ESD: The Electronic System Design Magazine articles from August 1988

ESD: The Electronic System Design Magazine archives from August 1988

At SID, lasers put new spin on 3D displays. (Technology Trends: graphics) (Society for Information Display)
August 1, 1988... At SID, Lasers Put New Spin on 3D Displays A naheim's Society for Information Display (SID) meeting held hope for those who have long awaited a "true" three-dimensional display. At the show, Texas Instruments (Dallas, TX) unveiled a...

Logic synthesis highlights 25th Design Automation Conference. (Technology Trends: design tech) (buyers guide)
August 1, 1988... Logic Synthesis Highlights 25th Design Automation Conference This year's Design Automation Conference in Anaheim, CA, was notable for advances in mixed-mode simulators, ASIC library enhancements, significant porting announcements, the...

Configurable compilers enhance speed and productivity. (Technology Trends: design tech)
August 1, 1988... Configurable Compilers Enhance Speed and Productivity The task of developing software that integrates constituents of a system architecture has proved more difficult for bit-slice, DSP, and ASIC components than for standard, off-the-shelf...

Busing around at the speed of light. (fiber optics) (Technology Trends: imaging)
August 1, 1988... Busing Around at the Speed of Light Embedding fiber optics within the layers of a printed-circuit board to transfer data between ICs is the basis of what its inventors are calling the Optobuss. With the recently patented Optobuss...

Ferroelectric memories: advanced ICs. (pass transistor-ferroelectric capacitor) (technical)
August 1, 1988... Ferroeletric Memories Silicon-based memory technology cannot support--on a single die--all of the features that system designers desire. That simple fact has dictated the structure and variety of memory types. As such, manufacturers must...

Where are the 2K x 2K display controllers? (Imaging and Graphics) (technical)
August 1, 1988... Where Are the 2K x 2K Display Controllers? Putting four million color pixels on a single-monitor screen is no small feat. Part of the problem is the difficulty of designing with high-speed digital-to-analog converters and high-speed...

PCs recast the logic analyzers: VLSI design technology.
August 1, 1988... PCs Recast The Logic Analyzers Personal computer-based logic analyzers are not only catching up to standalone units in terms of performance, but they are also surpassing them in ease of use. Tradionally, logic and analyzers were viewed as...

Real-time kernel, real-time applications: systems architecture. (technical)
August 1, 1988... Real-Time Kernel, Real-Time Applications The key to real-time systems lies in meeting fixed deadlines. In other types of computing--batch and interactive processing, for instance--success depends on throughput. An interactive system may...

Expert systems: picking the right problem. (systems architecture) (technical)
August 1, 1988... Expert Systems: Picking the Right Problem In the frenzy of activity focused on commercial deployment, expert systems threaten to be wrested from the experts and given to the users. Long shrouded within the mystique of the artificial...