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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, August 15, 1997PC OEMs roll own core logic for NT systemsAs Intel Corp. prepares to formally launch its consumer-oriented 440LX chip set later this month, PC OEMs are engineering their own devices for upcoming Windows NT workstations using the Pentium II.
Manufacturers see DRAM drain on epitaxial wafersA shortage of epitaxial wafers could develop as their use in 64-Mbit DRAMs grows, some warn, but solutions other than epitaxial wafers are being promoted and any shortage, it appears, depends in part on decisions in South Korea.
MPEG LA serves as model for pooling of patentsA new patent-pooling plan for the MPEG-2 video standard may represent the wave of the future for commercializing complex, cross-industry standards.
DTV Team recruits LucentLucent Technologies will join the effort to accelerate deployment of digital-television technology for PCs and television sets, the DTV Team of Compaq, Intel and Microsoft announced recently.
'Made in China'--it's not as easy as it soundsThe lure of hundreds of millions of potential employees eager to work for $100 a month gives China the image of a manufacturer's dreamland. But the reality is a bit more complicated, especially for manufacturers of electronics and technology products.
Intel fires another round against Digital EquipmentIntel Corp filed a counterclaim against Digital Equipment Corp. this week and charged the company with violating 14 Intel patents.
Thursday, August 14, 1997Another world champion falls to the computerThe world champion of the board game Othello, Takeshi Murakami of Japan, squared off earlier this month against a computer running the world's strongest Othello program. Murakami lost all six games of the match.
Embedded tool eyes year 2000 problemFeeling that the year 2000 problem will hit embedded systems, B-Tree Systems has rolled out a development tool that lets designers check for potential problems.
High-temperature annealing starts crystal; grain-growth step follows to ensure qualityA two-step crystalline process for fabricating thin-film transistors (TFTs) may offer improved throughput and device performance over current techniques.
Fuzzy processor programmed in 'human' languageUsing fuzzy-logic constructs rather than conventional software, BasiConcepts claims to have created a processor that is "programmed in human language."
Lucent turns ATA to 1394Lucent Technologies is offering the Instant 1394 ATA chip. As the name implies, it's a single-chip adapter that converts an AT Attachment (ATA) peripheral to use on the current version of the 1394 bus.
Wednesday, August 13, 1997PC competition forces vendors to lower their costsAs Pentium Pro and Pentium II systems that run Windows NT continued to make heady gains in the market, workstation companies at Siggraph '97 said that they were trying to drive down costs by using more commodity devices.
Spice simulator adds table model for high frequencyApplied Simulation Technology is offering a Spice simulator "table model" -which offers models of transistor and diode behavior in a piecewise linear table format, yet protects proprietary process information- the ApsimSpice simulator version 3.2.
Mentor, MTI merge toolsMentor Graphics and its subsidiary Model Technology Inc. (MTI) will consolidate their Quick HDL & V-System simulation tools into one product called ModelSim 5.0, scheduled for release at the end of the third quarter.
Siemens' modem chip set goes programmableSiemens Components is introducing a data-access arrangement that combines a transformerless, capacitively isolated DAA, telephony codec and digital support circuitry into a two-chip set. Better yet, it has made the important parameters of the DAA programmable.
TelCom chips tackle fan, motor speedTelCom Semiconductor has unveiled a line of pulse-width modulation (PWM) controllers for brushless dc fans or motors.
Tuesday, August 12, 1997IEEE unveils HTML libraryA searchable digital library compiled by the IEEE Computer Society is being billed as the first of its kind to provide engineers with technical data in HTML format.
Apple retools from boardroom to motherboardExecutives of Apple Computer last week followed the announcement of its bombshell alliance with archrival Microsoft by laying out plans aimed at reviving the ailing company.
Medical design's a bloody long haulCompanies seeking a slice of the huge medical-electronics market might do well to heed the cautionary tale of Aksys Ltd. The startup has been laboring for six years to bring to market the first home system for blood dialysis for U.S. kidney patients. But breaking new ground is not easy.
Rollouts at Semicon West track high-speed chipsSeveral test rollouts at Semicon West last month--from Advantest America, LTX and Schlumberger--were aimed at meeting the ever-escalating demands of the semiconductor industry for improved performance.
Enhancements add integration, speed to Dr. SpiceA new release of Dr. Spice, a Windows-based analog-simulation program from Deutsch Research, offers optional VHDL cosimulation for OrCAD Express users, a speed increase, closer HSpice integration, and an Accel Technologies schematic interface.
Multiport MACs debut for low-cost EthernetA common belief in a volume desktop market for 10/100-Mbit Ethernet systems has driven the next-generation media-access control (MAC) designs from TI and Oki Semiconductor to emphasize high density and low cost.
Monday, August 11, 1997Sun's EmbeddedJava stirs real-time doubtSun Microsystems Inc.'s bid to reshape its Java programming language into a mainstay of the embedded-computing world is raising technical concerns among developers of real-time applications.
Standards battle splits double-rate SDRAM vendorsEfforts to craft a standard for double-data-rate synchronous DRAM (DDR SDRAM) have broken into several camps, divided partly by the different memory needs of personal computers and high-end systems.
Digital-copyright bill sparks computing riftThe hardware and software industries are clashing over proposed legislation that would implement a global copyright accord approved late last year.
ASIC, PLD camps 'cross-pollinate' their technologiesThe walls separating programmable logic from ASICs are coming down, as companies enter negotiations to cross-pollinate their technologies, making ASICs programmable and integrating more cores into programmable devices.
DVD-RAM standard wins some supportThe 10 members of the DVD Forum have signed off on Version 1.0 of the standard for the rewritable DVD-RAM disk, which stores 2.6 Gbytes.
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