HEPE97 is a fast fuzzy processor completetely programmable and reconfigurable. Thanks to the parallel-pipeline internal architecture it can reach very high processing rates: when syncronized with a 50 MHz clock the input data set rate equals 80 ns, that is a new pair of 7-bit inputs X0 and X1 can be fetched into the chip every 80 ns. Future applications of this chip concern High Energy Physics Experiments where high speed is a constraint in problems of particle trajectory recognition. The chip has a total silicon area of 14 sqmm and a package DIL48. The chip has been tested in October '98 by means of a Tektronics ASIC Tester device: all the ten prototype chips produced have passed all tests at the working frequency of 50 MHz.
