ESD: The Electronic System Design Magazine articles from December 1989

ESD: The Electronic System Design Magazine archives from December 1989

Board market splits at EI East. (Oct 1989 Electronic Image East show; image processing board trends to modularity and niche products)
December 1, 1989... Board Market Splits at El East Pressure from system integrators demanding more application-specific imaging boards is forcing a division in the imaging market. Larger board-level vendors are remaining competitive by offering modular...

Fast chips find imaging boards. (Wembley, England's, Oct Image Processing '89 showcases fast application-oriented boards)
December 1, 1989... Fast Chips Find Imaging Boards As off-the-shelf frame grabbers, array processors, and display controllers become commonplace, board-level vendors will need to distiguish their products in more vertical markets. Board vendors began to do...

GaAs chip set transfers data - fast! (Gazelle Microcircuits' Hot Rod data interface chip set) (product announcement)
December 1, 1989... GaAs Chip Set Transfers Data--Fast! As computing power increases, so does the need to move data in larger chunks at speeds comparable to the fast, new processors emerging from the houses of Intel, Motorola, et al. With that in mind, FDDI...

Who said the 80286 is dead? (Chips and Technologies and VLSI Technology offer highly integrated devices targeted at the Intel 80286 environment) (product announcement)
December 1, 1989... Who Said the 80286 is Dead? While the world awaits the latest offerings based on Intel's 80486 chip, some companies continue to focus on the high-volume market afforded by the 80286. AT-compatible chip sets offering high integration on...

Compilers unlock RISC secrets. (compiler optimization key to RISC performance potential) (reduced-instruction-set computers; includes a related article on optimization to improve cache performance)
December 1, 1989... Compilers Unlock RISC Secrets RISC system performance embodies many components. In addition to the performance of individual instructions, the processor architect must consider how the instructions are combined by the compiler, how system...

Does using C++ add up? (Software Review) (HCR's C++ 2.1 compiler) (evaluation)
December 1, 1989... Does Using C++ Add Up? Written by Bjarne Stroustrap at AT&T Bell Labs, the C++ programming language was designed to cater to the needs of large software projects. It provides key features such as data abstraction, object-oriented...

Faster ways to fast math. (Cyrix Corp's FasMath CX83D87 80387-compatible floating-point coprocessor)
December 1, 1989... Faster Ways to Fast Math Designers faced with numerically intensive processing on 386-based personal computers used to have few alternatives. They could use the Intel 387 floating-point coprocessor either by itself or in conjunction with...

Picture-perfect parallel processing. (MasPar Computer's MP-1 family of massively parallel minicomputers)
December 1, 1989... Picture-Perfect Parallel Processing Early parallel processing machines ended up as laboratory curiosities, hindered by cumbersome physical packaging or by a complex architecture requiring unique applications and software that would not run...

A CASE for working together. (integration is vital to effective computer-aided software engineering)
December 1, 1989... A CASE for Working Together With software development becoming a major part of any system design project, new approaches are needed to increase coding productivity and improve system quality. A host of techniques falling under the...

CASE: sowing the seeds of real time. (computer-aided software engineering tools for embedded real-time and control systems)
December 1, 1989... CASE: Sowing the Seeds of Real Time System design begins with problem analysis and architectural product definition, and ends with a hybrid hardware/software solution. The need to trace design requirements from definition to test has...