[Coco] Coco ProtoType Board

[Mark Marlette]

Joel might have hit the nail on the head.....

Upside, CPLDs are cheap and reasonable.

Downside, don't kid yourself. Xlinx is about a 1GB download while 
Altera's is about 500MB. These programs are complex and could be 
overwhelming for a first timer. Not impossible by any means. I almost 
live in them and all of my products have CPLDs on them, so the choice 
is simple. But to someone that is going to use the program, once a 
year or so will forget how it works from project to project.

The proto board I have designed is just that. It is not the end all, 
one board to make all projects on. It is made for the hobbyist, 
simple for projects of a one or two boards design. If you are going 
to do more than that then learn the tools and get a custom board made.

Mark
Cloud-9


  At 9/2/2006 02:40 PM, you wrote:

>OK, it sounds like the CPLD might be an interesting option.
>
>I don't know much about programming these devices, but is it 
>something that could, as an example, be interfaced to a big SRAM or 
>EEPROM and be programmed to function as a solid-state WD1773? that 
>would be cool.
>
>-Mike
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