Hi, explorer232, greetings from Czech Republic!!!
As we talked
here before, I'm definitely interested.
I made a little simple
investigation about return of invested capital and avalon looks good for now. (Real parameters will be different, but for imagine and comparison it's enough.)
I have to say I don't know details of your design, but there is possibility of overclocking, as described in datasheet of avalon chip. (And discussed in other avalon-clone threads like
this).
Did you think about possibility of supply voltage/clk frequency tweaking?
And second note, please think about 28(-35)GHs variant, I mean 10 avalon modules shield. You always can use 3 modules only, but benefits of modularity are known ;-)
If I can provide you any help, feel free to ask.
Ramirez