[Pesco] won one of Dangerous Prototypes’ PCB giveaways a few months ago. He opted for a CPLD breakout board. He just needed to put in a parts order and populate the components himself. But then what?

CAMBRIDGE, UK — The AP-114 ISP-JTAG programmer from Atomic Programming offers in-system programming and testing for JTAG compatible devices, with optional boundary scan software. A programming ...

If you’re planning to do some hacking with CPLD or FPGA chips you’ll need a way to program them. JTAG is one of the options and here’s a cheap method that uses the serial port (translated). This ...

There is a growing interest in FPGA and CPLD design and with that, the development kits are getting cheaper and cheaper. However, one of the restrictions for some has been the cost of tools when it ...