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1. remote host and transfer files back and forth between multiple systems It offers an advanced protocol and provides stan dard throughput over phone lines satel lite links PBXs and switches Multiple sites with unlimited PCs or minis can be tied into host systems under Blast s net work licensing plan Blast OEMs and system integrators use a special license that allows resellers to build the Blast file transfer code into their application software providing transparent communications within the PC application According to the com pany PC software products containing Blast can transfer data to any computer or operating system running Blast Prices for the Communications Research Group s Blast Host are 5500 for IBM mainframes 495 to 1295 for minicomputers and 250 for PCs and Macintoshes OEM and reseller volume discounts are available Reader Service Number 43 IEEE MICRO Epson buffer stores 65 pages of text The Black Box NLQ Print Buffer receives standard data from the computer software and converts the data via self contained software into a series of graphic instructions The Black Box NLQ Print Buffer allows EPSON FX or RX printers with a Centronics interface to produce near letter quality type in Courier Prestige Elan Italics or Roman typefaces The buffer positioned between the personal computer and printer accepts standard data from the computer software and Vision system supports rob2. 4 77 MHz system clock with a fre quency clock generator having frequen cies of 6 1 6 7 and 7 4 MHz The lower speed options allow users to achieve some speed enhancement without a major system overhaul Fast88 installs inside the PC cabinet without using a card slot and is com patible with Lotus 1 2 3 Symphony AutoCAD dBase III Wordstar Super Software develops 3D finite element models Enterprise Software Products has an nounced Femap Version 1 0 a finite element modeling package for the IBM PC XT AT and compatibles Femap permits analysts to develop and verify 2D and 3D finite element models invoke the MSC PAL solution routines and read and write to MSC PAL and MSC Nastran The software supports the Color Graphics Adapter and the Enhanced April 1987 Graphics Adapter with 3D color shaded hidden line and wireframe plotting A menu driven interface permits users to develop simple models on a PC and ob tain results from MSC PAL The element library contains 14 ele ment types including beams quadri lateral and triangular plates plane stress and strain membranes shear panels parabolic axisymmetric triangles scalar springs and dampers masses and linear channels seven DMA channels and page register and refresh address logic It can accommodate 256K bit and 1M bit DRAMs The 84 pin J leaded surface mount PCC device from Faraday Electronics is priced at 55 each in lots of 100 The AT BIOS is av
3. National Standard Institute ES FUJITSU ELE FUJITSU LIMITED T Marke i Phone National 03 216 3211 Int FUJITSU MICROELECTRONICS INC FUJITSU MIKROELEKTRONIK GmbH Arabe gt FUJITSU MICROELECTRONICS PACIFIC ASIA LIMITED 805 Tsim Sha Tsui Centre Reader Service Number 5 DSP development tools available from TI Texas Instruments has announced in creased support for its TMS320C25 digital signal processor Three devel opment tools an assembler linker a software simulator and an in circuit emulator are designed to support the DSP s hardware and software The assembler linker allows code for the TMS320C25 and TMS32020 pro cessors to be developed Two versions are available one for the IBM PC and one for the DEC VAX The software simulator allows users to debug and verify a program in non real time The simulator can associate files with I O ports allowing repetition of I O values during test and debugging It is also available in MS DOS and VMS versions The TMS320C25 emulator is a self contained extended development system for full speed in circuit emulation and real time 100 ns instruction cycles It sets real time hardware breakpoints trace to monitor register and memory content during code execution TI also supports its DSP with a bulle tin board service reached by dialing 713 879 2091 the 7MS320 DSP Applications Book with application specific source codes and common DSP routines and a
4. of a standard 600 mil wide 32 pin dual in line package The module also features a built in decoder to simplify address decoding with memory accessed on a single 128K bit boundary The DIP design offers JEDEC pin and signal compatibility with forthcoming mono lithic 1M bit devices Available in 120 and 150 ns versions the module features static operation with no clock or timing strobe inputs required Sample quantities of Hitachi s SRAM are available now preproduction quan tities are expected to be available eight weeks ARO The 150 ns version is priced at 90 each in quantities over 100 Reader Service Number 37 April 1987 Mitsubishi Electronics offers 1M bit DRAMs in plastic DIP ZIP and SOJ pack ages The SOJ package can be mounted directly on one or both sides of a printed circuit board 1M bit devices sell for 45 to 57 all package types and modes are available immediately Reader Service Number 36 One megabit DRAM replaces four 256 K chips A family of 1M bit dynamic RAM devices including one that can replace four 256K DRAMs has been introduced by Oki Semiconductor The devices are intended for high speed high perfor mance applications including mainframe memory buffer memory peripheral storage and evnivronments where low power dissipation and compact layout are required i The DRAM family makes use of the company s proprietary Buried Stacked Capacitor Cell technology BSCC com bines tri
5. DSP question hotline staffed by TI engi neers and reachable on 713 879 2320 The assembler linker sells for 500 the software simulator for 1500 and the emulator for 13 500 Reader Service Number 49 Data entry terminal announced The base unit of Burr Brown s TM8450 features a backlit LCD and a 23 key D numeric keyboard Eight keys can be programmed for 16 separate functions Burr Brown has introduced a micro terminal for numerical data entry The TM8450 accepts data both manually and through automatic identification inter faces such as bar code wands laser scan ners and magnetic strip readers The TM8450 can be used as a display it can send and receive block mode data it can be combined with other TM8450 s in a multidropped system or it can be used as a trouble shooting and diagnos tics communications monitor Opera April 1987 tional modes baud rate protocol and other parameters are established inter actively using the function keys at the time of initial setup French German and English prompts help users make selections that can be stored in local memory Burr Brown s TM8450 base unit is priced at 795 and is available from stock Reader Service Number 50 RS 232 network analyzer introduced Datamon from Standard Logic is a communications analyzer monitor and patch panel designed for real time testing of RS 232 networks Compatible with most data terminal equipment the D
6. Department New Products Editor Marlin H Mickle University of Pittsburgh Send announcements of new microcomputer and microprocessor products and products for review to Managing Editor IEEE Micro 10662 Los Vaqueros Circle Los Alamitos CA 90720 2578 Faraday announces two chip PC AT Faraday Electronics has introduced the FE3010 CPU and peripheral con troller IC to meet the needs of OEMs building AT bus based systems Accord ing to the company the VLSI design replaces 21 discrete and peripheral com ponents on an AT compatible single board computer When used with the FE3000 CPU controller IC the chip set PC accelerator enhanced An enhanced version of Microspeed s Fast88 accelerator for IBM PCs and XTs Compaq Portables Leading Edge Model Ds ITT Xtras and compatibles is available The new version is FCC Class B certified and includes software speed switching software device drivers and option settings This version of Fast88 increases the performance of standard computers by replacing its CPU with an 8088 2 or op lowers the chip count for control func tions to a pair of gate arrays imple mented in 2 micrometer HCMOS The FE3010 is supported by the com pany s PROM based BIOS It supports 16 bit and 32 bit peripherals and 6 8 and 10 MHz clock speeds with zero one or two wait states The device incor porates 15 interrupt channels three timer tional NEC V 20 CPU and by replacing the
7. ailable for 35 each in 100 piece quantities Reader Service Number 30 Calc 4 Framework and other software packages Microspeed s Fast88 has a suggested retail price of 129 without the external control module and 149 with this module The suggested installation price at authorized dealers is 60 Upgrades are available for a 50 exchange price and include a new board software and user manual Reader Service Number 31 tetra and wedge and brick solid ele ments In addition multilevel user defined coordinate systems are available to assist in creating complex geometry An on line calculator and a program file interface allow users to customize Femap and develop their own modeling routines The Femap system is not copy pro tected Contact ESP for pricing Reader Service Number 32 93 New Products PC accelerator contains 2M byte EEMS or EMS memory PC Technologies has introduced the 286 Ramracer single slot 8 MHz 80286 accelerator With up to 2M bytes of EEMS or EMS memory users can upgrade processor speed and expand memory beyond the DOS 640K memory Rampartner is a 2M byte EMS or EEMS memory board also designed for use in IBM PC XT or compatible microcomputers This board can be used in conjunction with the 286 Ramracer to provide up to 4M bytes of memory or in dependently by users not needing the ex tra processing speed of the Ramracer Ramracer and Rampartner include Express Pak software a RAM d
8. atamon analyzer allows users to view a real time data transfer in different formats and record data to its 32K byte buffer memory Datamon also provides breakout box capabilities status LED monitoring baud rate con version and data pattern triggering through its on screen menu driven firmware Single quantity price of Standard Logic s Datamon with carrying case and accessory pack is 795 Discounts are available Reader Service Number 51 Floating point coprocessor plugs into 80386 Weitek Corporation s 1167 floating point math coprocessor plugs into the Intel 80386 microprocessor for personal computer and workstation math pro cessing applications The board also compatible with the 80387 coprocessor consists of floating point math chips and a proprietary interface controller devel oped by the two companies The capability of the 80386 to run multiple operating systems allows the 1167 and the 80387 math coprocessor to run different applications concurrently Software support for the 1167 includes high level C Fortran and Pascal com pilers it is supported under the Unix V 386 operating system Weitek s 1167 coprocessor is available now for 950 each or 500 in quantities of 10 000 Reader Service Number 52 Reader Interest Survey Indicate your interest in this department by circling the appropriate number on the Reader Interest Card High 180 Medium 181 Low 182 99
9. ce an LCD display of two rows of 40 characters each programmable control functions and cursor control for pointing and mouse capabilities The unit recognizes printed uppercase letters numbers from zero to nine punctuation and special characters Enhancement speeds Macintosh to 16 MHz Levco s Prodigy 4 enhances Apple Macintosh performance by adding an in ternal clip on board containing a 68020 CPU 68881 math coprocessor 4M bytes of memory and SCSI hard disk inter face The Prodigy 4 runs at 16 MHz clock speed and uses a 32 bit data path Prodigy 4 with Macintosh interface and software base is priced at 7000 Reader Service Number 41 High density disks announced A 3 5 inch 2M byte high density diskette has been developed by Kao Cor poration for use in computers with high density disk drives The surface of the MEF2HD is coated with media measuring under one millimicron in thickness to help eliminate failed disk sectors Kao Corporation s MF2HD costs 6 to 7 depending on quantity Reader Service Number 42 Software links PCs mainframes Software called Blast Host from Com munications Research Group links main frames minicomputers and personal computers without hardware or add on boards The software runs with IBM VM CMS and MVS TSO operating sys tems using asynchronous pathways typically found in the mainframe en vironment Blast operates as an application pro gram to connect PCs or minis to a
10. ies operating software so users can automat ically plot the performance of VLSI devices The program allows plotting of time versus voltage time versus time voltage versus time or voltage versus voltages This capability allows users to select the specific characteristics to be plotted Users can also select pins on which measurements are to be made maximum and minimum values over which tests are to be made and incremental values at which tests are to be conducted During operation the Topaz system runs the vector set at each incremental point on the plot The Meta Shmoo program displays the worse case pass fail condition for each set of Shmoo parameters Available immediately the Meta Shmoo program from Hilevel Tech nology carries a price tag of 2500 Reader Service Number 47 97 IEEE 802 5 network router introduced Proteon Inc has announced an IEEE 802 5 compliant network interface for its p4200 gateway The p4210 router permits users to expand token ring net working systems beyond personal com puter environments to include other established networks By plugging into the p4200 Gateway the interface allows the gateway to oper ate ProNET 4 10 and 80 token ring networks and Ethernet Arpanet T1 and 56 kilobits s wide area networks piherne Tu j wm cagobacban simultaneously At the same time p4210 rova ohiewey EENES supports Transmission Control Protocol a ce wees tes Network Inter
11. isk and printer spooler developed to work with the 286 accelerator and boost per formance The suggested retail price of the 286 Ramracer is 745 with zero kilobytes of RAM and 1225 with 1 5M bytes of RAM The daughterboard is 150 with 512K RAM Rampartner sells for 360 with zero kilobytes and 960 with two megabytes Reader Service Number 33 RTU emulates SCADA systems The Advanced Logical Solutions IRTU 500 is contained on a 7 x 10 inch circuit board The intelligent remote ter minal unit is designed for monitoring and controlling alternative generation distribution automation and energy con servation projects The CMOS unit can be used as a stand alone controller or as an intelligent data acquisition node linked to a compatible personal com puter A modular design concept permits the RTU to be configured to various applications IRTU 500 contains the Intel 8085 mi croprocessor with 8K bytes of EPROM and 8K bytes of static RAM the pro prietary SCADA protocol Commlink a modem and power supply With a plug in communications scheme the RTU can be programmed to emulate most existing SCADA protocols An on board address selection switch allows up to 255 unique addresses Available with four analog inputs eight status inputs and eight control outputs the ALS IRTU 500 sells for under 1000 in quantities of 10 Reader Service Number 34 94 ES ETEN PC Technologies s Ramracer combines an accelerator w
12. ith cache memory and expanded memory To obtain a total of 4M bytes of memory users can combine the Rampartner with the 286 board Both boards can be teamed with Intel or AST expanded memory products The IRTU 500 from Advanced Logical Solutions includes a watch dog timer with fail safe operation Upon detection of a failure the circuit resets the RTU and reports the problem to the central computer C compiler processes 7000 lines of code minute The single pass Turbo C compiler has according to its manufacturer Borland International a raw compile time ex ceeding 7000 lines per minute on a 6 MHz IBM PC AT End users can choose either an integrated environment with built in editor compiler and linker or a conventional style command line interface Turbo C generates intermediate data structures in memory instead of tem porary disk files Special features include a pull down menu environment support for an automatic Make Project Facility designed for managing program de velopment and two tiled zoomable windows for editing and warning or er ror messages The compiler implements the forth coming ANSI C standard and supports Kernighan and Ritchie C Special exten sions for the PC environment include six memory models and mixed language mixed model programming Software in terrupt functions and in line assembler support are implemented in Turbo C The suggested retail price of Borland s Turbo C is 99 95 Reade
13. net Protocol Xerox Network Sys tems and DECnet According to the company the inter face also supports most combinations of media including fiber optics infrared microwave coaxial and twisted pair cables and the IBM Cabling System Proteon s p4210 ProNET 4 IEEE 802 5 interface the p4200 Gateway is Proteon s p4210 network interface allows personal computer users to expand their priced at 3590 software is included networking system to provide access to mainframes minicomputers and Reader Service Number 48 microcomputers THE AGE OF SCSI HAS ARRIVED CMOS SCSI Protocol Controllers From Fujitsu Fujitsu SCSI proto col controllers MB87030 31 and MB89351 are a CMOS LSIs 2 aunt developed by Fujitsu for I O interfacing with small computer equipment The SCSI Standards enable con nection from up to eight computers or peri pheral units to a single bus They greatly increase the possibility of designing small computers and other systems including hard disk drives optical disk units and high speed printers Supporting SCSI ANSI X3T9 2 Maxi mum transfer speed 4M bytes s Available both for target and initiator DMA transfer program transfer or manual transfer selec table 8 byte FIFO transfer buffer 24 bit transfer byte counter Applicable to Single Ended option and Differential option Pari ty check capability Eronet SCSI Small Computer System Interface ANSI American
14. or analyzed as an exposure histogram Programmable calipers can be super imposed on the image for measurement which is possible to a resolution of 256 x 128 picture elements Application source code comes with the package so users can modify the package or write their own vision and robotics programs Microbot prices the TeachVision System at 2195 Reader Service Number 45 Expert software shortens IC design time VLSI Technology has introduced two silicon compilers the state machine and datapath compilers that let engineers specify integrated circuit designs in a high level language or block diagram A designer can enter a complex design and receive a netlist that can be implemented on a gate array so prototypes can be pro duced in two weeks If production volumes warrant the compilers can be implemented in combinations of stan dard cell and full custom compiled layout The compilers can be used together in several places if necessary on the same chip Circuits that contain a variety of repeated and interconnected logic elements can be constructed with the datapath compiler The state machine compiler can be used fot tasks requiring a block of decision logic VLSI s datapath compiler is priced at 40 000 and the state machine compiler at 10 000 Each is expecied to be avail able in June Reader Service Number 46 VLSI performance plotted Hilevel Technology s Meta Shmoo program integrates into the Topaz ser
15. ots Microbot has introduced the Teach Vision System for use with either its Alpha II industrial robot or its Teach Mover training robot The system senses visible information from parts and trans lates the data into computer memory images The software included with the system provides tools for measuring recognizing or locating the part relative to an X Y grid Motion of the robot arms can be pro grammed to act in response to shapes and locations of parts presented to the TeachVision system According to the company parts randomly dropped onto a lighted bench area can be picked up by robot arms measured and sorted as desired The combination hardware software system includes a camera head con troller unit computer interface card camera stand with lights cables soft April 1987 converts it into graphic instructions Print Buffer stores up to 65 pages of text and can be made transparent to perform word processing functions The Black Box NLQ Printer Buffer costs 269 Reader Service Number 44 ware and manuals Behind the lens is housed a small solid state image sensor which digitizes the desired image Either an Apple or an IBM PC can accept the digitized visual information The software allows the user to recognize measure determine location and orientation or compare the image with a stored pattern All or part of the image can be processed and manipulated in size zoomed in or out noise filtered
16. ple polysilicon and trench capac itor technology for more planarized structure and higher soft error immunity than are found in conventional cells The basic chip design provides a bond ing option that permits one die to be selected so one of three types of DRAMs can be produced 1M x 1 bit page mode 1M x 1 bit nibble mode or 256K x 4 bit page mode All three DRAMs are available in standard 18 pin DIPs and a 20 26 small 2ND Pouv Si CELL GATE INSULATOR A cross sectional view of the Oki Semiconductor BSCC technology used in its 1M bit DRAM family outline J lead package The prices of the Oki devices begin at 50 each in quanti ties of 100 Reader Service Number 38 95 New Products Battery operated unit enters handwriting Portable ScriptWriter from Data Entry Systems accepts handwritten data on paper and enters it into memory in ASCII code The 3 2 pound unit s writing surface holds standard paper forms which are completed with a ball point pen and an LCD provides real time readout of data entered Printing over an erroneous character corrects an entry ScriptWriter is capable of storing 10 different forms and 50 000 characters per day and functioning for 12 hours of continuous operation away from host computers or electrical outlets At the end of the day the portable unit is plugged into the host computer its data transferred and its batteries recharged According to the company all compu
17. r Service Number 35 IEEE MICRO One megabit DRAMs offered in ZIP packages The Semiconductor Division of Mit subishi Electronics America is marketing 1M bit CMOS DRAMs in three package types DIP high density ZIP and sur face mountable SOJ In full production since the end of 1986 these devices are available in 1M x 1 bit configurations for large capacity memory systems and 256K x 4 bit configurations for smaller memory systems or graphics systems The company uses a double layer polysilicon CMOS process combined with silicide technology and a single transistor dynamic storage cell to pro duce the devices Each offers normal read write and read modify write opera tions and are available in 100 120 and 150 ns speeds In addition to the nibble mode fast page and static column modes of opera tion are offered Fast page is essentially a latched static column allowing the pipe lining of data transfers According to the company both fast page and static col umn have CAS access times one half those of a traditional page mode DRAM for example 30 ns for a 120 ns device versus 60 ns In 100 piece quantities Mitsubishi s Hitachi announces 1M bit SRAM A 1 megabit 128K bit word x 8 bit static RAM module with four times the density of monolithic devices is available in sample quantities from Hitachi Ameri ca s Semiconductor and IC Division The HM66204 features two 256K bit SRAMs surface mounted on each side
18. ters accepting an RS 232 serial port are com patible with Script Writer The retail price of Data Entry Systems ScriptWriter is 1295 Reader Service Number 39 Image processor offers 100 functions ImageActionplus from Imaging Technology enables first time users and professionals to perform complex image processing applications on IBM personal computers and compatibles According to the company when used with the PCvisionplus Frame Grabber Image Actionplus can be used without prior training or programming The menu driven interface permits functions to be selected with an optical mouse and the point and click method As a selection is made the equivalent command in ITEX notation is echoed on the screen ITEX is the company s image processing subroutine library ImageActionplus permits users to ac quire and clear images process areas of interest filter images subtract and per form logical operations in dual image functions use text draw lines and fill graphics A command line interpreter permits experienced users to enter image processing commands on the keyboard A scripting capability enables the soft ware to memorize a sequence of events the user has chosen with the mouse ImageActionplus software is available from Imaging Technology for 995 It is distributed on two double density DOS compatible diskettes Reader Service Number 40 96 Data Entry Systems ScriptWriter has an 812 x 11 inch writing surfa
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