On Feb 7, 2010, at 1:23 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
I don't
know, old PC's are a dime a dozen. Still TTL buffers is
all you
really
need for I/O if you don't mind wasting the high order byte.
OK, I actuially have a US dime somwhere. Please tell me where I can
exchange it for 12 PCs capable of running FPGA or CPLD
development software.
Atmel software is still free the last time I looked, running on a
modest
windows PC. PC's ... see your local dumpster.
As far as I know, you do not live in London (England). So I can't
see how
you can tell me that PCs are available in the 'local dumpster'/
FWIW, dumpster diving is illegal in the UK.
That's...very weird to me.
THat however, is secondary to
the fact that we have a WEEE direcrtive that means we have to recycle
electronic equipment and not throw it in the skip/dumpster. And I have
_never_ seen a PC in a skip/dumpster in London (and I am certainly not
going to trespass on various company sites to see if I can steal one).
I would. :) But I see PeeCees on the curb quite often.
Also, unless I missed something, Windows isn't
free. I I doubt that
if I
found a junked PC that happeend to have a runnable copy of Windows
on the
hard drivce the ntat would count as a valid Windows license. I don't
particulalry care for Windows, or any Microsoft product for that
matter,
but that doesn't give me the right to pirate them.
So don't run Windows. FPGA/CPLD/PAL software runs on other
platforms. Indeed, large-scale chip design in the real world isn't
typically done under Windows.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL