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In the FPGA article, it's written than Lattice now owns ABEL, however in this article it says that Xilinx owns ABEL, someone should clarify the situation. - anon

ABEL is owned by Xilinx, which acquired the tool through acquisition of MINC, which had purchased Synario, which was a division of Data I/O. Lattice purchased its current CPLD technologies (including the PALASM tools) from Vantis, which was a division of AMD, which had earlier merged with (acquired) MMI... It's enough to make your head spin. Rudderpost 06:31, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

^^ Ok, but is anyone using ABEL for new designs? It seems like it is a defunct language that exists only for support of legacy designs. ______________

For what it's worth, Southampton University still teaches ABEL in its Electronic Engineering 1st year, but it is possibly the last year that it will do so. Another point of note is that ABEL is that according to Southampton University, ABEL is most definitely not a programming language, it is a hardware description language. Yossarian

ABEL is a Hardware Description Language not a programming language. (I was one the authors of this software.) -- SWTPC6800 14:24, 22 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The link given seems to be broken. Please check it out.--Aliasgherman 05:19, 29 August 2007 (UTC)aliasgherman[reply]

The article is for a university instead of the program.24.167.39.41 (talk) 16:20, 19 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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I've added some words about the decline of ABEL and removed the sentence, "Nonetheless after two decades ABEL remains in use by thousands of PLD programmers worldwide." This was written back in 2004, and I don't think it's true anymore. Xilinx discontinued support for ABEL in 2010, and PLDs themselves are almost obsolete. Happy to be proven wrong, though! StevenBell (talk) 15:31, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]