> On 2018-04-20, at 14:52, Francesco Messineo <francesco.messineo@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Unfortunately not /that/ GAL.. anyway - I made a small circuit (the first successful one in KiCAD I wrote about not long ago) for the 64 that employs the small 16V8 GAL chip. All works fine but the (Lattice) chip runs surprisingly hot. Does anyone have any experience with GALs and with what can affect their power consumption? > > In my experience, old PALs and GALs run hot, The datasheet says it should take in the range of 70mA, which makes it less than half W. Yeah, much more than an LS chip but OTOH not /that/ much.. > but I've never really > investigated why. Who would use them nowadays anyway? ;-) The fact that e.g. Atmel still have them in their line of products says that I am not the last and only one who would ;-) Besides - what other options for a small SPLD I have? -- SD! - http://e4aws.silverdr.com/Received on 2018-04-20 18:03:04
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