First post, by keenerb
I am looking a board with a lot of PAL16L8 chips (which are brute-forceable from what I understand) and a single PAL16R8 chip.
My understanding is that the L chip is logic only, while the R chip actually contains some form of microcode.
Presuming they are in fact write protected, have any advances been made that would give me any hope that the 16R8 chip could be successfully decoded and replaced with a GAL? Or am I just understanding this all wrong?