This devilish redundancy of FPGA, CPLD and CE, will it kill microcontrollers in the future or not? It will probably have the same effect on microcontrollers that 16 and 32 bit microcontrollers have had on 4 and 8 bit microcontrollers. BillW -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu