I am a repair technician at CTDI, We need to replace CPLDs and FPGAs on occasion. We are not interested in the design aspect. IS there a simple software solution we can use without all the unnecessary bells and whistles?

A software solution to do what? And when you say you need to replace devices, do you mean de-solder from boards and replace? Why do you need to do this?

Even if you replace a device on a board with the same device, if the programming configuration is stored in non-volatile flash, as it usually is, you don't need to do anything.

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When re replace a bad CPLD or FPGA we need to reprogram it. We do this though JTAG. Not all CPLDs or FPGAs have their programming held in non-volatile memory. In fact, mot of the ones we deal with are programmed directly into the chip, This was a decision the engineer made at the time of design. We just repair them. We don't design them. I did find a link to software for programming only, but unfortunately the link is broken.