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  Headlines and summaries from the pages of Electronic Engineering Times. Previous editions are available from the 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1997 News Archives.
Friday February 7, 1997Grove tells Europe it's falling behind in use of PCsAndy Grove, chairman and chief executive officer of Intel, was in Europe this week, partly to promote his book, "Only the Paranoid Survive," and partly to deliver a warning: that Europe is falling behind in its utilization of information technology.
NEC sets schedule to build 0.25-micron ASICsNEC Corp. has set a summer launch date for commercial production of ASICs with a 0.25-micron drawn channel length. Tapping initial designs completed by one outside customer and several in-house designs, NEC expects to ship the completed ASICs by July.
Digital ports IP switching to frame-based platformsDigital Equipment's network products division has brought Internet Protocol (IP) switching software into frame-switching platforms, downloading the appropriate protocols into its GigaSwitch/FDDI system. The move brings protocols developed by startup Ipsilon Networks into commercial use.
ACEO looks for its niche in synthesis worldArmed with its first venture-capital financing and a new vice president of sales and marketing, ACEO Technology Inc. is preparing for battle in the North American synthesis marketplace.
Samsung, 3DO in joint multimedia-chip project3DO, has spun out its hardware system division and found a new home for 80 engineers by setting up a multimedia-chip joint venture, tentatively called AGT Inc., with Samsung.
NSPE selects best new products of '97In the view of the National Society of Professional Engineers, the best-designed products to have come down the pike in the past year range from a chicken immunizer to the Boeing 777.
Thursday February 6, 1997Oxide-deposition step bumps flash performanceAn additional oxide-deposition step in fabricating split-gate flash-memory cells promises to give the non-volatile storage technology higher speed and reliability.
MCUs boost features for embedded systemsThe booming embedded-systems market is prompting some makers of 8-bit microcontrollers -- in this case, Microchip Technology, Toshiba and Motorola -- to continue broadening their lines.
Viewlogic Systems lands EagleViewlogic Systems Inc. upped its ante in hardware/software coverification by agreeing to acquire Eagle Design Automation, a company in which it already had a 20 percent share. The $6.4 million purchase bolsters Viewlogic's ASIC design suite.
Aavid creates "hot" design services subsidiaryAavid Thermal Technologies has formed a design-services subsidiary that will address heat dissipation in system and circuit designs.
Merger won't delay PippinBandai, Japan's largest toy maker, will go ahead as planned with the U.S. introduction of a videogame platform based on Apple technology, despite its upcoming merger with Sega.
Passivation hardens lasers for low-cost packageResearchers at Lucent Technologies Bell Labs have developed non-hermetic 1.3-micron indium phosphide (InP) lasers that offer the same reliability advantages as hermetically sealed devices.
Wednesday February 5, 1997DRAM alliance targets gigabit memoryMemory powerhouses Hitachi, Mitsubishi and Texas Instruments have agreed to cooperate in the development of 1-Gbit DRAMs. Though the immediate purpose is to share development, the alliance may go further, incorporating embedded memory with logic and perhaps even to share ASIC cell libraries.
Micro Linear chip equalizes line, load conditionsMicro Linear Corp. is providing an active memory terminator designed to equalize the line and load conditions on new-generation memory buses. The company calls its ML6550 a "supercharger."
PWM controller aims at KlamathElantec Semiconductor Inc. has unveiled a fixed-frequency current-mode controller that complies with the stringent voltage and current requirements of Intel's new Klamath CPU.
Mentor tool heats up system analysisA new interface between the AutoTherm product from Mentor Graphics Corp. and Flotherm from Flomerics lets designers bring board-level thermal data into a 3-D system-level thermal analysis.
Amati preps concentratorAmati Communications Corp., one of the pioneers in subscriber modems for Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Lines (ADSL), is invading the central office with its first access-concentration system for ADSL lines.
Digital unveils Alpha workstations for Windows NTSeeking to capitalize on the inroads Windows NT is making into the traditional strongholds of Unix workstations, Digital Equipment Corp. has unleashed two offerings. The Digital Personal Workstation 500a and 433a are built around the company's 64-bit Alpha microprocessor.
Tuesday February 4, 1997Synchronous schemes attack bandwidth deficitMajor DRAM vendors will unveil two new synchronous-interface DRAM technologies today. Samsung Semiconductor Inc. is set to announce its first double-data-rate (DDR) SDRAM. Separately, MoSys Inc. and Rambus Inc. will announce an architecture that will marry MoSys and Rambus concepts into a single, extremely fast device.
Startup gets cut at embedded DRAMPC-graphics-chip startup Accelerix Inc. will likely get first access to the 0.35-micron embedded-DRAM manufacturing process recently announced by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd.
Xilinx speeds submicron-process ramp for FPGAsStinging from an abandoned new FPGA family, a drop in financial results and a perceived loss in market share, Xilinx Inc. set out last week to reassure customers and investors of its hold on first place in the FPGA market. The company announced new products, outlined a process road map and hinted at a pair of FPGA architectures to come.
Model checking expands verification's scopeA new verification methodology, formal model checking, becomes a commercial reality in North America this week with the introduction and immediate availability of Design Insight, from Chrysalis Symbolic Design. The product will first validate the correctness of register-transfer-level Verilog state-machine descriptions.
Monday February 3, 1997Battle lines drawn for fast Internet protocolsThe biggest change in networking technology since routers emerged in the 1980s could catch fire at the ComNet '97 conference here this week. The catalyst is a new generation of fast protocols that could boost Internet data-transmission speeds tenfold.
Copy-protection questions delay digital rolloutsThe lack of a secure mechanism for digital transport of copyrighted content is stalling the rollout of a host of next-generation consumer-electronics devices, from DVD to digital VHS (D-VHS) and digital video-cassette (DVC) recorders.
Tektronix Inc. claims to have broken the logic-analysis bottleneck that plagues designers of digital video systems that are linked to high-speed communications networks. Called MagniVu, the technology can analyze hundreds of signals at the highest attainable clock speeds.
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