[vcf-midatlantic] New Device Programmer Suggestions

[Dave McGuire]

On 12/22/2015 03:08 PM, J. Alexander Jacocks via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
> I have had, for several years now, an Advin Pilot MVP parallel port device
> programmer.  It has done excellent work, and I had yet to find a device
> that it couldn't program, until now.  I now have a need to program
> PLCC84-package CPLDs, for boards that I will be building.
> 
> What does everyone suggest, as far as a <$500 programmer?  I really would
> like to stick with programmers supported by active US companies, to make
> sure of future support.  As much as people seem to recommend them, I'm not
> inclined to get any of the Chinese knockoff programmers, for the above
> reason of support, of the lack thereof.

  DataIO UniSite, hands down.  Get one with an MSM (hard drive) and all
pin driver boards and it'll program most anything.  And it doesn't
require any proprietary backwater operating systems to drive it.

  If you send me the part number of the CPLD you're working with, I can
check the supported device list for the firmware release that I have.
(and you're always welcome to use mine, of course)

              -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA