TTL computing

From: Ben Franchuk <bfranchuk_at_jetnet.ab.ca>
Date: Thu Apr 11 10:26:15 2002

Thilo Schmidt wrote:

> > Why? As far as I can see either can be changed easily.
> If you implemented the thing in discrete logic it's probably
> possible to change it by soldering wires all over the board,
> but if you made an ASIC you would have to change the masks and
> physically replace all chips made...
>
> Of course if you use a FPGA it really makes no difference...
Nope you have 3 levels of routing there. 1) Vaporware for the ram based
stuff.
2) Firmware for the EEPROM types 3) Hardware for the anti-fuse based
types.


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