book on PAL/GAL programming?
Jim Battle
frustum at pacbell.net
Mon May 19 13:30:11 CDT 2008
Jim Battle wrote:
> 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.
Clarifying a bit, since someone will nitpick me... I'm sure there are
single use 220V10s around, but all the GAL22V10s and GAL16V8's I ever
used were reprogrammable.
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