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texano2123456
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4 years ago

EPM7192QC160-20 and EPM7160QC160-15 (Obsoletes)

I have a pcb, which has two programmed Altera ICs installed (EPM7192QC160-20 and EPM7160QC160-15). Both work with a MC68EC030FE CPU with 4MB of memory(RAM) on an industrial PCB. I would like to kn...
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ak6dn
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4 years ago

This is going to be really hard to get done. Those are not JTAG programmable, so one would need access to the old Altera Programming Unit or a compatible 3rd party device programmer. The devices would have to be removed from the board for programming access.

Unless you consider this hardware 'irreplaceable' and have a lot of money and time, my opinion is this is a dead end.