Isn't this the idea behind Motorola's "coldfire" devices, or are they an
ASIC plus microcontroller?

Sean

On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, M. Adam Davis wrote:

> As an off-topic note, Atmel is releasing a chip which has a uController and FPGA
> in one package - up to 40k gates, at a cost of $20.  IBM tried this earlier, but
> the CPU itself wasn't as popular as it needed to be to succeed.
>
> -Adam
>