To all, I have now uploaded the construction/testing notes and KiCad project files for the ELM Simple GAL programmer to the N8VEM wiki
it can be found at http://n8vem-sbc.pbworks.com/w/browse/#view=ViewFolder¶m=ELM%20Simple%20GAL%20Programmer Regards David Fry On Wednesday, April 29, 2015 at 2:08:58 PM UTC+1, David Fry wrote: > One PCB left folks !!!! > > Regards > > David Fry > > On Monday, April 27, 2015 at 6:16:32 PM UTC+1, David Fry wrote: > >> Hi Everyone, >> >> Whilst recently building up my S100 XVGA board I stumbled upon a problem >> with programming the Lattice GAL22V10's, my Chinese MiniPro programmer >> claims to be able to program them but alas it failed to burn any of the >> GAL22V10B's I had. Interestingly it would program GAL22V10's (without the >> A,B,C or D suffix) but this left me with a problem as I have about 20 x >> GAL22V10B's and only 2 x GAL22V10's, internet research seems to suggest >> that the programming requirements may vary between different GAL suffixes >> and even different manufacturers of the same part. >> >> In the end I tracked down and old internet webpage for a simple Lattice >> GAL programmer that programs various Lattice GALs via a PC parallel port. >> The software is very basic being MSDOS command line stuff but it works for >> me and gets the job done. So far I have erased and programmed Lattice >> GAL22V10B's and Lattice GAL16V8D's I cannot vouch for any other GAL >> models or GAL manufacturers. >> >> More details can be found on the following link. >> >> http://elm-chan.org/works/pgal/report_e.html >> >> As a one off I have had a short PCB run done of 10 boards (they actually >> supplied 12) but unfortunately the PCB house made a small but correctable >> error in the fabrication of the board (see image GALprogPCB Error.jpg), I >> have received a full credit for the boards and so I got them for free. >> >> I would like to offer these PCB's for FREE to anyone out there *who does >> not have the facility to program GALS*, with the restriction of one >> board per person and you pay the P+P (shipping) cost which will be UK >> £3.75p to USA/Canada (1st class airmail) or UK £3.50p to Europe (1st class >> airmail). >> >> If anyone is interested submit your name to this post and payment can be >> sorted once the names are in. >> >> >> I'm happy to upload the KiCad files if someone can tell me which folder >> to put them in. >> >> regards >> >> David Fry >> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "N8VEM-S100" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
