> 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?
Look at the XC9536XL from xilinx. It's $1, runs on 3.3v, and ISP-able or you can program them externally (they're flash based). http://www.delorie.com/electronics/bin2seven/ Still huge compared to a 16v8, though, but once you have the bitstream files (xilinx runs with Makefiles on Linux) you can program them with open source or home-brew toools. You probably also want to see http://www.dataman.com/ > (nice article DJ) Thanks! Next month's article covers programming the XC9572XL from Linux ;-) _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user