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16 years ago

ACEX1K chips obsolete?

Hello,

Our company is still using ACEX1K EP1K100QC208 chips. We are a bit worried that these chips will go or are already have gone obsolete. Are these chips still in production? Anyone has any information?

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Maris Mols

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    thanks sir..

    can you suggest me one more thing.

    i want to buy a kit which include read and write option for acex 1k series....
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    You wont find any acex 1k dev kits any more. The acex is over 12 years old!

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    i want to develop a circuit using this chip......and testing borads for some devices........

    for that i need this chip only......
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    If you are still looking for an ACEX1K development board, here are a couple of options.

    The (now obsolete and soon-to-be-discontinued) FTDI/DLP Morph-IC board has an FT2232C and an ACEX1K FPGA.

    http://www.dlpdesign.com/fpga/morphic.shtml

    Mouser has these boards in stock:

    http://www.mouser.com/productdetail/ftdi/morph-ic-1k-blk/?qs=sgaepimzzmuvjc7vq%252bml5zjbddcilvze

    I have one of these boards. I wrote a programmer and an FT2232 FIFO to FPGA interface. I can give you that code if you get one of these boards. The problem with the Morph-IC, is that it has a small ACEX1K device on it. The device is a EP1K10TC100-3, with 576 LEs, which is around the number of LEs as the MAX II EPM570 device (which is a more useful device for this amount of LEs, in that the MAX II configuration is non-volatile).

    Today I stumbled upon this ACEX1K board, the EZ1KUSB;

    http://www.easyfpga.com/

    http://www.easyfpga.com/ez1kusb_config.htm

    This board can be ordered with larger devices, so might be more useful for your testing.

    Cheers,

    Dave