ESD: The Electronic System Design Magazine articles from December 1988

ESD: The Electronic System Design Magazine archives from December 1988

Mac is back with 68030-MMU. (Apple Macintosh IIx, Memory Management Unit)
December 1, 1988... Mac Is back With 68030/MMU The first Macintosh II computer to use Motorola's 68030 micrprocessor and 68882 math coprocessor, the Mac IIx is claimed to be about 15% faster than the Mac II. Two factors contribute to this speed increase....

ASIC emulator signals changes in chip design. (Quickturn Systems' Rapid Prototyping Machine application-specific integrated circuit emulation system)
December 1, 1988... ASIC Emulator Signals Changes in Chip Design Many designers are reluctant to use gate arrays or cell-based ICs due to the limitations of logic simulators. Logic simulators are the chief ASIC verification tools, yet they do not allow...

EPLDs get a new look. (Altera EPM5032 erasable programmable logic device)
December 1, 1988... EPLDs Get A New Look Programmable logic device technology takes another leap forward this month with the introduction of the 28-pin EPM5032, first in Altera's EPM family. A series of erasable PLDs, the EPM family is expected to gradually...

Bus watching with VME and Multibus II. (Planning Research Corp.'s Parallel System Bus Analyzer and VMEtro's VBT-321 VMEbus Tracer)
December 1, 1988... Bus Watching with VME and Multibus II Users of traditional board-level products have been fraught with difficult system design problems. The worst of these has been the inability to observe transactions across the bus--on some form of test...

Multibus II tastes different flavors of the PC.
December 1, 1988... Multibus II Tastes Different Flavors of the PC If there is one dominant trend in this year's crop of board-level offerings, it is the fact that most of the major bus structures have now in corporated links to some form of the PC on their...

Six-chip set rids imaging of the flickers. (from NEC Corp.)
December 1, 1988... Six-Chip Set Rids Imaging of the Flickers Many standard board-level and system-level imaging products use broadcast formats such as NTSC to digitize images. Despite their popularity, such systems suffer from the noninterlaced plague of...

PC-AT compatibility comes to Multibus II systems.
December 1, 1988... PC/AT Compatibility Comes to Multibus II Systems Coupling the pervasive PC/AT architecture to the multiprocessing capabilities of the Multibus II makes for a potent computing package. The plethora of PC software and hardware add-ons lends...

Cameras, chips, and software highlight EI '88. (Electronic Imaging show) (includes related article on the Androx Image Supercomputing Workstation that combines graphics and image processing) (product announcement)
December 1, 1988... Cameras, Chips, and Software Highlight El '88 At this year's Electronic Imaging show, held in Boston October 3-6, greater emphasis was placed on imaging solutions, with end-user systems and software stealing the OEM limelight. Imaging...

Designing video circuits. (part 3) (technical)
December 1, 1988... Designing Video Circuits Digital techniques are well suited for video processing. However, the world, as we all know, is analog. Most digital video systems contain an output processor, a subsystem that converts the digital data to an...

Standard DRAMs get 15 MIPS from RISC. (Dynamic RAMs, Reduced Instruction Set Computers) (technical)
December 1, 1988... Standard DRAMs Get 15 MIPS From RISC The recent crop of RISC CPUs interface to memory through external Harvard architectures. These architectures have totally separate buses for instruction and data references. Thus, data memory...

Software analysis for a multi-processor system. (technical)
December 1, 1988... Software Analysis for a Multi-processor System Most advanced systems are now designed as a series of subsystems, with each subsystem controlled by a different processing unit. A challenge inherent in this type of design is that each unit...

CASE system elevates embedded design. (Software Through Pictures computer-aided software engineering package from Interactive Development Environments Inc.)
December 1, 1988... CASE System Elevates Embedded Design The software development process involves concepts familiar to electrical engineering design teams, who iteratively improve designs by modifying schematics. The result is the implementation of a...