Open source, stand alone, ASCII terminal project

[bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca]

Chuck Guzis wrote:
> There are inexpensive SMT to through-hole adapters available.  While 
> I wouldn't trust myself to carefully hand-solder a whole board full 
> of SMT, the adpaters are fairly easy to do.
>
> Can one still get CPLDs in PLCC?  Sockets for those are still throug-
> hole.  Would one be large enough?
>
>   
Yes, and yes 5V power supply too.  Get a  Digi-key  catalog  for details.
The old MMI pal design book, had a 300? buad terminal all 20 pin fuse
pals ... no cpu.

> 5 volt logic also seems to be poised to go the way of through-hole 
> devices.  
>
>   
You are limited to 64 I/O pins with the Atmel CPLD's I am using -
84 pin plcc's. The big problem is none of the PCB design programs
have a thu the hole plcc footprint that I know of.
> But sometimes ya gotta do what ya gotta do.
>
> Cheers,
> Chuck
>