09:43 <samlittlewood_> decendant in spirit only - the fx chip was a 16 bit risc with 8 bit insns (a lot of effort to reduce insn bandwidth) designed at gate level, arc was a ground up vhdl core, 32 bit, with a fair chunk of encoding and register spaced reserved for custom extensions. Having been through 5(?) embedded gfx projects at argonaut, with some less than stellar processes/cell libs/synthesizers, it was a pretty solid proposition for people needing an

09:43 <samlittlewood_> embedded cpu.

09:49 <samlittlewood_> istr there was no/or tiny NRE, and a sensible licence, so potential customers could get an idea going in simulation before starting to think about big nre and related investments