ESD: The Electronic System Design Magazine articles from February 1989

ESD: The Electronic System Design Magazine archives from February 1989

DEC RISC box targets rising Sun. (DECstation 3100 workstation) (product announcement)
February 1, 1989... DEC RISC Box Targets Rising Sun A massive blowout--with a specially developed surreal dance-video--marked Digital Equipment Corp.'s debut of MicroVAX- and RISC-based workstation lines that are enhanced by a common user interface. Also...

Parallelizing SPARCs and clones.
February 1, 1989... Parallelizing SPARCs and Clones Armed with a Sun SPARC license, Metaflow Technologies has designed a RISC processor implementing the firm's parallel architecture. Using this architecture, Metaflow is also the first to go on record with...

Integrated DACs listen to the music. (digital-analog converter) (Analog Device's AD1860, Burr-Brown's PCM60P) (product announcement)
February 1, 1989... Integrated DACs Listen to the Music Digital-to-analog converters are now key components to the digital revolution taking place in the music and video worlds. And American semiconductor makers are earning a niche of their own. In fact,...

The Mac stalks PC-AT imaging applications. (product announcement)
February 1, 1989... The Mac Stalks PC/AT Imaging Applications Since its debut, Apple's MAc II has not been endorsed by as many third-party board vendors as the IBM PC family. Although this is primarily due to market share, other problems exist. These include...

Neural networks - application-specific problem solvers. (technical)
February 1, 1989... Neural Networks--Application-Specific Problem Solvers In complex equations with multiple variables, neural network technology seeks to surpass traditional problem-solving methods. For real world problems, it is possible to use established...

Partitioning unlocks the door to multichip ASICs. (application specific integrated circuit) (technical)
February 1, 1989... Partitioning Unlocks the Door to Multichip ASICs To avoid a product's mid-life crisis, system designers often reimplement the product in new or different technologies. A designer may rework a standard TTL SSI/MSI, PROM, PAL, and SRAM...

Hough in hardware: processors get algorithm-specific. (technical)
February 1, 1989... Hough in Hardware: Processors Get Algorithm-Specific Unlike traditional single-chip programmable DSP processors or building blocks such as MACs, algorithm- or function-specific integrated circuits implement a specific algorithm or specific...

Futurebus joins the RISC race. (technical)
February 1, 1989... Futurebus Joins the RISC Race Designers of high-performance systems are finding that current 32-bit buses, typefied by VMEbus and Multibus II, pose serious limitations to multiboard, multiprocessor system architectures. RISC...

Transputer computer juggles real-time robotics.
February 1, 1989... Transputer Computer Juggles Real-Time Robotics Performance, pricing, and availability considerations make the Inmos Transputer a natural contender for robotic chores requiring parallel computation. One such motion-control application--the...

Futurebus - signalling the end or the beginning for VME, Multibus II?
February 1, 1989... Futurebus--Signaling the End or the Beginning for VME, Multibus II? Weeks before 1988 came to a close, Futurebus--once the notorious Lame Duck of the advanced buses--emerged not only as heir to the VME throne, but also as "The Next...