The LC87FC096A is an 8-bit microcomputer, integrates a number of hardware features such as 98K-byte flash ROM, 4096-byte RAM, On-chip debugging function, 16-bit timers/counter, four 8-bit timers, a 16-bit timer, a base timer serving as a time-of-day clock, a high-speed clock counter, a synchronous SIO interface (with automatic block transmission/reception capabilities), an asynchronous/synchronous SIO port, two UART ports, a single master I2C/synchronous SIO interface, an 11-channel AD converter, four PWM channels, a system clock frequency divider, a infrared remote controller receiver function, and interrupt feature.