Unveiling its new CoreWare service (CI No 1,862), LSI Logic Corp, Milpitas, California claims that it brings the dream of building a complete computer system-on-a-chip to reality, enabling designers to use the most advanced standard building blocks RISC microprocessors, video compression and signal pro cessing products. The initial CoreWare Library comprises the CW33000 Embedded CPU, CW3230 ReadWrite Buffer from the MIPS Computer Systems Inc R-series RISC family, the Sparc-based CW900 Embedded CPU and the CWBIL Multiprocessor Bus Interface, CW853 SBus DMA Controller. Military Products include the CW1750A CPU and IEEE Floating-Point Processors include the Non-pipelined 32-bit ALU, Non-pipelined 32-bit Multiplier, Pipelined 32-bit ALU, Pipelined 32-bit Multiplier, Pipelined 32-bit Divider, Non-pipelined 64-bit ALU, Non-pipelined 54-bit Multiplier. CoreWare design support is available now. Pricing is based on an access fee with a minimum of $25,000 and an engineering charge, which starts at $30,000, and associated production costs.
