I've been thinking about getting an FPGA board to play with and see what it will do as far as hosting an HF modem, or at least the A/D and DSP portions of one. The board I'm considering has a Xilinx Spartan 3E FPGA and all of the peripheral hardware (A/D, D/A, VGA, ethernet, serial, etc.) one would probably need to do it.
http://www.digilentinc.com/Products/Detail.cfm?Prod=S3EBOARD&Nav1=Products&Nav2=Programmable Anyone tried (or thought of trying) something like that? 73, Paul / K9PS