Looking for PLD with embedded memory

Philipp Klaus Krause schrieb:

The device doesn't have to be fast, 8 Mhz for a simple design would be OK. I need about 40 I/O.

Philipp

You probably won't find such a PLD. Maybe you can implement your solution in software. 8 MHz is quite slow and there are lots of microcontrollers with integrated memory for you to look at.

Regards, Marc

The Altera Max-II has 8Kb FLASH memory if that can be of any help:

Petter

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the only devices with onchip user flash are Actel Fusion and Lattice XP2 but they are not 5V tolerant. there is and will not be any single chip solution that is 5V tolerant meets your needs.

hm, ST has some products based on waferscale stuff, they all include some flash and smallish PLD, but I guess they will not directly match your needs either

Antti

Antti schrieb:

ST's PSD would do feature-wise, but they seem to be rather expensive. The cheapest I found at digikey is at ~7?, current solution would be ~3? (XC9536XL: 0.8 ?, 2Mb EPROM: 1?, voltage regulator: 0.6?, EEPROM: 0.3?) (all proces per piece when ordering 100).

Philipp

Correct. 22V10 + '573 => 32 macrocell CPLD.

Yes, but not to 2Mb of memory.

What does this connect to ? - ie where does this ROM code go ? Is there a processor in the system, reading this, or something else ?

-jg

Jim Granville schrieb:

It goes into a Z80-based system from the 80s. The system has a cartridge port, where D0...D7 (data), A0...A14 (addres bus, A15 missing), E8...EE (chip enable). Back in the 80s a cartridge would contain one to four 64 KBit EPROMS containing a program. Each enable line would be used as a chip enable. I've written a few programs for the system. So far each did fit into

32KB, so I used a 256 KBit EPROM together with a 74LS21 (to connect the four chip enable lines to the EPROM's output and chip enable) for my cartridges. Now I'd like to write a program that uses more ROM and I'd like to be able to save some data. I think dividing the address space into lower 24KB (directly mapped as before) middle 4KB (bank-switched), upper 4KB (to locate some control registers to switch the middle 4KB and control the I²C line to the EEPROM) would make sense.

Philipp

You're going to be looking for a long time.

You can get that much RAM, but not in a part with 5V tolerant I/O.

You can get built-in flash memory, but not EEPROM.

I suspect that you just need to use a 3.3V part with appropriate level shifters or QuickSwitch parts (or equivalent) to get your 5V tolerance (or possibly just series resistors), and a separate EEPROM chip.

Have you looked at FLASH rather than EPROM ? Then you might be able to dispense with the EEPROM. If you use a small CPLD (XC9536, or ATF1502ASL ) you will be able to do all the chip select/banking/mapping you need, as well as get a phantom write path for the Flash.

-jg

What is it?

Evan

Evan Lavelle schrieb:

A video game cartridge. Containing the EPROM (program and data), EEPROM (for savegames) and CPLD (bank switching, access to I²C).

Philipp

Even if there was a single-chip solution for that (which there isn't), it would cost *much* more than a multichip solution.