Cool, thanks.

Now do I need it? I downloaded the app to simulate some design.. it's
hard though to find a REAL use for me right now (I wish it had more
stuff inside, then..). But it's cheap.

By the way, the $49 GreenPAK2 devkit has 8 weeks of lead time already.. :P


At 19.45 2011.10.16, you wrote:
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>On Oct 16, 2011, at 9:18 AM, Electron wrote:
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>> is the OTP bypassable during design?
>
>It appears that with the board they sell ($50 including 50 samples), =20
>you can download a design, probe it with assorted signal generators =20
>while looking at it with a scope/etc (signal generators built into the =20
>board, but you supply the scope?), and decide whether it's behaving =20
>OK.  If so, you then commit the design to the OTP (otherwise you try =20
>again without burning the OTP.)  If you lose power, the RAM cells go =20
>away, so you can't exactly plug it into your actual circuit (except =20
>perhaps via header-style pins on the board), but it's not like you =20
>have to program and pray (like with PALs...)
>
>BillW
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