I've seen the future of DIY (was RE: [sdiy] Tiny FPU chip/16 bit micros?)

[Rainer Buchty]

> yeah, but for me, thats half the fun, twisting it so I can add/change/remove
> things to do what I want.

Hm, depends. For a SoC you mostly just add standard components such as
UARTs, timers, MAC/PHY, maybe additional processing blocks (JPEG, MPEG
etc.) -- but not so much raw hardware hacking.

> pah, why run an OS? ;-)

To parse the MIDI data, access the CF medium, create the user interface :)

> VirtexII (we have a few of the older ones here).

With 220MHz resulting frequency? The 68k must be a way smaller/leaner
design than I thought.

Rainer