Hi Aaron...

I have to tell you that a piece of perfboard inside a DB-25 housing is all
you really need :-) Or buy one of the cables on eBay -- they're really not
much more than doing it yourself.

Also, be aware that messiong with FPGAs really isn't any more complex
than CPLDs -- well, at least that's my opinion. Infact, for hobbyist
purposes, I prefer FPGAs over CPLDs...although I guess commercial reasons
could sway that the other way.

I currently hack around with Altera Cyclones with PROMs....FYI.


-marc

On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, A.J. Tufgar wrote:

> Hey all,
>        I wanted to start playing with CPLDs and hopefully soon
> thereafter FPGAs.  So I was looking around the net for PCB artwork for
> a parallel port download cable.  More specifically the xilinx download
> cable (schematic here: http://tinyurl.com/6nu2j), but I think they are
> one in the same?
>
> Anyways has anyone on the list created a PCB for this I could use?  Or
> come across it?  It must have been done a million times before.  I
> could design a PCB for it, but why reinvent the wheel?
>
> Thanks in Advance,
> Aaron
>
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