Omron Corp has introduced a fuzzy logic board for its Motorola Inc 88000 RISC-based Luna-88K workstations, and the Luna II 68000 family models, and announced the combination as the Fuzzy-Luna workstation: the board, known as the FB-7098, is to be used primarily for the development and operation of applications using fuzzy databases and various expert and inferencing systems; performance is put at the equivalent of 4,000 MIPS for diagnostic and search applications, 1,000 MIPS for pattern recognition and control and application development tools for developing knowledge databases and fuzzy database processing systems are provided in a C language module; Omron will initially sell direct while it finds knowledge-based application development channels and looks to do 2,000 in the first year.
