Prometheus upgrade delayed

[billt]

While we wait, can we have a rminder of how boards will be upgraded? Once upon a time there was talk of everyone getting a paralle port widget to do it themselves, but this was long ago and probably won't happen. Do we send it to dealers or to you guys, what is the process now?

[billt]

c) would mean to lose control over the firmware, as everyone out there could decode and reverse engineer it (there might be some persons around interested in

While I think that's overly paranoid, people are of course free to be so.

I wouldn't want to try and reverse engineer a design using the FPGA chips I do silicon layout for, and I can get all the internal chip documentation requried to do so. I'd be very suprised if the CPLD internal architecture is completely documented for the public... Someone could directly copy the design and redo the PCB layout, I could see that as a more plausible thing. Maybe CPLDs are easier than FPGAs, but anyone wanting to put that kind of time and effort into such reverse-engineering, especially for something with such a tiny market, and then reverse engineer and make any changes to software, is absolutely crazy IMHO.