On 5 Feb 2010 at 23:15, Tony Duell wrote:
This assumes you have the facilities to program the
CPLD, the
development software _and somethign to run it on_. That is not always
the case.
Both Xilinx and Altera offer free development software for their
devices. And Windows or Linux PCs aren't exactly uncommon.
Programmers can be little more than a couple of buffers connected to
a PCs parallel port--or (heaven forfend!) a USB interface.
--Chuck