope they will not drop their CPLD chips. They were made obsolete at least once but Xilinx fortunately decided to extend the support for a couple of more year
by varispeed 6y ago
I hope they will not drop their CPLD chips. They were made obsolete at least once but Xilinx fortunately decided to extend the support for a couple of more years. CPLD are very useful for repairing vintage gear where logic components fail and are no longer available (for example custom programmed PALs), so you can describe the logic in Verilog and often solder it in place of multiple chips.
If they drop it then the only way to do it would be to use full blown FPGA which is a bit wasteful.
- thrtythreeforty 6y agoI would be very interested in reading a blog post about this. Is there one that I can read or you'd be willing to write?
- varispeed 6y agoHave look at materials linked there http://dangerousprototypes.com/blog/2011/04/17/replacing-discrete-7400-logic-devices-with-cplds/ http://dangerousprototypes.com/blog/2011/04/17/replacing-dis...