[jacquesm]

Simply stuff where FPGAs would have been a god-send if they had existed. In fact, we probably could have run mid-sized production runs using FPGAs without the need to go to ASIC, that's nice for consumer stuff where manufacturing cost is the major driver but for specialty hardware targeted at industry the manufacturing cost of an individual unit is much less important than what it does. The margins are such that capability at any cost is acceptable. Provided you can prove that it can be done (hence my earlier comment).