Lpc2000

> On the note of FPGA's, I was fearing what you said. Perhaps this is
> why you dont see big online comunities using them for hobby use. At
> least, I havent found any.

You may not have ran across these sites:
http://www.niosforum.com/	Altera Nios Forum
I posted a Nios-II port of the http://www.opencores.org/ CAN interface here.

http://www.fpga4fun.com/	Focused on the hobbyist/enthusiast.

You don't see much hobby use mainly due to cost.  Implementing a processor
in an FPGA is not cheap from cost of hardware and current consumption.
FPGA's are currently only justified for offloading CPU intensive algorithms.


Cost-wise the Xilinx Spartan 3E looks interesting, as it allows one to use
generic (low cost) SPI memory for config of part and application post
config.  Xilinx offers low cost eval boards, but beyond the eval software -
$$$.


Joel