The world’s first microcontroller with floating point capability on chip was announced by Milpitas, California-based LSI Logic Corp yesterday. The LR33050 MIPS IFX Integer and Floating-Point Accelerator processor adds a MIPS Computer Systems Inc R3010-compatible floating point accelerator to LSI Logic’s LR33000 Self Embedding processor and is aimed at embedded applications such as X-terminals. colour PostScript printers, robotics, military and avionics applications where power and space constraints are paramount. The LR33050 is pin and software-compatible with LSI Logic’s LR33000 processor. It is available in 25MHz, 33MHz and 40MHz clock speeds, doing up to 35 MIPS with the fastest clock. Sampkes of the slower two versions are available now, with volume later this quarter; the 40MHz is one quarter later for samples and volume. Prices start at $136 for the 25MHz version when you order 1,000 or more parts.
