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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 March 28, 1997Oracle rolls out StrongArm, X86-based NCsOracle Corp. will drive its concept of the Network Computer (NC) forward at its Open World conference in Japan next month when it launches two NC reference designs: one based on Digital Equipment Corp.ęs StrongARM implementation and another on the Intel X86.
Intel attacks workstation enclaveIn a full-day conference titled Platforms for Visual Computing, Intel last week laid out its strategy for overrunning and occupying the workstation market--the last surviving pocket of resistance to the personal-computer architecture.
Toshiba opens era for low-temp polysilicon LCDsIn a major step up from the 2-inch-class displays made thus far, Toshiba Corp. says it will use a low-temperature polysilicon (LT-pSi) process to manufacture 12.1-inch, XGA-resolution LCDs for notebook computers beginning this autumn.
Co-verification takes center stage at conferenceWith major introductions from Simulation Technologies and Ikos Systems, hardware/software co-verification promises to be a dominant theme at next weekęs combined International Verilog Conference-VHDL International Users Forum (IVC-VIUF) here. Meanwhile, several new EDA companies will make their first public appearance, and Viewlogic and Cadence will renew their Verilog-simulation speed race.
Cold cathode emitter promises ultra-bright flat panelsPioneer Electric Corp. has developed an electron-emission device that could open the way for a flat-panel display with a conversion efficiency 150 times higher than that of a CRT. The device also may find use as an electron source for a high-speed vacuum microelectronics device.
Wednesday March 26, 1997Electron's amperage determinedA team of scientists led by Michael Pepper at Cavendish Laboratory has worked out a way of accurately measuring the current carried by a single electron. As a result, a new formula may be added to the physics litany, a quantum definition of current could be created, and new device types could emerge.
Circuit research thinks big for human interfaceThe Materials Research Society is bucking a major trend in electronics this week, opening its spring meeting here with the theme of "giant electronics" -- wall-size ICs printed on cheap flexible materials such as plastic or glass foil (see story below).
"Giant-electronic" effort tries OLED, TFT mixSeveral thin-film and organic-transistor projects at Princeton University may ultimately converge on a fundamentally new type of integrated circuit based on semiconducting polymers and dye formulations. Such "giant-electronic" methods could result in flexible, wall-sized circuits for inexpensive large-scale displays.
Power-rail response detects faultsA novel behavioral approach to detecting faults in integrated circuits promises quicker diagnosis on a wide range of digital, analog and mixed-signal chips. Rather than exercise the circuit with test vectors, the approach, called iDD Pulse Response Testing, monitors a chip's power rails to track down anomalous behavior generated by a fault.
Kit employs fuzzy logic for smart Web searchesAptronix Inc. has unveiled its fuzzy-logic-based Internet technology, along with its first application: an engine for generating fuzzy agents. The Fide (Fuzzy Inference Development Environment) Internet Kit enables engineers to employ fuzzy logic when building applications for the Internet.
Tuesday March 25, 1997Japan tightens launch schedule for digital TVUnder pressure from abroad, Japan has moved to begin terrestrial broadcasting of digital television by 1999. Surprising its own industry, the government advanced digital-broadcasting's target year from the original goal of sometime before 2005.
Group approves basic Gigabit Ethernet feature setThe feature set of the basic Gigabit Ethernet standard 802.3z has been finalized, members of the Gigabit Ethernet Alliance said last week. The second draft includes a new management section, primarily updates to sections of the 802.3u Fast Ethernet standard to accommodate the tenfold increase in speed.
EDA startups to put HDLs in show's spotlightTwo EDA companies--Novas Software and Interra Inc. -- launched by industry veterans plan to make their first public appearance at next week's combined International Verilog Conference and VHDL International Users Forum (IVC-VIUF) shows.
Vendors reaffirm faith in fine-grained FPGAsNew processes and a big dose of determination are giving another chance to fine-grained FPGA architectures. Today, the Gatefield division of Zycad Corp. will announce its promised next generation of high-density FPGAs, reaching up to 150,000 equivalent raw gates.
Rockwell spins off automotive-components businessRockwell International Corp. announced plans last week to spin off its $3.1 billion automotive-components business into a separately traded, publicly held company.
Monday March 24, 1997IP-market formula: trust times lawyersMaking it in the intellectual-property market requires "trust and a good team of lawyers," the IP97 conference heard last week.
Cable industry embraces modem standardThe U.S. cable industry got standards religion last week, rallying around a cable-modem specification issued by a working group of the Multimedia Cable Network Systems (MCNS) consortium.
Design integration slows its advanceSilicon costs and pc-board realities are blocking the advance of the system-level IC and may be undermining Moore's Law. Mentor Graphics Corp. president and chief executive Walden Rhines told the Printed Circuit Board Design conference here last week that board-level issues are stealing momentum from silicon integration long before the IC processes themselves run out of steam.
PC makers rev specs as digital TV launch stallsThe feud between broadcasters and regulators over launch timing for U.S. digital-TV service is playing into the hands of PC makers anxious to add digital video to their growing multimedia arsenal. Exploiting the delay, a group of PC companies led by Microsoft Corp. will propose video and data specifications for PC-based digital TV within a month, according to U.S. government and industry sources gathered here last week for the Cable '97 show.
Crypto flaw found in cellular phonesCryptographers from Counterpane Systems (Minneapolis) and the University of California at Berkeley said last week they have found a flaw in the encryption algorithm used in most digital-cellular telephones that affects numbers dialed on the keypad of a cellular handset, including any telephone, PIN or credit-card numbers dialed. They said an attack on the Cellular Message Encryption Algorithm (CMEA) can be carried out in a few minutes on a conventional PC.
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