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Friday, December 13, 1996
In a bold move that sidesteps the traditional Internet standards board, the SunSoft Internet Engineering Group, a division of Sun Microsystems Inc., has posted the specification for an important upgrade to the next generation of the Internet Protocol (IP) on the company's Web site.
Mentor Graphics Corp., operating at the behest of its real-time operating-system subsidiary Microtec, has acquired Open Network Engineering Inc. (ONE), a specialist in embedded telecommunication-management-networks (TMN) software tools.
This year's
precipitous, 80 percent drop in DRAM prices may have left many producers beaten and bowed, but Mosel Vitelic Inc. is moving ahead with its plans to expand DRAM production.
Maker Communications Inc., a startup financed by Level One Communications Inc., knew that the ATM-cell-processor market has been getting crowded. So the company made sure the proprietary RISC at the heart of its Soft-Wired ATM Network (Swan) processor could handle some extras,
Texas Instruments Inc. has signed a development pact with Whitetree Inc. that furthers TI's aspirations of snaring high-profile networking OEMs for its new sub-half-micron process technology.
Hoping to open cosimulation solutions to a broader audience, Precedence Inc. has fielded the
Integration Development Environment (IDE), a standardized set of interfaces to its SimMatrix simulation backplane.
Thursday, December 12, 1996
Backers of a compromise deal on digital TV specs are urging regulators to handle a lingering dispute over aspect ratios separately and quickly ratify the deal. In comments to the FCC, a coalition of film makers argued that approval of the digital TV compromise worked out last month should be delayed until the dispute over aspect ratios is resolved.
A project at Lucent Technologies Inc.'s Bell Laboratories has addressed one of the critical links in the processing chain --plasma etching -- to get a better grip on process-control parameters. The researchers devised a combined neural-network- and genetic-algorithm-based system to analyze and control plasma-etch pro
cedures.
With a goal of building optical board-to-board throughputs for computers that approach terabit-per-second speeds, researchers at the University of Colorado have developed a hybrid smart-pixel array (SPA) technology that combines laser arrays with silicon chips.
PMC-Sierra Inc.'s latest iteration of its popular S/UNI user-network-interface device for asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) networks carries a full Category 5 unshielded twisted pair transceiver.
Positron Fiber Systems Inc., after shrinking form factors for Sonet-ring multiplexers for two years, is introducing a category of transmux equipment that could represent a cheaper way to connect Sonet and T1/T3 services.
Mylex Corp. has unveiled its Scalable RAID family, giving designers a way to go from desktop disk arrays to high-end subsystems using the same technology and software. The line includes one of the first redundant arrays of independent disks that can be implemented on desktop systems.
Wednesday, December 11, 1996
Compaq Computer Corp. has submitted a draft specification for Hot Plug PCI to the Peripheral Component Interconnect Special Interest Group (PCI SIG) and is shipping special developer's kits to independent hardware vendors working on add-in cards for PCI servers.
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has begun selling bare-die versions of its flash chips in response to requests from its non-volatile-memory customers for
a known-good-dice program.
C-Cube Microsystems Inc.'s Avia set-top chip set, comprising MPEG-2 transport demultiplexers and MPEG-2 audio/video decoders, offers system developers price/performance flexibility.
Under a partnership with Northrop Grumman, Spectrum Signal Processing Inc. has readied a suite of commercial, off-the-shelf (COTS) digital-signal-processing boards based on Analog Devices' 32-bit floating-point Sharc (ADSP-2106X) DSPs.
Expanding into a new and increasingly important market segment, Incases Engineering has announced Elixir, a component-data management system serving multiple EDA tools.
Sigma Designs Inc. has broadened its attack on the gr
aphics-accelerator chip market by adding 3-D rendering hardware to its Realmagic 3D device.
Harris Semiconductor has released a line of single-chip programmable regulators that provide precise regulation despite large, rapid load-current swings that can vary from 14 A or more in normal mode to only tens of milliamps in power-management mode.
PMC-Sierra Inc.'s latest iteration of its popular S/UNI user-network-interface device for asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) networks carries a full Category 5 unshielded twisted pair transceiver.
Monday, December 9, 1996
The Defense Department's damn-the-torpedoes shift to commercial ICs is drawing fire from traditional military-silicon suppliers at a time when Pentagon acqu
isition officials are struggling to fine-tune procurement reforms.
Motorola will come to this week's Western Cable show in Anaheim with plans that could lift the emerging cable-modem industry out of the morass of conflicting standards that has hindered interoperability among competing vendors' hardware. An even broader standards push may be brewing at Multimedia Cable Network System--sources close to the group say MCNS has been hard at work on a full set of generic cable-modem specs for release to the industry.
In an effort to nab a leading spot in system verification, Mentor Graphics Corp. is set to launch a new approach to cycle-based simulation and other tools designed to ease a growing crisis in the verification of complex designs.
The Virtual Socket Interface (VSI) alliance is facing strong resistance from key players over the potential use of patented intellectual property to create an open interface standard. But alliance representatives say the objections stem from misunderstandings that VSI is confident it can resolve.
LCDs twice as bright as present types at the same power consumption‹or half as power hungry at the same brightness‹are due to land next year thanks to a polarizer technology developed in Europe.
Ada, the Defense Department programming language that's languished during the past decade, got a new lease on life last week thanks to a new technology from Intermetrics Inc. called AppletMagic. It takes high-level Ada programs and converts them into Java byte
code, which can be executed on Netscape Navigator and other Java-capable browsers.
The first objections to a compromise digital TV standard surfaced late Friday, as a long-time critic objected that the Dec. 31 deadline imposed by broadcasters doesn't leave sufficient time to study the deal announced Nov. 27.
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