I have seen one neat product using a dedicated FPGA that uses 48-bits instead of 24 bits. They claim it can constantly go at highest speed for up to 4 years before rolling over. Albeit, you can do some really neat things with FPGAs, but isn't that just overkill? What I would really like to see is a core in which I get 24 bit data for X and Y positions, so 6 bytes for a single point and have the core match this position up with a record(containing up to 32k samples) taken from an A/D. In this manner I could use a computer to just display the matched pairs. This would try to take out two asynchronous events that the main computer would have to deal with. I also believe that this product would extend vastly in just about every field.