book on PAL/GAL programming?

[Jim Battle]

Chuck Guzis wrote:
...
> If someone were just starting out with GAL/PALs, wouldn't PEEL be the 
> best choice rather than fuse-programmed devices?  At least you'd get 
> a second chance if you flubbed your first try--and they're basically 
> the same packaging. 

22V10's & 16V8's are electrically erasable and reprogrammable.  retry as 
many times as you'd like.  I'm sure there is some limit on the number of 
reprogram cycles, but it is bound to be far more than the number of 
insertion/removal cycles the pins would put up with.

Picking up other pieces of this thread, I started using PALASM in 1985, 
and I was the one who ported the FORTRAN program to the BTI 8000 
computer we were using.  Saying it essentially works at the fuse level 
is only half the story.  Yes, one can have very fine control of things, 
but PALASM got smarter as the years went by, and it could do logic 
minimization and mapping of state machines to logic just fine.