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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.
Wednesday, December 31, 1997Amid the confusion, OEMs ponder their DTV choicesDigital TV will help PC makers move deeper into the territory of consumer electronics. But lacking any clear road map for DTV silicon and services, it is still far from clear what kinds of products they should build and when they should build them. That explains what some PC executives describe as the industry's strange mix of exuberance and pessimism over digital TV.
Intel launches Java-based Internet design toolIntel Corp. has consolidated several of its massive product-information databases into a single Web tool for design engineers. The Java-based "Product Selector" also moves the chip giant closer to offering its development community a viable way to purchase Intel products over the Internet.
New 'chips' set to challenge polysilicon LCDsMiniature display "chips" based on MEMS (micro-electromechanical systems) and liquid-crystal-on-silicon (LCOS) are poised to challenge the polysilicon LCD in the dynamic electronic-projector market.
Quantum-dot transistors show gainsA recent breakthrough in quantum-dot transistor design may bring the technology one step closer to becoming a practical reality in computer chips. Researchers at Princeton University, with colleagues at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, have fabricated a single-electron transistor based on silicon technology that runs at room temperature.
Video filter eyes multiple appsVideo filters and op amps have a lot in common. You can integrate a barely sufficient op amp onto a digital system for communications or data-acquisition systems, or you can use a quality standalone op amp, whose parameters serve a variety of applications equally well.
Tuesday, December 30, 1997Surfing the Web gets new smartsAptex Software Inc. and Neural Applications Corp. have introduced two applications using smart technologies such as neural networks, genetic algorithms and fuzzy logic. The adaptive and pattern-recognition capabilities of these technologies are well-suited for tasks associated with user-interaction systems for the World Wide Web.
Mentor's Inventra division releases embedded memory modelingThe Inventra division of Mentor Graphics Corp. has launched three software tools that let engineers develop large embedded memories for system-level silicon designs. be a The three--a megabit-memory generator, a TSMC 0.25-micron memory generator and a software tool called Memory Model Builder--work with Mentor's Memory Builder, which creates physical instances, such as layout, critical path and Spice net-lists.
Stanford Telecom's IC can hit 256-QAMStanford Telecommunications has leaped into physical-layer devices for cable modems by demonstrating a single-chip device supporting 256-constellation quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) for high-speed downstream data reception.
Board maker spin-off seeks to push 3Dfx's acceleratorsEight-month-old Quantum3D Inc. has all the disarray of a startup. Caught in the crush of three year-end trade shows, employees scrambled around their mostly furnished offices, cobbling together demo equipment and peripherals.
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