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  • TI Gets Real

    By Lisa Eccles, October 15, 2001

    Texas Instruments Inc. and RealNetworks Inc. have broadened their strategic alliance. Together, the companies will offer an integrated streaming audio and video solution for programmable DSP-based video infrastructure equipment and broadband video...

  • Micropower Op Amp Squeezes Into SOT-23

    By Lisa Eccles, October 15, 2001

    The MCP606 2.5-V micropower op amp offers an offset voltage of less than 250 µV. This device also comes in the tiny SOT-23 package. The op amp features a low supply current of 25 µA maximum. While single-supply operation ranges...

  • Researchers Demonstrate Single-Molecule Computer Circuit

    By Lisa Eccles, October 01, 2001

    Researchers at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., have created the world's first logic-performing computer circuit within a single molecule. Such circuits may someday lead to a new class of computers that are smaller and...

  • EDA Software Speeds Working RF Communications Product Designs

    By Lisa Eccles, October 01, 2001

    The Advanced Design System 2001 (ADS 2001) EDA software for communications products in-cludes RF IC design capabilities. Developed by Agilent Technologies Inc., this version of the software advances usability and simulation performance for RF and...

  • Itanium Processors Will Gang Up To Perform 13.6 Teraflops

    By Lisa Eccles, September 17, 2001

    Intel's Itanium family of processors will be used to build a distributed scientific computing system that Intel expects to be the largest of its kind in the world. Known as TeraGrid, this system will link 3300 Itanium processors. According to the...

  • Gate-Drive Optocoupler Targets Low-Power Motor Control

    By Lisa Eccles, September 17, 2001

    The HCPL-0314 gate-drive optocoupler from Agilent Technologies is the world's smallest gate-drive optocoupler, the company claims. Supplied in a small-outline SO-8 package, its small size helps reduce manufacturing costs while delivering superior...

  • DPOs Test Complex Signals In A Variety Of Environments

    By Lisa Eccles, September 03, 2001

    The TDS3000B family of digital phosphor oscilloscopes (DPOs) provides increased power and portability for engineers testing dynamic, complex signals in a wide range of environments. Manufactured by Tektronix Inc., these DPOs implement new...

  • Smart Walker Detects Obstacles

    By Lisa Eccles, August 20, 2001

    A research team at the University of Virginia's Medical Automation Research Center in Charlottesville has developed a prototype "smart" walker. This mobility aid should improve the quality of life and lengthen the duration of independent living...

  • Top-Ranked Supercomputer To Reasearch Fuel Efficiency

    By Lisa Eccles, August 06, 2001

    An IBM supercomputer theoretically capable of achieving 3.8 trillion calculations/s will be used in scientific research that may lead to breakthroughs in fuel-efficient automobiles. According to the independent TOP500 List, it is the world's most...

  • Labs Investigate New Materials To Boost IC Speeds

    By Lisa Eccles, August 06, 2001

    Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Motorola Labs, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have entered a cooperative research and development agreement to increase the speed of future generations of ICs....

  • Robot Dinosaurs "Roams" The Halls At MIT

    By Lisa Eccles, August 06, 2001

    Warning! Dinosaurs have invaded the MIT lab! They may one day "roam" through a museum near you, too. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Artificial Intelligence (AI) Lab in Cambridge have created a robotic dinosaur....

  • International Treaty Battles Cybercrime

    By Lisa Eccles, August 06, 2001

    A committee acting under the direction of the Council of Europe, based in Strasbourg, France, has completed the final draft of a treaty that aims to aid countries in the fight against cybercrime. Drafted by the European Committee on Crime Problems...

  • 20-nm Transistors Foretell 20-GHz CPUs

    By Lisa Eccles, July 23, 2001

    Pursuing aggressive reduction techniques, Intel researchers in Santa Clara, Calif., have built transistors just 20 nm in size and foresee what they consider to be the world's fastest silicon transistors. This, they say, will allow them to build...

  • Altered Silicon Increases Chip Speeds Up To 35%

    By Lisa Eccles, July 23, 2001

    Researchers from IBM Corp. have developed a breakthrough method to alter silicon that increases chip speeds by up to 35%. While other technologies attempt to increase chip speed by shrinking chip components, this process tackles silicon as the key...

  • Cell-Phone Makers Implement Swappable Instant Messaging

    By Lisa Eccles, July 09, 2001

    Four major cellular-phone manufacturers—LM Ericsson, Alcatel SA, Motorola Inc., and Siemens AG—have agreed to implement the Enhanced Messaging Service (EMS) standard to strengthen the messaging capabilities between their phones....

  • 3G Cell Phones Invade Tokyo

    By Lisa Eccles, July 09, 2001

    NTT DoCoMo has begun testing its 3G wireless phone service, rolling out 4500 handsets in the Tokyo area. Models available for early testing include an upgraded version of the Net-linking i-mode phone and a computer-card model for data transmission....

  • Tester Characterizes Laser Diodes With 5-A Peak Pulses

    By Lisa Eccles, July 09, 2001

    The Model 2520 Pulsed Laser Diode Test System performs electrical characterization of laser diodes in either the chip/bar state or in finished products. According to its manufacturer, the 2520 is the only single-instrument system for testing laser...

  • High-Tech Measurement Strikes America's Favorite Pastime

    By Lisa Eccles, June 18, 2001

    Strike three! Yer out!" Common at Major League Baseball games, a better call when high-tech measurement is up at the plate might be "you're in!" The computerized Umpire Information System (UIS) is set to smack Major League Baseball into the...

  • Lightweight Fuel Processor Powers Future Soldier System

    By Lisa Eccles, June 18, 2001

    Soldiers will be carrying more than guns, rations, and letters from home onto future battlefields. They'll also have heads-up tactical displays, laser range finders, thermal weapons sights, and global positioning systems. But all of this high-tech...

  • New Composite Defies The Laws Of Physics

    By Lisa Eccles, May 21, 2001

    Someone should call the physics police. A new class of composite materials reverses the behavior of many fundamental electromagnetic properties. During a recent experiment at the University of California in San Diego, electromagnetic radiation...