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Friday, November 15, 1996Lucent latest to adopt multi-MAC architecture to push DSPs toward BIPsLucent Technologies' Microelectronics Group last week detailed its new DSP core architecture for the next generation of its 16-bit fixed-point family. The architecture is code named Sabre.Philips brews media chip for TalismanPhilips Semiconductor tipped plans for its much-awaited TriMedia chip at Electronica here this week. Aside from the TM-1, a production version of which will be shown at Comdex next week, Philips has been developing a separate version of the TriMedia processor, code-named TM-MS, designed for Microsoft Corp.'s Talisman architecture.IETF out to break Internet bottleneckThe builders of a n improved Internet are promoting an integrated services architecture (ISA) designed to better handle new and existing services and unsnarl mounting traffic jams.New SRAM design wins U.S. patentFabless memory-technology company Ramax Semiconductor has received a patent on what it describes as a single-transistor SRAM. The technique should allow slow asynchronous SRAMs with 70- to 100-ns access times to be built in 60 percent of the die area of current devices.EDAC toasts Mead for microelectronics workWhen Caltech professor Carver Mead was informed he had won a prestigious EDA industry award, he had reason to be surprised since he hasn't worked directly in EDA for years. But few people have been so instrumental in shaping the microelectronics revolution, let alone helping define the software tools that continue to drive it.
Thursday, November 14, 1996Vegas all ears for 3-D sound demoThe multimedia sound palette is expanding to encompass 3-D audio--a realistic audio effect that will find plenty of silicon support at Comdex/Fall next week.TriQuest adds random-logic, analysis features with RTL Explorer toolsStartup TriQuest Design Automation is rolling out RTL Explorer, design software it describes as a complete RTL (register-transfer level)-to-RTL optimization tool. The software, which allows rapid restructuring of VHDL and Verilog source code, adds random-logic and analysis features to the con-trol optimization software TriQuest that introduced in April.HP launches Net strategy focusing on servers, software and a Windows NTHewlett-Packard Co. launches a multifaceted Internet strategy this week that unifies elements of its PA-RISC and Pentium-based server businesses, but keeps an OS focus centered on W indows NT. While many Internet development tools were initially launched for HP-UX, the strategy "is designed to move our Unix customers to NT platforms," said Jan Silverman, director of marketing for HP's Internet services division.Europe downplays tariffs in World Semiconductor Council bidDespite unresolved tariff-elimination questions, European semiconductor makers are pressing for ground-floor entry into the upcoming World Semiconductor Council (WSC).Chip Express offers co-design 'package deal'Chip Express, known mainly for its ability to deliver gate-array samples in a day, has launched a program aimed at the problems of hardware/software co-design. The idea is to shorten the overall design cycle by encouraging engineers to produce several iterations of prototype silicon.
Wednesday, November 13, 1996Brain Tech video system can recognize and track images of objectsFor three years BrainTech Inc. has quietly been applying research on the inner workings of the reticular brain stem to a PC-based video-recognition system (VRS). At next week's Comdex show in Las Vegas, the company will unveil the fruits of that labor, a system that instantaneously learns the video "signature" of a specified object, then identifies and tracks it in a real-time data stream. The system also gives a human operator the opportunity to add new objects to its database, or instruct the VRS to ignore them in the future.Johns Hopkins cascades GaAs FETs to create superior MMICsBy cascading gallium-arsenide FETs, researchers at Johns Hopkins University here have discovered a new technique that could offer designers of monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMIC) the ability to build electronically tunable devices with better performance and higher functionality than current methods. By grouping the FETs in basic circuit building blocks, the technique introduces essential microwave components in a structured design approach.Algorithm crunches MPEG dataA new approach to video compression that can squeeze 24 digital video channels into one analog channel promises new capabilities for cable programming. The editing system is only one application of developer Imedia Inc.'s "statistical multiplexing" technology, which the company believes could be used in a variety of ways to make more efficient use of video broadcasting.Electronics industry is 'fundamentally strong,' TI economist saysThe chief economist of Texas Instruments sees "no recession on the horizon" for the U.S. economy, good news for electronic distributors who have endured a year of backlogs and slumping semiconductor orders.IEEE considers name change as a nod to its computer engineer membersWill you someday belong to the "IEECE" -- the Institute of Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineers?
Tuesday, November 12, 1996NEC offers free edge toolSince most of the interest in asynchronous transfer mode switching is shifting from desktop network-interface cards to WAN edge devices and enterprise switches, NEC Electronics Inc. is responding to design trends by offering a free development tool for implementing designs with its ATM physical-layer and segmentation and reassembly (SAR) chips.Waferscale tools support its PSD familyTo help support its PSD family of programmable microcontroller peripheral ICs, Waferscale Inc. (WSI) has introduced PSDsoft 3.0, a menu-driven, Windows-based tool set. It includes the PSDable entry language, a PSD compiler, and an optional PSDsilosIII Verilog simulator from Simucad Inc.ATI eyes laptops with LCD screensATI Technologies Inc. has developed a chip designed to run three-dimensional graphics on an LCD screen. The company is aiming the device at the notebook-computer market, which 3-D has yet to penetrate.Intel expands SmartVoltage lineIntel Corp. has expanded its SmartVoltage flash-memory line with two families that offer fast programming with single-voltage flexibility at densities of up to 16 Mbits.
Monday, November 11, 1996Internet traffic has computer vendors, telcos colliding over access feesU.S. computer vendors have banded together to head off a drive by phone companies to increase network access fees for data and other enhanced services over the Internet.STM spins 0.25-micron logic chipsSGS-Thomson Microelectronics (STM) will disclose tomorrow (Tuesday) that it has successfully processed its first customer prototype designs using a 0.25-micron CMOS process, making it the first European company to announce the availability of 0.25-micron logic chips.Microsoft's DVD focus worries spec's creatorsThe PC industry, led by Microsoft Corp., has zeroed in on DVD-based interactive video in its effort to make the personal computer the focal point of the digital living room. That has the Japanese consumer-electronics vendors that developed the DVD format wondering whether they've created a monster.Intel predicts Rambus DRAM will be a PC standard by 1999Intel Corp. is expected to predict by year's end that the second-generation Rambus DRAM (RDRAM) will be the main-memory chip of choice for 1999. The microprocessor giant dropped a strong hint to that effect t o the world's top 10 DRAM vendors last week as a contingent of Intel and Rambus technologists traveled Japan and South Korea.Sematech taps Lucent in EDA pactSematech took the third -- and final -- step toward developing a 0.25-micron chip hierarchical design system (CHDS) last week, as it chose the Bell Labs Design Automation unit of Lucent Technologies to develop a parasitic extraction and signal-integrity tool suite.
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