Another Chinese Box with Chinglish software. I bought this one as it was one of the very few that supported the 16-bit wide EPROMs. So this box is a complete failure when talking about PLDs. With the Top3100 I was not able to program any of my GALs. The current supported device list is over 30K devices. In any case I can highly recommend the Dataman universal programmer. I prefer to limit that to hardware design as required and focus what little time I do have on the 65C02 coding for the hobby system I'm building up. But I'm guessing if the programmer can write it, read it, verify it, erase it and all checks are functioning 100%, it should be working.Īnd no, the Dataman is not cheap, but it's one thing I don't want to have to design, build and create software for. Now I need to modify my existing CPU card and define the logic to suit my requirements before I can test it live in a system. did the Blank check again, which passed this time, then went back and programmed/verified it again and it passed. I also did a Blank test, which failed, then Erased the chip, which passed. I then ran a Read test and it passed comparing to the buffer. The 40Pro programmed and verified it in about 3 seconds. Just to try it out, I grabbed Daryl's JEDEC file for his DEC-1 decoder chip. I just upgraded the MemPro to the 40Pro universal programmer and got some Atmel ATF22V10C chips in. I've written a few chips hundreds of times each with no issues to date. It's been flawless and writes a full AT28HC256 in about 8 seconds with verify. After much searching about, I ended up with a Dataman MemPro. I decided to get a good memory programmer mainly to eliminate another HW design and additional coding (the EEPROM code already written will end up in a SBC board for updating the EEPROM as a utility). It works fine, but it's a concoction of old/new hardware cobbled together with multiple steps to get the code to the Vic for writing to the EEPROM. Atmel seem to have a large selection of this stuff and most distributors stock a large inventory of their products.Īfter writing some 65C02 code to write their EEPROMs using an old Vic-20. I too have just got interested in some GAL type programmable logic for the simplest of tasks, memory and I/O decoding to replace a few logic chips. ![]() So has any of you any experience with the Wellon VP-290 programmer and especially together with GALs and/or the Kanda company? They even sell a PLD Logic Training Kit specifically supporting the ATMELs PLDs. ![]() the GALBLASTER an open source programmer, does not support Lattice 22V10D<-the D is important), I stepped over Kanda selling a Wellon VP-290 programmer for a reasonable price (it says 120 Euros, adding shipping and tax this would still fit in my "budget"). I have read much about problems with programmers or GALs/PLDs that do not cooperate (especially ATMELs ATF series) or GALs that are still available from some vendors but not supported (e.g. Unfortunately my old DOS based programmer (a ALL-01) and soon afterwards the old DOS computer (it had to be a really slow computer with ISA slots else the software would not run) died. Especially in 6502 based computers where you just wan't to replace a handful of 74xxxx with a simple 16V8 or 22V10 to make your design small and more flexible. And so I think are GALs and PLDs, they are fun to use, are available in DIP Package, 5V compatible and easy to use. But hey, a 6502 is even older and as it was already said on this forum, why use a 6502 as a base of computers, because it is fun. I know GALs or PLDs are really old fashion.
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