FPGA VAX update

[woodelf]

Patrick Finnegan wrote:

>No it doesn't.  
>
>  
>
Mine does use a PC.   I have to use the free stuff and that is PC,

>In my FPGA design class at Purdue, I never used a single PC.  The 
>software we used ran on Sun Ultrasparc boxes running Solaris.  
>Unfortunately, I can't remember the name of it right now.
>  
>
I also get use CUPL for my CPLD designs. I am greatfull that I am not in a
FPGA class as I dis-agree with the languages used to write hardware, I am
still a hardware person, and the direction CPU design is going, since I 
still
like to be able to see hardware and that does not seem posible.

>Pat
>  
>
I also don't like FPGA for the reason  you can't do single persion 
development
like I am doing since Serial - prom programers are expensive. A CPLD 
development
kit is about $100 and I can still use 5 volt devices.

FPGA's have good features but low cost develepment is not one of them
after you have to have a stand alone design away from the host computer.

-----
Back to the vax, does the person who started this thread have VAX
software and VAX I/O devices?