"When we hit the point that an FPGA could house a reasonable 32-bit processor capable of running an OS or RTOS, enough peripherals to construct a useful machine, and enough memory to run an interesting application, we entered a new era of embedded processing options." for that, and security issues...MOS would make a nice fit for embedded management....handing off to a high level OS. "One thing not yet making an appearance is OS support for Mico32. If we had to guess, we’d predict that an embedded Linux connection would be coming soon. We’d also predict connections to other popular embedded operating systems, but we’ll just have to wait for Lattice to feed us additional details as they emerge." doni