Or better yet, a PCI based interface?  Altera and Xilinx
both offer PCI cores for their FPGA's

                I'd be interested in at least the ISA interface, figure
its just basically a parallel dump of data and control for reads and
writes.

                                ----------
                                From:  Gary T. Pepper
[SMTP:gpepper@CAPITALNET.COM]
                                Sent:  Thursday, June 25, 1998 2:10 PM
                                To:  PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
                                Subject:  Using a PC modem with a PIC

                        Hello Everyone,

                        After reading the thread about using a 16c64 to
dial a modem and link to a
                        PC, I've thought of a variation to this
question:

                        Since PC-based modems are relatively cheap and
plentiful these days, has
                        anyone tried to take an off-the-shelf PC-based
modem card (e.g. ISA based)
                        and interface it directly to any PIC processor?
This might be an easy (and
                        cheap) method of getting PIC-based modem
communications going.  Of course,
                        one could also use an external modem that
communicates via an RS232 link,
                        however, an ISA-based modem card soution is
likely cheaper.  Any comments?

                        Regards,
                        Gary Pepper

                        Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
                        e-mail: gpepper@capitalnet.com