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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 June 20, 1997Kodak, Motorola team on imaging chips for camerasEastman Kodak Co. and Motorola Semiconductor announced recently that they are jointly developing CMOS active-pixel imaging chips for use in a wide range of consumer and industrial cameras.
New speed limit forces SIA to alter roadmapThe push to smaller device sizes is happening faster than anticipated, increasing the need to address critical technological challenges in materials, design tools, design methodologies, process technology, processing-equipment development, and other areas before they develop into crippling roadblocks.
Toshiba readies 64-Mbit DRAM for samplingToshiba Corp. stands poised to begin sampling next month the 64-Mbit synchronous DRAM co-developed with IBM Corp. and Siemens at East Fishkill, N.Y.
General magic spinoff aims for portable modem codeAltoCom Inc. has signed Philips Semiconductors and Advanced RISC Machines Inc. as its first licensees for V.34 modem software implemented in standard fixed-point integer processors.
Senate panel slows rollout of digital TVThe Senate Commerce Committee approved a budget blueprint recently that slows digital-TV deployment and seeks to raise about $25 billion through spectrum auctions over the next five years.
Thursday June 19, 1997Synopsys to sell its emulation technology to QuickturnThe logic emulation market underwent a significant realignment last week as Synopsys Inc. agreed to sell its Arkos emulation technology to Quickturn Design Systems for an undisclosed amount of cash and stock. Synopsys also pledged to help link its register-transfer-level (RTL) HDL Compiler directly to Quickturn's logic emulators.
Philips, Lucent forge dealPhilips Electronics NV and Lucent Technologies Inc. are merging their consumer-products businesses into a $2.5 billion joint venture, called Philips Consumer Communications, in an attempt to meld technology and retail strengths into a worldwide communications powerhouse.
EDA-entrepreneurism panel pulls no punchesThe EDA industry is ripe territory for startups, but it's a long, hard road to success. A six-member Design Automation Conference panel on EDA entrepreneurism drew that conclusion for an eager audience of engineers and would-be CEOs.
Volumes on the rise for SSA serial-disk interfaceMost proponents of the Serial Storage Architecture have switched to Fibre Channel, but those who stuck with the serial disk interface are seeing solid market success. SSA drives and adapters have been shipping for a while, and developers who couldn't wait for Fibre Channel products have turned to SSA to get higher speed and better connectivity than SCSI can offer.
Nexcom seeks partner to brighten flash businessFollowing in the footsteps of competitors trying to peddle their pet architectures, Nexcom Technology Inc. is looking to join hands with a larger chip partner to help promote its new flash-memory format.
Wednesday June 18, 1997Minidisplay integrates refined opticsThe flat-panel display world has begun looking like a display-of-the-month club lately, as startups with intriguing new technologies seem to continually emerge from the woodwork. The latest to come to light is Siliscape Inc.
Study sheds light on molecular conductionA study at Purdue University is aimed at unraveling conducting polymers into their individual conducting molecules, with an eye toward reassembling the materials into three-dimensional interconnects.
Device combines three custom-designed pulse lasers with sophisticated opticsEngineers at the Corporation for Laser Optics Research (Color) have tackled the problem of how to build projection displays the hard way.
Chip industry looks to build work forceThe target of the semiconductor industry's National Workforce Development campaign is to expand the industry's base of technical workers for the future. It seeks to do so by "recareering" adults on community-college campuses, as well as by encouraging high-school students to pursue careers as technicians, according to the program's organizers.
R&D lab's birth was challengeThe founding of a major research-and-development lab in the United States is a rare occurrence, especially at a time R&D is regarded as a luxury. So when Jon Clemens was given the opportunity to build Sharp Laboratories of America Inc. from the ground up, he jumped.
Tuesday June 17, 1997Study: NT's rise for EDA hints at a Solaris eclipseThe title of last week's Design Automation Conference keynote address by Scott McNealy, Sun Microsystems Inc.'s charismatic CEO, may have conveyed an unintended irony.
Motorola, Ti in race with Flex decodersThe race for semiconductor implementation of the Flex messaging protocol heats up next week with Motorola Inc. and Texas Instruments Inc. announcing production of decoder chips for the burgeoning pager market.
NeoMagic places DRAM on mobile-PC chipNeoMagic Corp., one of the first chip suppliers to embed DRAM onto a graphics controller, now has a graphics IC aimed at mobile PCs that are migrating to XGA screen resolutions.
ISS adds to roster of synthesizable coresIntegrated Silicon Systems Ltd. (ISS) has announced a number of new intellectual property (IP) synthesizable cores including HDLC protocol controllers, Viterbi encoders and decoders, Utopia asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) interfaces and a range of Fast Fourier Transforms.
Transceiver has fiber-optic linksThe single-chip HDMP-1636/1646 serializer/ deserializer transceiver from Hewlett-Packard Co. handles 10-bit-wide parallel data over a single high-speed line.
Monday June 16, 1997Web-based design hoists new sailThe feasibility of large-scale collaborative design over the Internet will be put to the test over the next two years in a government-funded joint project among two companies, a research institute and multiple universities.
PC camp seeks edge in the HDTV divideThe continuing global uncertainty over which video formats will best suit HDTV may be giving the PC industry a much-needed edge in its effort to garner support for the desktop computer as a vehicle for next-generation TV.
The new broadband formulaThe traditional boundaries separating wireline, optical and wireless networks blurred virtually beyond distinction here last week at the IEEE's International Conference on Communications.
TI tunes into communications at 0.18 micronTexas Instruments Inc. last week detailed work on a 0.18-micron (drawn) CMOS logic process that could upend silicon plans for the wireless and optical communications industries.
8-bit MCUs heat upThe 8-bit microcontroller market is heating up, with Philips Semiconductors joining forces with a partner to embed flash in forthcoming MCUs and Atmel Corp. beefing up its MCU portfolio with an 8-bit device that integrates a RISC processing engine.
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