There is an app note, if I remember right, on using a PIC as a PLD type
device.  But I don't think it will ever replace the 6ns Altera EPLD's that I
am using...

-----Original Message-----
From: William Chops Westfield [mailto:billw@CISCO.COM]
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 1999 7:11 PM
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: FPGA's, FPLD's, etc.


When talking about PIC circuitry, one must remember that "typical" GALs
and such are real power-pigs, with the "quarter power" devices still
consuming more in an idle state than a PIC running at full speed.  There
are apparently lower power GALs, but they're much less common...

(full power GAL like 22V10 = ~100mA...)

In fact, one of the first possible applications of PICs that I thought of
was as a lower-power (and more general) replacement for GALs and such
(when speed was not a requirement.)

BillW