and the hardware part is not that complicated either. and if they sell the chips (posted at the bottom of the Avalon website) there will be a datasheet on how those work too so.
Would it help if I changed the topic to have HARDWARE in caps? Would that avoid several posts about open sourcing the software?
Datasheets are just the tip of the iceberg. For an analogy, it'd be like having to clone software by reading the end user manual.