Indeed, time will tell. I don't expect the company to be releasing something this substantial to "appease the shareholders" -- it has to be for better reasons than that. Yes, the prototype will be FPGA based, but the announcing of what it can do for the purposes of marketing to interested parties could certainly commence at that point.
EW, it was my understanding that we already have a prototype (cf your post - "...once we have the prototype...") which was announced at the s/h meeting, per its recounting on this board by pengy, et al. yes/no? tia hitimer - Rob