[net.micro] Xenix PALASM?

cem@intelca.UUCP (Chuck McManis) (07/31/85)

The title says it, does anyone know of a program for designing PLD's
(eg Programmable Logic Devices, like MMI's PALs) that runs under
Xenix Release 3.0 ? Both MMI and Data-I/O state they do not plan to
implement or "port" PALASM or ABLE to Xenix. Is there something equivalent
out there? How I wonder if all of the MS-DOS software will port to Xenix
when the AT users begin to use Xenix instead. If there are any pointers
I will follow up on them. 

--Chuck
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michael@python.UUCP (M. Cain) (08/05/85)

> The title says it, does anyone know of a program for designing PLD's
> (eg Programmable Logic Devices, like MMI's PALs) that runs under
> Xenix Release 3.0?

I recently saw a reprint of an article on AMD's PLPL (Programmable Logic
Programming Language) that claimed PLPL was written in C, and that AMD
apparently had plans to port it to everything in sight.  PLPL had the
nice features of ABLE - if-else, switch, for-loop structures, verification,
standard output formats, etc.  Don't remember where the original article
appeared, but I'm sure that your local AMD rep could point you in the
right direction.

Michael Cain
Bell Communications Research
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