Fine, 100 mips or 200 mips core IP technology. But look at what you have to go through before you can use it!! Buy the core, buy the FPGA, buy the FPGA development system, learn how to use it, then make your part. Now consider that many of these high speed FPGA solutions do not have FLASH on board to store your programs into!!!! And in almost all instances I suspect that you have to also design your own system to support development and debug of the program code!!

You can go with a Cygnal, or even buy a 1 up part/development board from DigiKey (www.digikey.com) and be programming it tomorrow!! In a similar manner, if you needed a bit of programmable logic to make your system complete look hard at the off-the-shelf Triscend E5 chip that some here keep recommending.

The IP cores are a solution for some system designs where an ASIC or a board full of FPGAs are deemed a reasonable system implementation....but I suspect if you took a survey of 8052.com visitors and 8051 type microcontroller users in general you would find few that need the core IP type processors for their designs.

Michael Karas