>The whole idea is to be able to talk on an ethernet at close to zero
>(parts, board space) cost. An also the challenge of doing something they
>said 'can't be done'.

Take a look at FireWire interface chips. They have hardware specs close or
exceeding to what you are looking for. Current chips will do 10MBps ether
easy. Unfortunately I have never seen any of these 'off the shelf'.

It is just barely possible that a IEEE1393 ASIC or FPGA can be programmed
to do 10MBPS ether. I have never tried to look at this, but it's an idea.
The technologoes are close enough speed-wise.

Peter

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