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With this you usually started with a .ADF (Advanced Design File) describing the Boolean equations (as well as specifying the part / pin-usage / Turbo or Low Power etc)
Its Logic Optimising Compiler converted this to a .LEF (Logic Equation File) Sum Of Products file (for use by its Functional Simulator) which it then reduced, determined resources and did design-fitting, producing the .JED JEDEC file for use by its built-in Logic Programming Software (LPS)
It also produced a .REP (Report File).Plus it seems you could also use its iSTATE compiler with a .SMF (State Machine File)
However, iPLS did have an Edit JEDEC File option, which presented a graphical representation of the internal structure of the IC that let you examine the details of the Macrocells / comparing with datasheets to try make sense the bit-patterns in the Macrocell window.
So it's probably possible to manually at least produce some logic-equations based on EPLD architecture from that.
We'd used it with an Intel 5C600 - but could also use an Altera EP600 (both 600 gate devices, that were equivalent).
Although it seems my Uni had originally designed the experiment boards around the Intel 5C031 (= Altera EP310? 300-gate device).
Less than 2 years later, I found people at work had been using Altera EP610's / EP910's etc at work - with the (Dongled) Win3.0 Max+Plus-II software by then - but I'd not realised these Altera Classic Erasable PLD's (EPLD's) devices were the same as the Intel ones I'd used before, until now.
Even before the Max+Plus-II software, it seems Altera's A+Plus software let you use schematic entry, as well as using (A)HDL etc. so maybe why they charged several thousand for the Max+Plus-II s/w, and had Licence / Dongle protection on it. when I believe the iPLS wasn't protected.
Although I've still got a later Max+Plus-II v8.2 (1998) CD-ROM and a (Rainbow Tech - 74HC logic & Serial EEPROM ?) Dongle for this.
Info on the 'net seems to suggest that although Altera invented the EPLD, with the EP300 in 1984, they initially worked with Intel on marketing it (maybe it was due to Altera being Fabless and needed Intel to make these) / made ones to support Intel's PC buses etc. before becoming independent and finally Intel buying them in 2015. -inst.eecs.berkeley.edu//cs294-59/fa10/resources/Altera-history/Altera-history.html
The EP320 (and the EP600) aren't listed in main types, here -classic--max-5000--max-7000--sam--stg-data-book - but are in the Military types / EP330 & EP610 etc are. And it looks like they went up in 10's for later revisions / higher speed, as well as A suffix.
According to: -manufacturers/Altera/
the EP320 is listed as being equivalent to
Thanks for the info on Max Plus DOS version - I never recall seeing that being used, by people who were using a variety of Alteras in the early-90's. And I think the manual said it only supported their 5000 series. - Whereas their previous A+Plus and later Max+Plus-II seem to have supported all their devices (Although they had a nasty habit of removing older devices in newer versions - still do this with latest Quartus - so you often need to keep older versions.
And much like some IC-programmers, where we found the newer & generally much wider IC- support Dataman Pro range won't program 82S126 PROM's, that the older original 48(LV/XP) parallel-port models do, although they did support the NS DM74S387 version with different programming method)
Co-incidentally, I do have 1 or 2 Altera MPU's, and quite a few adaptor plates, I acquired after work was disposing of them.
- But annoying no ISA controller cards, as the PC we had in the Lab with it in got chucked-out without me knowing, having had to previously rescue the cards from other PC's being disposed of that the cards had been left in.
I do recall there were 3 Atera PLCC IC's on it, but not sure if they were protected. And seem to recall finding a website with someone else looking to re-create one (Maybe updated for PCI etc). It's a pity there was never a USB version (that I know of), as they moved on to JTAG-style ISP with ByteBlaster / BitBlaster by then which many of their FPGA's hadn't originally been supported and needed to use an updated version.
I don't think there were really that many packages that did have a 'disassembler' in them - I didn't see one in the Altera Max+Plus-II or the Intel+Altera iPLS EPLD-only software (although it seems it did have a viewer where you could manually disassemble it with reference to datasheets info on it's cell structure)
I suppose you normally should't really need a disassemble, if you're producing it from your own source files with one only really needed to verify their compiler or to rev-eng someone else's design (which they may have not been wanting to encourage, if they did claim some read-security features worked, so you might not be able to get the JEDEC programming code file that easy.
So maybe a disassembler (or ideally a de-compiler, although compilation could be a bit one-way if there's some optimisation being done in it) would really be left to specialists (like IDA-Pro / Ghidra for software, that does know about common libraries used with various compilers) to get you back much closer to C etc. source code than just disassembling and having to manually add labels + identify common library routines.
But without much commercial demand for it, then maybe it's the sort of thing that would be done by someone in the open-source community..
I've only recently seen what CUPL is, but the same does seem a bit familiar - just not as much as PALasm, which is now apparently free 'abandonware'.
Not sure about ABEL, that I do know some people at work who used it + remember having all the large manuals with our Data I/O 2900/3900? programmer in the lab as well as disk & dongles. But unfortunately it all got disposed of, inc. dongles which would have been useful if disks are now imaged on here etc.
So this semester at my college we're going to have a vhdl subject, The recommanded software is altera max plus II software, my lab cheed told me it would availabe online from the intel website but when i check it's no longer support/available on their website since the 22nd march 2021, i tried looking for other website that might allow to download but i ended up on version that i have no idea how they run(like this sim model software) anyway if anyone knows any website that might allow to download it that would be gr8 ! And also let me know if i still need to ask for a license key(mostly gonna try to ask for a free student license if the answer yes)
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General Information Two Altera applications are available, either or both of which can be installed onyour PC using copies of the CD's on the X: drive:
Quartus II, version 3.0 Max Plus II, version 10.2 There is also a set of VHDL simulation libs for ModelSim which can be installed Setting up a client PC: Install on local drive from the X: (pub) drive Install Quartus II, version 3.0 The contents of the CD's are on the Pub 'X:' drive. Begin with folder: X:\Applications\Supported\Altera\QuartusII\3.0\CD.
- Double-click on the 'install.exe' program in that folder.
- In the "Quartus II Install CD" menu, You are prompted to select one of three options. Select "Install Quartus II and Related Software".
- In the "Quartus II 3.0 Setup" menu, check "Quartus II 3.0" and "ModelSim-Altera".You can also decide later to install the "ModelSim-Altera" package, as described belowin the ModelSim section.
- Agree to the license conditions.
- Fill in your User Name, etc.
- Browse to the local Folder where you want to install the Quartus II application.
- Likewise for the Tutorial files.
- In the next menu, select either "Full Install" or "Custom", as you wish.
- In the next "Select Program Folder" menu, enter the name you would like for thePrograms Folder entry, for example: "Altera Quartus II 3.0"
- After a final mouse click, the installation proceeds.
- After the installation completes, you are prompted to insert the ModelSim-AlteraCD, in case you selected to install it at the beginning. Otherwise, you now only needto make sure the licensing is set up.
- If not already done earlier: Set up the reference to the license file
- Double-click on the 'autorun.exe' program.
- In the initial "Max Plus II Install CD" menu, select option "Full/Custom/Flexlm Server". Select "Install Quartus II and Related Software".
- The next several menu screens are self-explanatory.
- In the "Setup Type" menu, select option "Full Installation", unless you knowhow to pick and choose items for the "Custom Installation".
- In the "Choose Destination Location" menu, browse to the local Folder where you want to install the Max Plus II application.
- Likewise for the "working directory".
- Likewise for the "ACCESS Key Guidelines" directory".
- In the next "Select Program Folder" menu, enter the name you would like for thePrograms Folder entry, for example: "Altera Max Plus II 10.2"
- After a final mouse click, the installation proceeds.
- After the installation completes, you now only need to make sure the licensing is set up. Set up the reference to the license file
- Double-click on the "modelsim-altera.exe" installation program.
- After a little while, the first "Welcome" screen comes up, in which you clickon 'Next'.
- After agreeing to the license conditions, the "Choose Destination Location" menuappears, where you can browse to the local installation Folder of your choice.
- In the next "Select Program Folder" menu, enter the name you would like for thePrograms Folder entry, for example: "Altera ModelSim-Altera 5.7c"
- After a final mouse click, the installation proceeds.
- After the installation completes, the "Select Components" menu appears, inwhich you are prompted to select the location of the license. Select "get its licensefrom a remote machine".
- In the next "Question" menu, you can decide whether you would like a Modelsim shortcuton your desktop. The following menu asks you whether you would like the ModelSimexecutable added to your PATH environment variable. Choose 'yes' or 'no' as you thinkbest for your needs.
- You now only need to make sure the licensing is set up. Set up the reference to the license file
- Log in as the local Administrator.
- Get to the area: Start/Settings/Control Panel
- Double-click on the 'System' icon.
- In the control panel select tab 'environment'.
- Set System variable 'LM_LICENSE_FILE' to include an entry for the Altera license as follows:
- If the variable is already set, but does not include the following path,add the following entry to the beginning of the list of other entries, preceded by ';', otherwise initialize the list of values with:'1700@sunlics1;1700@sunlics2;1700@sunlics3'
- Click on 'Set', then on 'Apply', then on 'OK'