Wojciech, thanks for the Altera info. I didn't realize they had a starter
kit with VHDL. As far as LINUX, I see more vendors supporting it but, alas,
no starter packages.

   A note on my Lattice buffered ispDownload cable; if you are using 5V logic,
you can use either a 74HC or 74LS367. They switched to the 74LS version to
support 3V parts. That and a change in pullup values are reflected in my
schematic. Also note that you need to supply +5V as indicated in the
schematic.
I know this should be obvious but I did get some feedback by someone who had
initial problems. The example programming board only shows examples for their
44 and 84-pin PLCC devices since they are more popular and easy to prototype
compared to a TQFP package.

   - Tom

At 02:20 PM 4/4/00 +0200, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote:
>
>The EMAX+ for Altera (with VHDL and Verilog entry, covering EPLDs up to 7000)
>is also available for download with free starter License.
>
>The additional background of my desire to use the free/open source HDL
>is that no one vendor provides the free starter tools for Linux platform,
>and I really hate to reboot my machine to windows just to develop something
>in VHDL or Verilog (first for stability reasons, then because all the servers
>runing on my box are stopped for that time).
>
>--
>                                Thanks a lot,
>                              Wojciech M. Zabolotny
>        http://www.ise.pw.edu.pl/~wzab  <--> wzab@ise.pw.edu.pl


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New Age Communications
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