AVR-Chat

>>As you say others do better,
>>The Xilinx Webpack is free, and will let you use upto 400KGate devices.
>>Both of these examples really beg the question, why bother with the 
>>FPSLIC?
>>go for altera or Xilinx and embed your own sparc (leon) processor.
>
> For this particular project, a lot of AVR code already written, some
> parts I definitely want to move to hardware, others I haven't
> implemented yet because the AVR is too slow (!)
> I could port to another processor though, the ASM code is a pretty
> well written spec. :)


Look at www.opencores.org
There is an AVR core that you could perhaps use.

/J