Re: Wire wrap

From: Rene Tschaggelar (none_at_none.net)
Date: 06/25/04


Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 15:30:15 +0200

Joerg wrote:

> Hi Rene,
>
>> To start with, digital stuff is done with CPLDs and FPGAs.
>
>
> Yes, and that takes away all this prototyping effort to a large extent
> because you can "re-wire" things on the PC.
>
>> And for some analog stuff, there are systems on a chip available.
>> both for in circuit programming.
>
>
> I know this is off topic here but are there any newer ones out that can
> do more than a few MHz? What I saw so far doesn't contain much in terms
> of speed and quantity but was really expensive.

It is definitely not off-topic.
As far as i know the analog-systems-on-a-chip are plain vanilla only.
Little bandwidth, high offset, high bias, not rail-rail, high noise
and such.

Keep yourself updated at http://www.cypress.com and look out for PSoC.

Rene



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