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  Headlines and summaries from the pages of Electronic Engineering Times . Previous editions are available from the 1994 , 1995 , 1996 , 1997 , and 1998 News Archives.
Wednesday, October 9STI's coolers bring speed improvements to CPUsHigh-performance system designers now have a low-temperature option for boosting the speed of CMOS microprocessors with a line of refrigeration units being introduced by Superconducting Technology Inc. The company says its recently announced line of Radically Accelerated Cold Electronic (Race) refrigeration systems can cool everything from personal computers to high-critical-temperature superconductor (HTS) circuits.Simulator offers robot design on Web-- The World Wide Web is starting to become a significant forum for robot design. Once tied to specific hardware for dedicated applications, robots are now being considered for remote-control applications. In addition, robot behavior can be design ed in software and shipped to real robots at some other location for testing.Quantum devices grafted to siliconA recent development that bonds thin-film resonant tunneling structures onto silicon substrates may represent a crucial step in integrating quantum devices with silicon circuitry.Joblessness for EEs is a mere 1.1 percentElectronic engineers just completed another quarter of full employment, while the computer-science field is on its way to a 10 percent expansion in jobs in 1996.RIT adds software-engineering BS programThe Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT; here) last month initiated what it believes to be the first baccalaureate program for software engineering in the nation.
Tuesday, October 8Headlights to respond to driving conditionsLi ghting systems are often overlooked in automotive electronics, but in the near future, headlights will respond to driving conditions such as fog, rain or even the driver's style, according to a presentation by Robert Bosch GmbH.Sun, Microtec brew two-way Java agreementMicrotec and Sun Micro's JavaSoft division have linked up to extend Java's reach into the embedded-systems world. Microtec has gained access to both JavaOS and the Java Virtual Machine, while Sun has licensed Microtec's XRay debugger and VRTX real-time operating system.Scalable RAID to desktopEstablishing its strategy for PC-oriented disk arrays, Mylex Corp. has unveiled a scalable technique and solutions that range from add-in boards for servers down to chips that will bring redundant arrays of individual disks (RAID) to the desktop.Supercapacitor powers new applic ationsAs the search for advanced energy-storage technologies and devices continues, PolyStor Corp. has embarked on a unique supercapacitive scheme that lends itself to high-rate pulse power and high-energy density.Motorola 8-bit MCUs build on HC05Motorola's Customer Specific Integrated Circuits Division is rolling out the first of a new line of 8-bit microcontrollers, the 68HC08, that is compatible with the popular 680HC05 yet improves performance by a factor of five.Chips try to give PCs 'surround sound'With the huge PR blitz over digital video disks, personal computer vendors are now starting to imagine their systems not only as game consoles and Web browsers but also as DVD players. So the PC is now supposed to do something useful with an audio track recorded in Dolby AC-3 format.
Monday, October 7, 1996J apan's consumer giants take Microsoft in the 'digital living room'Hoping to wrest control of the emerging "digital living room" from Microsoft Corp. and Windows, Japanese consumer-electronics giants are quietly working together to select a single, standardized real-time operating system (RTOS) that would be portable across product lines and applications.Cadence to buy HLD in 0.35ý pushGirding for the coming war in deep-submicron design tools, Cadence Design Systems Inc. last week announced plans to acquire floor-planning specialist High Level Design Systems Inc.Cray enters race for teraflops computerIntel Corp. and IBM Corp. are getting a powerful new competitor -- Cray Research Inc. -- in the race to build the world's first teraflops supercomputer. Cray has snared a U.S. Department of Energy contract worth tens of millions of dollars to build a teraflops machine, acc ording to sources close to the company.At engineering companies, the intranet proves to be a killer appWhat technology has saved millions of dollars for National Semiconductor, shaved $130 million off the work-in-process inventory at Texas Instruments, moved mountains of paper out of Sandia National Labs and spawned a new twist on talk radio at Sun Microsystems? Surprise: The next killer app is here, and it works. It's the intranet.Analog-cell IC takes reconfigurable tackA small chip maker here has developed a field-programmable analog integrated circuit that it believes could transform the use of analog devices and of board-level analog design.
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