>     Working on a VHDL synthesizable model for the PIC (haven't pinned down
   >     any particular one yet..), partly for fun, perhaps for a future FPGA..
   >     (BTW, is there demand for such a beast?  Let me know!).

   I havn't worked with FPGA enough to know, so maybe you could tell me how
   much would it cost for a chip that could synthesize a 16CXX for ICE? I think
   many of us would be interested. I am afraid that it would end up costing as
   much as a commercial emulator, (small quantities), after spending months
   designing & debugging.

Good point: top-end FPGAs with 20000 gates run around 50-100 dollars
each. On the other hand, we are definitely on the downward curve---in
a year or so they probably will be $10: wouldn't it be nice to be able
to have just one FPGA that can be burned to be any 16Cxx or 17Cxx?
just about the only thing that can't be put on an FPGA is the A/D
converter: especially nice is the possibility of trading off
resources: additional logic vs. additional RAM vs. additional ROM.

        przemek