> Anyway, one of the most exciting things we saw at the Masters was
> preliminary information on the subject processor.
>
> This baby is planned to run at 30Mips

I recently attended a conference that discussed this chip

Microchip is engineering a microcontroller with DSP functionality...
Internet Connectivity to align itself for the wired home boom....
Soon it will be common for residential equipment to talk to each other

Acoustic noise cancelation
Speech recognition

Loop support
CODEC Interface

Industry partners are developing LIN and TCP/IP programmimng
See  http://www.iosoft.co.uk/chipweb.htm

PICDEM.net Internet/Ethernet Demonstration Board maufacturered by Microchip

There is definitely going to be a large demand for network connected,
systems integration controllers that support relays, power line carrier
protocols, temperature scaling, ect

Jim

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