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 Friday May 9, 1997Pentium II bug report takes new technical twistThe purported floating-point bug involving Intel's Pentium II and Pentium Pro processor has taken an unexpected twist, with a major change in the technical description of the glitch.
Cadence cedes all Japan software sales to InnotechCadence Design Systems Inc. has put software sales and support for the Japan market completely in the hands of Innotech Corp., a Yokohama-based trading company that accounted for two-thirds of Cadenceŭs Japan sales last year.Partnering called key for system-on-silicon chipsAchieving the systems-on-silicon needed for next-generation consumer applications will require closer relationships among semiconductor designers, EDA-tool vendors and end-equipment makers. That was the mantra at a recent three-day meeting in Phoenix of high-level executives from the three industry segments.HP unplugs digital cableDespite a four-year campaign to crack the emerging two-way digital cable market, Hewlett-Packard Co. reversed directions and decided two weeks ago to abandon its fledgling cable-modem and digital set-top business.RadiSys entry heats up CompactPCI price warRadiSys Corp. has become the latest board producer to jump into the CompactPCI fray, joining the rush to drive prices low enough to lure OEMs to the ruggedized version of the ubiquitous PC bus architecture.Microtec, Trillium ink marketing dealMentor Graphics subsidiary Microtec Inc. has signed a joint marketing pact with Trillium Digital Systems Inc. (Los Angeles), one of only a handful of software companies specializing in signaling and management-protocol stacks for public networking.GTE boosts telecom handTo bolster its position in telecommunications services, GTE Corp. made several moves last week. It acquired Internet-solutions provider BBN Corp., bought part of a nationwide fiber-optic-based backbone network from Qwest Communications Corp. and allied with Cisco Systems Inc. to develop enhanced data and Internet services.Thursday May 8, 1997Humble Intel vows to assess reported bug end of weekAs the Intel road show to launch the Pentium II rolled round the world it stopped off in London, Tuesday, with promises to look into the reported floating-point exception/overflow bug as a matter of urgency. The Pentium II is Intel's latest high-entry processor, which combines the upgraded architecture of the Pentium Pro with the extra multimedia instructions of the Pentium MMX.
IC methods yield extrusion processA research team at the University of Notre Dame has found an extrusion process that can be performed at micron scales, potentially widening the range of options available to micromechanical-systems designers.
Altera program targets reconfigurable computingSeeking "real progress" in what it calls programmable hardware, Altera Corp. will give selected researchers experimenting with reconfigurable computing a free board that speeds "switchover" times between configurations. The ARC-PCI board houses 100,000 reconfigurable gates with 16 Mbytes of local memory for standard 33-MHz PCI bus hosts. It's available after Altera accepts a written proposal describing its intended use.
Repeater chips debut from Cypress, LucentCypress Semiconductor Corp. and Lucent Technologies Inc.'s Microelectronics Group are launching repeater chips for Ethernet/Fast Ethernet applications that combine the high density of Media Access Control (MAC) logic with interfaces for physical-layer ICs.
Ariel to offer high-density access to NT serversAriel Corp. has developed a turnkey remote-access solution that combines a high-density 56-kilobit-per-second modem pool with digital and analog line interfaces for the ISA bus and Windows NT remote access software.
Portable data-acquisition/switch instrument rollsHewlett-Packard has developed a data-acquisition/switch instrument that integrates a compact mainframe, 20 input channels, a leading digital multimeter (DMM) and appropriate software for $1,685.
Wednesday May 7, 1997Intel rolls out Pentium II in Asia firstIntel Corp. launched itself back into the CPU race on May 6, when it formally introduced the Pentium II in Taipei, Taiwan. But the event was rather anticlimactic, since the details of the new chip were already widely known. The introduction was also marred by the almost simultaneous announcement on the Internet of a possible floating-point-calculation problem inherent in the Pentium II.
Intel tinkers with boot-block flashIntel Corp. has brought to market a version of its boot-block flash-memory family intended for smaller embedded applications.
Genetic-algorithm tool tackles range of problemsResearchers here at the University of East Anglia have released a genetic algorithm (GA) development tool, called Gameter, which can help solve a wide range of industrial, commercial and military problems.
Multifunction data-acquisition board allows PCI bus masteringData Translation says its DT3010 PCI-based, multifunction data-acquisition board costs less than competing boards of lower functionality.
Xicor E2PROMs offer single-data-line interfaceXicor Inc.'s MPS family of E2PROMs integrates a Micro Port Saver (MPS) interface to provide a simple connection to microcontrollers, microprocessors and ASICs over a single data line.
Xilinx calls 4000E-1 its fastest 5-V FPGAXilinx Inc. has released a successor to the XC4000E-2 FPGA called the XC4000E-1. It is the fastest 5-V FPGA available from Xilinx.
Tuesday May 6, 1997Tools promise tiered service over the InternetA startup here is developing network-management software that could offer a departure from the universal, non-discriminatory service of today's Internet and intranets. Class Data Systems is assembling a package that would help relieve the congestion on Internet Protocol (IP)-based networks by giving Internet service providers (ISP) the ability to offer tiered services.
Cadence moves Verilog to NT in major EDA shiftIn one of the strongest endorsements yet of Windows NT in the high-end EDA marketplace, Cadence Design Systems Inc. has announced that its most popular software products, the Verilog-XL and Verilog-XL Turbo simulators, are moving to NT platforms. Previously available only under Unix, the tools are used for ASIC design worldwide and claim more than 20,000 seats.
Europeans seek voice in IPEuropean chip and systems companies have joined hands with three U.S. EDA firms in a collaborative project to standardize data formats for system-level macrocells and demonstrate the possibility of integrating intellectual property (IP) from multiple sources on a single piece of silicon.
Boeing plan scales back Teledesic satellite netThe Teledesic communications venture and its new partner, Boeing Co., envision a scaled-back constellation of about 288 satellites that will offer the same coverage and capacity of an earlier plan, they said.
Epilogue spins Internet Protocol for embeddedThe window between client/server and embedded versions of networking protocols has taken another significant shrink, as the Epilogue Technology division of Integrated Systems Inc. revs embedded versions of the new Internet Protocol Version 6 stack at NetWorld+Interop this week.
Monday May 5, 1997Reports of new Intel floating-point flawReports of a new floating-point bug involving Intel have hit the Internet. This time, the purported glitch involves Intel's high-end Pentium Pro and Pentium II processors. "It's a bug in the floating-point integer store," said Robert Collins, who added that he plans to post details at noon EDT today on his "Intel Secrets" Web page.
HDTV camps gird for standards scrimmageA new initiative by Europe's Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) project points to a brewing conflict over next-generation-TV standards. The result could be the digital equivalent of the NTSC/PAL schism that divides the analog-TV world.
The FEDs are coming to SIDThis month's Society for Information Display (SID) conference will be awash in field-emission displays (FED), which some consider the flat-panel heir to the CRT.
Samsung and 3DO cancel MSP projectSamsung Semiconductor Inc.'s much-publicized Multimedia Signal Processor (MSP) project is dead, the victim of an aborted joint-venture deal between Samsung's South Korean parent and 3DO Corp.
Updated Web sites customize data for designersFrom the fringes of the East Coast's funky "Silicon Alley" to the heart of California's corporate Silicon Valley, engineering-specific Web sites are beginning to outpace traditional methods of information dissemination. Pioneering efforts made only two years ago by two engineering-related firms have returned quantifiable profits -- from membership fees in one case, and from in-house cost savings in the other -- propelling both to step up their Internet agendas.
MPEG hardware designs find debugging helpAiming to grab a piece of the application-specific verification tools market, EDA startup Interra Inc. has released an analysis tool for debugging MPEG hardware and software.
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