The smallest members of the family are 8-pin devices with 14 KB flash memory and 1 KB of RAM. They cost around $0.60 in quantities of one. That is typically no

The smallest members of the family are 8-pin devices with 14 KB flash memory and 1 KB of RAM. They cost around $0.60 in quantities of one. That is typically not a platform where you would need/be able to se a specialized SERDES, since it's not powerful enough to deal with a lot of data. I think the CLB is intended to "eat" some basic latches and/or gates that might en up on boards in industrial/control environments, i.e. push very simple logic stuff with perhaps high demands on timing and reliability into the already-programmable part. Sounds kind of nice, but (as an actual embedded software developer) I would hesitate to commit to a platform that requires using a remote server to generate parts of my code. :|