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   Friday, May 29, 1998Technique scraps color filters in bid to brighten LCDs(3:00 p.m., EST, 5/29/98)A group led by Bright Lab Co. Ltd., a Tokyo-based R&D company, has demonstrated a 6-inch-diagonal, 1/2-VGA prototype LCD that uses a field-sequential method of color generation, and promises better-performing LCDs down the road. Cimaron bets on cores for high-end Sonet market(3:00 p.m., EST, 5/29/98)The few companies promoting intellectual-property cores for communications markets have focused so far on well-characterized modules like Universal Serial Bus controllers and Ethernet media-access controllers. Now a startup is asking customers to make two leaps of faith: that products as complex as Sonet framers can be developed for standard retargetable CMOS processes; and that the Sonet market is ripe for a synthesizable-core solution. Minidisplays move to field-sequential color(3:00 p.m., EST, 5/29/98)Field-sequential techniques have become a common method for generating color images from a monochrome device in the miniature-display arena, but only when the display technology is fast enough to switch at three times the conventional frame rate. FCC girds for digital-TV 'must-carry' review(9:00 p.m., EST, 5/28/98)The Federal Communications Commission will tackle the divisive issue of digital-TV "must-carry" rules this summer, and will complete the first phase of an effort to ensure cable set-top-box compatibility with digital-TV formats in early June. Intel's business practices face government scrutiny(9:00 p.m., EST, 5/28/98)The antitrust lawsuit that the Federal Trade Commission is expected to file against Intel Corp. sets the stage for another government-industry showdown over competition in the U.S. computer industry, and raises questions over whether Intel and partner Microsoft Corp. should be compelled to change the way they deal with PC makers. Cadence signs up research help in Europe(9:00 p.m., EST, 5/28/98)Cadence Design Systems Inc. will collaborate with a leading French academic group on new system-level-design approaches that use the Esterel language and a branch of logic theory known as synchronous reactive programming. Thursday, May 28, 1998Synopsys names Chan president(3:00 p.m., EST, 5/28/98)Refining the top ranks of its organization chart as it moves toward $1 billion in revenue, EDA vendor Synopsys Inc. has named Chi-Foon Chan president and chief operating officer. Chan had been sharing those offices for the past six months with Aart de Geus, who remains chairman and chief executive officer. Sanyo licenses audio technology for CD players(3:00 p.m., EST, 5/28/98)Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd. has licensed high-bit-rate sound technology from a U.S. venture with the aim of developing a one-chip CD player capable of High Definition Compatible Digital (HDCD) decoding. Design reuse aided by Synchronicity products(3:00 p.m., EST, 5/28/98)Seeking to make design reuse a reality in large organizations, Synchronicity Inc. has unveiled IP Gear, a family of products and services for Web-based management of silicon intellectual property. The offering extends the company's existing Internet tools for project and design management. Tech companies embrace Web-based training(9:00 p.m., EST, 5/27/98)Web-based training is making significant strides due to the combined efforts of DigitalThink Inc., a two-year-old startup, and its relationship with several major engineering companies. InXight user interface adds XML to 3-D display of data on the Web(9:00 p.m., EST, 5/27/98)Xerox Corp. subsidiary InXight Software Inc. is continuing its drive to make Xerox' Focus+Context user interface the industry standard for visualizing complex information on PCs, databases and the World Wide Web. In its latest move, InXight has released a powerful new version of its Hyperbolic Tree component technology for licensing to developers. Lucent breaks ranks on digital-radio codec(9:00 p.m., EST, 5/27/98)A rift over audio codecs has raised questions about the near-term future of the U.S. digital-radio broadcast market. Judge won't expand preliminary injunction against Avant!(9:00 p.m., EST, 5/27/98)A federal court judge has rejected a motion by Cadence Design Systems Inc. that sought to expand a preliminary injunction placed on Avant! Corp.'s ArcCell place-and-route software to include Avant!'s second-generation product, named Aquarius. Wednesday, May 27, 1998Hitachi, Canon back U.S. media-processor startup(3:00 p.m., EST, 5/27/98)Equator Technologies Inc., a media-processor startup, has identified Hitachi, Canon and SNK, a Japanese arcade-game developer, as its corporate partners. Equator named its partners at its formal introduction here on Wednesday. Schlumberger ATE forms service unit(3:00 p.m., EST, 5/27/98)Schlumberger Automated Test Equipment has formed an outsourcing business unit that will take on all or part of a customer's semiconductor operations, from silicon design to plant construction and operation. Samsung ties embedded DRAM, SRAM to cut memory latency(3:00 p.m., EST, 5/27/98)Samsung Semiconductor will try to draw more data-comm and telecom customers to its ASIC technology this year when it unveils a 0.25-micron process with a new core that closely links embedded DRAM and SRAM. Instant TEA packs fuzzy knowledge base for the Web(9:00 p.m., EST, 5/26/98)Fuzzy logic cast in Java is the basis for a new Internet-based knowledge system called Instant Traveling Expert Advice (Instant TEA). Offering both a development environment and a deployment conduit over the Internet, the system uses smart point-and-click Java interfaces through which users access the Web to develop fuzzy knowledge bases and deploy applets. Complexity and membership rise for Internet2(9:00 p.m., EST, 5/26/98)The much-ballyhooed Internet2 initiative is showing signs of maturity and looks to meet expectations as a de facto role model for the high-speed, multimedia-enabled Internet of the near future. But several technical challenges loom as the project's engineers come to grips with the inevitable interoperability headaches involved in uniting the myriad networks that are part of this supernet. Darpa program seeks chip-level optical interconnect(9:00 p.m., EST, 5/26/98)As the prospect of entire systems on a single piece of silicon comes steadily closer to reality, the very success of the underlying integrated-circuit technology fueling that vision may generate problems that will eventually undermine it. One critical issue is connectivity — how to interface off-chip systems with a dense, single-chip circuit. Tuesday, May 26, 1998Startup Invox shows analog multilevel cell flash-chips(3:00 p.m., EST, 5/26/98)The storage capacity of flash-memory devices is poised to leap forward as analog-based multilevel cell technology comes to the fore as a means of storing digitized data. Though the idea is still in its infancy, startup Invox Technology aims to demonstrate that the technology can pack more data into a single flash cell than devices based on leading-edge process shrinks or conventional multilevel cell schemes used today. Macronix and Intel enter into licensing deal(3:00 p.m., EST, 5/26/98)In early May, Macronix International Co. announced that it had reached a microcontroller technology license and transfer agreement with Intel Corp. Macronix said the agreement is a good starting point in its bid to enhance its position in the system-on-a-chip market. It also seems to point to a new, closer relationship between two companies that had been competitors in the specialty memory market. Reconfigurable-computing engine attacks verification bottleneck(11:45 p.m., EST, 5/22/98)One of the first commercial applications of reconfigurable computing may help shatter the IC-verification bottleneck, if EDA startup Axis Systems Inc. has its way. The company is ready to disclose its mission to provide a reconfigurable computing (RCC) engine that establishes a new category of EDA tool. Consumer vendors set a home-network agenda(11:45 p.m., EST, 5/22/98)Armed with a set of freshly minted home-networking APIs for digital appliances, consumer-electronics giants are pushing to define their own architectural agenda for the home network, in hopes of gaining an edge on would-be competitors in the PC sector. The effort could bring Java deeper into the consumer space than it's ever been. Partners crank up digital radios(11:45 p.m., EST, 5/22/98)An alliance that seeks to eliminate the need for batteries in some portable digital equipment emerged in London at the Cable and Satellite exhibition. The partnership ironically juxtaposes a company working on a leading-edge, satellite-based digital audio broadcast system with a manufacturer of radios that are powered the old-fashioned way: They're cranked by hand. Latest X86 bid gives Rise to integration issue(11:45 p.m., EST, 5/22/98)Startup Rise Technology is about to throw its hat into the ring of Intel X86 processor competitors with a Socket 7 device geared toward low-end PCs and notebook computers. The new entrant comes at a time when processor, graphics and core-logic companies are partnering to deliver integrated parts to power low-end systems whose price points are continuing to fall. |
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