Yeah, what stops me usualy plonking one in my project is the 20GB of IDE I&#x27;ll have to install to have the pleasure of seeing it take &#x2F;forever&#x2F; to do it&#x27;s thing.<p><i>However</i> this has just changed. There is an excellent project at <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.clifford.at&#x2F;icestorm&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.clifford.at&#x2F;icestorm&#x2F;</a> that has reversed the format for a series of the Lattice FPGA and provide an open source end-to-end solution... And AFAIK they haven&#x27;t been told off for doing so.<p>I therefore have one of their USB stick evaluation board on my desk to have a play with as soon as I can. They also have &#x27;hacker friendly&#x27; packages.