At 03:54 PM 6/3/97 -0400, you wrote: >Sure - does that mean we now consider multiple PICs on a single board >to process a wide word token stream, interleave a few FPGAs and a >few hundred FIFO's ? Actually, that's a very good point to bring up. A good rule of thumb is, "If you ain't making tons of these, it's probably cheaper to implement with multiple PICs each doing something small, than to have one PIC do it all." Andy ================================================================== Andy Kunz - Montana Design - 409 S 6th St - Phillipsburg, NJ 08865 Hardware & Software for Industry & R/C Hobbies "Go fast, turn right, and keep the wet side down!" ==================================================================