[Hardware] partially unrolled?

[John L. Bass]

Martin> With my incomplete core IIRC I was unable to get it to fit on any
Martin> Spartan 3 device. Can something be hand-optimized to be significantly
Martin> smaller?

Guerric's BRAM version will be smaller, as it doesn't require the additional
LUT's for retiming. He is also doing most of the optimizations I did in my
hand fit versions a couple years ago, so it's going to be fairly close to
minimum.

Martin> Also, I was unable to find a place that had the XC3S2000 in stock.
Martin> Direct from Xilinx?

Avnet has a few thousand in various packages and grades.

John