motion control chips

Forgive me if this has already been mentioned. There has been a little talk
about motion control boards, conparing the low priced spread with Galil
boards. Well, while browsing the HP optoelectronic catalog (really, I don't
have much time to waste), I came across the HCTL-1100 General Purpose Motion
Control IC.
It has lots of features, is intended to control stepper , DC, or DC
brushless motors, has encoder inputs. It does all the motion control
calculations, and can be synchronized with other HCTL-1100's.
It has a 24 bit counter, which beats most of the decoders I've looked at.

This may be the right chip for a motion control board.

Has anyone looked at this part?

Elliot Burke