21 Apr
2002
21 Apr
'02
6:07 p.m.
Why does that rule out ALTERA? The same guys who'd mail parts to me in the
U.S. will ship to Canada, won't they? I know of no embargo against Canada.
Why not just get a friend and go down to the liquor store, get him to keep the
engine running while you make a "withdrawal" so you can buy one of the
evaluation boards for the big XILINX VIRTEX chips? I'd recommend late
Saturday night on a 3-day weekend, though, so you'll get enough in a single
haul. Either that or bump off your wife after buying a sufficient life
insurance policy. That way you won't have to listen to the complaints about
how much you spent.
Those evaluation boards tend to have the parallel port programming interface
on them, so all you'll need is the printer port adapter.
I wonder if you can get stuff like that in prison ...
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Franchuk" <bfranchuk(a)jetnet.ab.ca>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 11:45 PM
Subject: Re: Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers (was: OT email response format)
Richard Erlacher wrote:
> I'll check with a friend of mine who's an Altera agent, but ALTERA
certainly
> has a CPLD solution to that problem. I think the
JTAG<=>parallel-port
> solution is more appealing for someone in your situation, however, since
you
> can use a backup battery to keep it alive and you
can reload it from your
PC.
> BTW, if you are designing your own hardware,
wouldn't it make sense to do
what
> that microcontroller would do in some sort of
hardware? All you have to
do is
> address the standard EPROMS and serialize their
output in sync with the
FPGA's
signals to
what it thinks is the serial PROM.
Well I need a mail order supplier to CANADA thus that rules out ALTERA.
I may even NOT use Xlinix CPLD's because I like the idea that with TTL I
don't need any programing DONE. The price of PCB's and low cost TTL is
about
the same as using higher cost chips. I might use 2901's from B.G.Micro
as they
are cheap ($1.50) but does anybody know of the original data sheets of
the web
in pdf form?
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Ben Franchuk - Dawn * 12/24 bit cpu *
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