Too many "Grecian Getaways"? ;-)
[I'll have to followup in email as there are things that are best said "discretely" -- hopefully this afternoon]
Agreed. Glad to see market pressures have forced other solutions!
I had looked into this with the Am9513 many years ago. A reasonably straight-forward design that would be easy to clone. But, decided I didn't want to be supporting folks who couldn't "move on" to more "modern" solutions! (talk about "feeping creaturism"...)
Ah, OK. In my case, I used the 4000 as a custom video processor. Kinda hard to bit bang at those data rates :-/
Exactly.
Yup. And people eventually *did* move on -- to other vendors! :<
I think most EDA tools tend to suffer that fate. Trying to move a design from one toolchain to another (even different versions of the *same* toolchain!) is an exercise in futility. I can't believe there is a legitimate reason for the vendors to do this. Rather, "compatibility" is probably something they "just don't have time for".
(I wonder how much of their slushware is devoted to the chip architecture vs. the user tools?)