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Support Xilinx XC9500XL CPLD series #38

Open spth opened 4 years ago

spth commented 4 years ago

The Xilinx XC9500XL series is a popular CPLD series. It's 5V-tolerance, relatively low price, and many I/O pins make it a good choice for many projects.

IMO, this would be a good candiate for a new device to support by a free toolchain.

Xilinx is killing off its own non-free XC9500XL toolchain: The XC9500XL is only supported by older versions of the Xilinx WebISE tool, which itself is already deprecated in favour of the newer Vivado.

The XC9500XL being a CPLD series, not an FPGA series resulting in relative simplicity should make it easier to reverse-engineer and to target in synthesis.

YusefIiqbal commented 4 years ago

So, what exactly would we've to do?