Well, i do not think that using off-the-shelf cheapo CPUs debugged by somebody else and tested in millions of applications, instead of single-purpose ASICs qualifies as a reliability hit or a development lag :)

Agreed that the part itself is correct. However, unlike you, the rest of us tend to take perfect parts and make mistakes putting them together. ;-)

Ah, i do a lot of mistakes. Anyway, it's much easier to put together debugged parts, than put together new silicon. I've had more than enough of that at nCUBE. --vadim