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Re: PAL's and GAL's

Subject: Re: PAL's and GAL's
From: John Larkin
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 10:03:16 -0800
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.basics, comp.arch.embedded, sci.electronics.design
On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 09:37:07 -0800, Jim Stewart <jstewart@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>Paul Burke wrote:
>> John Larkin wrote:
>> 
>>>
>>> I'm currently doing a PEEL 22CV10 design 
>> 
>> 
>> They are beautiful devices, worlds better than GALs. A rich choice of 
>> feedback (you can configure an embedded flipflop, and use the associated 
>> pin as an input) and the clock is fed into the product matrix. Sad that 
>> they never really caught on, and I'm not sure that anyone else ever made 
>> them. Though ICT did irritate me badly by changing the programming 
>> algorithm just after the manufacturer of my programmer stopped 
>> supporting that model.
>
>Another PEEL lover.  I thought I was alone
>in the world.  Very nice devices and never
>had a lick of trouble with them.
>

They're handy. Nice 5-volt logic blocks. Production can program and
label a tube of them at the programming station, and later plug them
into sockets on boards without all that JTAG nonsense.

John


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