Mostly they learn one processor and use it for everything
in this case an 8052 isnt suited to doing stuff that a 68xxx series processor is.Ive been thinking about this problem for a while and come up with two solutions the first being 16 bit extentions to the 8052 architecture which is a work in progress with volenteers offering to help when i pull my finger out, the second is a reconfiguratble vhdl processor core which essensialy keeps the same architecture while having parameterisable scale so it can be a 4 bit,a 8 bit of a 16 bit processor but still retaining the same basic architecture,this is a much more complex task and its kind of getting there..... sort of.
My eventual aim is to be able to have a configuration file which controls the hardware compile/synthesis from a simple tcl front end interface
Yeah i know I sort of hijacked the thread but there ya go ;-)