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11 years ago

MAX7000 programming question

Hello, please advise - I am starting using MAX7000S device - PLCC44. It has 8 power pins, 4 JTAG pins and 32 user i/o pins. I needed more than 32 pins for i/o, and disabled "JTAG BST support", giving...
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11 years ago

Thank you very much! I hope you can also give me answers to the following two questions:

1. is there any hobbyist diy/professional circuit diagram for such programmer? I do have programmer which does not support Altera devices (at all) and as will need to program these, ready to build custom programming device instead of buying one;

2. how many decoupling capacitors are recommended for the MAX7000 devices (it has 4 pairs of power rails, relatively close to each other).