FPGA VAX update

Chuck Guzis cclist at sydex.com
Sat Nov 5 12:34:56 CST 2005


On 11/5/2005 at 6:33 PM Holger Veit wrote:

>Do you really believe a newbie will be able in the beginning to select 
>among Lattice, Mach, Altera, Xilinx, etc. programmable circuits where 
>even the datasheet has to be read twice to understand whether this is a 
>CPLD, EEPLD, FPLD, FPGA, with NOR/NAND/Antifuse program cells or 
>external boot PROM, with almost uncomparable figures of the transistor 
>equivalents, and whatever marketing invents in order to increase market 
>share and to distiguish the basically same ideas? ..

Well, at least someone seems to be trying to make the technology more
accessible:

http://www.fpga4fun.com/

Cheers,
Chuck





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