How to deal with time limited build

Your answer, go search the web for an answer is worthless. I clicked the link went to several of the websites and couldn't find anything, other than at Arrow, they had an FFT and a Vertibi module for $9K, neither of which I am interested in.

An example of time limited IP was a video decoder, video switch, etc

Even when I built an FPGA with the newer NIOS II CPU, it was time limited, so I went back to an older NIOS Ii..