Compared to
the price of admission fee for, say, FPGA, it's a real
bargain.
You can program xilinx and altera FPGAs for less than $20 if you have
a parallel port. Do a search on "byteblaster" and be happy :)
I thought they required proprietary binary-only software (which runs
only under Windows, of course) to generate the data in the first place
(which is a much higher cost, at least for me, than a little hardware).
Am I wrong? Perhaps I should be looking into FPGAs too.
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