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50 72 COVER: SPECIAL CAD/CAE REPORT Chip makers eye anew market PC tax A new kind of engineering High-end facsimile capability is showing up fuels CAD in desktop computers, and semiconductor "Concurrent engineering" sparks multilevel houses are ready for aboom simulators and apush for frameworks 81 55 Welcome to hard times in had disks Afast, powerful way to simulate ASICs A shaken industry struggles to meet the By coping with timing effects, Valid Logic's challenge of the smaller form factor RapidSIM offers unprecedented modeling accuracy 59 Here's asynthesizer that supports VHDL Viewlogic's new VHDL Designer is part and parcel of an integrated design scheme 65 DEC makes an aggressive CAD move EDA Systems' framework is being enhanced and merged into DECframe 85 Systems integration: defining abig business PAGE 26 66 Major computer vendors are scrambling for Will vendors line up behind Objectivity? opportunities to design customer The startup's object-oriented data base could information resources be key to interoperability in CAD, CASE 92 70 Optical computing sheds "blue-sky" image How Guicktum is filling agap Bell Labs project yields such spinoffs as new Its hardware emulation system is "the I/O structures and microlasers equivalent of amicroprocessor design system for gate arrays" PAGE 81 95 Growing pains and asearch for answers No one really knows how multimedia hardware and software will fit together

ELECTRONRS eAPRIL 1990 161 DEPARTMENTS Companies covered in this issue, 4 Up Front indexed to the first page of the article in which each is mentioned. 8 Letter from the ISSCC

40 Obiturary Aaps Corp. 95 M/A-COM Inc. 107 Advanced Micro Devices Inc. 50 Magni Systems Inc. 95 88 Information Center AI Tech International Inc. 95 Matrox Electronic Systems Ltd. 95 Alcatel NV 544F 114 Management Edge Matsushita Electric Aldec Corp. 50 Industrial Co. Ltd. 8, 72 120 Book Review Algorithmic Systems Corp. 50 Maxtor Corp. 81 Analog Devices Inc. 21 Mentor Graphics Corp. 21, 50 121 Electronics Index Anderson Consulting 85 Meridian Data Inc. 95 Apollo Computer Inc. 107 Metheus Corp. 95 122 Advertisers' Index Apple Computer Inc. 95 Micropolis Corp. 81 Areal Technology Inc. 81 Microsoft Corp. 95 Arthur D. Little Inc. 85 Miniscribe Corp. 81 NEWS ROUNDUP 3- AT&T Bell Laboratories 92 MIPS Computer Systems Inc. 8 Motorola Inc. 34, 95, 112 Micromachining AT&T Co 92 Munich Fair Co. 112 AteCi Corp. 45 21 With the micropump, tiny National Semiconductor Bell South Corp. 38 News Front just got smaller Corp. 25, 50, 72 British Telecom 38 NCR Microelectronics Corp. 50 •Here's aversion of 1-2-3 38 British Telecom *44B NEC Corp. 81 for the factory .. . Telecommunications C-Cube Microsystems Inc. 95 New Media Graphics Inc. 95 •. . . and another for DEC's Cadence Design Systems Inc. 50 North American Philips 95 Europe is getting that VAX family CalTech 92 Northern Telecom Corp. 95 U. S. ring •Monolithic DSP includes Cap Gemini Sogeti 21 Nynex Corp. 38 Nynex Information Chips & Technologies Inc. 8 16-bit data converters 45 Resources Co. 85 Compaq Computer Corp. 81. 95 Objectivity Inc. 66 25 Production Conner Peripherals Inc. 81 Oki Semiconductor 72 It's lasers vs. e-beams in the Control Data Corp. 81 Products to Watch Pactel Cable Communications submicron war Cypress Semiconductor Corp. 8 Inc. 38 •3-d graphics thrive on Daisy/Cadnetix Inc. 50 Perekat 21 standards Data General Corp. 21 Philips International NV 47, 95 •TI broadens DSP line for NEWSMAKERS Data Translation Inc. 95 Philips Research low-price applications Dataquest Inc. 50, 70, 72, 81 Laboratories *44D Prairietek Corp. 81 •Kontron's industrial- Deloitte & Touche 85 107 Praxis Systems plc 50 Digital Equipment strength PC uses EISA bus Priam Corp. 81 M/A-COM Inc. Corp. 21, 50, 65, 85 Quantum Corp. 8 47 Thomas A. Vanderslice Disk/Trend Inc. 81 Quickturn Systems Inc. 50, 70 Domain Technology Inc. 81 European Observer pops up at defense firm Racal-Redac Inc. 50 Dynatech Microwave Radius Inc. 25 •Philips moves into 109 Technology Inc. I15 Eastern Europe .. . Reiner Pilz GmbH 47 BIRD EDA Systems Inc. 65 Rockwell International Corp. 72 •. .. and the two Germanys Come to Israel, says Electronic Data Systems Ruhr University 47 to open aCD venture Corp. 85 Seagate Technology 81 binational R&D group •Optical receiver boosts Evans & Sutherland Computer Sharp Electronics 81 Corp. 25 sensitivity eight times 110 Siemens AG *44F, 47 Exar Corp. 72 Sierra Semiconductor Corp 72 Valid Logic Exemplar Logic Inc. 50 Silc Technologies Inc. 50 WORLDWIDE NEWS Gaining ground in CAD Fraunhofer Institute for Solid Sony Corp 66, 95 State Technology 37 Southwestern Bell Corp. 38 112 Fremont Communications Co 72 Synopsys Inc. 50, 59 29 GenRad Inc. 50 Systems Integration Specialists Conversion 90 Co. 21 Trade Hambrecht ae Quist Inc. 55 A peek behind the Harris Corp. 50 Tadpole Technology Inc. 25 Cocom drags its feet on Technology Research electronic curtain Headstart Technologies 95 Group 21, 59, 65 easing East bloc trade Hewlett-Packard Co. 21, 81, 85 Teradyne Inc. 50 Hitachi America Inc. 81 32 SUPPLEMENT Texas Instruments Inc. 25, 85 Hitachi Ltd. 72 Toshiba America 81 Workstations IBM Corp. 8, 32, 72, 81, 85, 95 U. S. West 38 IBM's System/ 6000 was 99 Imavox 72 Unisys Corp. 85 worth the wait Paradise among the palms Imprimis Technology Inc. 81 United Microelectronics Intel Corp. 8, 72, 95 Corp. 72 For the executive traveler, 36 Intermetall GmbH 36 Valid Logic Systems Palm Springs, Fla., presents Inc. 50, 55, 66, 110 Consumer Intermetrics Inc. 50 Vantage Analysis Systems Inc. 50 arich array of resorts International Data Corp. 81 ITT chip is the first to offer VEB Kombinat Robotron 47 Israel-U. S. Binational solid-state captioning Viewlogic Systems Inc. 50, 59 Industrial R&D 109 VLSI Technology Inc. 50 ITT Corp. 36 Wessels, Arnold Kontron Elektronik 25 & Henderson 59, 66 Lepton Inc. 45 Xilinx Inc. 50 Logos Systems Yamaha Ltd. 72 International 95 Zycad Corp. 50 Lotus Development Corp. 21 ISI Logic Corp. 25 *International only

EIECIRONKS •APR11. 1990 171 LETTER FROM THE ISSCC HOW AONCE-SOBER CONFERENCE IS BECOMING APRODUCT SHOWCASE ATECHNICAL FORUM GOES GLITZY

BY BERNARD C. COIE FEW DAYS AT THE IN- A temational Solid State Circuits Conference brings home just how important this meeting is to researchers and the companies that fund them. But oh how times have changed. In the blink of an eye, this annual conclave, perhaps the most prestigious in the electronics industry, has radically changed character. It used to be a purely technical meeting, at which circuits still under development were described and problems franIdy discussed for the benefit of all. Now it's become something of a marketing event—a showcase for companies and their soon-to-be introduced products. Com- panies are using the ISSCC as the first step in a promotion campaign toward Corp.'s i860 reduced-instruction-set tered, and possible solutions. the full product debut later in the year. computing processors. For veterans who recall ISSCC dis- Typical of this trend is Matsushita It's one thing for companies giving cussions of the early 1980s, when ev- Electric Industrial Co. Ltd.'s handling of technical sessions at the ISSCC to an- eryone was wondering what could be a new microprocessor announcement nounce products based on those devel- done with the thousands of transistors at this year's ISSCC, held in late winter opments. It's quite another for outfits that ¡SI technology could achieve, this in San Francisco, The Osaka company with absolutely no connection to the year's sessions were an eye-opener. At introduced its 64-bit, very-long-instruc- conference to piggyback off it in hopes one session in particular it was accept- tion-word Sparc processor in the tech- of nabbing the attention of the techni- ed out of hand that at least 100 million nical sessions, then held apress confer- cal press. One high-profile user of that and as many as a billion transistors ence touting the fact that Solboume technique was Chips & Technologies could be integrated on a chip by the Computer Inc. will use the device, the Inc., which rented hotel space just end of the 1990s. Most of the talk was MN10501, in its next generation of down the block from ISSCC headquar- not on how to get there but "what do desktop engineering workstations. The ters to announce amultiprocessor chip we do with all of that silicon" once we Longmont, Colo., company says the set [Electronics, March 1990, p. 29]. An- finally arrive. machines are scheduled for introduc- other was IBM Corp., which unveiled tion later this year. its new workstation family during the WI HE ANSWER IS SIMPLE, Another good example is Philips Sig- ISSCC's run (see p. 32). And rather says Richard Stewart, head of netics Corp. The Sunnyvale, Cnlif., com- than submit a paper, IBM chose this the advanced display research device pany described a 32-bit-long-instruction- venue to hold a press conference an- center at the David Samoff Research format engine, adevice built in avery- nouncing that it has begun fabricating Center in Princeton, N.J. Even now, he long-instruction-word architecture that's the next generation 16-Mbit dynamic says, there are applications in advanced optimized for embedded-control applica- random-access memories, using a displays, imagers, and video processing tions—and also announced that it will three-dimensional trench structure. that cry out for this level of integration. soon be introduced. However, all the marketing mania in And it's coming. The first billion-tran- The part is asubset of amore ambi- the world can't alter the fact that the sistor monolithic device is avirtual cer- tious 200-word-instruction device, the ISSCC is still the industry's premier tainty, says Jack Raffel, director of the LIFE-1, scheduled to make its debut technical forum, if for nothing else digital integrated circuit group at the later in the year. Fabricated using a1.5- than its daily panel sessions. These are Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Jim CMOS process, it will feature a50- much less structured than the technical Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, Mass. It MHz clock rate and will run 80 million sessions to allow for give and take be- will probably be amultiprocessor con- instructions per second. At that speed, tween panel members and the audi- figuration, he says with a wafer-scale it will go head to head in the market- ence of engineers. Here is a forum memory as acore. It will likely consist place with such devices as MIPS Com- where participants can discuss techno- of multiple 64- and 16-Mbit modules, puter Systems Inc.'s R3000 and Intel logical trends, problems being encoun- with several tens of processor modules ELECTRONICS •APRIL 1990

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CAD Software Offers aComplete Design Solution Two leading CAE companies, ALDEC, Inc. and CAD Software, Inc., have signed an OEM agreement that will benefit all users. CAD Software (800-255-7814) is amanufacturer of PADS-P.C.B. 1", one of the best selling P.C.B. layout and schematic capture software packages. ALDEC (805-499-6105) is the developer of the EDA industry's most populator PC-based logic simulator — SUSIET"*. SUSIE outperforms workstation-based simulators and has the world's largest library of IC parts. Close integration of PADS-PCB and SUSIE gives designers acomplete, low cost design environment. CIRCLE 101

386-Based Simulators Match Performance of Workstations at aFraction of the Cost For many engineers, logic simulator performance is adirect function of the raw power of hardware platform. However, some innovative companies are able to provide 386-based simulators that outperform expensive workstations. The key improvements in simulation technology are incremental design compilation, software acceleration and dynamic netlist modeling which treat each connectivity node as an IC (these improvements are pioneered by ALDEC, Inc. which holds several patents on its simulation technology). This means that the user should select the simulator based not on the hardware platform, but rather on simulator technology and available libraries. CIRCLE 102

Real-Time Simulators Zoom Ahead of Batch Processing Despite all the hoopla, simulators are not widely used for board level verification. However, simulators for special applications such as programmable gate arrays (PGAs) and programmable logic devices (PLDs) are being used extensively. One of the best values for its money is the SUSIE simulator from ALDEC, Inc. (Newbury Park, CA) which simulates multiple PLDs and XILINXT" parts in real-time and also allows for concurrent design modification during simulation. Since test vectors can also be changed on-the-fly without any compilation, the user can test various design modifications in afraction of the time taken by batch simulators. Thanks to the real-time simulators, debugging of PLD and PGA-based designs have taken amajor step forward. CIRCLE 103

Printed Circuit Board Simulation is Fast Becoming Practical Only ayear ago, full simulation of aprinted circuit board (P.C.B.) seemed far away mainly because of lack of IC models. However, with the introduction of low cost VHDL IC modeling tools from ITEX (805-499-6860) and the SUSIE simulator from ALDEC, the simulation of P.C.B.'s has taken anew dimension. SUSIE allows the user to continue simulation with unknown models in the design. For example, to test an interface between a68040 processor and aDRAM, the user can feed hex files that represent aread or write cycle operation onto the 68040 output pins and automatically determine if DRAM reads and writes correctly. CIRCLE 104 *PADS-P.C.B. is atrademark of CAD Software, Inc., and XILINX is atrademark of Xilinx, Inc. *SUSIE is atrademark of ALDEC, Inc. (805) 499-6105; FAX (805) 498-7945. "What do you think of when Isay 4Megabit DRAM?

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EXAMPLE @FACTORY @READ, FOR FACTORY... @FACTORY CONFIGURED @WRITE ADD-IN, IN- FOR MAP MENU — CLUDING It must be spring, be- networked manufacturing NETWORK OPTIONS HOOKS cause Lotus Develop- equipment such as pro- 1(CONTROL ment Corp. is positively grammable controllers, ro- CONTROL BLOCK) FOR abloom with new versions bots, and CNC machines. 7-LAYER BLOCK NETWORK of its mainstay spreadsheet, Likewise, it can pull infor- OSI MODEL INTERFACE 1— CODE. 1-2-3. There's one for the mation from spreadsheet MMS factory and others for VAX, cells and send it to equip- (MANUFAC- 7 NETWORK Sun, and IBM systems. ment on a network. @Fac- TURING TSR MESSAGE 6 (TERMINATE This month's Interna- tory will carry a $795 sug- SPECIFiCA- AND STAY gested list price. RESIDENT) tional Programmable Con- PON) 5 NETWORK troller conference will host Lotus says that third-par- CODE INTERFACE a splashy welcome for the ty integrators are develop- SUPPLIED BY 4 NETWORK -BOARD VEN- new factory-floor program. ing versions to work with DRIVER DORS AND 3 CODE Called @Factory, the soft- specific kinds of LANs. The SYSTEM IN- ware works with ordinary first such program, de- 802.4 TEGRATORS. NETWORK signed for Manufacturing TOKEN - 2 1-2-3 version 2.X programs, BOARD allowing spreadsheet users Automation Protocol nets, PASSING to send and receive infor- is from Systems Integration BUS 1 MODEM mation over local-area net- Specialists Co. of Warren, /.\ works. Developed by the Mich. The price of a total FACTORY. NETWORK Cambridge, Mass., compa- system-1-2-3, ()Factory, ny in conjunction with network-interface software, General Motors Corp., and a network board and @Factory can read data modem—will vary with One version of Lotus's @Factory, from Systems into spreadsheet cells from the supplier. II Integration Specialists, works with MAP networks.

... AS WELL AS VERSIONS FOR DEC'S FAMILY OF VAX MACHINES tems Inc. Unix workstations, Extending its so-called sharing as well as access to vendors' computers; provid- followed in February with a (Joss-platform strategy, Lo- corporate data on aVAX. ing 1-2-3 for the VAX world is version for IBM Corp. main- tus has unveiled two ver- Lotus's plan is to offer ver- the latest move in that frames and last month with sions of 1-2-3 for the VAX sions of the spreadsheet, growth strategy. one for OS/2. Still to come: family of computers from which is widely used in per- In January, Lotus intro- Presentation Manager and the Digital Equipment Corp. The sonal computers, for all major duced 1-2-3 for Sun Microsys- Apple Macintosh. U two are for VAX/VMS computers and for DEC's,A11-in-1 integrated office software. THIS MONOLITHIC DSP INCLUDES 16-BIT DATA CONVERTERS Both are based on 1-2-3 re- A nalog Devices Inc. ex- AT&T Co. has also an million by Forward Con- lease 3, the long-delayed pects to see first silicon in flounced one, aimed primar- cepts. The Tempe, Ariz., re- variation of the spreadsheet July of a mixed-signal pro- ily at digital mobile radios. search house says the DSP that became available in cessor that the Norwood, But Analog Devices will and mixed-signal processor mid-1989. Mass., company is counting quote full 16-bit resolution market could hit $1.8 billion Both versions are the on to boost its fortunes in for the analog stages, against by 1995. fruits of a November 1988 the growing DSP business. 13 bits for the AT&T unit. The new part should put joint development and mar- It's adigital device that also Designated the ADSP- Analog Devices in aposition keting agreement between incorporates 16-bit analog- 21MSP50, the circuit extends to sweeten its reputation— Lotus and DEC, based in to-digital and digital-to-ana- the company's ADSP-2100/ and its market share—as the Maynard, Mass. log converter sections in 2101 family. Those products device wins sockets in digi- The version for VAX/VMS one monolithic CMOS chip. probably account for about tal mobile radio, industrial lets users share spreadsheets This isn't the first such 5% of a 1989 DSP device noise cancellation, and se- around anetwork, providing mixed-signal processor; market estimated at $270 cure communications. II cross-platform file and data ELECTRONICS eAPRIL 1990 1211 NEWS

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EDA SOFTWARE MARKET GROWS UP-AND UP, AND UP... EUROPE IS BECOMING Chalking up a billion dol- Another is the rapid on- second is for tools used for lais in revenue in 1989, the slaught of standards. both ASIC and board de- THE HOT AREA FOR market for electronic-design- Hinder breaks the tools sign, such as those from automation software tools has market into three parts. The Mentor Graphics. The third SOFTWARE SALES finally matured. And there's first contains software sales category encompasses only For software companies, no end in sight: the market into applications in custom those tools used for board the action is in Europe. The will forge ahead at a com- IC and ASIC design. The design. El reason: there will be steady pound annual growth rate of growth in the European 30% through 1993, says Vic- market for the next two toria Hinder, director of re- Where EDA years, according to a study search at the Technology Re- Software Dollars Go by senior analyst Dennis Ex- search Group in Boston. ton of Merrill Lynch in Lon- Signs of market maturity (9 Millions) don. He is predicting 12% to are everywhere, says Hinder. 15% sales gowth in 1990 1990 1991 1992 1993 One is the fact that Thomas and a full 20% rise in 1991. Bruggere, chairman of EDA For ICs 613.9 790.8 1,073.3 1,396.6 These come on the heels of heavyweight Mentor Graph- For ICs and boards 374.9 520.2 685.9 851.7 a 15% jump in 1989. For boards only 665.9 842.7 1,050.3 1,236.1 ics Corp. of Beaverton, Ore., Europe has always lagged is making the keynote Total 1,654.7 2,153.7 2,809.5 3,484,4 behind the U. S. in creating speech at the Electro/90 a well-developed, homoge- SOURCE: THE TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH GROUP INC. show in Boston on May 9. neous market for software. The industry is fragmented. Even the leading European MENTOR AND HP EXTEND CONCURRENT ENGINEERING TO TESTING software manufacturer, Paris- Concurrent engineering is ters in its CAE/CAD simula- where test engineers can be- based Cap Gemini Sogeti, the latest catchphrase in the tor. This will enable the de- come an integral part of the has no more than 5% of the CAE/CAD market these days signer to determine if the design team. European market, says Ex- and everyone in the busi- simulation vectors he devel- In this capacity the test ton, and only 10% of its na- ness is busily climbing on ops when designing aboard engineer can contribute data tive French market. The re- the bandwagon (see p. 50). will be useful for testing the about how testable adesign sult has been asmaller mar- This month, Mentor Graph- board on the HP test system. is before the design is actu- ket producing discrete, cus- ics Corp. of Beaverton, Ore., This capability will be ex- ally realized. Currently, de- tomized software. and Hewlett-Packard Co.'s panded further to include a signers pass acompleted de- Now three factors are Loveland Instrument Divi- test-engineering workstation sign to test engineers. El changing all that: the at- sion in Loveland, Colo., tempt to create a "common have joined forces to extend tool environment"—that is, concurrent engineering into a standard—for European test development. Mentor KS SOVIET VENTURE IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS software, increasing compe- has agreed to connect the Data General Corp.'s joint at a meeting in Westboro it tition from hardware ven- HP line of board testers to venture with an Austrian and elected its board of directors dors, and the need to up- its CAE/CAD environment. aSoviet firm is open for busi- and chairman. The head grade systems to cope with "Customers want a solu- ness. Called Perekat, the oper- man is Dieter Cehovin, a the single integrated market tion to their entire product. ation links the Westboro, Voest Alpine senior vice in 1992, Exton says. development problem," Mass., computer maker with president. The managing di- As computer makers go in- says John Young, HP'S presi- NPO Parma, a Moscow soft- rector in Moscow is Valery ternational to deal with those dent. 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Perm, is now registered and which was cleared for ex- expect a wave of mergers What that means initially recognized by the Soviet port to East Bloc nations and acquisitions to create big- is that Mentor will provide a government, and last month earlier by Cocom. ger international players, Ex- model of the HP board tes- ton says. El EIRTRoNICs •ApRit 1990 1221 Digital, analog, in-circuit, functional... now one tester does it all.

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CIRCLE 271 who are learning to read, and to anyone learning English as asecond language. Under the auspices of the NCI, the major networks and cable companies offer several hundred hours of cap- <—••••-- MIXER DATA ACQUISITION tioned TV programs aweek. To watch COMPOSITE COMPOSITE them, viewers now need aseparate de- VIDEO VIDEO PAGE coding unit that hooks into their TVs. WITH RAM SIGNAL CAPTIONS PROGRAM The unit is bulky—about the size of a ROM flat cigar box—and at about $100 it's etHARACTER also expensive. ROM RISC The ITT chip, which will be priced PROCESSOR at under $10 in quantity purchases, is DISPLAY CONTROLLER the first solid-state solution. To meet NCI's needs, "the big challenge for us RED was to combine anumber of technolo- GREEN gies and functions on a single chip," BLUE says Ulrich Sieben, manager of TIT Semiconductors' Concept Engineering Department in Freiburg. First is the

The chip takes the composite video signal from the receiver's baseband line-21 technology, which encompasses data acquisition, data processing, and processing circuitry (far right) and feeds it to the data-acquisition stage. on-screen display techniques. CONSINKER This technology had to be married to that involving TV signal processing and decoding, which is ITT's forte. The 117 CHIP IS THE FIRST TO PUT CAPTIONS company has been a leader in digital TV signal processing since it intro- ON ATV SCREEN FOR THE HEARING-IMPAIRED duced its mainstay Digit 2000 chips in the early 1980s. In addition to the high circuit integration, Sieben says, the captioning SOLID-STATE CAPTIONS chip had to be low in cost, unlike the external decoding units with their HY JOHN GOSCH of whom have said they would be in- many discrete components. Here too terested in buying acaption-capable TV the company met its goal. The caption- ARELY SIX MONTHS AGO, set, says Don l'hieme, executive direc- ing chip's price tag is in line with ITT Bthe National Captioning Insti- tor for public affairs at the National Semiconductors' policy of a$10 ceiling tute awarded ITT Corp. a $1 million Captioning Institute in Falls Church, for any consumer circuit it sells. contract to develop a chip that puts Va. If that weren't enough to spur TV Industry insiders believe that the captions on a TV screen for deaf and set makers to take notice of this mar- chip will add only $20 to the retail cost hearing-impaired viewers. Already the ket, some legislation might. Sen. Tom of a TV receiver. Response from TV landmark component is on its way to Harkin (D, Iowa) has introduced abill makers with whom the NCI has met to becoming a commercial device, with to mandate caption-decoding devices discuss the device "ranges from inter- first silicon expected next month. in all TVs sold in the U. S. with screens esteçl to downright enthusiastic," ac- Built into a TV set to decode the of 13 in. or more. Introduced last De- cording to Thieme. The chip could digital captioning data contained in the cember, the bill is with the Senate's also be built into an add-on decoder 21st line in the vertical blanking inter- Commerce Committee; a companion box to make that alternative smaller val of an NTSC signal, the chip was measure is to be introduced in the and less expensive, or into video cas- conceived at Intermetall GmbH, lead House this month. sette recorders and cable converters to house of the ITT Semiconductors Essentially, captioning, or line-21 tech- produce captions on a'IV screen. Group in Freiburg, West Germany. nology, delivers the audio portions ac- The chip takes the composite video Now in the final stages of develop- companying a TV program as text, signal coming from the receiver's base- ment at the group's facility in Shelton, which is displayed on the screen much band processing circuitry and feeds it to Mass., the chip could be available to like subtitles. The captions can be the data-acquisition stage. This stage set makers as engineering samples late shown anywhere on the screen or can separates the digital captioning data in this year. Receivers using the device be scrolled over it, and the viewer can line 21 from the video signal and de- could be on U. S. markets by late 1991 switch them on and off at will. Besides codes instructions as to where the cap- or 1992. giving deaf and hearing-impaired people tion should appear on the screen. There are some 12 million Ameri- access to TV, such captions are also a A reduced-instruction-set processor cans with hearing disabilities, 4 million boon to children and illiterate adults interprets the captioning data stream BECIRONICS •APRIL 1990

1361 and generates the captions to be dis- I- the characters. These are then dis- popularity, especially in West Germa-ani played. For this, the RISC processor played as written words on the screen. ny. A disadvantage of teletext is that its uses the program contained in a 2- The chip will be made in 1.2-1.1.m signal frequency is too high—around 6 Kbyte read-only memory. The proces- technology and will be housed in a24- MHz—to be recorded with aVCR. Cap- sor is built around a65CO2 core from pin dual in-line plastic package. It will tioning, by contrast, uses asignal with Western Design Center in Mesa, Ariz., be manufactured either at the Shelton a iequency around 1MHz, making it which Intermetall souped up to give it facility or in Freiburg. VCR-recordable. the speed to handle high-frequency IV ITT has no plans to market the chip The NCI, anonprofit, partially govern- signals. in Europe, where captioning has alim- ment-funded organization, is now lobby- A page random-access memory, ited market at present because of the ing with consumer electronics makers to which builds up a page or part of a widespread use of teletext as an alter- make caption-capable sets available. The page of text information, feeds its data native. Though not many lys are set group is responding to the recent Com- to a display controller. The latter, to- up for teletext, the concept—which mission on Education of the Deaf leport gether with a character ROM, trans- displays the information that IV sta- to the President. Et forms the text information into the red, tions transmit in a blanking interval Additional reporting provided by Jacque- green, and blue color components of along with the IV program—is gaining line Damian

MICROMACHIMING

based on aprinciple dating back to the WEST GERMAN RESEARCHERS' SILICON last century: when avoltage is applied across a pair of electrodes submerged MICROPUMP IS AVIICROMACHI\ING COUP in a dielectric fluid, tiny drops of this fluid will rise on one of the electrodes. This so-called electrohydrodynamic (EHD) principle remained unexploited TINY JUST GOT SMALLER till the 1960s when researchers in the U. S. and Europe built EHD pumps NV JOHN GOOCH sensors, some of which are being fabri- with no moving parts for heat pipes. cated in volume at semiconductor But the pumps remained a laboratory I MAGINE, IF YOU CAN, A manufacturers for industrial applica- curiosity. They were too bulky and re- tiny pump made entirely of sili- tions. For the micropump, too, "there's quired too much juice—up to 40 kV— con, apump so small that it fits on the much industry interest, not only in Eu- for practical applications. But now mi- head of anail and can transport up to rope but worldwide," says Axel Rich- cromachining is making it possible to 20 ml of fluid a minute without need- ter, the device's inventor. miniaturize low-voltage EHD pumps, ing any moving parts. Such apump is Richter started developing the pump opening the door for widespread use. not afantasy—it's the latest product in just last summer and had prototypes Basically, the IFT device is an injec- the field of micromachining, atechnol- ready late last year. Its operation is tion pump consisting of two electrodes ogy that combines microelectronics

and micromechanics. e isie.111111.'

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rope and the U. S., micromachining 11.10. 1.1111"0 "e' nee. MN> makes it possible to build electrome- 111131, chanical devices in the millimeter and %Mee even submillimeter range for use in electronics, robotics, optics, medicine, chemistry, and fluidics. The micropump comes from the Fraunhofer Institute for Solid State Technology (IFT) in Munich, West Germany. Active in micromachining since the late 1970s, this government- supported institute is Europe's first organization to dive into the new technology and one of the world's few research centers pursuing it. Others are located at the University of California at Berkeley and the Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology. Using micromachining, which is basically an etching technique, IFT has so far built force transducers, accelerom- In the solid-state micropump, which has no moving parts, fluid flows eters, and pressure, thermal, and flow through orifices in the top and bottom electrodes or grid structures.

ELECTRONI( 2, •\i ,kII 1990 137, designed as 3-by-3-mm grid structures TELECOMMUNICATIONS made of monocrystalline silicon and stacked on top of one another. They are separated by a 3.0-p.m insulation REPORT URGES ALO1G-LI\ ES MARKET, CE\TRAL layer. Structures of this sort can be fabricated precisely and in bulk with etch- R&D, A1D EVE\ A\ FCC FOR EUROPE ing processes that ate common in chip- making technology. Each structure, about 30 p.m thick, has an array of orifices each roughly 70 GETFING THAT U. S. RING p.m across. The spacing between the structures is currently 380 p.m, but this purposes—and that means it must car- distance can be varied over a wide ry IV programs. But "unless legislation range through the etching process. The F A GROUP OF MARKET prohibiting telephone companies from volume the two structures enclose is 1 analysts is right, by the end of providing home entertainment video is about 3 the century Europe will have afamiliar changed, revenues generated by resi- When this miaopump is submerged ring to U. S. telephone companies. In a dential broadband services are expect- in apolar fluid—one containing ions or study commissioned by the European ed to remain marginal at less than 10% dipoles—and avoltage is applied across Community's telecommunications poli- of the total," says the report. the two grid structures, forces acting on cy body, one of the prime conclusions The situation that British Telecom the fluid particles are generated by the is that Europe must faces in the UK high- interaction between the high electric have continent-wide lights the regulatory fields and the fluid's ions or dipoles. integrated broadband problem. There, cable The fluid particles are accelerated be- communications with TV franchise holders tween the structures, thus generating a universal access. And may be licensed to fluid motion through the orifices in that means the estab- TBROADBA\" D carry business and res- one direction. When the voltage across lishment of an inde- idential telephony traf- the structures is reversed, the fluid pendent long-distance N fic and to switch it flows in the other direction. carrier market, the EMORK MUST from one cable terri - study says. tory to the next where HIS WAY, A VARIETY OF The report, called BE USED FOR there is a common oils and polar fluids—such as "Perspectives on Ad- boundary. So for the ethanol, methanol, acetone, freon, and vanced Communica- first time British Tele- a host of other nonconducting fluids tions for Europe," HOMES AS WELL AS com is facing the pros- with aspecific resistance ranging from known as PACE, was pect of stiff competi- 10 10 to 10'4 11/cm—can be pumped. put together by ana- BUSINESSES, WHICH tion for local tele- Ordinary water cannot be pumped, lysts from seven com- phone services. The since electrolysis sets in under the in- panies in Paris, Lon- logical counter to this fluence of the electric fields. don, Munich, Milan, MEANS IT MUST competition would be The voltage applied across the grid Tokyo, and the U. S. for BT to carry com- structures may be between 40 and 700 In addition to a long- ALSO CARRY ni peting video signals V, but in most applications it is below lines market, the PACE over its telephone net- 100 V, Richter says. As arule, for agiv- group also wants Eu- work. But that is pro- en field strength, the smaller the dis- rope to have its own scribed by the current tance between the structures, the lower equivalent of Bell regulations. the voltage across them can be made. Communications Research (Bellcore) However, there is a technical solu- The pressure and throughput are deter- and the Federal Communications Com- tion, the PACE team concludes. They mined by the grid size, the size and mission. The current national adminis- believe the personal computer could shape of the orifices, and the operating trations would then take on some of become the high-definition IV set of voltage. The maximum throughput is the functions of the U. S. state public the future and solve the regulatory 20 mi/mm. utility commissions. anomaly that is currently frustrating With no moving parts, the IFT mi- Behind the political changes is the telecommunications operators and ad- cropump is wear-resistant, highly reli- urgent need for abroadband switched ministrations in parts of Europe and able, and easy to fabricate. Among the telecommunications service capable of the U. S. alike. possible applications are microminia- delivering data at arate of at least 150 If PCs used as data communications turized ethanol- and methanol-based Mbits/s end-to-end right across Europe. terminals were able to reproduce real - cooling systems for electronic compo- Usage by business and residential users time, moving photographic-quality im- nents, says Hermann Sandmaier, head could generate carrier revenues of at ages and sound as an inherent part of of IFrs Sensor and Actuator Depart- least $10 billion by the year 2000. an overall "document image process- ment. Other possibilities are devices to Achieving that level of revenue will ing" capability, then the information actuate small membranes used in elec- depend on the integrated broadband content of data signals carried to them tronics, and microhydraulic actuators, communications network, or IBC, be- could not be differentiated. The net- he says. I/ ing used for homes as well as business work would see no difference between ELECTRONICS •APRIL 1990

1381 Ea TV transmission and, say, a video- By the end of 1991, Intel plans to1.11 conference session, a voice-mail mes- have ready asingle-board implementa- sage, or a high-speed burst of data tion of the circuitry needed. It will be transferring account files. designed to be added to an IBM PS/2 As the PACE authors point out: "Be- or compatible PC and is to cost around sides its stand-alone interest, PC-based $500. A year later that price could be digital video technology presents enor- reduced by half. It looks as though the :4'6 mous potential for broadband commu- success of the technology is assured nications which can be exploited by with its adoption by IBM, and ascore Wide Input Range Telecommunications Administrations of other companies are reported to be with no regulatory constraint." At the working to produce software for such 5to 72V DC same time, they believe, "there is every systems. likelihood that this technology will enjoy earlier and bigger market growth HE NET RESULT, STATES than high-definition TV." Tthe repon, is that "a solid-state They recommend that "research machine, tied to fully digital low- aimed adeveloping astrong European powered fiber-optic networks, is no position in the area should be consid- longer aremote proposition. All that is ered a top priority." needed for BT and its colleagues in However, the technical problems are other countries to take full advantage far from trivial. The HDTV standards of the capabilities of this and similar currently under discussion in Europe, technologies is the installation of opti- Regulated Japan, and the U. S. all assume that cal-fiber links into business and resi- they will display an image composed dential premises." 5Watt to 30 Watt of at least 1million pixels. Each pixel Whether the EC will adopt the find- • 386 Standard Models needs at least 12 binary bits of informa- ings of the PACE report is another tion associated with it. And the whole question. In the meantime, though, • Single, Dual and Triple Output 12-Mbit picture needs to be refreshed some of the U. S. Regional Bell Operat- • Output Voltages of 5, 9, 12, at a rate of 20 or 30 times a second. ing Companies are busy getting ready, 15, 24, 28 and 48 Volts DC That is equivalent to a data transmis- by buying into cable TV operations in Standard sion rate of around 3,000 Mbits/s, re- the UK and, more tectunly, France. Al- quiring the equivalent of a supercom- ready London is ringed by ahalf dozen • Ambient Temperature Range puter to process. cable companies, mostly controlled by —25°C to +70°C with No Heat But developments in the design and outfits such as Pacific Telesis Inc. of Sink or Electrical Derating production of very complex chips cou- San Francisco and U. S. West Corp. of • All Units Shielded pled with advances in digital signal Denver. • 500V DC Isolation Input to processing and parallel computing Out in the English provinces, U. S. have evolved to the point where asys- West is involved in major metropolitan Output tem can be reduced to just one print- franchises. Pacific Telesis' newly • New PLR Series Features ed-circuit board that could sell for less formed Pactel Cable Communications .300' ht. Inc. has total ownership of a license than the price of a current top-range • New NR Series, up to 30 Watts- conventional domestic TV receiver. and is a partner in two major provin- cial centers. Now Nynex Corp. of 50 Models-30 Triple Outputs '1•1 HE CONSULTANTS HAVE White Plains, N.Y., is angling for no I OPTIONS AVAILABLE in mind the development of In- less than four franchises to cover the • Expanded operating temp (-5.5°C to +85°C) tel Corp.'s Digital Video Interactive Manchester area. All of these networks • Stabilization Bake (125°C ambient) • Temperature Cycle (- 55'C to +125°C) (DVI) system invented in the U. S. at plan to offer local telephony services Hi Temp, full power burn in the then RCA Samoff laboratories. It In the meantime, on the European (100% power, 125°C case temp) features a digital-compression tech- mainland, Bell South Corp. of Atlanta nique that can effect a100: 1reduction has taken a stake in Communications- Delivery— of audiovisual data. The implication is Developpment (Com-Dev), the com- stock to one week that in telecommunications terms, a munications arm of a French holding signal with all the information needed company, Caisse des Depots-Developp- to generate an HDTV-quality image ment of Paris. Com-Dev has amajority could be carried at a data rate of less position in 21 French cable networks PIC than 40 Mbits/s—well within the capa- that together cover 2.1 million homes. Electronics, Inc. bilities of broadband switched net- Also in France, U. S. West has bought 453 N. MacOuesten Pkwy. Mt. Vernon, N.Y. 10552 10% of Lyonnaise Communications SA, works now being planned, and in Call Toll Free 800-431-1064 while Nynex has formed a joint ven- some cases built, in the U. S. and Eu- IN NEW YORK CALL 914-699-5514 rope. Next, the technology provides for ture with the government of Gibraltar PICO also manufactures over 700 real-time reproduction, and third, it of- for a combined telephone and TV stanoard DC-DC Converters, AC-DC fers afully interactive graphics control- broadband cable network for the en- $ Power Supplies and over 2500 Miniatur}e Transformers and Inductors ler for a broad array of video effects. tire colony. 11 Ell10110N1(15 •APRIL 1990 CIRCLE 472

1391 OBITUARY

IN MEMORY OF TOM MANUEL

fwords could weep, this page would be filled with tears for our dear friend and associate Tom Manuel, who died on Feb. 14. His death came after aprolonged illness that in the 11 months since summer offered periods of hope and despair for Tom and for all of us dose to ffl him. Throughout the ordeal he carried on in illness as he had in health, with aquiet dignity and an indomitable will hidden beneath his patient, kind, and soft-spoken manner. Tom Manuel's life and work bear witness to his powerful intellect. A graduate of the University of Alberta in his native Canada with adegree in physics, he worked for Canada's atomic energy authority before entering Stan- ford University for postgraduate work That was in the early 1960s, just as the semiconductor revolution was starting to change the world. In 1967 Tom joined Tymshare Inc. in Sunnyvale, Calif., where he worked in jobs ranging from quality and reliability assurance to developing pilot applications. He once described how he convinced Tymshare to make computer time available to Sunny- vale high school students, and savored the possibility that Apple Computer founder Steve Wozniak, aSunnyvale grad, might have learned computing on aTymshare terminal. In 1977 Tom founded his own company, Magnacon Corp. in santa Clara, Calif., providing market research, product marketing, and program-management computer consulting. After three years as an entrepreneur, he decided to head east to join Electronics in the Big Apple, where he became the magazines expert on com- TOM MANUEL puters, computer peripherals, and software. Tom probably understood the technology and grasped the economic trends driving these industries better than any journalist covering the field. And he delighted in explaining it all in print. "It is one of the great pleasures of my job to sit down with the executives and designers to learn the details of atechnical achievement and get asmall peek at how it was done, and then present that dearly to our readers," he said. He introduced the HP Spectrum computer architecture to the world in the March 3, 1986 issue, and remarked on completing that assignment, "I still have this sense that Ihave only seen the tip of the iceberg in this developing technology." Beyond his professional achievements, Tom will be remembered for his eclectic interests. When asked what he found so compelling about New York, he cited the abundant cultural and ethnic di- versity of the place. Besides being acultural explorer, he was awilderness explorer. He found much pleasure in hiking up aremote mountainside, and his wanderlust led him to seek out new places to explore. The Pacific Northwest was afavorite haunt, and he often spent weekends after a business trip visiting its many wilderness parks. Before his illness, he had planned an ambitious trip to Australia as well as amove back to California, the state that his family calls home. Tom was also agourmet cook and awine buff, and for abrief time owned acatering business in northern California. He loved discovering new restaurants and new vintages. Whenever special occasions brought the Electronics editorial staff together late on aFriday bight, Tom would invariably bring in aselection of wine and cheese to liven the event. For his many friends who have asked for away to honor his memory, Tom was committed to environmental causes. His family suggests that adonation to the Nature Conservancy or the Sierra Club would be afitting gesture. II

JONAH McLEOD EDITOR

F.IETRONRS •APRIL 1990

1401 A PERSPECTIVE ON ASIC DESIGN

Programming is quick and easy using internal circuitry. This provides di i Ineed ahigh-speed At TI, we cover your ASIC readily available, third-party design flexibility of design verification, either software and programming hardware. For "in-circuit" or "in the programming part with unique your high-volume production box." functionality. Standard needs from silicon to software requirements, programming and testing The TI Action Logic System services are available both from TI and (TI-ALS) is apowerful development architecture is abig authorized distributors. tool for implementing your FPGA priority, too. Plus, I'm to service and support. When low power and reprogram- designs while avoiding NRE fees. The mability are important, an erasable TI-ALS accepts designs from popular going into production PLD (EPLD) gives you the freedom to CAE software packages including and need volume make design changes quickly and easi- OrCADT", Mentor ly. For high-volume production require- Graphics", and Valid" — resident on delivery now. ments, EPLDs are also available in one- PC386, Apollo", and Sun-3" platforms. ew ASIC suppliers match TI's time-programmable plastic packages. Gate arrays Fbreadth of choice and depth of To move your EPLD design rapidly support in helping you develop the from concept to silicon, the TI EPLD for greater differentiation most efficient round peg for around Development System accepts avariety of For applications requiring higher-den- hole. As you see below, our ASIC entry formats. These include schematic sity, high-performance ASICs with fast family spans the architectural spectrum capture, Boolean equations, state- prototype delivery, TI's TGC100 Series from PLDs to standard cells. machine diagrams, and truth tables. TI's 1-micron gate arrays are an excellent desktop CAE tool runs on an IBMe- choice. Offering gate-array com- PLDs: High performance, compatible PC-AT"'. plexities up to 26K gates and 256 I/0s, low risk the TGC100 Series utilizes familiar The TI So ution: PLDs are alow-risk, affordable design FPGAs: Best of two worlds general-purpose logic libraries. You can solution for high-speed-logic consolida- Like PLDs, FPGAs are user program- define macros and pinouts, as well as Programmable Logic tion. Stocked on TI distributors' mable, provide rapid design and debug, specify packages with pin counts up to Devices shelves, they allow aquick ramp to are simple to use, and are virtually risk- 256 pins. volume production. free. Like masked gate arrays, FPGAs A comprehensive design kit provides TI offers more than 40 PLD func- feature high gate densities, high perfor- the information you need to easily tions in industry-standard architec- mance, alarge number of user- implement your gate-array design. tures, including the high-speed, 7.5-ns definable I/0s, and agate array-like ASIC design centers, located at TI's TIBPAL16XX-7 and TIBPAL20XX-7. design environment. Regional Technology Centers, are For high-performance applications, TI Currently available are TI's staffed with design specialists who are also offers unique functions such as the TPC1010A (1200 gates) and the ready to help you. programmable sequence generator, TPC1020A (2000), with higher den- TIBPSG507, and one of industry's sities to follow. Unlike PLDs and gate ar- Standard cells: As specific, fastest programmable address decoders, rays, FPGAs have aunique architecture as complex as you need the 6-ns TIBPAL18N8-6. that allows 100% observability of the For ultimate performance and system integration, TI's TSC500 Series is your choice. The extensive cell TI's ASIC PRODUCT SPECTRUM library contains high-performance memory, register files, FIF0s, and MegaModule" building blocks. Realiz- ing the need to incorporate design-for- 100K ARRAY/CELL test into today's high-density ASICs, TI also includes JTAG -compatible SCOPE" testability cells in its library. GATE ARRAY Thus, you can tailor astandard-cell design to meet your exact system requirements. As with our gate arrays, a FIELD-PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAY design kit is available, as well as technical design assistance through TI's ASIC design centers. ERASABLE PLD

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A nASIC solution is more than achoice of silicon. To keep you from compromising on asquare peg for around hole, an ASIC solution involves many considerations: Your performance needs. How much control you want to exercise. The amount of support you require. What you can spend. How narrow your market window is. It's the result of you and your supplier weighing all the choices and reaching abalanced decision. At Texas Instruments, that's the way we like to work. "A solution should not limit you to 'classic' ASICs — gate arrays and standard cells. That's why TI includes user programmables in its ASIC lineup. We manufacture high-performance, programmable logic devices (PLDs) and high-density, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). "Such abroad choice allows you to make better value judgments about control, NRE investment, and cycle times. "TI advocates open,system CAD architectures instead of confin- ing you to proprietary CAD systems. We support both PC- and workstation-based design systems. "We provide as much advice and counsel as you need or want just about anywhere in the world. Our documentation is so comprehensive it can fill your bookcase as it fills your needs. "We are looking to future solutions. For example, we are developing submicron CMOS and BiCMOS gate arrays and standard cells with densities over 100K gates. We are extending our support by developing software that migrates FPGA designs to mask- programmed gate arrays. "An ASIC solution also brings with it assurances of the supplier's dependability, stability, and capability to produce and deliver. "At Ti, we invite you to experience the difference between compromise and choice — the difference between an ASIC device and an ASIC solution."

Walden C. Rhines, Ph.D. Executive Vice President, Semiconductor Group Texas Instruments Incorporated IN THE ERA OF MEGACHIP TECHNOLOGIES

i4 On my schedule, The system my We are developing delivery delays and team is designing calls aunique product that unnecessary risks are for ahigh-density, high- requires high-speed out. Our design performance ASIC. I memory and other requires the density of want to call the shots complex functions agate array, but we on pin count, pinout integrated on the same need to handle all the definition, and the chip. Surface-mount, programmation package itself. Fast high-pin-count ourselves. prototype cycle time, packaging is amajor JIT delivery, and low requirement. 519 cost are mandatory. V I,

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That's literally true. We have Tailoring the "fit" facilities and sites around the In these special instances, we will world. From early in your design tailor our procedures to your cycle until you have the ASIC needs, striving to be as "applica- solution you envision, TI support tion specific" as the term implies. and service are available For example, certain business wherever you are. issues become very important This around-the-world service when aprogrammable ASIC is and support include that which you best for you. Here, rapidly chang- have come to expect from TI: Com- ing market conditions require ab- Ti's MegaChipTm Technologies are the prehensive documentation and tech- solute supplier dependability. means by which we can help you and your nical literature. Workshop training at We can work with you to main- company get to market faster with better, our Regional Technology Centers. more competitive products. Our emphasis tain your inventory levels. We ASIC design and applications on volume manufacturing of high-density can adapt our production to sup- circuits is the catalyst for ongoing advances specialists to provide one-on-one port your ship-to-stock or just -in- in how we design, process, and manufac- advice and counsel. Development time programs. And if you'd like, ture semiconductors and in how we serve hardware and software. our customers. we can deliver programmed or Our design flow is straightfor- unprogrammed PLDs and other ward and minimizes the possibility in order to achieve the ASIC ASICs symbolized to your of surprises. solution best for you. Four free ASIC DataFiles: Your choices start here and now We've put together an ASIC DataFile — an informative package of data sheets, product bul- letins, and other pertinent literature — on each type of ASIC we offer: Programmable logic devices (PLDs and EPLDs), field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), gate arrays, and standard cells. Choose the ASIC DataFile of greatest interest to you, or refuse to compromise and get all four. Call 1-800-336-5236, ext. 3706, and tell us what to send and where. Or write Texas Instruments Incorporated, PO. Box 809066, Our worldwide wafer-fabrication specifications to reduce your in- Dallas, Texas 75380-9066. capability is unmatched and moving ternal handling. " MegaModule, SCOPE, EPIC, and MegaChip into the submicron era. We have dis- We are well aware that an ASIC are trademarks ¿Texas Instruments Incorporated. PC-AT is atrademark of International Business closed a106K gate array fabricated solution is more than silicon, more Machines Corporation. with our EPIC"-II, 0.8-micron Viewlogic is atrademark of Viewlogic Systems, Inc. than standard service and support. OrCAD is atrademark of OrCAD Systems Qrporat ion. BiCMOS process technology. You may want us to analyze your Mentor Graphics is atrademark of Mentor Graphics Corporation. Such extensive service and sup- evolving ASIC designs and needs Valid is atrademark of Valid Logic Corporation. port satisfy the majority of our with you in relation to our evolv- Apollo is atrademark of Apollo Computer Inc. Sun-3 is atrademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc. customers' requirements, result- ing technologies. We can "tweak" 8 IBM is aregistered trademark of International ing in round pegs for round holes. Business Machines Corporation. our design flow to suit your require- 1989 TI SRYI10911t 08-9338 But what if you are one of those ments and integrate our design whose ASIC solution must be a tools within your proprietary CAD peg of unusual shape? systems when required. If your design calls for aproprietary function, we can also create acustom cell to suit your needs. We at TI are willing to go the TEXAS extra mile in service and support INSTRUMENTS FLUKE AND PHILIPS — THE GLOBAL ALLIANCE IN TEST & MEASUREMENT

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The alliance between test and measurement GPIB interfaces for PC and PS/2 Spotlight on Multimeters giants Fluke and Philips is excellent news if Philips offers GPIB interface cards for the PC The range of multimeters now offered by Fluke you're involved in configuring aGPIB test IPM 22011 and for the PS/2 IPM 22021. All and Philips is one of the most comprehensive system controlled by aPC. Philips GPIB software packages can be exe- from asingle supplier. cuted on PC and PS/2 and application Specifications range from complex instruments programs written on PC can be executed on for highly accurate bench measurements to PS/2 and vice versa -that's part of our tough go-anywhere handheld models for field commitment to protect your investment now work. and in the future. For systems builders, many models have the option of GPIB/IEEE 488, RS232 or other standard interfaces. This is encouraging for the builders of ATE since nearly every test system requires at least one multimeter and the

The two companies are among the world lt,PUT 81316E 1 leaders in instrumentation for GPIB systems. nnnn Following the alliance between them the ' CI.LI LI LI I product range now offers the best choice for PC-based GPIB instrumentation systems

including: moo* oscilloscopes; generators; timer/counters; Ut:JUU AU 0 Ç;;)zi k • multimeters; switching and I/O; interfaces and software packages. to co uto a y toe+t) Software to cut development times Motor Control PCB Tester Alliance now has arange to cover most applications.

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CIRCLE 218 PRODUCTION mask business," says Martin Lepselter,1 1 Lepton's president. "The future is in TWO U. S. FIRMS-ATEQ AND LEPTO\ -SLUG IT direct write." MEBES4 boasts a minimum feature size of 0.125 psn and a OUT IN NEXT-GENERATION PRODUCTION GEAR placement accuracy of 0.05 gr11. The direct-write edge will not last long if Ateq has anything to say about it. On April 1, the company revealed IT'S LASERS VS. E-BEAMS that by the end of the year it will be in volume production with its Wafer- RE BERNARD C. COTE sidesteps that issue and, at $2.5 million, Writer-6000, a $2.5-million system that "is significantly less expensive than combines direct-write capability with T'S NO SECRET THAT U. S. most e-beam machines," says Schoef- mask generation. The system achieves manufacturers of semiconductor fel. Ateq's CORE-2500 delivers a mini- minimum feature sizes of 0.50 p.m and capital equipment took afinancial beat- mum feature size of 0.6 pm and a aplacement accuracy equivalent to that ing in the 1980s. But acomeback may placement accuracy of 0.025 p.m. of the CORE 2500, says Barry Cox, now be in the making on two fronts: By comparison, Lepton's MEBES4 e- president and chief executive officer. submicron mask and reticle writing, beam machine is expensive—$6 mil- Moreover, he says, it converts to a and direct writing on wafer. Atypically, lion. But, says the company, the beam reticle writer for production with a the fight for domination is not be- is powerful enough to bypass mask minimum of mechanical changes. And tween Japanese and U. S. companies. creation and write directly on wafers. unlike the Lepton offering, it can use Rather, it is aduel between two Ameri- Lepton is working on software and the same IC pattern data for reticle can concerns: Ateq Corp. and Lepton hardware peripherals to implement di- writing and direct writing, eliminating Inc. Each has developed lithography rect-write capability, which is especially translation errors and time lost in data technologies boasting minimum fea- useful in the production of low-volume conversion. U ture sizes good enough to make reti- ASICs. "Our business isn't really the Additional reporting by Jack Sbandle cles and masks for 16-Mbit dynamic random-access memories, with Ateq using optical-laser and Lepton electron- MOUSE-TRAK. beam technology. Ateq, headquartered in. Beaverton, THE BEST CURSOR CONTROL IN THE WORLD Ore., in February released details of its 2 pol,shed phenolm ball Your hand rests on a soft wrist pad CORE-2500 scanned-laser lithography while your fingers operate the trackball, . eliminating arm and wrist movement. system. Research on the CORE series has been funded by Sematech, the Stemless steel shafts Models are available in chip-manufacturing consortium. The a two or three button version. CORE-2500 meets Sematech's Phase 2 User definable input keys. specifications, which are closely tied to the needs of 16-Mbit DRAMs. Mean- while, Lepton, based in Murray Hill, Stainless steel ball bearings. Speed control button for Instant N.J., had its EBES4 e-beam system se- change in cursor velocity. — lected by the Naval Research Labora- tory in Washington to provide masks •Built For Accuracy And Precision Control. •Stationary. Eliminating arm and wrist movement. for evaluating integrated circuits using •Engineered For Total Compatibility. 0.25-µm design rules. •User Definable Keys. Besides being a critical technology •Speed Control. Instant change in cursor velocity. for U. S. global competitiveness in •Toggle Mode. Any or all input keys can be selected for Momentary or Alternate Action. semiconductor manufacture, microlith- •Complete with cable, instruction manual, ography is agrowing business. The de- software and aOne Year Warranty. mand for this equipment is expected to Order aMouse-trak risk free for 30 days. Illeuse-tra rise 70% between 1988 and 1992, ac- If not completely satisfied, return it for acomplete refund! cording to Dataquest Inc., a San Jose, ITAC Systems, Inc. Call toll free 1-800-533-4822 /FAX (214)4944159

Calif., market-research company. The Mouse-Irak is manufactured n the U.S.A. by ITAC Systems, Inc. with distributors in the following countries mask-patterning market segment in FRANCE SWEDEN ENGLAND SWITZERLAND J.O.D. Electronique Specma Specialmaskiner Elecuone Ltd. Datacomp AG which Lepton and Ateq are competing Tele. 33 (1) 30.64.70.80 Tele. 46 (31) 89.16.00 Tele. 44 01 429-2433 Tele. 41 01 740 51 40 will total $100 million this year. Fueling FAX 33 (1) 30.64.71.46 FAX 46 (31) 45.60.53 FAX 44 01 429-3530 FAX 41 01 741 34 23 WEST GERMANY BELGIUM AUSTRALIA the need for masks is the swelling de- The Chameleon Group Detron N.V. Hypec Electronics Pty., Ltd. Tele. 49 (211) 379 057 Tele. 32 (02)466.94.91 Tele. 61 (02) 808 3666 mand for application-specific ICs, says FAX 49 (211) 365 499 FAX 32 (02)466.62.75 FAX 61 (02) 808 3596 Jim Schoeffel, Ateq marketing manager. Mom nok o',pond nine el In Ws, Imowil Traditionally, it has been difficult for U. S. e-beam-machine manufacturers to compete on price with Japanese companies. Ateq's laser-lithography system CIRCLE 471 ELK:MONKS eAPRIL 1990 1451 It's not just a components show, it's much more!

What distinguishes ELECTRO and sets it This revolutionary approach makes ELECTRO apart from all other your best learning value and the one event YOU conferences on the East Coast? CANNOT MISS in 1990. Don't be left behind. A More than 5,000 products being The breadth and depth of the many segments of demonstrated by experts knowledgeable in their the electronics industry gathered in one forum, at uses and applications one time with the newest and most advanced electronics products and technologies. Only A More than 800 vendors ELECTRO successfully integrates product A 51 educational idea-generating tutorials and presentations and updates on the current state of technical sessions organized in the following technology into amultidisciplinary concurrent tracks: •Marketing •Devices engineering framework. •Electronic CAx •Mechanical CAx •CASE •Manufacturing CAx •Test When you come to ELECTRO, it's like attending •Quality •Education •General several vertical shows at once. Nowhere else can A Keynote address by Thomas H. you see what's new in components, instruments, Bruggere, chairman of the board and chief execu- EDA tools, power supplies, production materials, tive officer of Mentor Graphics Corp. engineering services and more at one industry event. No other conference offers you the A Purchasing conference on wide variety of learning opportunities available "Purchasing's Role in Corporate Success" at ELECTRO. with Frank Tahmoush, Polaroid Corp., and Robert Nahabit, Nahabit Associates

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Sponsored by Region 1, CNEC and METSAC, IEEE and New England and New York Chapters, ERA ES) EUROPEAN OBSERVER PHILIPS MOVES INTO EAST EUROPE.

ook for Philips Inter portunities for cooperation. Lnational NV to begin Philips already has offices spreading its presence up and running in Moscow throughout East Europe. and Belgrade. The Dutch giant plans to In the Soviet Union, the set up two offices, one in NETHERLANDS Eindhoven company is in- Prague and the other in volved in projects worth Warsaw, this year. about $150 million, while The new offices could in other Eastern European well be the nucleus of fu- countries its projects are ture nationwide sales orga- worth $75 million. nizations in Czechoslovakia In addition, Philips will and in Poland. Initially, set up a joint organization though, they will operate in East Germany to pro- as liaison offices support- duce X-ray equipment. ing Philips' product divi- Meanwhile, in Czechoslo- sions, act as contact points vakia, it will develop and for local authorities and in- manufacture electron mi- dustries, and identify op- croscopes. a

... WHILE FIRMS IN THE TWO GERMANYS AGREE ON CD VENTURE OPTICAL RECEIVER Meanwhile, the first major established in Zella-Mehlis, The endeavor will be run joint venture in electronics East Germany, will employ according to the rules of a ROOSTS SENSITIVITY between the two Germanys Pilz's latest CD production market economy, a novelty is being negotiated. The ob- equipment. The venture's in East Germany with its 40- EIGHT TIMES ject is a$140 million compa- aim is to produce 24 million year tradition of a planned Using an old concept from ny owned by West Germa- CDs annually. economy. U radio design, the superhet ny's Reiner Pilz GmbH and principle, researchers at East Germany's computer West Germany's Siemens builder VEB Kombinat Ro- SILICON SHIFT REGISTER RUNS AT 3.4 GHz AG have pushed the sensi- botron to manufacture com- W ith conventional silicon type shift registers.is 2.3 GHz; tivity of optical receiving sys- pact disks. bipolar technology using 2.0- for GaAs versions it's 3.2 tems to a record level: 5.9 Current talks are aimed at p.m emitter widths, research- GHz. The speed comes from nW for a system run at a 33% and 67% participation ers at Ruhr University, Bo- the t Ise of three logic levels in 565-Mbit/s data rate, a l0 by Pilz and Robotron, re- chum, NXitt Germany, have current switching, an all-differ- bit error rate and a 3-mw spectively. The operation built a shift register that can ential circuit design, and bipo- local oscillator power. may later go public, Western handle 3.4 -GHz frequencies. lar transistors whose size is The experimental optical style, the companies say. Today's limit for other silicon- carefully optimized. a receiver raises the sensitivity The joint venture, to be by afactor of 8.5 beyond the level obtainable with systems using conventional intensity SHARP SETS UP THE MIST JAPANESE RaD MI IN EUROPE modulation at the transmitter. Claiming to be the first copiers and fax machines. processing and the applica- Since sensitivity is improved Japanese company to estab- The focus is expected to be tion of artificial-intelligence about 10 dB, it should be lish a basic research lab in on display and image-cap- systems to word processors, possible to place repeaters in Europe, Sharp Corp. has ture technology based on la- machine-translation systems, fiber-optic transmission lines opened a facility in Oxford, ser techniques and LCDs, in- electronic organizers, and 40 km farther apart. England, that will concen- cluding Sharp's high-resolu- PCs. That work will also ex- As in a superhet system, trate initially on optoelec- tion 14-in.-diagonal active- tend to encompass an ex- the transmitted signal is tronic materials and devices. matrix color panel. change of expertise with mixed with the local oscilla- It will support the compa- Apart from devices, the Sharp's Japanese R&D center tor frequency to generate a ny's French and Spanish laboratory will research in- on two pressing sectors: fixed i-f. This is amplified, fil- production operations, formation processing, in- high-definition TV and mo- tered, and demodulated to where Sharp builds photo- cluding natural-language bile communications. U yield the desired signal /3 ELE(110NI(S •APRIL 1990 1471 NEC NEWSCOPE

4-MEGABIT DYNAMIC RAM: organizations of x8 and x16. As the leading chip producer, NEC'S GLOBAL SUPPLY PROGRAM. NEC is committed to a steady, global supply of 4Mbit DRAMs. They are he transition to second gen- access speeds of 80 and 100ns and now in volume production at two eration megabit memories is organizations of x1 and x4. plants in Japan. Tspeeding up and high perform- Options include fast page, nibble, Our U.S. fab in Roseville, CA will ance systems incorporating 4-megabit static column, and write per bit. start 4Mbit DRAM production in 1991. dynamic RAMs will make a major Package choices are SOJ, ZIP and Our European fab near Edinburgh, impact this year. SIMM. In the latter half of this year, Scotland, which is producing 256K NEC is ready with a comprehen- we will further diversify our 4Mbit and 1Mbit DRAMs, will also gear up sive line of 4Mbit DRAMs offering line by adding 6Ons versions and for denser chips next year.

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onto atarget object in a rainbow CHILE AIMS FOR REAL-TIME, pattern. The object is observed by acolor TV NATIONWIDE 3-DIMENSIONAL camera with two special optical filters. DIGITAL NETWORK. MEASUREMENTS. The camera is installed at a fixed distance from the grating. The precise ompaffla de Teléfonos de Chile, aking 3-D measurements of distance to each pixel of the object is S.A. (CTC) is aiming to double moving objects has been a obtained by determining the wave- Ctelephone subscribers by com- M difficult task. Now NEC is length of the pixel. Measurements can pleting a nationwide digital network. developing a simple be made with one NEC is supplying the advanced digital PC-based system at TV frame in 1/30 switching and transmission systems its C&C Information of a second. necessary for this ambitious project. Technology Research RRF is expected The core of the network is the Laboratory. to become an NEAX61 digital switching system, The Rainbow Range efficient tool in which is either already in service or Finder (RRF) uses a factory automa- soon to be installed at 127 exchanges triangulation principle tion, the fashion with atotal of 483,000 subscriber to take 3-D measure- industry, surgery lines. The exchanges are connected in ments. Light emitted and many other Santiago and neighboring cities with from a xenon lamp is applications re- 34MB-to-565MB fiber optic trans- diffracted through a quiring real-time, mission systems and 2MB cable PCM grating and projected 3-D measurements. systems. NEAX61 switches in other Chilean cities will be networked with 2GHz- PASOLINK: SHORT-HAUL MICROWAVE RADIO. 8MB, 6GHz-140MB, and 8GHz-34MB digital microwave systems. ow can you link multiple LANs operating in frequency bands from The microwave link uses 50 hops to in situations that rule out 13GHz to 50GHz. Coverage extends cover a distance of 1,300km from the Hcable? Or set up emergency or about 20km for data, voice and video Northern border to the Southern end temporary communications links in links. Transmission capacity is from of the South American Continent and next to no time? 2.048 to 34.368Mbps; providing up to across the Strait of Magellan. NEC's PASOLINK three service channels, or one video CTC is also actively introducing is a reliable, cost- plus two sound channels. innovative services such as an NEC- effective answer PASOLINK is easily transported and equipped cellular telephone system to these and a simply consists of a compact outdoor already operating in the Metropolitan number of other transceiver with antenna, and indoor Region and Fifth Region. The 800MHz applications. modulator/demodulator unit" network with 31 cells accommodates a PASOLINK is Communications links are easy to total of 25,000 mobile, transportable an advanced set up and no special shelter or tower and handheld subscriber telephone point-to-point is required.

terminals. — microwave radio '1.544-44.736Mbps also available. - Not needed for 50GHz use.

NEC ANEW KIND OF ENGINEERING FUELS CAD 'CONCURRENT ENGINEERING' SPARKS MULTILEVEL SIMULATORS AND APUSH FOR FRAMEWORKS BY JONI' Alelfall

INCE ITS INCEPTION A UT- Ron Collett, industry analyst at market- Aart de Geus, vice president of engi- tie over adecade ago, computer- research firm Dataquest Inc. in San neering and founder of Synopsys Inc. Saided design and engineering has Jose, Calif. And the market is still grow- in Mountain View, Calif., and advanced grown into a hot-blooded mar- ing fast: Collett predicts that by 1993, designs are somewhere between ketplace where ahandful of large suppli- sales will have nearly doubled, 20,000 and 100,000 gates. As de- ers are competing fiercely for their share to $4.6 billion. As with any ma- CdO/CIE sign complexity increases, he of the pie. The newest battleground: turing market, this one is beginning to says, designers need to work at ahigh- "concurrent engineering," which is De- consolidate as large companies buy er level of abstraction to keep from partment of Defense jar being overwhelmed in gon meaning to design the derails. in parallel instead of in OF-STANDARD SER INTERFACE To cope with such series. Vendors are large-scale designs re- scrambling to support quires a true top-down the methodology with a design methodology, blitz of new products. says Bruce Bourbon, Among the latest executive vice presi- launches are multilevel dent of corporate mar- simulators that handle keting at Cadence De- chips and boards con- sign Systems Inc. in taining a mix of behav- San Jose. In such an ioral, functional, and environment, Bourbon gate-level descriptions— sees a large system preferably using VHDL, containing multiple the VHSIC hardware-de- blocks each described scription language man- at different levels of dated by the Pentagon complexity. A complex and taken up with gus- library cell—say, acon- to by the commercial troller—might be de- sector. Once simulated, scribed functionally, a the descriptions are set of logic behavioral- automatically synthe- A GENERIC FRAMEWORK ly, and glue logic tying sized into circuits opti- All the major vendors are developing frameworks,so ftware these elements togeth- mized for speed and sili- shells that can accommoda te proprietaryan d third-party tools. er might be described con area, thus contribut- at the gate level. ing to aconcurrent-engineering environ- smaller ones to achieve market share To simulate such a design requires ment. To tie all these tools together, or to nail down tools that are cheaper one or more simulators that can handle vendors are also starting to deliver to buy than to build (see p. 52). each block at its appropriate level in the CAD frameworks that integrate their One tool that suppliers are all begin- design hierarchy. Cadence's solution is own tools with proprietary and third- ning to offer is a multilevel simulator the multilevel Verilog simulator from party offerings. with high-level description language ca- Gateway Design Automation Corp. of Sales of CAD/CAE tools, both hard- pability. The average application-specif- Lowell, Mass., now Cadence's Advanced ware and software, reached $2.7 billion ic IC being designed today is on the CAE Division. It works with the HiLo last year, up 17% over 1988 totals, says order of 8,000 to 10,000 gates, says logic simulator from GenRad Inc. of ELEURONRI •APRIL 1990 1501 Concord, Mass., which Cadence offers, and with other logic simulators that op- BREAKING OUT erate in the Cadence environment. MARKET SHARE This month, Cadence's archrivals—

Mentor Graphics Corp. of Beaverton, MENTOR GRAPHICS (IC-DESIGN Ore., and Valid Logic Systems Inc. of San SILICON CAD MARKET - COMPILER 1 989) Jose—have rolled out multilevel simula- SYSTEMS tors of their own, both aimed squarely at Verilog. Mentor's is Quidçsim II, which may well be the "Verilog killer" that Prabhu God, Gateway's founder, had speculated Mentor was developing [Elec- tronics, February 1989, p. 77]. Valid's en- OTHER try is RapidSIM (see p. 55).

ENTOR CLAIMS THAT M Quicksim II, which works VALID with behavioral-to-gate-level descriptions, is three to seven times faster than Verilog and handles designs that are SEIKO CADENCE two to four times larger. Joe Prang, vice president of marketing at Valid Logic, makes similar claims for Rapid- SOURCE MORGAN STANLEY .S CO. SIM. Simulation speed has much to do with the way design primitives are rep- OT ALL ANALYSTS AGREE Cadence shipping $51.5 million worth resented in asimulation file and the al- N that the Silicon Compiler Sys- of hardware and software in 1988, gorithms that operate on the primi- tems acquisition makes Mentor No. 1 against $49.2 million for Mentor (in- tives. Earlier simulators could take in IC design. Dataquest figures show duding SCS's $21.3 million).—J. McL. 2,000 bytes to represent each gate in a design, Prang says. That means awork- station with 32 Mbytes of main memo- cember ported its VHDL Simulator to tion environment, allowing designers ry could contain a design of around the Valid Logic environment for Rapid- to instantiate an existing block at an- 15,000 gates. For large designs, the SIM. And Vantage Analysis Systems Inc. other point in the design. VHDL capa- computer must page portions back and of Fremont, Calif., has ported its VHDL bility offers full concurrent simulation forth between main memory and hard simulator into both the Valid and Men- with the company's Viewsim logic sim- disk, and the slower disk access time tor environments. ulator. Mentor in its latest version tool increases the time it takes for simula- The Vantage simulator is faster, more kit, Release 8.0, announced last month, tion. In RapidSIM, agate is represented accurate, and more interactive than has likewise integrated an internally de- in just 250 bytes, and the algorithms competing products, asserts David veloped VHDL simulator, called System to operate on the gates have been en- Coelho, executive vice president of en- 1076, into its complete tool offering. hanced to speed the simulation run. gineering. Other simulators operate in Similar improvements are found in abatch mode, he explains: the design YCAD CORP.'S OFFERING Quiclçsim II. net list is compiled and presented to Zcontains acore simulator—Sys- Another "must-have" item is VHDL ca- the simulator for execution. By con- tem VHDL—which contains agraphical pability. A spinoff of the Very High trast, the Vantage software requires no interface for invoking the program, Speed Integrated Circuits program, compilation but instead executes the waveform display on output, and so VHDL is fast becoming the lingua franca models in the data base representing on. "System VHDL is unique in that it of the CAD/CAE community. Most of the design. This means that a simula- is integrated in our accelerator environ- the multilevel simulators—including Veri- tion can be halted, a model changed ment," says Charles W. Rose, vice presi- log, Quiclçsim II, and RapidSIM—have and resumed during execution. dent of strategic planning and develop- their own high-level description lan- Aldec Corp.'s Susie 6.0 VHDL simula- ment at the Menlo Park, Calif., compa- guages that provide only a subset of tor is also highly interactive, says Stan- ny. "The designer can run VHDL mod- total VHDL functionality. But a handful ley Hyduke, president of the Newbury els at the behavioral level and link of companies are further along, offering Park, Calif., company. Susie has been them with VHDL gate-level models or multilevel simulators that provide all or a licensed to 17 pc-board CAD suppliers, models described in other formats, portion of VHDL capability. Among including Accel, CAD Software, P-CAD, such as EDIF [electronic design inter- them are Aldec, Intermetrics, Vantage, Racal-Redac, and Ultimate Technology. face format], that are running on an Viewlogic, Zycad, plus Mentor with its Viewlogic Systems Inc. of Marlboro, accelerator," he says. upcoming VHDL-capable System 1076. Mass., was one of the first companies Tying different simulators together re- Some of the big CAD/CAE players to begin shipping VHDL capability quires a simulation backplane, which are buying VHDL capability from the back in July 1988 and now has more works within alarger framework Silicon smaller companies. For example, Inter- than 200 installations. It supports Compiler Systems Corp., now pan of metrics Inc. of Bethesda, Md., last De- VHDL structure by means of its simula- Mentor Graphics [Electronics, February ELECIRONICS •APRIL 1990 15 11 1990, p. 15], has such abackplane for its gates and resimulates at the gate level. create optimized FPGA layouts from a own set of simulators. However, Tera- With the advent of logic synthesizers, schematics input, says Exemplar presi- dyne EDA, Teradyne Inc.'s design-auto- this manual conversion can be per- dent Ewald Detjens. mation group based in Santa Clara, formed automatically. The handful of Silc Technologies Inc. of Burlington, Calif., goes SCS one better: it introduced companies that have developed logic- Mass., was the first company to offer last year a backplane, called MultiSim, synthesis capability include Algorithmic synthesis from a high-level description that can easily accommodate simulators Systems, Examplar, Praxis, Silc, Silicon language, aproprietary one. It plans to from different vendors to build a multi- Compiler Systems, and Synopsys. introduce synthesis from VHDL de- level simulation environment. Last year, Synopsys was the first to scriptions at this year's Design Automa- offer logic synthesis to create logic tion Conference, June 24 to 27 in Or- IMULATORS FROM GEN - from VHDL descriptions. This year, lando, Fla. The very first synthesizer on Rad, Teradyne, SCS, and Gate- Mentor, Viewlogic, and VLSI Technolo- the market was from Algorithmic Sys- way have been combined and are gy offer it too. Mentor rolled out the tems Corp., a small Braintree, Mass., working together on MultiSim, says Joe capability first with its new Design company, which began shipping its As- I açsiter, vice president of Teradyne's Consultant, built around technology cyn tool in March 1986. Ascyn converts Manufacturing Systems Division and that came with its acquisition of Thine- a high-level description written in the general manager of Teradyne EDA. ter Technologies Corp. of Pittsburgh in company's proprietary language into Teradyne has aproject to port DECsim, 1988. This year, Mentor boosted its logic, but president and founder Jay a proprietary simulator from Digital strength with the acquisition of SCS, Southard promises VHDL capability as Equipment Corp., onto the MultiSim which also has asynthesizer that con- well. Chip maker Advanced Micro De- bus. And it has been working with the verts high-level descriptions into logic. vices Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., has pur- CAD Framework Initiative, an industry Viewlogk's synthesizer entry is View- chased rights to incorporate the synthe- group pushing for standards, to devel- design, which is part of its new VHDL sizer into its programmable gate array op an industry-standard simulation Designer 4.0 (see p. 59). The tool was tool kit. backplane to make this capability gen- developed in conjunction with Exem- erally available. plar Logic Inc., a Berkeley, Calif., syn- ET ANOTHER SYNTHESIZ- Once adesign has been described in thesis company that OEMs its software yi er comes from Praxis Systems VHDL or any other high-level descrip- to third parties. Its clientele includes plc, based in Bath, England, whose Lo- tion language and simulated to ensure suppliers of field-programmable logic cam offering operates with its Ella de- that its logic functions correctly, the devices—such as Xilinx Inc. of San sign system. It generates logic from an designer converts the descriptions into Jose—which need an automatic tool to Ella high-level-language description.

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Beyond supporting Boulder, Colo. stead, it uses ahybrid relational and ob- high-level languages, the new tool will To facilitate incorporation of third- ject-oriented scheme. handle more of the design than simply party tools, CAD/CAE tool vendors the combinatorial glue logic and state- and ASIC suppliers are looking to build ADENCE'S FRAMEWORK, machine controllers, which are the or buy aframework that their own and also built around ahybrid rela- blocks in an ASIC design that asynthe- outside tools can plug into. At the start tional and object-oriented data-base sizer normally produces. The software of 1990, only Cadence offered aprod- management system, has been ship- operates with the company's state-ma- uct called a design framework. As of ping the longest. ASIC suppliers such chine and memory compilers to pro- this month, both Mentor and Valid are as NCR Microelectronics Corp. of Ft. duce an entire chip, says Michael O'Bri- claiming similar capability, Mentor with Collins, Colo., and Harris Corp. of Mel- en, compiler and synthesis product the Falcon and Valid with the Commu- bourne, Fla., find the framework attrac- manager for the company. From the nications Manager. Falcon is part of tive to integrate their proprietary tools tool, the designer can specify all the Mentor's Release 8.0 tool set, which with those from third-party vendors be- blocks of his design and the ASIC Syn- the company is calling the Concurrent cause of the Skill programming lan- thesizer will produce acomplete chip. Design Environment. "Release 8.0 is a guage. It lets you access the Cadence "We built a 37-tap FIR filter with 16 combination of framework and integra- data base directly rather than pass net- data bits and a 16-bit coefficient using tion of multiple design disciplines in list or EDIF files between tools, says W. standard cells and compiled read-only single design environment," says Col- Terry C,oston, Harris's CAE director. In- and random-access memory," says lett of Dataquest. terfacing third-party and proprietary O'Brien. "It required a chip 19,000 "Up until now, a designer could tools at the data base allows more in- mils' in size, operated at adata rate of evaluate a prototype to see if it formation to flow from one tool to 219 KHz, and took three weeks to worked," says Thanasis Kalekos, direc- another than is possible by passing a build. Giving the same circuit to the tor of marketing for advanced product net list. development at Mentor. "With the con- Eventually, the CAD Framework Ini- current design environment, he can tiative, a two-year-old organization of ERGER MANIA IS TURN- now determine which alternative de- vendors and end users, plans to have a M ing the CAD/CAE landscape sign is the best, ascertain if it works, framework standard that will enable a into aMonopoly board. The latest tar- then determine if can be built, all be- user to hook all CAD/CAE tools to- get: Silc Technologies Inc. of Burling- fore the design is complete." (One gether. Jack Mullins, NCR's director of ton, Mass., which this month will be company—startup Quicktum Systems engineering and one of 17 candidates acquired in a friendly takeover by Ra- Inc. of Mountain View, Calif., special- vying for a slot on the nine-member cal-Redac Inc. of Westford, Mass. izes in emulating alogic design before board, says there are 50 supporting the Mergers and acquisitions are a it is implemented; see p. 70). CFI effort, each with different needs. time-honored way of gaining market To achieve this end, Mentor has inte- For example, ASIC supplier NCR share, as Mentor Graphics Corp. grated all of its tools—IC and pc uses the Cadence framework for its showed early this year when it board, electrical and mechanical—into tool-set offering. But National Semicon- bought IC-design market clout by ac- Falcon. Along with design tools, Men- ductor Corp. of Sunnyvale, Calif., quiring Silicon Compiler Systems tor has added a design manager that which also uses anumber of Cadence Corp. of San Jose, Calif. The purchase provides versioning and configuration tools in its new DA4 design-automation puts Mentor, the Beaverton, Ore., controls and tool registration. A similar tool kit supporting all its ASIC process CAD giant, nose to nose with rival capability is provided by DEC's DEC- technologies, developed its own frame- Cadence Design Systems Inc. of San frame/Electronics (see p. 65). work, called Rain, says Van Lewing, Jose, itself agrand acquisitor. In addition, using aspreadsheet par- market manager for design automation The Silc deal demonstrates another adigm, Falcon's decision-support sys- products at the company. lure of mergers: it's acheaper way of tem allows designers to create custom To achieve a common framework, getting technology—in this cas, SiIc's tools that encode their expertise, pro- Mullins sees CFI melding the features of synthesis savvy—than developing it in vide access to outside data bases, and various commercial frameworks and in- house. Cadence has already proven the establish relationships with other tools. troducing the solution in stages, one for power of astute acquisitions. Its recent Falcon's data base is the first object- design management, another for data takeover of Gateway Design Systems oriented CAD data base, though others management, etc. Eventually, the CFI so- Inc. brought it capability in high-level are being proposed (see p. 66). It uses lution will be an industry standard, with language and system-level simulation. a single parent object from which all which other commercial frameworks will And its earlier Tangent acquisition gave design objects are derived. All of these— interface. Thus, CAD/CAE companies it ASIC tools.—J. McL. schematics, component descriptions, de- can migrate toward the standard over sign viewpoints, and documents—are time, Mullins says. 11

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with the capability of handling very rq > [Exclude 1..j,mu0 Rap1dS1M TOOLBOX Varaion 1 .11 -Al large gate-level simulations. That's be- 1 cause this new digital simulator from ,cdit ."` i-7 2.j Valid Logic Systems Inc. of San Jose, TOOLBOX-, We our TOOLBOX-' Calif., has an unprecedented capability [00 TOUBOX- , to accommodate secondary and tertiary timing effects. What's more, RapidSIM will be part of amixed-level simulation INTERACTIVE DISPLAY environment, in which asingle design can contain VHDL, behavioral, hard- RapidSIM is linked with the ValidGED schematic editor and an ware, and gate-level models. instrument console containing simulation-preparation and control tools.

ELECTRONICS e APRIL 1990 1551 can no longer be ignored. you can simulate 200,000-primitive de- Furthermore, Prang points out, the signs on a 128-Mbyte machine." interconnect delay varies over the cir- Valid also sees VHDL (the Very High cuit. "You just can't impose an arbi- IN ANUTSHELL Speed Integrated Circuits program's trary time delay anymore as some sim- RapidSIM is seven to 12 dines faster Hardware Description language) as an ulators do. The length of the path de- than its predecessor and boasts three important factor and plans to add afull termines the resistance and inductance to five times the capacity. VHDL engine to the integrated simula- of that path; then you have to know if tion environment along with RapidSIM. there is fanout from an output pin, It offers vendor-definable algo- The engines will talk to each other because you have to drive the capaci- rithms for layout-dependent timing through asimulation backplane. tances on that whole line," Prang says. calculations. The Department of Defense has "Then there can be skew on the rise specified VHDL as a requirement for and fall of pulses on the transmission It captures both linear and nonlin- providing descriptions of all submitted line—the slope of the ramp can ear effects, giving the ASIC vendor designs. In its own right, VHDL has change and you have to model that" fledbility in modeling delays. many features that make it apowerful Most simulators don't have the archi- architectural-level simulator. Additional- tecture to handle those timing varia- ly, most third-party vendors of simulations, he says; "they are set up to han- between Valid's schematic editor, Va- tion model libraries provide compo- dle timing in avery specific way." lidGED, and RapidSIM, VHDL, and as- nent models in VHDL. One of the most important and sorted other tools, including Valid's unique features of RapidSIM is that it physical layout tools and external com- RANG SAYS VALID'S AP- offers vendor-definable algorithms for mercial and user-proprietary tools. Pproach to VHDL is superior to layout-dependent timing calculations. The Logic Workbench will ultimately the way competitors are offering it. Today, most simulators provide a set integrate Valid's RapidTEST fault simu- Two companies, Vantage and Interme- of standard equations that ASIC ven- lator, a full VHDL simulation environ- tries, offer VHDL as a stand-alone en- dors must use to model the layout- ment, advanced design/synthesis tools gine, for which there are a limited dependent delays for their processes. for programmable logic devices, and number of ASIC design kits and simula- Often this limitation compromises the other capabilities such as min/max tim- tion models available. In Prang's opin- accuracy of the vendor's process mod- ing and fast functional simulation. Cus- ion, their performance is unacceptable el. Some simulators now support piece- tomers will be able to integrate their for large designs. wise linear modeling to simulate the own tools or other commercial simula- Other companies, such as Mentor ramp effects more realistically. tors through a digital backplane inte- Graphics, Cadence/Gateway, and Dai- RapidSIM can capture both linear gration package scheduled for release sy/Cadnetix, offer a VHDL front end and nonlinear effects, says Prang, and later this year. that interfaces with the base gate-level thus gives the ASIC vendor complete Designers interact with RapidSIM simulator. "In this cace," Prang says, flexibility in modeling delays for any through a user interface, employing "the main simulator limits the extent to layout in any process. icons and menus based on aValid cor- which VHDL can be supported, be- porate interface standard. Thus, the in- cause you are forced to work with a NOTHER KEY FEATURE terface will look quite familiar to users subset that may not be the same as the A is a glitch propagation algo- of other Valid products. Many of its one used by third-party simulation rithm that can work in both the so- features are optimized for fast debug- modelers or synthesis companies." called inertial and transport modes. In ging, says Valid marketing manager With Valid's approach—a single sim- an inertial delay mode, two or more Sanjiv Kaul. These include ahigh-level ulation environment—users have ac- pulses on aline would be flagged as a language for stimulus creation and a cess to "the full power of VHDL and glitch. The transport mode allows mul- waveform editor—a graphics tool for the functionality of RapidSIM," he says. tiple signals to be carried on a line. creating stimuli. Also included is a RapidSIM fits into Valid's overall The ability to handle both modes is high-level language for simulator con- strategy to be a broad-based supplier unique, says Prang. trol, which allows the user to control of CAE/CAD hardware and software RapidSIM is part of Valid Logic's Log- the simulation with statements like IF, while being committed to open archi- ic Workbench, an interactive simula- THEN, or ELSE. tecture systems. It performs on Sun, tion environment or framework that Another valuable feature, says Kaul, Digital Equipment, and IBM worksta- ties simulation together with anumber is incremental compilation. "If a user tions, including the new IBM S/6000. of analysis tools. This gives the design- has compiled adesign and then wants It is completely upwardly compatible er powerful debugging capability. Log- to make asingle change in apage, he with ValidSIM: it uses the same librar- ic Workbench is modeled after Valid can compile just that page and get ies, design kits, data bases, scripts, and Logic's highly successful Analog Work- back to the simulations very quickly," commands. bench, an analog CAE system, which Kaul says. As aresult, RapidSIM users have ac- the company has just revamped. The As for overall capacity, Kaul says that cess to more than 4,300 digital compo- new version was introduced as Analog with two-input NAND gates on a 128- nents and more than 100 ASIC design Workbench II last month. Mbyte workstation, users can simulate kits. RapidSIM will be furnished to li- Like Analog Workbench, Logic designs of more than 300,000 primi- censed users of ValidSIM as part of Workbench employs a Communica- tives. 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OGIC SYNTHESIS TECH- system), which was developed at the ment simulator, Viewsim/SD. When nology is apowerful tool for de- University of California at Berkeley, the designer is satisfied with the system Lsigners of application-specific inte- VHDL Designer is a multilevel tool. It simulation, he can then proceed with BIM grated circuits, but it's arare engi- permits asystem or IC designer to be- the ASIC design, breaking it down into neer who's willing to turn over all his gin the design process at the sys- its logical-function and structural- design prerogatives to a synthesizer. tem level. In this phase, he can CAD/CAE design elements. At this level, the That's because most such tools can't op- partition the circuit into structural ele- designer can implement the logic using timize alarge design completely, to the ments, hardware models, software VHDL descriptions or gate-level design exact point the designer is aiming for. models, and user-created VHDL de- elements in the target silicon vendor But ASIC designers will welcome a scriptions for all the ASIC parts. library—or acombination of both. new entry in the synthesis arena, VHDL The entire system can then be simu- Viewsim/SD verifies the ASIC-level Designer from Viewlogic Systems Inc. lated on Viewlogic's system-develop- logic design. The designer generates This tool is "the first synthesis tool that is part of a complete design environment," says Rick Sullivan, manager of synthesis products at Viewlogic, in Marlboro, Mass.—namely, Viewlogic's Workview Series of computer-aided-engineering tools. "We call it 'CAE-based logic synthesis,'" Sullivan says. "It's tightly integrated into our simulation, schematic-entry, and design-entry capabilities"—and that's the only condition under which an engineer will fully accept synthesis, he says. As its name suggests, VHDL Designer supports VHDL, the Very High Speed

Integrated Circuits program's Hardware SYSTEM-LEVEL Description Language. "What people are SIMULATION looking to do is design at higher levels of abstraction and couple that with syn-

thesis," says Andy Rappaport, president CHIP-LEVEL OUTPUT of the Technology Research Group in SIMULATION TO WITH VHDL \ FOUNDRY Boston. 'What's needed is a standard representation format and VHDL has emerged to fill that hole." With VHDL CHIP-LEVEL SIMULATION Designer, Viewlogic "clearly is staking out a daim there," Rappaport says. ramille_ 'What they're doing is definitely repre- TAKING AIM AT ASICs sentative of the direction in which the in- With Viewlogic's VHDL Designer, a user can mix structural design dustry is headed." elements from the target design library with user-defined blocks (at Based on the so-called MIS algo- center in the illustration) expressed as VHDL descriptions. The screen rithm (multiple-level logic-optimization shows a description being automatically synthesized as a circuit. ELECTRONICS •APRIL 1990 1591 simulation pattern files that can be a Cadence," he says, referring to two that part of the schematic they want to used to verify the logic after the VHDL CAE market leaders. "But they are do- synthesize and fill it with aVHDL de- blocks are synthesized into structural ing extremely well. They probably scription. With the push of a button elements. VHDL Designer can imple- have the largest base of VHDL users." they'll get aschematic for that box." ment the logic by synthesizing the Rappaport, too, rates Viewlogic as a This is "consistent with what design- VHDL descriptions. It generates a net- real comer in the CAE marketplace. 'The ers want to do," says analyst Rappa- list data base composed of design ele- product is ahead of the pack. And what port. 'There are a couple of attitudes ments at the library level of the target isn't very widely know about Viewlogic about synthesis. One of them is that technology. Then the designer can in- is that they've shipped alot of products synthesis tools ought to be able to take voke Viewgen, Viewlogic's schematic ahead of the pack. They were among a high-level description for the entire generator, to create aschematic of the the first to ship a VHDL simulator, for design and synthesize the entire design synthesized logic. example. What Viewlogic is hanging its from that with relatively little manual A postsynthesis simulation is then hat on is focusing on the front-end de- intervention." While this idea is "intel- performed, again using Viewsim/SD to sign process to yield products earlier lectually appealing," he says, "if you verify the ASIC or the system. The test than their more diversified competitors. think about it from the design-optimi- patterns created during the presynthe- And they're succeeding. They're grow- zation standpoint, most designers say, sis simulation can be used to verify 'I want to go in and optimize one par- correct operation of the new circuit. ticular part.' What the bulk of the mar- The goal, says Sullivan, "is to reduce ket would like to have is something the time a designer takes for explora- CAE-BASED SYNTHESIS that aids them in designing parts of the tion in implementing his design." With circuit that are not critical or just take VHDL Designer, he can "express the VHDL Designer is the first synthe- too long" to design by hand. design at very high levels and push a sis tool that's part of a complete As with all synthesizers, optimization button, get an implementation, and ex- design environment. criteria for VHDL Designer are speed plore that implementation. He can sim- and area. "You can trade off between ulate both prior to and after synthesis. With the multilevel tool, designers the two," says Sullivan. "Mae area opti- And he can simulate not only the mod- partition asystem into structural ele- mization takes the routing density of ule he's designing, but the entire sys- ments, hardware and software mod- the ASIC into account. For speed con- els, and user-defined VHDL descrip- tem that module is sitting in." siderations, the user has the capability Viewlogic may well be in the right tions for ASIC parts. These blocks of specifying an absolute maximum are automatically synthesized and place at the right time with VHDL De- path delay he's willing to accept in the signer, says Peter Schleider, apartner at optimized for speed or area. synthesized logic." Within that maxi- the Minneapolis venture firm Wessels, mum, Sullivan says, "he can optimize Arnold & Henderson. He sees a tre- for area or timing. He also has the mendous need for synthesis capability ing significantly faster than the market." option of constraining specific paths to in the ASIC world. 'There are truck- Sullivan says that besides ASICs, the be less than acertain delay." loads of engineers out there who say tool is aimed at field-programmable they just can't do the ASICs or custom gate arrays. 'The kind of designs we're ULLIVAN SEES THE NEW IC designs at the gate level any more," targeting are state machines, decoder Stool as ideal for the current IC says Schleider. "It's just not possible at logic, or random logic in the range of design environment. "We see a their current complexity." 500 to 2,500 gates," he says. 'There's groundswell of interest in field-pro- no hard limit—the trade-off is always grammable gate arrays and the capabil- UT MOST SYNTHESIZERS the time it takes to synthesize. Cus- ity to move up easily into gate arrays Bfall short, he says. "Right now, tomers don't want to be bothered with and standard cells. Some of the ways most of the available logic-synthesis the details of state-machine design— our customers can use this tool is to tools are being used as adjuncts to they'd much rather just specify the implement a prototype with FPGAs schematic capture," he says. "Designers state transition table in VHDL and let and later on, when they are getting are taking that net list and optimizing the tool generate the sequential design close to production, they'll produce ac- as much as they can through the syn- for them." tual gate arrays without changing one thesizer." A notable exception is the Sullivan says one beta-site customer line of design entry code," he says. HDL Compiler from Synopsys Inc. of uses VHDL Designer to implement the "They'll just retarget the output of the Mountain View, Calif., which provides design of parts of very large chips. VHDL Designer." both VHDL and Verilog synthesis. It 'They're not willing to commit the en- VHDL Designer runs on Sun Micro- can handle large designs, not just logic tire design to synthesis tools; they want systems Inc.'s Sun 4 and SparcStation blocks, says Pierre Wildman, product to retain tight control over implementa- workstations and on 386-based person- marketing manager. Engineers can en- tion of many parts of the chip," he al computer platforms that operate in a ter designs in any manner they're famil- says. 'They do that by drawing the Unix environment. iar with, he adds; the input will be schematic for those pieces." Schleider believes that VHDL Design- automatically converted into a VHDL But other pieces—typically state ma- er, if successful, will position Viewlogic description, which is then synthesized. chines and random logic—aren't worth tools at the next level of abstraction in Schleider dubs Viewlogic the "silent the time and effort to create aschemat- design. "And that's where vendors will winner" in the CAE marketplace. "They ic. These are the province of VHDL have to be to penetrate the next level don't have the visibility of aMentor or Designer. 'They'll draw a box around of the market," he says. El EIKTRONICS •APRIL 1990 1601 HITACHI AND VLSI TECHNOLOGY, INC. ANNOUNCE THE MOST IMPORTANT BREAKTHROUGH IN RECENT MEMORY SRAM2:HITACHI AND and submicron manufacturing expertise with VLSI TECHNOLOGY, INC. VLSI's tools. After over ayear of very close coopera- Hitachi and VLSI Technology have tion and teamwork, the first two products of signed apact. that pact are here. One of the major purposes of this alliance Announcing the 35ns 256Kx4 and 32K is to create high-performance CMOS x8 SRAMs from Hitachi and VLSI. 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IGITAL EQUIPMENT CORP. tor and Allegro pc-board design soft- selected by customers into DECframe, is no stranger to computer-aid- ware. PowerFrame can also find all rel- or train acustomer's CAD organization ed design of electronic prod- evant data for aparticular design, then to do that integration. ucts, such as integrated circuits save all changes and parameter settings All this means a productivity boost, and printed-circuit boards. The compa- when the designer is finished says Donald McInnis, Engineering ny's VAX systems have been used for with a task. To those core attri- CAD'CAE Systems Group vice president at years as CAD departmental computers, butes DEC has added afew flourishes. DEC. "Design engineers can cease wor- and for the last couple of years DEC These include multistation work tying about data integrity and detail-ori- has been selling the PowerFrame ented data management, stop CAD software framework from wasting time on outdated designs, EDA Systems Inc. of Santa Clara, and spend more time improving Calif. Now the Maynard, Mass., design quality," he says. computer giant has plunged Analysts agree. PowerFrame is headlong into the market by ac- apretty solid product, and what quiring PowerFrame outright DEC has added to it has been [Electronics, March 1990, p. 221 well thought out," says Cindy DEC has assumed all of EDA's Thames, executive vice president eigleFfe: contracts far PowerFrame custom- J111111111111111111111111111 at the Technology Research er support and original equipment Group. Moreover, "DEC is close manufacturers. And it has assimi- to the ideal kind of company to lated PowerFrame into its own offer adesign framework." CAD framework—called DEC- Her only quibble is with timing. frame/Electronics—yielding an "DEC would be much better off if open design framework that runs they'd [acquired and enhanced on DECs reduced-instruction-set- PowerFrame] ayear ago," Thames MANY WINDOWS computing work stations. says. "DEC is perceived to have The Technology Research DECframe users can call up multiple design lost some ground in the worksta- Group, aBoston market research applications on a multiwindow screen display. tion market, especially after the and consulting firm, has estimat- [February] IBM Corp. announce- ed that designers spend as much as group support; design-release management" of the new System/6000 worksta- 30% of their time on nonengineering ment features to assure that design re- tion. As aresult, some CAD application work, such as searching for files, cor- visions are current; checkpointing for developers may be nervous about port- recting errors in data bases, and labor- rapid design review and reconstruc- ing to DEC platforms, she says. "But ing for days getting a design released tion; a common data model and user there's alot of loyalty to DEC out there, from layout to manufacturing. interface for all applications; and a which shouldn't be underestimated." PowerFrame automates all of those standard window interface based on DECframe/Electronics now runs on processes and more. Because the soft- DECwindows. DECstation 2100 and 3100 RISC worksta- ware knows the location of all the data Besides Valid Logic's application pro- tions as well as on DECsystem 5400 and how it is organized, it simplifies grams, DECframe/Electronics' initial re- RISC servers, all of which use Ultrix, the use of complex tools and process- lease also integrates the Verilog design- DEC's variation of the Unix operating es. PowerFrame invokes application verification software from Cadence De- system. A version for VAXstation com- tools automatically, such as Valid Logic sign Systems Inc. DEC will also incor- puters running DECs VMS operating sys- Systems Inc.'s ValidGED graphics edi- porate other application software tem will be offered later this spring. // ELECTRONICS •APRIL 1990 1651 WILL VENDORS LINE UP BEHIND OBJECTIVITYP THE STARTUP'S OBJECT-ORIENTED DATA BASE COULD BE AKEY TO INTEROPERABILITY IN CAD, CASE BY JACK SOME

FTER A DECADE OF IN- electrical and mechanical CAD commu- Framework Initiative, atwo-year-old or- tense competition among nities, as well as the companies that ganization of end users and vendors, A computer-aided-design compa- develop computer-assisted software en- when they are final. Objectivity/DB nies to corner the market with gineering tools, are ready to cooperate. still has some tough auditions to face proprietary tools, the day of standard An engineering data-base man- before it fills the industry's interfaces and interoperability may agement system (EDBMS) will C4D/CAE EDBMS role, but it has already soon be drawing near. And object-ori- be one of the foundations for an enlisted two formidable allies: Sony ented data bases are one way to get ECAD/MCAD/CASE interface standard, Corp. of Japan and CAD vendor Valid there, says Peter Schleider, apartner in and that's exactly what their company Logic Systems Inc. of San Jose, Calif. the Minneapolis consulting firm of is promising in its Objectivity/DB. For their part, users are frustrated by Wessels, Arnold & Henderson. 'The As the name implies, Objectivity/DB being forced to cope with design tools technology is still two years from being uses object-oriented programming that do not play together. They are widely incorporated in the various techniques, which deliver more flexibil- demanding tools that do—and that de- product sectors," he says, "but it is des- ity in defining data than any other ap- liver interoperability without a signifi- perately needed. It means afundamen- proach, says Field. In essence, if CAD cant degradation in performance. tal restructuring of the business." vendors join the Objectivity/DB team "CAD and CAE users all want an Bob Field and Drew Wade are bet- they will be agreeing to define, store, object-oriented data base," says consulting their futures on that premise. and retrieve data and models according tant Schleider. "But most of the exist- The cofounders of Objectivity Inc., a to Objectivity's format. This will con- ing tools fall flat on their faces when it Menlo Park, Calif, startup, believe the form to the standards of the CAD comes to speed and performace capability." Although Schleider has not yet FOUNDATION CAD TOOLS EXCHANGE evaluated Objectivity's product, he be- DATA BASE BECOMES \ DESIGN DATA THROUGH lieves that the strategic partnerships AN EXTENSION OF USER INTERFACE ENGINEERING DATA- with Sony and Valid bode well for its THE OPERATING SYSTEM (X-WINDOW) BASE MANAGEMENT performance. The march toward CAD standards, ELECTRICAL MECHANICAL CASE TOOLS says Field, will be propelled by an in- CAD TOOLS CAD TOOLS creasingly narrow time-to-market window for the companies that use CAD FOUNDATION DATA BASE tools. Right now, it is not unusual for (OBJECTIVITY D/B) chip designers to finish their work and pass the results on to printed-circuit- OPERATING SYSTEM board designers in files that are incom- (UNIX) patible with the pc-board CAD tools. Similarly, the pc-board designers pass incompatible files to the mechanical HARDWARE PLATFORM (SUN, DEC WORK STATIONS) CAD engineers. Standards in general— and an EDBMS in particular—could replace that serial progression with concurrent engineering using a common, INTEGRATING CAD TOOLS constantly updated data base. The EDBMS, sitting between the operating system and the various CAD In the new standards stack, the tools, can be considered an extension of the operating system. EDBMS sits between the operating sys- ELELTROWS •APRIL 1990 1661 tern and the various CAD tools. It can pursuing the standard software ven- be considered an extension of the op- dor/customer relationship of selling its erating system, says Field, because it's EDBMS development systems to appli- independent of the application, plat- OBJECTIVITY/DB IS ... cation developers. And its strategic form, and operating system. A ii engineering data-base manage- partnering campaign includes Sony's The problem is not a lack of such ment system that can ensure that internal semiconductor CAD group and data bases, he says, but their abun- multivendor CAD and CASE tools Valid Logic. dance. Each is proprietary to the will all play together without any "Valid is a reasonable win," says ECAD, MCAD, or CASE vendor that loss of performance. Schleider. "It didn't do any develop- implemented it. Even the traditional ment of its own along these lines, so it data-base companies such as Oracle An object-oriented solution, and found itself behind. It did alot of eval- Corp. and Sybase Inc. have indicated a one that will conform to the stan- uation of third-party work." And Sony's movement toward object-oriented tech- dards of the CAD Framework Initia- signing on with Objectivity is"a strong nology, says Schleider, but "when you tive when they are approved in their endorsement of the product," he says. are dealing with geometric shapes in- final form. Objectivity/DB operates on a four- stead of just numbers, as in CAD, you level hierarchy: objects, containers, really need to be object-oriented." data bases, and federated data bases. do, Fla., with 20 companies cooperating. Using ECAD as an example, says Field, or HE EDBMS PROBLEM GOES "A schematic editor from one company the logical design data base would deeper than standards, howev- and asimulator from another will run to- consist of net lists and schematics, the er. CAD vendors compete on how gether, for example," Wade says. test data base would include simula- well they design circuits, boards, sys- Since an EDBMS works only when tion and timing models, and the layout tems, and software. Their expertise is the CAD vendors use standard inter- data base would include all the data not in data-base management, particu- faces, Objectivity's success hinges on needed for the physical implementa- larly not the object-oriented variety. getting the cooperation it needs. "Ev- tion of the circuits. Finally, the manu- "Companies like [CAD leaders] Mentor erybody wants to be second," says facturing data base would include pro- and Cadence have designed their own Field. "It is too risky to be first, and cess information. [EDBMS], but really want athird party third is too late." Objectivity has at- Objectivity's federated data base to deliver it," says Schleider. "In gen- tacked that problem on two levels It is manages all the connections between eral, they do as little as they the individual data bases—such need to get by," Field says. things as where information is "Data-base management is a located in disk storage. Its func- whole business in itself." tions include keeping the linked A full-featured EDBMS, says n g data bases consistent as changes Field, gives the design engineer are made in any one of them maximum flexibility to define ob and maximizing storage efficiency. In this ECAD example, the jects and operations. It efficiently oz handles access to storage and is containers would include such not subject to memory or virtual- things as schematics, while ob- memory limitations. It delivers o jects are the basic building high performance and is fully dis- blocks of the design such as tributed, which means it can gates and channel lengths. manage multiple data bases si- While Objectivity/DB is head- multaneously. Finally, it provides ed toward platform and operat- sophisticated development tools. ing-system independence, its first The CAD standards situation is implementations, due this month, being addressed across a broad will be in Unix. They will run on spectrum by the CAD Framework o Digital Equipment Corp.'s DEC. Initiative, whose board of direc- station 2100 and 3100 and on tors is avirtual who's who of the o Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Sun 3 field. Among the group's member and Sun 4. companies are Cadence, Hewlett- o "We will be able to port to Packard, Honeywell, Mentor IBM Corp. mainframes and Graphics, Motorola, Siemens, Sun DEC's VMS, ultimately down to Microsystems, and Valid Logic. the desktop," says Field, "but Besides being Objectivity's vice we are in the response mode for OA OBJECTS DATA BASE president of engineering, Wade is supporting those systems when also the chairman of the frame- FEDERATED the market calls for it." work organization's Storage Man- CONTAINER DATA BASE Pricing will follow the model ager Committee. A subset of Ob- already established by commer- OBJECTIVITY'S STORAGE MODEL jectivity's functionality will be cial data-base management sys- shown at the Design Automation The four-level hierarchy includes objects, tems such as standard-query lan- Conference June 24-28 in Orlan- containers, data bases, and federated data bases. guage. El ELECIRONICS •APRIL 1990 1671

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LTHOUGH THE ASIC DE- emulation and simulation modes. With million dollars' worth in the first quar- sign arsenal is replete with a in-circuit, the emulation is plugged into a ter of production." A basic copy sells A dizzying array of automation target system where it receives all the for $125,000, which buys capacity of tools, one tool has been con- system's actual signals. In simulation 25,000 gates. Though the technology is spicuous by its absence. Until the advent mode, the emulation is driven not exciting, says Collett—"I've spo- of a new product from Quicktum Sys- by real signals but by a set of CAD/CAE ken to several ASIC designers tems Inc., designers of application-speciî simulation vectors; the result is com- and they're hot on it"—he believes the ic chips have gotten by without a real- pared with expected results. company is at a critical juncture. "It time emulator—a hardware tool that per- The product is very fast. And this must sell people on the idea, but the forms the functions of the real hardware month, the company doubled both its potential customer doesn't want to pay at aspeed dose to that of the actual. In capacity and speed. Designers now can all that to be a guinea pig. So Quick- effect, the emulator stands in if the real emulate up to 50,000 gate designs at a turn is walking anarrow line between thing isn't available; it also provides speed of up to 10 MHz. They also can cutting the price to make it more at- more control and better debugging than perform static timing analysis and, tractive or getting turned down by pro- the real hardware. through data synchronization, repair spective users." So Quickturn's RPM Emulation Sys and hold time violations of data input Nevertheless, Collett says he believes tern represents awhole new category of to registers in the event of late arrival that in time the RPM emulator will find product: a real-time hardware emulator of clocking. its niche. One reason: "It's apartner to for verifying ASICs. The Mountain View, "Production started in September simulation—complementary to the Calif, company maintains that its only 1989," says Quicktum marketing direc- tools from companies like Mentor competition is from older design-verifica- tor Stephen Walters, "and we sold a Graphics and Valid Logic." U tion technologies, primarily simulation accelerators, and at least one market watcher agrees. "No one else has one," says indusuy analyst Ron Collett of Data- quest Inc. in San Jose, Calif. "It's the equivalent of a microprocessor design system for gate arrays—a sophisticated extension of breadboarding.' Emulation can kick in at several points in the design cycle of a typical ASIC. Initial design work done in a high-level language can be emulated immediately if design synthesis is avail - able. Portions of adesign can be emulated, as a very high-speed simulator, as soon as they exist at the gate level. Once a full chip design is available, it can be emulated both independently with test vectors and in-circuit for full hardware and software debugging. KEEPING REAL TIME An advantage of the Quickturn ap- Quickturn's RPM Emulation System can do hardware emulation for proach is that it can run in both in-circuit ASICs in an in-circuit mode; that is, actually plugged in like a real chip.

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A STANDARD FAX SETUP Although Japanese manufacturers dominate the market for fax machines, most of the chips that power them— modems, converter chips, data-compression devices, and so on—are American-made.

ELRTRONICS •APRIL 1990 1721 of Tokyo, which is firmly ensconced in the PC-fax arena with its fax-only PC FAX: A MARKET TAKES SHAPE YM3418. In the two years since the device has been available, it has gar- SALES nered amarket share of 5% to 10%, an- (S BILLIONS) alysts say. In the middle of last year, Yamaha was joined by Sierra Semicon- ductor Corp. of San Jose, which is initially targeting the portable and laptop PC market with its single-chip SC11046

device. It combines a 4,800-b/s send- STAND-ALONE FAX only fax capability with a 2,400-b/s (S MILLIONS) data modem. A number of other companies are testing the market with prototypes, among them Hitachi Ltd. with its fax- PC FAX only HD81900 and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. with its fax-only MN8605. Also eyeing PC fax are Ja- pan's Old Semiconductor and Taiwan's 1989 1990 1991 1992 United Microelectronics Corp. In the SOURCE. CAP INTERNATIONAL, U. S., Macronix Inc. of San Jose is expected to introduce a PC-fax chip set and boards built around it, while two call capability," he says. "It's like hav- The Exar chip set offers an integrat- major semiconductor houses Intel ing a low-cost 1-W radio transmitter ed approach, says the company's mo- Corp. and National Semiconductor with the broadcasting range of amulti- dem engineering manager, Demonder Corp.—are nibbling at the edges of the million-dollar, megawatt commercial Chan. The two chips provide the com- chip business by supplying fax boards radio station." plete data pump for fax and data com- to the PC market. Meanwhile, not to Around 50 fax-board manufacturers munications, he says. The only other be outgunned by the upstarts, Rock- have emerged in the last two years, external device required is a host mi- well itself recently introduced devices and they are the targets of Exar, says crocontroller for graphics control and aimed at PC fax. company vice president Ilhan Refiog,lu. for implementing the modem's com- "As the [board] market has become mand set. T PRESENT, THE MARKET more competitive price-wise, their strat- Fabricated in 2.0-µ,m CMOS and creat- A for PC-fu boards is minuscule egy has been to offer more functionali- ed using the company's in-house design- compared with that for stand-alone fax ty by adding modem functions to their automation system, the Exar offering in- machines: an estimated 80,000 boards boards," he says. "While it is possible cludes the digital-signal-processing were installed in 1989 in the U. S. to combine fax-only chips with data- XR2901 and the )CR2902 analog front against 864,000 fax machines, accord- modem chips to create a combined- end. The 2901 has the modulation and ing to market watcher Dataquest Inc. function board, this is an extremely ex- demodulation drcuitry for both the fax of San Jose. pensive route to go," he says. Other and digital-modem functions, says Chan. However, the total available market drawbacks: combined-function boards It also supports the DSP functions, in- is staggering: some 40 million installed consume more power and space, re- cluding the adaptive equalizer, scrambler PCs, says Paul Masters, president of quire more glue logic to combine the and descrambler, automatic gain control, fax-board maker Fremont Communica- integrated circuits, and result in redun- and carrier functions. tions Co., Fremont, Calif. That's at least dancy of function, Refiog,lu says. The 2902, he says, combines analog as large as the installed base of stand- and digital functions. The analog por- alone fax machines, he says. And an tion contains the transmit and receive additional 6 million desktop and filters, which provide band separation 500,000 laptop machines are added to and equalization for the full duplex the pool each year. "Long term, we TARGETING PC FAX modes. It also contains a9-bit analog- feel that the potential of the facsimile In 9,600-b/s facsimile chips, Rock- to-digital converter that handles incom- market is unlimited," says Bill Nicker- well has the market for stand-alone ing voice-line signals and a 10-bit digi- son, director of standard-product mar- machines sewn up, so competitors tal-to-analog converter for transmission. keting at Sierra Semiconductor. are edging in by concentrating on a The digital portion contains the hand- The key to expansion is in spreading new market: PC add-in fax boards shaking logic necessary for interfacing the word to business users that fax can to a host processor or on-board con- be a PC function, says Michael Atkin- So far, Exar, Rockewll, Sierra troller, as well as necessary clock-gen- son, vice president of Imavox, aSunny- Semiconductor, and Yamaha are the eration circuitry. vale, Calif., fax-board maker. What a only players shipping devices, but a As Exar takes aim at board makers, fax board offers them is nothing short half dozen other chip houses are Sierra is taking adifferent slant on the of "a worldwide audience accessible testing the waters market. Sierra's aim is to provide an in- by a single fax system with multiple- expensive send-only fax capability for a ElE71120NRIS •APRIL 1990

1731 specific class of users, says Nickerson: PC and laptop users in departmental or group environments. The company, which is now readying new products, got its feet wet last year with the first single-chip combined data/fax modem offering. The SC11046 SendFax combines 4,800-b/s send-only fax with a 2,400-b/s send/receive modem. "In general, what these users require is not areceive-fax capability so much as the ability to send electronic mes- sages in fax form to fax machines at remote locations," Nickerson says. "In the departmental environment, a computer with asend-fax capability allows a company to buy simpler, less expensive stand-alone fax machines instead of more expensive ones designed for multiple users. In alaptop, asend- fax capability means that a businessman [who is traveling] can avoid the PC APPLICATIONS exorbitant prices that are being Exar's two-chip set, the XR-2900 FaxPlus, integrates 9,600-b/s send/ charged to send faxes. He can maintain receive capability with a 4,800-b/s data modern. regular contact with his office and his customers over the telephone." Using these devices it supplies two mean a large form factor." half-card offerings: the Maxfax9624, The company, with the backing of HE BIG QUESTION, SAYS with data modem and full 9,600-b/s Hambrecht & Quist Inc. and agroup of TSierra Semiconductor's Nicker- fax send and receive for desktop PCs; private investors, is now breaking son, is how much the user is willing to and the Maxcomm 2448, with data mo- ground on a MOO million fabrication pay for fax capability. "At this point in dem and send-only 4,800-b/s fax capa- facility in Taiwan devoted mainly to time, we do not feel the vast majority bility for portables and laptops. data communications circuits, includ- of users are willing to pay the several "While it does require additional log- ing fax and modem ICs. hundreds of dollars for a capability ic and components to implement a Looking over its shoulder at these they can get with their stand-alone fax combined fax/data modem," says com- newcomers, Rockwell is continuing to machines," he says, "especially if they pany president Paul Liu, "it does not add to its family of devices with both have to give up aslot in their PC to do necessarily mean compromising perfor- lower-cost and higher-functionality of- it." What they might go for, he says, is mance to achieve lower cost. And with ferings. Rockwell is in its fourth genera- a high-performance 2,400-b/s modem proper design it does not necessarily tion of fax-only products designed pri- with a send-only fax capability "for a marily for stand-alone machines, says few tens of dollars over the price of Duane Smith, director of the facsimile the modem." modem product line. In addition, he The company has aggressive plans says, Rockwell recently introduced a to blanket the market with avariety of HE TOTAL family of eight data/facsimile modem- facsimile and mixed fax/data-modem device options for PCs. chip offerings over the next year, in- AVAILABLE FAX T Designated the RC9624AT series, the cluding alow-power version of its cur- offerings combine a2,400-b/s data mo- rent chip, 2,400- and 9,600-b/s send- MARKET IS STAGGERING: dem with either a 4,800- or 9,600-b/s and-receive chip sets, and a 19,200-bit fax capability in one or two package data and fax modem chip set. configurations. Included also are a For its part, Macronix is involved not SOME 40 MILLION range of added software and firmware just with chips but also with boards. options, including data compression The company believes it is possible to and error correction. make some improvements over the INSTALLED PCs. 'LONG For the PC-fax market to really take current fax-chip offerings and later this off, says Masters of Fremont Communi- year will introduce a fax/modem chip TERM,' SAYS ONE cations, board makers must identify the set and a new generation of more requirements of key vertical business powerful boards based on them. EXECUTIVE, 'THE segments and develop the application Right now Macronix is building software they need for easy access to boards around the Yamaha YM3418 their customers. "Once that is done," he fax-only chip combined with a 2,400- POTENTIAL IS UNLIMITED' says, "you will see an explosion in fax- b/s Hayes-compatible modem and an board and chip use, and sales un- Intel Corp. 16-bit 8096 microcontroller. matched in recent years" Ei ELECTRONICS •APRIL 1990 1741 aff)reek_ • E If Integeo% • ASCLayoutankU\ MIL System Sineo% EDesign Ram • eddr Sig\u‘ "Ad À Synl‘ex

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HIPS MAY 13E SILICON tall or less to exploit the notebook ness wanes. Shipments of the latter Valley's glamour business, but a market. And everyone's making 3.5-in. peaked at 8.2 million units in 1988, Clow-profile mainstay is where products, which are displacing the Devin says, and dipped to 7.8 million the money is. "Magnetic disk 5.25-in, drives in PCs and edging to- last year. By 1994, the total will drop drives have generated more revenue in ward a capacity of 300 Mbytes. to 2.2 million, a compound an- Silicon Valley than silicon devices," The 5.25-in, units, in their turn, STOWE nual decline of -22%. The bright says Mark H. Kryder, a professor of are moving into workstations in place spot is in higher-capacity products: 760- electrical and computer engineering at of the older 8-in. and larger drives. Mbyte drives will enjoy 29% com- Carnegie Mellon University in Pitts- These 5.25-in. products are sailing be- pound annual growth through 1994, burgh, who estimates that he predicts. disks account for 20% to 30% The market figures tell the of all computer hardware story of success and failure in sales. So it was cause for the disk-drive business. Com- some concern 18 months ago panies that weathered the glut when the $20.4 billion disk- best were those with 3.5-in. drive industry went into atail- products or with offerings in spin brought on by aworld- the high-capacity 5.25-in. seg- wide glut. ment, where margins are high The oversupply and sag- and competitors few. "The ging market boded a shake- hard-disk industry still suffers out the likes of which the gross margins in the high business had never seen. Still teens and low twenties—no- reeling nearly two years later, where near their proper levels the industry is beginning to of around 3O%," says David show signs of renewed vigor. Vallenti, vice president of stor- But the aftershock from the age research at International 1988 debacle remains. Manu- MORE CAPACITY Data Corp. in Framingham, facturers are struggling to re- In 5.25-in, drives, vendors are upping storage, as Mass. "The only good that gain make-or-break gross mar- in the 1.6-Gbyte HP97560 from Hewlett-Packard. came out of this downturn is gins at the same time they're that the drive companies re- being challenged by small-is-beautiful yond the 760-Mbyte capacity ceiling in trenched before the computer-industry technological demands. apush to 1Gbyte and beyond. slowdown," he says. And trimmer, Drive makers are rushing to produce The 3.5-in, drives represent the liveli- more efficient drive makers will be bet- next-generation drives, those in the 3.5- est market right now, says Philip De- ter able to ride out the hard times. and 2.5-in, sizes needed to compete in vin, senior analyst at Dataquest Inc. in They'll be doing so with less compe- notebook, laptop, PC, and workstation San Jose, Calif. Unit sales will be 17.6 tition. Noteworthy casualties of the in- markets. Though small, these mass- million this year, a whopping 55% dustry shakeout include drive makers storage drives boast increased perfor- boost over last year's 11.3 million Priam Corp. in San Jose, Calif., and mance, as measured in average access units, he says. Through 1994, Devin Miniscribe Corp. in Longmont, Colo., time, and are doubling in capacity ev- expects a compound annual growth along with disk-media supplier Domain ery two years. rate of 22% and shipments of 31.4 mil- Technology Inc. in San Jose. All are New drive companies are starting to lion units in 1994. As the 3.5-in. hard- either in Chapter XI or are bankrupt. ship 2.5-in. hard drives that stand 1in. drive business waxes, the 5.25-in. busi- Priam's failure stemmed from its inabil- ELECTRONICS •APRIL 1990 1811 ity to launch next-generation products fast enough, says Jim Porter, president of Disk/Trend Inc., the Mountain View, Calif., industry watcher. Miniscribe— which took 60% of Domain's production—died from bad management and took Domain down with it, Porter says.

HE REMAINING COMPETI- tors—who in Porter's view are not yet out of the woods—are all eyeing the same markets: emerging notebook and laptop computers along with high- end PCs and workstations. Prairietek Corp. of Longmont, the first to ship a20- Mbyte drive for the notebook market in 1989, has just rolled out its 42.8-Mbyte 2.5-in. Model 240. However, Mike Kirby, vice president of sales and marketing at Areal Technology Inc. in San Jose, believes that even the diminutive 1-in, form factor being used in this market is too big for notebook PCs. "OEMs need a drive that is around 0.7 in. high," he SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL says, "so that the computer itself can be an inch thick." Replacing 5.25-in. drives (background) in PCs and workstations are I2st November, Areal introduced its high-capacity 3.5-in, products, like this 320-Mbyte unit from IBM. solution, the MD-2100. It is amere 0.59 in. high yet offers 100 Mbytes of capac- 0.69-in.-high, 3.5-in. drives in its LTE looking for ahigher entry-level product," ity in apackage that weighs 4.8 oz. and notebook PC. says Mark Wilson, vice president of mar- uses a single 5-V power supply. Areal Kato is the first wave of a coming keting at Quantum. The company is pro- gets its high capacity by using glass product surge. "By the end of the year ducing its ProDrive Models 120, 170, disks and its light weight by building upwards of 50,000 [2.5-in.] drives will and 210 offering 120, 170. and 210 the drive enclosure out of plastic in- have shipped," says Dataquest's Devin. Mbytes, respectively. Models 120 and stead of metal. This unconventional ap- "Japanese drive makers have all started 170 are already shipping. proach pushes the state of the art, and developing 2.5-in. products and are no By Disk/Trend's count, companies competitors wonder if the company longer looking at 3.5-in. Every 3.5-in. battling Quantum for market share in can build the product in volume. drive maker will roll out a2.5-in. prod- this segment include Areal, Conner, Hi- U. S. manufacturer Conner Peripher- uct." Devin expects the downward spi- tachi, Maxtor, Rodime, Toshiba, and als Inc. has for some time now been ral in disk-drive size to continue. He eight others. "Maxtor—one of the first carrying coals to Newcastle: shipping says that IBM Corp. has its eyes on a with a high-capacity 3.5-is. drive— 3.5-in, hard-disk drives in the small 1.8-in. disk drive and may well take the plans to ship more than 10,000 of the form factor to Japanese-based comput- technology initiative in building this 200-Mbyte units per quarter this year," er manufacturers, including NEC Home next-generation product. says George Scalise, Maxtor Corp.'s Electronics (U.S.A.), Sharp Electronics, Big Blue has speculated on mount- president and chief executive officer. and Toshiba America. ing such aunit directly on aPCs moth- He says the market demand is about It, too, has jumped into the 2.5-in. erboard. With existing technology, a 40,000 aquarter. arena with its CP-2024, a 20-Mbyte 1.8-in, drive could hold 10 Mbytes of One major disk-drive company that drive standing just 0.69 in. high and storage, but by the end of the year 20 has not been a big factor in 3.5-in. code named Kato—with apologies to Mbytes will be possible. products is Seagate Technology. The Inspector Clouseau's manservant. Kato In the fast-moving 3.5-in, market, billion-dollar, Scotts Valley, Calif.-based and three other new drives were de- drives in the 100-to-200-Mbyte range behemoth lagged in developing alow- signed with input from major U. S., Eu- have had the most sales activity iccently. end 3.5-in. drive, relying instead on ropean, and Asian computer OEMs, In this market, Quantum Corp. of Milpi- low-end 5.25-in. products. says Scott Holt, executive vice presi- tas, Calif., will be aforce. At nearly 30%, However, Seagate's acquisition last dent of sales and marketing at the San Quantum has one of the best gross mar- year of Imprimis Technology Inc., a subsidiary of Minneapolis-based Con- Jose company. gins of any disk-drive company in the "C,onner's secret is to stay close to its business. Though the quarter ending in trol Data Corp., plugs all the holes in customer and build a quality product December last year was 18% below the its product line, says Carla Kennedy, at agood price to meet his needs," he quarter ending in October, it was up vice president of marketing. In the last says. Compaq Computer Corp. of 212% over the same quarter ayear ago. quarter of 1989, the company began Houston, a Conner investor, has al- "Drives in the 100-to-200-Mbyte cate- rolling out its 126-Mbyte ST1144A 3.5- ready used one of the company's new gory are aimed at workstation suppliers in. drive, so the competition in this EIKTRONICS •APRIL 1990 1821 YAMAHA LSI. Leading the Way in CD Storage Technology.

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CIRCLE 208 market segment is about to begin in uct is likely to be at the higher end of earnest. this span. "In the 3.5-in, market, the pre- While drive makers are shipping vious-generation capacity was 200 products in the 100- to 200-Mbyte ca- COMING ONSTREAM Mbytes. So the next step up should be pacity range, the next brass ring every- For notebook computers, a new double that, or 400 Mbytes." one is reaching for is over 380 Mbytes generation of 2.5-in, disk drives Maxtor's Scalise sees his company's (unformatted). Only two companies packing 20 Mbytes or more and competition coming not from other have managed to snag it so far: IBM standing under an inch tall; 3.5-in. offerings but from suppliers of and Maxtor. IBM got there first with half-high 5.25-in. 380-Mbyte drives. "In the Model 320, a320-Mbyte (formatted For PCs and workstations, 3.5-in. this product category, only Imprimis capacity) drive, which is shipping in drives with 300-Mbyte capacity; and Micropolis have a product," says the company's recently announced Sys- Porter of Disk/Trend. 'The advantage tem 6000 workstation. For file servers, minis, and main- for the OEM of ahalf-high drive is that "IBM got to be first the hard way," frames, 5.25-in drives breaking the he can buy the product now and not says Vallenti of IDC. "Instead of pack- 1-Gbyte barrier. have to wait for volume production of ing more bits and tracks per inch on the 3.5-in. drive later in the year." Sca- the four disks normally used in ahigh- lise concedes the half-high 5.25-in. capacity 3.5-in. drive, IBM used eight rector of marketing and business plan- drive has its attractions, but he's bet- disks. In addition, to push perfor- ning for Hitachi America Inc.'s Computer ting on the 3.5-in. units: "once in vol- mance, the drive rotates at 4,300 rpm Division in Brisbane, Calif. However, ume production, 3.5-in. will cost less." instead of the 3,600 rpm of other "Big Blue is selling the drive to third-par- drives." Turning the disk faster in- ty add-on equipment manufacturers, OWEVER, FOR MICROPO- creases the data-transfer rate and re- such as Western Digital, Systems Indus- Hlis Corp. of Chatsworth, Calif., duces latency-the time it takes a tries, and CMS Enhancement," he says. the half-high product is the ticket back block in atrack to rotate to the drive's As a result, the OEM business is left to good times. 'The company was so read/write head. With a 3,600-rpm ro- wide open for Maxtor and its LX'T-340 hard hit by the glut in 380-Mbyte 5.25- tational rate, latency is around 8ms. In drive with 340-Mbyte formatted capacity, in. drives that it gave up its 3.5-in. drive the IBM drive, it's about 6 ms. announced in January. Scalise says the development," says analyst Vallenti. Its What the chive buys IBM is time to company began shipping beta units this strategy now is to use the half-high market, Vallenti concludes. The compa- month. 'The LX'T-340 will move into 5.25-in, drive to fund the development ny can ship a workstation with a 320- slots where 380-Mbyte 5.25-in. drives of the 1-Gbyte full-height 5.25-in, prod- Mbyte 3.5-in, drive when no other work- were used previously," sralise predicts. uct, he says. station vendor can. IBM is not offering Boudreau says Hitachi plans amodel In the full-height 5.25-in. arena, "the the product on an OEM basis "and in that capacity range, too, but has not 760-Mbyte and 1-Gbyte product catego- probably couldn't, because no computer yet decided how many megabytes to ries are doing well and will continue to maker will buy a key component from offer. 'The range will be 320 to 400 grow," says analyst Devin. "While the its archrival," says Gerald Boudreau, di- Mbytes," he says, hinting that the prod- lower-capacity product will see a 29% compound annual growth rate over OTHERS 4% the period 1989 to 1994, the higher-ca- WHO'S WHO IN THE MARKET pacity unit will grow a whopping (5.25-IN., 328%." Among the makers of these 760-MBYTE drives, which are destined for file serv- WINCHESTERS) ers, minicomputers, and mainframes, are Imprimis, Hitachi, Maxtor, Micropo-

MICROPOLIS lis, NEC, and newcomer Hewlett-Pack- 11% ard. All have shipped samples. The offering from Micropolis is the Model 1518-14, which boasts 1.12 Gbytes of capacity (unformatted). Max- tor's P1-13 and P2-17S, nicknamed Pan-

ther, offer caPacities of 1.35 and 1.42 Gbytes respectively. The Imprimis Model MAXTOR SEAGATE 94601-12G, one of the first to ship, holds 31% 31% 1.1 Gbytes, while its 97501-15G offers 1.21 Gbytes. Hitachi's offering is the (5.25-IN., 380-MBYTE DK516-12, with 1.2 Gbytes, and the WINCHESTERS) HP 4% DK516C, with 1.6 Gbytes (unformatted). NEC Corp.'s 5.25-in, unit is the D5892, OTHERS 4% which offers 1.6 Gbytes of unformatted capacity. Finally, the HP97558 and HITACHI 5% HP97560 from Hewlett-Packard Co. in Palo Alto, Calif, offer capacities of 1.26 SOURCE INTERNATIONAL DATA CORP and 1.6 Gbytes (unformatted). Ei

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YSTEMS INTEGRATION IS managing most or all of a customer's Corp., the Maynard, Mass., computer ahot topic again in the comput- information-management resources, company, has paired with a big ac- Ser business, just as it was adec- acting as a sort of data-processing counting-consulting firm to pursue SI ade ago. But the term is being prime contractor. Much like the con- opportunities in the discrete and pro- defined much more broadly now as ductor of asymphony orches- cess manufacturing industries. major corporations—mostly computer tra, the systems integrator COMPUTERS And Unisys Corp., headquar- and consulting firms hustle to win makes acollection of dissimilar equip- tered .in Blue Bell, Pa., has likewise new business as systems integrators. ment play well together. joined forces with Deloitte & Touche, a Ten years ago, many computer mak- Digital Equipment, Hewlett-Packard, consulting and professional services ers were satisfied to sell "iron"—boxed IBM, and Unisys are just a few of the firm based in Wilton, Conn., to serve mini- or microcomputers—to small leading computer firms that have set state and local governments as well as firms that specialized in systems inte- their sights on substantial new revenues companies. Electronic Data Systems gration. Those integrators put the pro- from systems integration, or variations of Corp. and Texas Instruments Inc., both cessor together with peripheral equip- SI. At Hewlett-Packard Co., the emphasis based in Dallas, are also looking for SI ment and specialized application soft- is on consulting with true SI coming via and/or facilities-management business. ware, then sokl the whole package as a third-party teaming arrangements. Others There's adifferent kind of entry in the solution tailored to the needs of aclass are forming strategic alliances with major SI game as well, perhaps typified by of customers seeking to automate, say, consulting organizations, which, in their Nynex Information Resources Co., which a factory or a law office. Value-added turn, often find k advantageous to tap has set up a Complex Systems Integra- resellers perform that kind of systems into a hardware vendor's expertise in tion Group in White Plains, N. Y. Nynex integration today. hardware, software, and networking to brings strong communications creden- Now, however, computer vendors plan a customer's information-manage- tials to the business, but will do both and consulting firms alike are taking ment needs. system and network integration. on the task of designing, installing, and For example, Digital Equipment The lure of SI comes from alucrative FIECTIONIO IAPRIL 1990 185 1 market that promises enhanced profits that the organization would team with for acompany offering more than hard- outside partners—a Big Five account- ware, software, or networking alone. Es- ing firm, for example—to gain some timates peg that market at about $5 bil- special expertise. lion now and triple that sum by 1993. IWONS OF While the HP program can deliver a Walter Ulrich, client-services director at DOLLARS WILL BE hardware-independent wide-area net- Arthur D. Little Inc., aCambridge, Mass., B work that integrates computers from consulting firm, sees "billions of dollars multiple vendors, the company won't being spent in systems integration in the SPENT I\ SYSTEMS bid on large government data-process- '90s, and there will be plenty of competi- ing facilities-management projects, says tion. But the market will be big enough Susan Cook, product marketing manag- for a large number of players." ADL MEGRATIO\ IN THE er in HP's Applications Support Divi- penned a service alliance with DEC in sion, Mountain View, Calif The latter January; the two will jointly pursue SI 1990s, AMARKET THAT'S kind of business "requires alarge cen- and information-technology projects. tral organization that keeps astable of bodies who can be rotated on a job OME OF THE PLAYERS BIG DOUGH TO basis," Cook says. "That's a lucrative Shave restructured into business business, and some companies do it units that are responsible for the corpo- ACCOMMODATE ALARGE well, but we won't do it." Instead, rate SI thrust. DEC, for example, intro- Cook says "we'll work with an outside duced its so-called Digital Enterprise In- partner to offer some component of tegration Services in September 1988. NUMBER OF PLAYERS that solution." In company parlance, "enterprise" is At Unisys, the restructuring into an synonymous with "corporate-wide," easily recognizable SI organization which means that DEC's aim is to pro- "isn't just another reorganization," says vide and/or pull together all of a cus- Group, based in McLean, Va., which David C. Gompert, newly named presi- tomer's worldwide networked comput- directs the Unisys SI efforts. IBM has dent of the Systems Management ers—including non-DEC products— both a Systems Integration Division Group. "It's a strategic initiative decid- into an enterprise-wide information- and a strong but separate facilities ed at the highest levels to provide an management resource. Included in the management operation. important avenue for growth." services are conceptual planning and As for HP, the Palo Alto, Calif -based Unisys offers a good example of design, program management, integrat- firm prefers to serve as aprofessional- how the new SI organizations are ed support services, and SI service alli- services consulting organization that structured and how they go after busi- ances with other companies, such as teams with outside systems integrators. ness. SMG is part of the company's the one with Deloitte & Touche. In February, the company upgraded its U. S. Information Systems Division. It TI, too, created last fall an Informa- HP Consultline program, which can can call on the skills of some 1,500 em- tion Technology Group to bring a call on 3,000 HP field consultants to ployees, of whom about 5% are pro- more concentrated focus to its systems- configure multivendor consulting solu- gram managers. integration push. More recently, Un- tions for customers in information Roughly 25% of the total are hard- isys in January merged elements of its management, manufacturing, finance, ware specialists, 10% or less are net- commercial and government business networking, and engineering automa- work designers or managers, "and groups into a Systems Management tion. HP announced at the same time most of the rest are software special-

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Another way of look- alyses for customers stop short of mak- tion and systems-operation di- ing at SMG's makeup shows that about ing specific product recommendations. mensions. In this phase, EIS would "craft athird of the organization have exper- DEC's Enterprise Integration Services the custom part of the solution," most tise in Unisys technology, while two organization is expected to generate likely software, and integrate it with the thirds are skilled in non-Unisys multi- more than $1 billion in 1990 SI reve- platforms. Finally, the systems-operation vendor environments. nues, encompassing hardware, software, dimension is usually called facilities man- The Unisys sales force has been services, and support Based in Stow, agement. It encompasses managing the trained to recognize opportunities that Mass., EIS is not astand-alone division, enterprise-wide system once the plat- suggest SMG get involved. The dollar forms and custom components have potential varies greatly—from a few been successfully integrated. million dollars to $100 million or All three dimensions are delivered and more. More important as criteria for managed by "a single point of responsi- calling in SMG is the complexity of the HELM bility," Geed says, "because customers job and identifying who will bear re- Customers in government and at are applying information technology on sponsibility for the finished system. large corporations are clamoring for such abroad scale that they want to buy SMG usually gets involved if there help in designing, installing, and solutions, not just products. And they are needs for extensive special design managing multivendor information- want to buy those solutions from asys- work, the use of diverse technologies processing networks. tems-integration company." (a mix of Unisys and non-Unisys com- A good example of an EIS project is puters, for example), and networking. And computer companies includ- the manufacturing system DEC is devel- The most important criterion, however, ing DEC, HP, IBM, and Unisys see oping for the Convair Division of Gener- is whether or not acustomer "plans to their need as abig revenue produc- al Dynamics Corp. in San Diego [Elec- place the full responsibility and risk on er: $5 billion this year, triple that tronics, January 1990, p. 15]. DEC is sys- the shoulders of the systems-integra- amount in 1993. tems integrator for the multiyear, multi- tion vendor," Gompert says. million-dollar project, which will A $12.3 million contract awarded to integrate thousands of workstations. Sub- SMG and Grumman Data Systems in says David Geed, its corporate market- contractor Matra Datavision Inc. will sup- January is agood example of how the ing manager. Instead, EIS can call upon ply CAD/CAM solids-modeling software Unisys SI approach works. Unisys and the services of some 20,000 DEC em- for engineering and manufacturing. Grumman will design and implement a ployees in the company's worldwide Nynex also assumes full responsibil- public-safety information-management customer service and sales organizations. ity for its SI projects, much as ageneral system for Suffolk County, N. Y. As Creed says that DEC has put in place contractor shoulders the responsibility subcontractor, Grumman "will do a the machinery and process to identify for constructing a building, says Gad large piece of development work" for a whether or not abusiness opportunity Selig, vice president and general man- network that will link the county's po- warrants EIS consideration. It consists ager of the Nynex Complex Systems lice and fire departments, jail, district mainly of program-management offices Integration Group. attorney's office, rescue and emergency around the world that take over atask Selig explains that systems integra- services. The network will include Un- after asales team has turned up alikely tion at Nynex consists of consulting, isys mainframes, departmental comput- EIS candidate—an opportunity the design decisions, implementation, testers, 799 work stations, communications sales team believes exceeds the bounds ing, maintenance, and facilities man- equipment, and software tailored to of being locally deliverable off the agement—or any combination of these the county's needs. price list. Then the program-manage- ingredients. 'We sell people and ser- ment office invokes what Creed loosely vices. We're solution folks looking for LTIMATE RESPONSIBILITY calls an "algorithm." the best and least expensive solution" Ufalls to SMG. "While there are This calculation is"a combination of for acustomer, he says. provisions in contract law for a flow- size, complexity, and risk," Creed says. Like the systems integrators coming down of risk to subcontractors, that "And if the potential business meets from computer-industry roots, Nynex is doesn't relieve the prime [contractor] the [SI] test, EIS is called in." He de- teaming with other companies for spe- of the first responsibility to the custom- scribes SI as providing "something be- cific projects. For example, IBM is its er," Gompen says. "We're ulitmately yond just aproduct." If the sales force partner on EmpireNet, afive-year, $170 responsible, and that's part of what we can satisfy the customer's need by sell- million New York state government sell: a willingness to back what we ing "just aproduct, or aproduct plus a network project. Nynex handles the sell." He says SMG will account for third-party application, there would be planning, especially for the network- some $100 million in 1990 revenues. no EIS involvement." control center and network-manage- The revenues are larger at both HP Geed regards SI as a three-dimen- ment software. I/ and DEC. HP Consultline's consulting sional task. The first dimension con- Additional reporting by Jack Shandle ELECTRONICS •APRIL 1990 1871 INFORMATION CENTER

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HE CIRCUMSTANCES WERE not claiming any practicality now." proven over the past five years by less than auspicious when Alan Digital optics is just one branch of Huang and his colleagues. The task THuang started his digital optical optical computing. The other is based ahead is to make them play together. computing project at AT&T Bell on analog pattern recognition imple- The heart of the AT&T processor is a Laboratories in 1985. AT&T Co. was in mented on neural networks. Al- monolithic device grown with the throes of divestiture. Huang was though the underlying concepts OPTICS molecular-beam epitaxy on galli- an electrical engineer and VLSI design- differ, the technologies developed by um arsenide, the S-SEED. These sym- er—not aphysicist. His team consisted Bell Labs are useful for both the ana- metric self-electro -optic-effect devices of himself and one colleague, and they log and digital branches, says Deme- operate on the principles of quantum- had no lab. They were, in short, an op- tri Psaltis, professor of electrical engi- well physics. They consume about 1pJ erational definition of uncertainty for neering at Cal Tech University in Pas- and switch at 1 GHz. 'They could be long-term research. adena. In particular, Bell Labs' micro- viewed as electrical devices that reflect But by 1989, the team had grown to lasers and monolithic light-sensitive light," says Huang. 12 people working in labs that fill an devices are "superb," he says. The reflectivity of an &SEED is volt- entire corridor in AT&T's Holmdel, Practical uses of digital and analog age-sensitive. It changes from 10% to N.J., complex. The time and energy of optical computing are at least five years 60%—roughly the on-off sensitivity of another dozen researchers, although off, says Psaltis. On the neural-network conventional TTL circuits, he says. By not under Huang's direction, are com- side, practical algorithms are just now growing p-n ¡unctions near each S-SEED mitted to digital optical computing too. being created and the task of mapping to generate voltage, these tiny mirrors AT&T is betting alot on the technique, them onto optical hardware still lies become light-sensitive. They are de- and Huang sums up the prospective ahead. In the digital domain, Huang signed to behave as optical flip-flops. payout succinctly: a thousand input/ considers the year 2000 as a target for The researchers have fabricated arrays output channels, each running at a ageneral-purpose optical computer. of 2,000 S-SEEDS. One application that gigabit per second. Many technologies needed to imple- may not be too far off would replace the The object of all this attention has ment an optical processor have been I/0 pads on conventional chips with S- been shrinking in rough proportion to the team's growth. The module that spread across three lab tables three years ago now occupies one square foot, and Huang hopes it will shrink down into a 2-by-3-by-1-in. box sometime this year. A planar, or "flat-optic," version could cut off another factor of 10. The planar version is being designed so that it can be fabricated with existing photolithographic techniques. Also, a new pipeline architecture that lever- ages the massively parallel capabilities and regularity of optics has been devised. Useful prototypes lie somewhere in the future. 'We've identified a path INPUT/OUTPUT POWER from the pipeline to the operating Optical S-SEED arrays could replace the I/O pads of conventional chips; system," says Huang. However, "I'm 256 S-SEEDs fit in the space taken up by one electrical pinout. ELECIRONKS •APRIL 1990

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SEED arrays. The real estate needed for between tiles, says Huang, processing one conventional I/0 pad could hold can proceed piecemeal. The large virtual 256 S-SEED I/0s. While S-SEEDs have array can be "folded" onto a much been grown on silicon, no one has dem- FRUITS OF THE RESEARCH smaller hardware array. The process be- onstrated that they can be compatible A path toward optical compu gins by emulating in hardware alimited with advanced CMOS, says team mem- and 1,000 I/O channels running number of tile columns of the virtual ber Michael Prise. 1Gbit/s apiece by the year array. Since there are no lateral data de- Another spinoff is the microlaser dependencies, and since exactly the same veloped to power connections be- Monolithic light-sensitive .evi number of rows exist in each column of tween S-SEEDs, a device about 2 p.m that switch at 1 GHz. tiles, the results from each column pop in diameter and also grown with MBE. out at exactly the right time and exactly (Laser light reads the state of the S- A planar optical processor based the right sequence. SEED modulator and carries it to the on the concept of light diffracted by These results flow into a pipeline next chip by exciting a photodiode.) holograms, which can be etch that can be used as inputs for the next Exploratory work has begun on a by photolithography. series of columns in the virtual array. modular, planar implementation. The "What you are doing is raster scanning concept, says Huang, is based on laser a hardware window of the virtual ar- light being diffracted by holograms, puters. Increased connectivity is one way ray," says Huang. Setting up the virtual which can be etched onto quartz with to address that problem. array without lateral data dependencies photolithographic techniques. But if optical processing brings new is a challenge, of course, but Huang meaning to the term "massively paral- has developed the algorithms needed SING THIS APPROACH, A lel," it also demands a new architectur- to translate conventional logic circuits Uplanar optical processor could al foundation that is, in Huang's words, into the ultraregular processing matrix be built on athin sheet of quartz that "counterintuitive." The core idea is to that's required. has been silvered on the bottom for re- make alogical circuit layout ultraregu- The idea of reducing the circuit by flectivity. Optical outputs of S-SEEDs lar—a homogeneous matrix of process- folding it in upon itself gives rise to the would be directed by holograms and ing elements similar to programmable architecture's name: computational ori- masks etched on the surface. Electri- gate arrays. Each can be configured to gami. "It allows us to exchange hard- cal-optical hybrids could have conven- function in any of four basic ways: as a ware for time," says Huang. "We could tional chips on the surface interfaced NOR gate or as a crossover, bypass, or make a general-purpose computer with S-SEEDs to take advantage of the broadcast connection. based on it, but it would take a long massively parallel communications ca- -This regular virtual array of process- time to solve aproblem." pabilities of optics. ing elements can be folded onto a Despite its counterintuitive roots, Huang points out, for example, that smaller array of real processing ele- computational origami has applications massively parallel chip-to-chip communi- ments with the aid of delay lines," says in mainstream parallel processing as a cations could improve system speed by Huang. -The end result is that afixed multiple-instruction, multiple-data ar- as much as factor of 1,000 over today's amount of hardware can emulate a chitecture, he says. Its very daring best rates. Simply put, chip-to-chip com- much larger circuit." pleases Huang. "At the very least," he munication accounts for the thousand- The ultrareguLar virtual array can be says, "we've made it less risky for oth- fold slowdown between the picosecond thought of as an array of processing tiles ers to do research. They can tell their cycle times at the transistor level and the in which information flows only vertical- bosses that their proposals are not as nanosecond cyde times of supercom- ly. Since there are no lateral connections crazy as Bell Labs'." 11 ELECTRONICS •APRIL 1990

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ULTIMEDIA HAS NOW authoring-system software creates avir- try in general is sorely lacking. reached the Oval Office. As tual read-only memory to make infor- Compaq's workstation—its audio part of its pitch to become mation placed randomly on the disk and video cards, for example—also in- the official depository for appear as though the files were record- volved a unique set of de facto stan- records of George Bush's presidency, ed in the exact order in which ! dards, including data compres- the University of Houston created for they are played back, says Fred MULTIMEDIA sion. This arena is bedeviled the president afive-minute multimedia Meyer, president of Meridian, which is by competing standards. Intel's Digital montage of still photos, text, graphics, based in Scotts Valley, Calif. Video Interactive technology, Motor- music, and voice, all running on aper- "A mixed-up physical layout can be ola/Philips' Compact Disc-Interactive, sonal computer. The university and the very complicated for someone trying to and the Massachusetts Institute of other competing colleges are still wait- author a presentation," he says. "Our Technology all have data-compression ing on a decision, but the fledgling software makes the various files seem algorithms that could become de facto multimedia industry is basking in the to be interleaved." standards. But only by adopting acom- high-profile exposure. Meyer expects CD-ROM-XA to mon standard can the multimedia in- Still, one public relations coup can't evolve into a standard for multimedia dustry hope to avoid hopeless frag- conceal the fact that the multimedia presentations because it is expand- mentation, says Meridian's Meyer. industry is in such ennent that no one able—it will support digitized video— In a more formal way, the Interna- really knows how the components of and can be transported to more and tional Standards Organization is in the hardware and software will ultimately more powerful computing platforms. It process of putting together two stan- fit together. The industry is still grop- also boasts some important support- dards—one for still and one for moving for standards on sound and on ers—IBM, Microsoft, and Sony—and as ing images—and last year adopted a image compression. But the lack of a result can be seen as ashared stan- standard for video teleconferencing, an standards hasn't slowed the torrent dard, something the multimedia indus- application that does not require high- of multimedia hardware and software products continually arriving on the scene. The show for the White House was the work of Houston's Com- paq Computer Corp., which, along with Merid- ian Data Inc., teamed up with the University of Houston on the presiden- tial presentation. Their multimedia production was stored on a CD-ROM disk, and Com- paq used Meridian's new authoring system for the BEFORE AND AFTER CD-ROM-XA audio stan- There is no discernible difference between the original color photo and the one at dard. The VR Publisher right, which was processed by C-Cube's new video-compression chip, the CL550. ELECTRONICS •APRIL 1990 1951 quality moving images. The program, and a file-manage- ISO's video-conferencing stan- ment program. In addition, dard is called Px64, a name the III-CD also contains adisk that derives from the fact that with Framework II from Ash- digital signals can be sent in ton-Tate, Microsoft's Small highly compressed form at 64 Business Consultant, and Per- Kbits/s, at less compression at spective 3-D graphics, among 128 Kbits/s, and so on in 64- other programs. Kbit/s increments up to al- IBM Corp. has been in the most 1Mbit/s. The Px64 stan- interactive video-training busi- dard employs discrete cosine ness for more than five years transform algorithms for its with its popular InfoWindow compression. system, which uses analog la- The ISO committee formu- ser disks instead of CD-ROM lating the still-image stan- or other digital-based storage. dard—the Joint Photographic Proof that a market exists is Experts Group, or JPEG—is TRAINING APPLICATIONS found in IBM's 75 business expected to adopt a standard Matrox's Private Tutor II workstation for partners and hundreds of ap- soon, says Alain Rossmann, commercial users integrates a video-disk player. plications programs. Most of vice president of marketing these are used by large corpo- for C-Cube Microsystems Inc. of San ics companies," he says, and the first rations for in-house training. Jose, Calif. Like Px64, the still-image CL550-based product may be an- The military has also found multime- standard is based on discrete cosine nounced in August. dia training an attractive solution to its transform algorithms, he says. It is not surprising that even though educational deficit problem. The lead- The MPEG standard being formulat- the components of the multimedia ing military vendor is Matrox Electronic ed by the Moving Picture Experts workstation have just begun to co- Systems Ltd. The Dorval, Canada, com- Group will not be ready until 1991 or alesce, some companies are leapfrog- pany's Electronic Information Delivery 1992. Rossmann believes discrete co- ging the standards-based solution and System, or EIDS, will gamer some $80 sine transform has a good chance of delivering full-blown personal multime- million to $90 million from the U. S. being the basis for the MPEG standard dia platforms. Army by the time its contract is com- as well. Among them is Headstart Technolo- pleted. The EIDS workstation is a PC gies, aGreat Neck, N. Y. -based division AT-compatible computer and integrat- 3N THE MEANTIME, C-CUBE, of North American Philips, which is of- ed commercially purchased video-disk 3 which sits on the JPEG commit- fering a low-cost multimedia platform player that presents information to stu- tee, has come out with a single-chip with an integrated CD-ROM drive that dents in text, graphic, and analog or implementation of the JPEG standard. handles either authoring or interactive digital audio form. A special-purpose digital signal proces- viewing. Headstart's IX-CD, an Intel Matrox sells a commercial variation sor, the CL550 has a328-stage pipeline Corp. 8088-based machine, costs less of the system, called Private Tutor II, architecture instead of the eight to 10 than $2,000, while the Headstart III-CD to nonmilitary clients. One of them, stages that are found in ageneral-pur- costs about $3,000. The basic differ- Northern Telecom Corp. of Nashville, pose DSP, says Rossmann. ence between the two lies in graphics Tenn., employs it to show customers This architecture delivers impressive capability and software. The DC-CD in- how to use various features of their performance in executing the algo- terfaces only with aVGA monitor; the telephones, such as call forwarding, rithm when compared with standard HI-CD handles VGA, MCGA, EGA, speed dialing, conference calling, and microprocessors or DSPs. C-Cube con- CGA, and Hercules graphics. last-number redialing. tends that an 8.5-by-11-in, color image The biggest selling point on both with 300 dots-per-in. resolution and 24 machines is the amount of bundled OT ALL THE ACTION IS bits of color per pixel can undergo software that will be offered on CD- Nin platforms, however. IBM 20: 1compression in one second. An ROM, more than any manufacturer has has squeezed high-quality audio and off-the-shelf DSP would take five min- bundled with the purchase of asystem full-motion color video-capture capabil- utes to complete the 10 billion opera- before. Both machines come with two ity onto asingle card with its M-Motion tions involved and an off-the-shelf mi- CD-ROM disks containing alittle more Video Adapter/A board for Personal croprocessor, one hour or more. than agigabyte of information incorpo- System/2 desktop computers. The C-Cube's market strategy is to move rated in such volumes as the American board follows up on IBM's commit- quickly into color desktop publishing Heritage Dictionary, the World Alma- ment to asmooth migration path from and digital color cameras. "If you have nac, the U. S. Zip Code Directory, and its analog-based video products [Elec- adigital color camera," says Rossmann, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, among tronics, February, 1990, p. 49]. "you also have ascanner." Digital vid- many others. The adapter receives analog signals eo cassette recorders are another tar- Also bundled with the hardware on from external video and audio sources, geted application, as are multimedia both machines is MS-DOS 3.3, GW-Ba- processes and digitizes them, and then PCs. C-Cube has agreements with "one sic, an organizer utility, an integrated sends them to aPS/2 monitor and ex- computer company, one peripherals word processor, spreadsheet, and data- ternal speaker for use in multimedia company, and two consumer electron- base program, a desktop-publishing applications. Users can change the size ELECTRONICS •APRIL 1990 1961 and position of still-frame pictures and allows images to be saved in avariety motion video, superimpose graphics of formats. Any VGA resolution from over video, and view several different 640 by 480 to 2,560 by 1,920 pixels video images simultaneously. Video GROPING FOR SWIMS can be used. disks—the storage technology for Though not an international stan- The problem facing the half dozen InfoWindow—can be used for storage, dard, CD-ROM-XA is evolving into a or so makers of video digitizer boards as can video cameras, VCRs, and shared audio standard. for the Apple Computer Inc. Macintosh closed-circuit TV. machine is of aslightly different variety IBM is actually something of a late- In video, the ISO is promulgating than it is for those involved in IBM comer in the add-in board arena. De- standards for still and moving im- support, says Louise Kohl, director of spite, or perhaps because of, the limita- ages and video conferendng. product management at Aapps Corp., tions of the basic computing platform Sunnyvale, Calif. Apple's rigorous en- in both the PC-XT/AT and Apple Mac- Other technologies—Intel's DVI, forcement of specifications concerning intosh worlds, third-party vendors Philips' CD-I, and an MIT algorithm— screen display, resolution, and makeup wasted little time moving in with a may become de facto standards. forces manufacturers of video boards variety of boards. to make some hard choices. At least 20 to 25 add-in board ven- Most video capture and editing must dors are offering products for the PC- effects such as video-to-graphics and be done off line, first stopping the ac- AT/XT. DoubleTake AV, developed by graphics-to-video fades and luminance tion, then capturing the image, and then Brett Nelson, managing director of Lo- keying. The system can be configured editing it. Aapps has circumvented this gos Systems International, Scotts Val- to support NTSC, VHS, and European problem with its Micro-TV board. /vliao- ley, Calif., digitizes NTSC, PAL, or Se- PAL standards. TV captures NTSC, PAL, or Secam signals cam video into a PC's random-access AI Tech International Inc. of San in real time and displays the moving or extended memory, with resolutions Jose has come up with a PC-video video image directly on the Mac. An on- ranging from 160 by 120 to 640 by 480 product to test the ingenuity of systems screen display lets users change chan- pixels. A single board supports CGA, houses. The frame-grabber board, nels, control tuning and contrast. EGA, VGA, extended VGA, Hercules, called VI Imager, runs on aVGA moni- New Media Graphics Inc., Billerica, Genius, Multiview, Verticom, Corner- tor and allows the user to make any Mass., has three products for the multi- stone, and Sigma L-View monitors number of adjustments after a frame media market. VideoWindows is areal- without modification. has been captured. Generally, the ad- time (30-frame/s) frame grabber for justments are the sort that would be the PC AT or XT that allows the com- OUBLETAKE AV TECH- made in graphic arts. These software- puter to display some or all of the nology combines dithering with implemented enhancements include digitized video image in a VGA-com- gray-scale manipulation to customize the sharpening or softening the image, patible 60-Hz noninterlaced window saved image to the monitor upon which changing it to its negative, and edge numing inside aspreadsheet or word- it will be displayed. The board also cap- enhancement. processing program. tures audio signals at sound quality simi- Another option converts the image The company's VidoeoWindows lar to that of the telephone or AM radio. to a binary bit map with black and High-Res does the same thing for a Compression routines offer 4: 1 or 2: 1 white pixels. Images can be cropped Sun, Apollo, Hewlett-Packard, or Sili- compression. and the pieces saved, and they can be con Graphics workstation, but at ares- Another board company, Data Trans- edited with apainting program. Anoth- olution of 1,280 by 1,024 pixels. lation Inc. of Marlboro, Mass., offers an er useful feature is that the package Instead of a board, the New Media extensive lineup of imaging Graphics frame grabber is a products, including frame grab- — Ilia 1011 Chennrit stand-alone box that sits near bers, frame processors, and im- the workstation. For example, ro1W-

age-processing software. It sup- rhannel, Tuoin, using awindow, it will allow a ports IBM, MiaoVAX, Sun, and U010100-1 stockbroker to watch live video VMEbus computers. Data Trans- 74 reports on stocks from a cable lation also has desktop video network or other source while hardware for the Macintosh, PC On/Off .rTA running another application pro- 0 AT, and PS/2. gram on most of the screen. Meanwhile, two companies VideoWindows operates in

in Beaverton, Ore.—Metheus Cli HP's New Wave environment. Corp. and Magni Systems The GraphOver 9500 permits Inc.—have teamed up on avid- text and graphics overlays on

eo solution that combines • video images. One of its appli- Metheus' VGA graphics adapter cations is for military command and Magni's VGA Producer. Us- and control systems to super- ing scan-converter techniques, impose symbols on maps that VGA Producer reformats Pre- are taken from a laser video mier VGA's graphics output to REAL-TIME CAPTURE disk. Il meet video parameters. The The Micro-TV board from Aapps nabs video Additional reporting by Bernard system lets users create special signals in real time and displays them on a Mac. C. Cole and Lawrence Curran ELECTRONICS •APRIL 1990

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ELECTRONICS •APRIL 1990 11071 Ecomponents company rooted in the defense budget any time soon. "A $300 its core device and componentTI defense market. Vanderslice says that billion defense budget looks stable strengths with an eye to their use in the military-to-commercial ratio of M/A- through 1991-92, then we expect it will military and commercial markets. "We COM's business has been 90: 10. Di- roll off," Bunker suggests. Meanwhile, have agood [GaAs] development effort vesting some of the operations will the company is studying ways to ex- in MMIC," Vanderslice says. "We're the make that split 80:20, and Bunker pand its commercial device and com- largest supplier of GaAs ingots, and says the goal is eventually to reach the ponents business, perhaps initially for we'll keep going at it, even though 70: 30 level. use in commercial instrumentation and that's still mostly apotential business" Bunker isn't overly concerned about radar detector systems. rather than a major revenue producer lessened East-West tensions gutting the But M/A-COM will continue to fund right now. Some observers questioned Vander- slice's credentials to run amainly military company when he took over at M/A-COM. He answers by citing his relevant experience at General Electric

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1091 Eners for Israeli companies. The ideal VALID LOGIC U. S. company for BIRD's purposes, says executive director A. I. Mlaysky, is a medium-size operation in the $10 ACQUISITIONS BEHIND IT AND million to $100 million range that is growing 25% ayear. AROBUST PRODUCT LINE IN PLACE, All deals must involve an Israeli partner. BIRD puts up 50% of the ODSL of a VALID IS SIITING PREM project; the partner companies obtain the rest. The average project is $1 million. "So a typical million-dollar deal would look this way," says Mlaysky. GAINING GROUND IN "Say the American company's share of the cost is $300,000 and the Israeli's, $700,000. BIRD would contribute $150,000 to the U. S. partner, $350,000 THE GREAT CAD RACE to the Israeli. So by contributing only $150,000, the U. S. company gets the benefits of a$1 million program." IT DOES NOT There are now 60 to 70 such pro- take arocket scien- jects going. "We started 43 in 1989 tist to figure out why W. alone," says Mlaysky, "the most in a Douglas Hajjar, president single year since we started. We wrote and chief executive of checks last year totaling $13 million." Valid Logic Systems Inc., The foundation has so many requests is feeling good about the for partners, he says, that it is now way things are going for turning down some proposals that it his company. Dataquest would have accepted in earlier years. Inc. ranks Valid No. 2af- ter Mentor Graphics F THE 250 PROJECTS ON Corp. in the design-auto- BIRD's books, some 100 have mation industry for total not yet reached the product stage. Of hardware and software the 150 remaining, about 100 have led sales. Valid racked up al- to sales of products. Through the end of most $174 million in rev- 1989, these products have chalked up enues in 1989, an in- $700 million in sales; sales of related crease of 23% over 1988. products were $300 million. On top of that, net in- A look at BIRD's books show that come was $10 million, the foundation—which is a quasi-gov- an increase of 29%. ernmental body with three board And all this happened members from each country, including while the San Jose, Calif., the U. S. Assistant Secretary of Com- company was handling merce—shows it has $10 million in an- the integration of four nual income. acquisitions made over Mlaysky ticks off some of BIRD's the last two years and noteworthy successes in electronics: despite aslow start early "We're feeling real positive about 1990," says •A flat-bed scanner from Scitex Corp., in 1989 engendered by a Valid's president and CEO, W. Douglas Hajjar. an Israeli firm that has 40% of the transition to new re- world market for the computer imagers duced-instruction-set computing plat- environment for analog designers; Con- that are used by magazine and book forms—Sun Microsystems Inc.'s SPARC- struct IC, alayout editor; and Compose publishers. station 1and Digital Equipment Corp.'s 2, achip-assembly environment. •Tyco's DTX240 fiber-optic-cable mul- DECstation 3100. Valid also is a remar- Valid is already a seasoned partici- tiplier that increases the data-carrying keter of IBM Corp. high-performance pant in the Unix marketplace—"we are capacity of the cable fivefold. There's workstations, including the PS/2 Model the leaders by far with 10,000 seats one on each end of the TAT-8 transat- 80 and the new RISC System/6000. shipped into that environment," says lantic cable. Now, with the launching of some sig- Hajjar. With all of those goals met, the •Solar-powered power stations, mostly nificant new products, Hajjar believes company's aim this year "is to continue for Southern California. Valid logic is poised to take market to execute. We have no major product •A key phone for Ameritech. share fDDIT1 its competitors in 1990. holes, no major integrations to do, Though deals can be arranged by Among the introductions is RapidSIM, a we're totally standard, we've come BIRD or the companies, Mlaysky says, digital simulator (see p. 55) that is part through a period of transition pretty "Mae most satisfying ones are those of a new Logic Workbench environ- well, and we expect that to continue," that we put together ourselves." El ment; Analog Workbench 2, asimulation he says. "We're feeling real positive BECTRONICS •APRIL 1990 11101 I-about 1990, because we've got our act good position to take market share from is the only game in town." And Daisy/ together—and, more important, we've some of its competitors. 'They are the Cadnetix Inc.'s financial problems [Elec- got it together at atime when competi- only company right now that's afill-line tronics, March 1990, p. 56] mean that "if tors are in a period of transition. And supplier with integrated systems ship- you want to do ASIC design, its either that usually leads to significant market- ping on the Sun workstation," he says. Valid or Mentor," Collett says. share gains." "Mentor Graphics won't be shipping for Despite Hajjar's words to the con- As examples of this transition, Hajjar another year, and Cadence really isn't in trary, Collett sees a major hole in Va- points out that major competitor Mentor the system market per se—they're just lid's product line: "Valid should get Graphics' recuit acquisition of Silicon skimming the surface. They'll all be on some logic-synthesis products to go Compiler Systems Inc. signals an impor- the Sun eventually, but right now Valid with their simulation capability." U tant shift in market strategy for Mentor that has to be wrung out. "In addition to absorbing their first major acquisition ever," he says, "they're bringing out QuickSIM 2, a new high-performance Score Big With Vitelic's digital simulator. Also, they've just introduced their new Falcon 8.0 framework, Fast SIMISIs. and they must get through aUnix-switch strategy, all at the same time." Cadence Design Systems Inc., too, is going through atransition, Hajjar says. "They're trying to absorb several acqui- Ricky SIMM rounds third. Here compatibles and advanced 386 sitions. They've been an IC company comes the throw from center field. and 486 systems. Both devices with 95% of their revenue in ICs, and now they're coming into the systems SIMM dives for the plate. He scores! come in the standard 72 pin module. market for the first time. They still have Put Ricky SIMM on your main some major holes to fill." memory team and watch your high Ricky SIMM is also available But for Valid Logic, "RapidSIM will performance personal workstation in 256K x8 and 256K x9 round out our product line to apoint score with the customer every tine. configurations in standard 30 where we feel we have the best appli- pin SIMM and SIP modules. cation software in every area of the With 60 and 70ns access times, With access times of 60, 70, market and at the same time, no transi- Vitelic's 256K x36 and 512K x36 and 8Ons and fast page mode tions to go through. If that doesn't lead CMOS DRAMs are the fastest to a major market-share shift, then configuration, these memories SIMMs in the league. Our SIMMs we've totally screwed up." are ideal for PC/workstation are the perfect add-on memories main memory and memory for IBM PS/2 UT VALID DOES HAVE A expansion. Bchallenge of its own, says Rob- ert Herwick, a senior technology ana- Call Vitelic today at 800-VITELE lyst for Hambrecht & Quist Inc. in New -ohear York: to coordinate aproduct line that has been largely put together by acquisitions. He refers to Valid's takeover of Telesis Systems in 1987 and of GE Calma's IC-design business and Inte- more grated Measurement Systems, aleading about maker of ASIC prototype systems, in Vitelic's 1988. At the same time it won analog SIMM. Sign capability by acquiring Analog Design Tools Inc. in Sunnyvale, Calif. Ricky orro ycur But Hajjar, who was president and team ard watch your CEO of Telesis before the merger, says PCs and workstations outrun the integration has gone smoothly. the competition "Collectively, we have done alot of acquisitions, unlike our competition. Iper- sonally have been involved in maybe 50 V VITELIC of them over the last seven or eight The Emerging Leader in Specialty Memories years, so it's a strategy we've felt comfortable with. We've been able to mini- mize the pain level of bringing new people and technologies together." Analyst Ron Collett of Dataquest in CIRCLE 400 FOR LITERATURE San Jose agrees that Valid is in a very CIRCLE 401 FOR SALES CONTACT

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The new two ported memories BY JOHN GOSCH are based on 4 Mbit RAM and are added in increments of N THE SPIRIT 64 MBytes. At 256 MBytes of glasnost, the maximum capacity, the Soviet Union is prepar- memory is organized to handle ing an exhibition that's large size images of up to probably the most un- 8K x8K x 32 or sequences of usual it has ever staged several seconds at HDTV rates. for public viewing. Con- version 90, to be held in Munich, West Germa- FEATURES ny, April 20 to 25, will feature Soviet equip- IM Dual digital inputs accept data ment including military at up to 200 MBytes/sec. hardware that up to • 8 or 10-bit digitizers now has been kept sample analog inputs at strictly under wraps. up to 50 MHz. On display will be

• Phase locked loop with time more than 1,200 exhib- base correction facilitates its from 300 military connection to standard equipment production video and HDTV formats. centers in the Soviet Union. The products II Non-standard digital video will come from the formats up to 8K x 8K x 32. fields of missile and sat- • 80 MBytes/sec. VisiNET ellite technology, micro- compatible. electronics, communications, data processing, optoelectronics, metallurgy, medical electronics, and consumer gear, among others. says Werner Marzin, general director of But commerce, not glasnost, is the Munich Fair. "On the contrary, it is to real reason the Soviets are lifting their demonstrate the change of the arms 1011111 arms curtain. The Soviet Union wants industry's potentials to products and 0- to get Western companies interested in processes for civilian applications." the products on display and spark Naturally, no one expects the Rus- licensing agreements to build them. sians to raise their armaments skirt all Accordingly, the show's organizers— the way to let Westerners have apeek the Munich Fair Co. and the Foreign at highly sensitive developments. Also, Trade and Fair Organization of the So- judging by a50-page list of items to be KliCa Recognition Concepts, Inc. viet Union's Chamber of Commerce in displayed, showgoers will find many Moscow—are going to great lengths products not worth asecond glance— 341 SKI WAY, P.O. BOX 8510 explaining what Conversion 90 is all tents, telex equipment, small-screen INCLINE VILLAGE, NV 89450 TEL (702) 831-0473 about: a demonstration of what its TVs, and electric samovars, to name FAX (702) 831-8035 name conveys, the conversion taking just afew. Still, much of what's shown CIRCLE 442 place in the Soviet armaments industry. may interest companies in the West. "Conversion 90 is not an arms fair," For example, the Soviet Union's ac- ELECTRONICS eAPRIL 1990 11 121 1--complislunents in space have long con- languages—English, French, German, Munich, with its long tradition'1 of vinced Western experts that the nation Italian, Russian, and Spanish. electronics exhibitions, is an appropri- has remarkable technology in rocket Conversion 90 is the first result of a ate venue. Says fair director Marzin, and satellite engineering, telecommuni- long-term accord that Munich Fair "'These two aspects—the wish for long- cations, and metallurgy. But during the completed last summer with the Sovi- term cooperation and Munich's popu- decades-long East-West arms race, most ets. It dovetails with the fair company's larity as a place for high-tech exhibi- of this technology was restricted to the strategy, which is to represent Eastern tions—were decisive in reaching the military sectors and hence kept secret. European products and markets more agreement with the Soviets to stage Now, however, with the word from strongly at the international expositions Conversion 90 as aworld premiere in the Kremlin being détente, the technol- it sponsors. this city." // ogy—or some of it—is being made available for international markets. The range of products for which the Soviet industry is seeking business partners in the West extends from carrier rockets and communication satellites to 19,200-bit/s modems down to tennis Daicel Chemical: AWorldclass Leader racquets made from plastic materials reinforced with glass fiber. in Recording Materials Of particular note in the microelectronics sector will be miniature high- temperature pressure sensors, integrated silicon pressure-difference sensors, and heat-conducting pastes for mount- ing components on printed-circuit boards. In the optoelectronics field, the show will feature fiber-optic vibration and acceleration sensors along with mirrors that, in laser applications, need no cooling. In medical electronics, sharp-eyed showgoers will spot a portable, small- format acupuncture electro-stimulator as well as needle-less injection systems. And in communications, in addition to high-speed modems, the Russians will show radio relay stations operating in the millimeter range, personal mobile communication equipment, and radio systems for handling telemetric data.

Daicel Chemical Industries is a worldclass leader in the development and manufacture of optical ONCURRENT WITH THE and megneto-optical disk products. The Company is leading the industry in research and Csix-day Conversion 90 show—it development of disk substrates and magnetic film materials, focusing on polycarbonate will occupy an entire hall and neigh- substrates and magnetic films made from amorphous (non-crystalline) four element boring outside areas on Munich's fair- alloys of neodymium, dysprosium, iron, and cobalt.Our research has brought about grounds—will be ascientific-technolog- results:results that mean an improvement in recording densitities, an improve- ical seminar held in adjacent congress ment in performance, and an improvement in overall disk quality. At Daicel we will continue to apply our "chemitronics"total system halls. There, experts from eight Soviet approach to solving our customers problems and deve- ministries connected with arms produc- loping a new generation of technologies to tion and engineers from military-hard- support the information age. ware production centers will function as negotiating partners for Western businessmen. They will also discuss DAICEL CI-EMICAL IMSTRIES, LTD. how the Soviet armaments industry is adapting to civilian production. Tokyo Head Office: 8-1, Kasurnigaseki 3-chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100, Japan Phone: 1031 507-3112 (Optical Memory Division] As if to demonstrate that they are Telex: 222-4632 DAICEL JFacsimile: [031593-2708 serious about controlled détente, the Daicel [USA.] Inc.: Skypark Office Center. Building 5. Suite 130. 23456 Hawthorne Blvd., Torrance, CA90505, Soviets will offer during the show frag- U.S.A. Phone: [213(791-2030 ments of destroyed SS-12 and SS-22 Daicel [Europa] GmbH: Ost street 22 4000 Dusseldorf 1 missiles as souvenirs. Mounted on a F.R.Germany Phone: (0211] 369848 small pedestal or presented in a gift box, the fragments will be accompa- nied by acertificate in any one of six CIRCLE 428 EIRTRONRS •APRIL 1990

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says Smith, is that traditional methods of measurement don't work when NEED SEMICUSTOMSP weighing a vendor's market viability. Instead, he has come up with alist of new criteria. •Unless it has a specialty, no semi- DV HOWARD WOW CHECK THESE RULES custom vendor with annual sales of less than $15 million should be considered as aprospective supplier. Howev- THERE'S ANEW FACTOR IN THE SELECTION er, size alone cannot be the governing factor—Honeywell ranked seventh in PROCESS TODAY: VENDOR VIABILITY the market in 1988. How about acompany that has been around a while? That's no guarantee either: California Devices was in the busi- AY BACK W in the early ness for 10 years when 1980s, a systems house it closed up shop. looking for someone to •If a vendor doesn't make the semicustom have today's mainline integrated circuits it re- technology, 1.5-µm ar- quired had a relatively rays, it isn't a serious uncomplicated task. All player. But the vendor that the managers had should also be develop- to worry about was ing new product-family whether the prospective members and adding supplier's engineers macros to its library. were competent and One of the first signs of could deliver on time. trouble in any high-tech But the times have business is adrop-off in changed. Now, at the engineering output. dawn of what could be •The vendor must be termed the nervous profitable. This sounds '90s, the process of obvious, but profitabili- choosing a semicustom ty has been neglected IC vendor has become in recent years as mon- fraught with uncertain- ey from venture capital- ty. Not only must the shopper worry nors, vice president for strategic ac- ists drove the market and large semi- about competency and delivery, but he counts at ISI Logic Corp. of Milpitas, conductor companies adopted defen- must also deal with the nagging fear Calif., the market leader. sive stances. "Growth was the order of that the vendor he picks may be out of 'The new fear has become apparent the day in the late 1970s and early business even before the parts have to International Microcircuits during 1980s as venture-capital-backed firms become obsolete. the last 18 months," says Smith. "That's focused on going public and cashing Consider the question of vendor via- because we acquired a design from a in on the stock," says Smith. "Estab- bility in light of recent history. Fairchild large semicustom house and picked up lished IC houses reacted to this threat is gone; the IC operations of RCA the remnants of another one that had by pouring millions of dollars into Corp. and General Electric Co. have gone out of business." their semicustom divisions." been sold; Intel Corp. and Honeywell Smith expects more of the same. But, he points out, the CMOS gate Inc. have closed their semicustom op- 'This trend is likely to continue. It will array is now 15 years old. If acompany erations; California Devices Inc. and be amazing if another major player in isn't making a profit from it by now, Telmos have gone out of business. the semicustom market doesn't exit the the chances are it never will. What's a system maker looking for its scene to cut their losses," he says. In line with his revisionist approach first chip supplier to do? So Smith has come up with a new to the business, Smith has taken alook The people who make and sell the way to look at the problem, one that at market rankings, tossed in some his- chips have some answers. One of takes into account the new realities of tory, added a dash of prescience, and them is Gary Smith, the director of the business by doing away with afew come up with what he considers to be marketing and sales at International Mi- of the shibboleths that govern the se- a more realistic appraisal of who's on crocircuits Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., micustom-vendor selection process as first in semicustom ICs. which produced the first CMOS gate practiced by most companies. In the 1988 rankings—the latest avail- array in 1974. Another is Brian Con- The first thing to be remembered, able—the top 10 were ISI Logic, To- ELECTRONICS •APRIL 1990 11141 I--shiba, NEC, Fujitsu, Matsushita, National Semiconductor, Honeywell, Hitachi, Seiko, and Old. VLSI Technology Inc. led GOING WORLD CLASS the second 10, with Smith's International Microcircuits ranking 17th. HOW TO UPGRADE MANUFACTURING TO IMPROVE Smith drops Honeywell because it is no longer in the market. He eliminates PRODUCTIVITY, QUALM, CUSTOMER SERVICE the Japanese—remember, he is talking about asmall company selecting avendor for the first time—because "they 101% EFENSE AND AEROSPACE off in one year. Also, we've been able do very few designs a year and deal suppliers are anxious. Actual to cut our inventory in half, to $1 mil- with large-volume customers [and] are and promised budget cuts are pressur- lion." But best of all, Wetzel says, is not viable vendors for companies just ing contractors to do more with what that "last year, in a relatively fiat mar- starting to use gate arrays." they have. One way, short of finding ket, our bookings were up 25%." The result is anew ranking. LSI Log- new markets for new products, is to Wetzel is convinced that any compa- ic is still first, but it is now followed by tighten up manufacturing ny can benefit from such National, VLSI Technology, CMD, SGS, as a means of improving radical changes in the Plessey, International Microcircuits, output, quality—and the way it manufactures. "Put Texas Instruments, Harris/GE/RCA, bottom line. it this way," he says. "By and Motorola. For Dynatech Micro- the end of the decade, Over at the headquarters of No. 1, wave Technology Inc., a there might not be an op- ISI Logic's Connors says he "positively Calabasas, Calif., manufac- tion. As soon as someone agrees that the business has changed turer of microwave in an industry does it, ev- dramatically." The irony, he points out, switches and compo- eryone that doesn't is giv- is that changes in the semiconductor nents, there simply was ing away an advantage." industry in the late 1970s opened the no choice. "We had to go It isn't all that difficult way for gate arrays. Now, changes in to world-class manufactur- for a company to make the semicustom business are creating ing," says president John the switch to world-class opportunities of their own. Specifically, Wetzel. "I was discour- manufacturing, which he says, the industry has fragmented aged by our quality and Wetzel defines as "that into two approaches with two sets of customer service, and which one does to be requirements: those of the high-end didn't see it getting any competitive with anyone systems people and those of what he better. Productivity and For Wetzel, the only in a global marketplace." terms the mainstream. morale were dropping." class Is world class. However, one thing he So two years ago, Wet- cautions against is trying ONNORS'S HIGH END IS zel and his $10 million company bit to do it without some expert advice. Cpopulated by the companies that the bullet. 'The results came in very "You're going to need outside help. want the chip maker in on the design quickly," says Wetzel, "and they're We called in a series of consultants, process right from the start. An example, amazing. In six weeks, we were back listened to their pitches, and finally se- he says, is Sun Microsystems Inc. in to our original production rate—that is, lected Pittig,lio, Rabin, Todd & McGrath Mountain View, Calif. "It's no secret that we were producing as much as we Inc. They have offices around the we were part of the development of the were before we shut down production country—Boston, Mountain View, and Sun Sparcstation," he says. On the other lines to make the changeover. In 12 nearby in Orange County. hand, the mainstreamers "still do it the weeks, we were running at 140% of 'They came in and gathered data, old way," says Connors. That is, they the initial rate. Now we are at 180%— ensured management's commitment, simply want a chip designed and built approaching double the productivity, trained our employees, and analyzed for aparticular system. with a slightly reduced labor force," our processes. Then, they stationed "But an evolution is taking place," which ranges from 80 to 85. one of their people here to supervise he says. "The system is now in the Not only that, but product cycle the changeover." chip, so the object is to build value time, which had been 30 days, shrunk Wetzel cautions also that once all the added." And that, along with stability in six weeks to 2.5 days. Work or- changes are in place, constant vigilance and dependability of the supplier, is ders—jobs that were on the line at any is required. "For the first 12 weeks, what Connors believes the first-time given time—were reduced from 100 to things went well. Then everything pla- customer should look for. 15, and the work-in-progress inventory teaued. It took us six more months to "I would establish relationships at as went down 20%. And 12 weeks after realize what had happened: you must high alevel as Icould, in effect finding world-class manufacturing was institut- make continuous improvements someone to be my guide in the com- ed, production yields increased three- through continuous investment and pany, as part of the value added. Also, fold while the on-time delivery rate continuous support." with market windows cut in half in the rose from 40% to 95%. Not so incidentally, customers appre- last year, it's necessary to find a chip Wetzel also points to the bottom ciate the changes. At Micorwave Tech- maker that can get it right the first line. "The project cost $250,000, or nology, says Wetzel, "our three largest time—correct all the errors before the 2.5% of revenue," he says. "I figure that customers have now made multiyear chip is committed to silicon." 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SECOND HALF MUST ELECTRONICS 100 INDEX 190 12 8-1 -1, BE STRONG JUST 180 170 TO REACH '89 MARK

OUGH PRICING, LACKLUSTER OR- Tders, and weak earnings are what we hear most often these days. The domestic economy isn't disastrous, but astronger second half is needed to maintain full-year earnings at 1989 levels. Companies heavily focused on international markets, like AMP, Molex, Motorola, and 100 11ITIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIH11 -11111Trn-TurriiiiIIIIIlinn ITT1T1 NCR, have generated adisproportionate amount 12 84 12/85 12'86 12:87 12/88 12/89 of earnings from non-U. S. operations for at least 11, ENDING 2 28 90 SOURCE: McDONALD & COMPANY 18 months. Recent interest-rate surges in the UK, West Germany, and Japan reflect policies to reduce inflation. If foreign interest rates stay high long enough, growth in those key markets could slow dramatically over the next year. BOOK, BILL, INVENTORY CHANGES But many companies, even IBM Corp. and AT&T Co., have begun THROUGH JANUARY 1990 meaningful cost-reduction programs in anticipation of slower growth, a 50% marked change from the posture taken by most electronics companies in 1985. Meanwhile, lower prices for most raw materials are helping to ease pricing pressures. Even though the dollar has strengthened against the yen (up 15% from last year) and the pound, this has been offset by weakness against the mark (down 10%) and the franc. Distributor orders continue to look surprisingly strong, and component orders are showing modest strength. Though not adisaster, computer orders look weak. Communications orders, buoyed by cellular and aerospace, are in a modest uptrend. In the NEDA chart, right, the lines show year-to-year changes in bookings, shipments, and inventories for OEM component and computer distributors. The charts below are based on the Commerce Department manufacturing survey. Our 12-month year-to-year percent change line depicts indus- 10 20 30 40 10 20 30 40 10 20 30 40 87 87 87 87 88 88 88 88 89 89 89 89 try trends, much like atraditional pressure curve analysis. El SOURCE. NATIONAL ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTORS ASSOCIATION The index is prepared by Mark Parr of McDonald & Co., Cleveland.

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