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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 14, 1997Chip makers chipper at investment conferenceChip makers gave an optimistic outlook for the year ahead in presentations given at the Goldman, Sachs & Co. Technology Investment Symposium held here this week. Goldman, Sachs semiconductor analyst Rajiv Chaudhri noted that most companies presenting Thursday had relatively little exposure to last year's PC slump, which kept the talks upbeat.
'Ready to use' rattles EDAThe market for moderately priced, "ready to use" software -- a segment potentially worth hundreds of millions of dollars -- has beckoned large EDA vendors, but they're having a difficult time finding the right channels for the products.
LCD panels moving to larger substratesSpurred by strong demand for larger liquid-crystal display (LCD) panels and more cost-effective production of smaller panels, manufacturers are moving beyond the widely accepted third-generation glass substrate size of 550 x 650 mm.
Newbridge, Siemens buy into wireless ATMNewbridge Networks Inc. and Siemens AG have made a joint investment in a small Winnipeg company with an eye toward gaining technology for wireless asynchronous transfer mode (ATM).
Online database aims at smaller companiesAspect Development Inc., a provider of component and supplier management (CSM) software, is aiming at smaller electronics manufacturers with an online database that will be marketed through value-added resellers (VAR).
Thursday February 13, 1997Autonomous agents link hardware, softwareAutonomous agents -- machines that can find their way around an environment and accomplish tasks without human intervention -- require a unique union of software with hardware. Where does hardware stop and software begin for the design of effective autonomous agents? That "marriage" was consummated in all manner of machine intelligence described this month in more than 55 technical papers at Autonomous Agents '97.
'Smart window' R&D yields novel electro-optic filterBy sandwiching an electrolyte between two electro-optic systems, researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory have realized a new type of optical component. Called a photo-electrochromic cell, the system responds to incident light in novel ways, yielding a controllable optical filter that stores its own energy.
Engineers Week kicks off with 'Future City' and kidsWhen you were 12 or 13 years old, your first exposure to engineering was probably a ham radio or a circuit board that made a bulb light up. That's a far cry from the kids who will show up for the Future City Competition this week as part of National Engineers Week. They have designed entire cities, complete with urban crime, garbage-collection problems and tax trade-offs.
EE Times lists 25th anniversary eventsEE Times is celebrating its 25th anniversary, and the special year-long festivities all center on what it's calling "The Year of the Engineer."
Switch/server links grab Gbit spotlightA flurry of gigabit/second technology rollouts this week are setting the stage for high-performance links between server and switch. Network-interface cards (NIC) from Alteon Networks, GigaLabs and Essential Communications stress accelerated data links for servers and high-end workstations.
Wednesday February 12, 1997Simulator integrates neural learningStatistical Products and Service Solutions Inc. (SPSS), a statistical software vendor, has released a neural simulator that integrates Bayesian statistics designed by Recognition Systems (Birmingham, England).
Partners push new PRML chipDataPath Systems Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) and NEC Corp. have teamed up on an extended partial-response, maximum-likelihood (EPRML) signaling device. The read/write-channel IC, designed at DataPath over the past two years, enables 1.5 Mbytes/inch2 ariel densities. It is in limited sampling now and will be manufactured and sold by NEC.
National Semi focuses on USB peripheralsNational Semiconductor Corp. is broadening its attack on the emerging Universal Serial Bus (USB) market with the unveiling of what the company calls a hub controller. It's an IC that lets users turn a computer monitor into the hub for many USB peripherals.
ROM rides DSP for wireless appsThe Wireless Division of Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector has packed peripheral functions and memory around its 24-bit fixed-point DSP56300 core to build a ROM-based digital-signal processor for embedded wireless markets.
Tuesday February 11, 1997Europe forms pc-board trade body with global goalsA recently launched trade federation that represents Europe's fragmented pc-board industry is looking to join forces with similar associations in Japan and the United States. The European Federation of Interconnection and Packaging (EFIP) wants to join with other national bodies to work globally on such issues as standardization and the environment.
Hitachi jumps into GSM-silicon arenaHitachi Ltd. is revving its GSM mobile-phone engines, as it preps a highly integrated RF/IF phase-locked loop (PLL)-type transceiver IC, which was described at last week's International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco.
Central-office architectures collide at ComNetThe family of digital twisted-pair technologies called Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) took center stage at the ComNet show here last week. Rather than pitch a wealth of high-bit-rate and Asymmetric DSL subscriber modems, though, OEMs rolled out DSL access multiplexers, or DSLAMs.
MEMS display looks to give PDAs sharper imageIridigm Display Corp., a two-man display company beating the bushes for corporate angels and venture capital, has come out with a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) display that it hopes to drive into PDAs.
VDOnet picks Falaro for top executive postsIn a bid to balance its heavy technology orientation with mainstream marketing clout, VDOnet Corp. has named former PictureTel Corp. executive Martin Falaro as president and chief executive officer.
Monday February 10, 1997Bandwidth solution a hit at VRML conferenceA binary encoding and compression scheme for the most recent release of the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) promises to relieve the bandwidth constraints that have held the market growth of 3-D interactive virtual Internet worlds to virtually nil.
Avant! adds technologies, tools in broadline bidAvant! Corp. this week will announce technologies, products and programs that hammer home its intent to become a front-rank broadline EDA provider. Heading the list are new approaches in two areas the company considers crucial: full-chip power analysis and register-transfer level (RTL) floor planning.
Multimedia call to arms jolts ISSCCMajor industry transitions -- one 50 years old and another in its infancy -- took the spotlight at the 1997 International Solid-State Circuits Conference here last week. While a keynote speaker looked back at the myth-shrouded birth of the transistor in 1947, the remaining keynotes, papers and panels peered into a near-term future dictated by a stern master called multimedia.
Info technology gains in Clinton spending planThe Clinton administrationýs fiscal 1998 budget calls for a modest overall hike in research and development but cuts electronics-intensive defense R&D, as planners begin pushing toward a balanced federal budget.
Sony, NEC detail MPEG-2 solutions at ISSCCSony Corp. and NEC Corp. each made presentations on single-chip MPEG-2 encoder solutions at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) last week. NEC has developed a dedicated MPEG-2 codec with a small die size and low power consumption, while Sony came up with a DSP-based solution that can be programmed to handle MPEG-2 encoding for various applications.
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