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CG08705X Electronics/April 28, 1988 Circle 1 on reader service card 1 There Will Still Be aFew Uses for Conventional ECL ASICs. Cold facts: now the highest-density ECL logic array runs at a cool 1/10 the gate power of competing devices. Raytheon's ASIC design expertise D Highest density: Call Raytheon for access to the right and proprietary technology make CGA70E18 — 12540 equivalent gates ECL technology. We're not blowing conventional ECL arrays too hot to CGA40E12 — 8001 equivalent gates any smoke, and neither should your handle. The superior performance of system' performance. D Lowest power: Industry's smallest the new CGA70E18 and CGA40E12: bipolar transistors result in power dis- the ECL logic array family with the Raytheon Company sipation that is afraction of conven- Semiconductor Division highest density and the lowest power tional ECL at comparable propagation 350 Ellis Street requirement now available. delays. 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Mason, Jonah McLeod, Stan Runyon, Howard Wolff, Jeremy Young year when they were sold to National Semi- conductor. Suddenly, the guys they'd been SPECIAL PROJECTS Stan Runyon, Lucinda Mattera battling in the marketplace for years became ART DIRECTOR their partners. That's what has happened to Fred Sklenar Electronics; for those less sharp-eyed DEPARTMENT EDITORS readers, we were sold in March. But Charlie CAD/CAE: Jonah McLeod (San Mateo) Sporck seems to have done a fine job in Communications: Tom Manuel packaging those two cultures together into Components: Samuel Weber Computers & Peripherals: Tom Manuel an even stronger competitor, and Iknow we Jonah McLeod (San Mateo) can do it too. Lawrence Curran (Boston) A few years ago, I ignored my college Industrial & Consumer: Wesley R. Iversen (Chicago) adviser's advice to get an MBA, because I Military/Aerospace: Tobias Naegele wanted the fun and excitement of a career in journalism. I don't Packaging & Production: Jerry Lyman know about the fun part, but it sure can't get much more exciting. At Semiconductors: Bernard C. Cole (San Mateo) the same time we're going all-out to put out this magazine, we're also Software 8. Microprocessors: Tom Manuel trying to move from McGraw-Hill's Manhattan headquarters to New Test Instruments: Jonah McLeod (San Mateo) NEWS DEPARTMENT Jersey's VNU Business Publications. It's the U. S. subsidiary of a Features Editor: Jeremy Young Dutch publishing giant that wants to make it big in the U. S. market. Front of the Book: Howard Wolff VNU has already made it big outside the States. With projected sales New Products: Jack Shandle of more than $2 billion this year, it's larger than McGraw-Hill. EDITORIAL PRODUCTION & COPY DESK While Electronics no longer fits into McGraw-Hill's long-term . Benjamin A. Mason (Director) strategic plans, it does fit well into VNU. Last year, the Dutch Production Charles D. Ciatto (Mgr.), Elsa M. Pecoroni became a major player in the U.S. electronics and computer trade Copy Editors press by purchasing Hayden Publishing, which published our biggest Larry King (Chief), Nancy J. Needell, competitor (now our partner) Also fitting well Reinhardt Krause Electronic Design. at VNU is the bulk of Electronics' veteran staff. We've got ART Karla Tonning (Associate Director) exciting plans for both publications, each of which will continue to do NEWS BUREAUS what it does best: Electronics as the leading worldwide magazine Boston: Lawrence Curran (Mgr.) for managers and ED as its counterpart for design engineers. Chicago: Wesley R. Iversen (Mgr.) Ido have apersonal problem. Ican no longer make my usual half- Dallas: J Robert Lineback (Mgr.) hour commute: walking from the Upper Ea-st Side to Rockefeller Los Angeles: Larry Waller (Mgr.) New York: Tobias Naegele (Mgr.) Center. Wearing out shoe leather instead of burning gasoline has not San Mateo: J. Robert Lineback (Mgr.) only helped our balance of trade, but it has always been one of those Frankfurt John Gosch (Mgr.) job perks that's kept me here in Manhattan for two decades. Now I Tokyo: Charles L.