30 Sep
2014
30 Sep
'14
5:19 p.m.
ABEL was released in April 1984 and Xilinx stopped shipping it around 2008.
http://www.xilinx.com/support/answers/2951.htm
Michael
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Subject: Re: Reading contents of PALS like the 16L8 or 16R8
Ah, ABEL! They were still teaching it at U-M EECS ca. 2004-2005 in the introductory
digital design course. We must have been one of the last groups of students to use it. I
found it always very easy to work with, sort of the BASIC of HDLs. Does anything still
support it? IIRC ABEL was removed from Xilinx ISE some time ago.
Interesting post.
Best,
Sean