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DEC announces VAXstation 2000 and MicroVAX 2000…
CAD in industry DEC announces VAXstation 2000 and MicroVAX Digital Equipment Company (DEC) has announced the VAXstation 2000, a desktop workstation aimed at users who require simultaneous access to a number of different information sources. According to DEC, the VAXstation 2000 is suitable for applications that need high performance and high resolution text and graphics. Typical applications include image processing, mechanical and architectural drawing, technical publishing, etc. The VAXstation 2000 is a single board computer with a floating point unit, a built-in Ethernet adaptor, a 19 in 1024 x 864 pixel resolution monitor and a three button mouse. It offers 6 Mbyte of memory on a 4 x 7 in 2 double-sided surface-mount board. The product joins DEC's family of VAX-based 32-bit workstations and is available in both discless and discbased configurations. It is offered in VMS and Ultrix environments. It shares resources with other DEC workstations and larger VAX systems via the Local Area VAXcluster software and DECnet. Local Area VAXcluster Systems enable DEC users to integrate groups of MicroVAX II and VAXstation II systems into a single computing environment. Thus VAXstation 2000 workstations and other workstations operating under DEC's VMS system can be closely linked. This means that VAXstation 2000 users benefit from system management centralization, while maintaining control of their
own computer resources. 'In engineering environments users have bad to be their own systems managers', said Robin Shuff, DEC's UK VAXstations Product Manager. He added, 'The workgroup's local store can be kept locally or in the data processing department. One person can perform system housekeeping tasks for many of these groups. 'Local Area VAXclusters mean that the operating system and applications are installed on all nodes once, and once o n l y . . . It returns hardware buying and integration strategies to their proper home with the MIS manager and yet the user still has full control over the application.' VAXstation 2000 forms part of the DECwindows development programme, allowing applications transfer between VAXstations running on VMS and Ultrix and VAXmates running on MS-DOS. With DECwindows, users can choose a combination of PCs and 32-bit workstations running common applications and common user interfaces. DEC's Ultrix incorporates the Network File Servier (NFS), which extends standard Unix to allow each node in the network, and each user on each node, to access application and data files. Monochrome versions of VAXstation 2000 are available now, with cotour versions available later in the year. The system is priced at under
Design and verification facility Cadnetix has introduced a gate array (ASIC) design and verification facility after an agreement with LSI Logic Corporation. The Cadnetix system provides full support of the LSI Logic HCMOS array libraries plus manufacturing interfaces to the LDS and full pre- and post-layout back annotation of gate and interconnect delays. During schematic capture on a Cadnetix system the engineer works with macrocell libraries certified by LSI Logic. Models for individual
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macrocells are then available to enable accurate logic simulation of the circuit first with unit delays and later with estimated delays. The design is then sent to an LSI Logic Centre for physical layout. Cadnetix's certified libraries meet LSI Logic's specifications, so once the customer has simulated his design inhouse, a single resimutation by LSI Logic is necessary. Support of the back annotation capability enables back annotation information about
£8000. DEC has also announced the lowest cost member of its VAX computer family, the MicroVAX 2000. This four-user entry-level machine provideb 90% of CPU performance of the VAX 11/780 system. It is aimed at applications in office, engineering, small business and financial and educational environments. As it is software compatible with other VAX family merehers, it can run on a wide variety ol application software without modification. MicroVAX 2000 uses the same CPU and floating point chip set as the MicroVAX II, and has 6 Mbyte of memory, with a maximum storage capacity of 142 Mbyte. Operating systems available are VMS and Ultrix. The MicroVAX 2000 can be incorporated into the Local Area VAXclustet system. An entry-level configuration provides 4 Mbyte of memory, 42 Mbyte of hard disk storage and 1.2 Mbyte of floppy disc storagE. A top-of-the-range configuration features 6 Mbyte of storage, 71 Mbyte of hard disc and an expansion adaptor. A discless satellite MicroVAX 2000 for use in Local Area VAXcluster configurations is also availablE. The MicroVAX 2000 costs under £10 000.
(Digital Equipment Company, Digital Park, Imperial Way, Reading RG2 0TE, Berks, UK. TeL' (0734) 856117) actual delays to be extracted from the layout. Thus the original design can be simulated using accurate timing information, verifying that the circuit will operate correctly as laid out. The simulation models for gate array can be integrated into full PC board system simulation. The LSI Logic design support on Cadnetix system includes the LL5000, 7000, 8000 and 9000 series of HCMOS gate array library.
(Cadnetix Ltd, Cherry Orchard North, Kembrey Park, Swindon, Wilts SN2 5UH, UK. Tel: (0793) 615400. Tx: 444940 CDX EU G) computer-aided design
own computer resources. 'In engineering environments users have bad to be their own systems managers', said Robin Shuff, DEC's UK VAXstations Product Manager. He added, 'The workgroup's local store can be kept locally or in the data processing department. One person can perform system housekeeping tasks for many of these groups. 'Local Area VAXclusters mean that the operating system and applications are installed on all nodes once, and once o n l y . . . It returns hardware buying and integration strategies to their proper home with the MIS manager and yet the user still has full control over the application.' VAXstation 2000 forms part of the DECwindows development programme, allowing applications transfer between VAXstations running on VMS and Ultrix and VAXmates running on MS-DOS. With DECwindows, users can choose a combination of PCs and 32-bit workstations running common applications and common user interfaces. DEC's Ultrix incorporates the Network File Servier (NFS), which extends standard Unix to allow each node in the network, and each user on each node, to access application and data files. Monochrome versions of VAXstation 2000 are available now, with cotour versions available later in the year. The system is priced at under
Design and verification facility Cadnetix has introduced a gate array (ASIC) design and verification facility after an agreement with LSI Logic Corporation. The Cadnetix system provides full support of the LSI Logic HCMOS array libraries plus manufacturing interfaces to the LDS and full pre- and post-layout back annotation of gate and interconnect delays. During schematic capture on a Cadnetix system the engineer works with macrocell libraries certified by LSI Logic. Models for individual
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macrocells are then available to enable accurate logic simulation of the circuit first with unit delays and later with estimated delays. The design is then sent to an LSI Logic Centre for physical layout. Cadnetix's certified libraries meet LSI Logic's specifications, so once the customer has simulated his design inhouse, a single resimutation by LSI Logic is necessary. Support of the back annotation capability enables back annotation information about
£8000. DEC has also announced the lowest cost member of its VAX computer family, the MicroVAX 2000. This four-user entry-level machine provideb 90% of CPU performance of the VAX 11/780 system. It is aimed at applications in office, engineering, small business and financial and educational environments. As it is software compatible with other VAX family merehers, it can run on a wide variety ol application software without modification. MicroVAX 2000 uses the same CPU and floating point chip set as the MicroVAX II, and has 6 Mbyte of memory, with a maximum storage capacity of 142 Mbyte. Operating systems available are VMS and Ultrix. The MicroVAX 2000 can be incorporated into the Local Area VAXclustet system. An entry-level configuration provides 4 Mbyte of memory, 42 Mbyte of hard disk storage and 1.2 Mbyte of floppy disc storagE. A top-of-the-range configuration features 6 Mbyte of storage, 71 Mbyte of hard disc and an expansion adaptor. A discless satellite MicroVAX 2000 for use in Local Area VAXcluster configurations is also availablE. The MicroVAX 2000 costs under £10 000.
(Digital Equipment Company, Digital Park, Imperial Way, Reading RG2 0TE, Berks, UK. TeL' (0734) 856117) actual delays to be extracted from the layout. Thus the original design can be simulated using accurate timing information, verifying that the circuit will operate correctly as laid out. The simulation models for gate array can be integrated into full PC board system simulation. The LSI Logic design support on Cadnetix system includes the LL5000, 7000, 8000 and 9000 series of HCMOS gate array library.
(Cadnetix Ltd, Cherry Orchard North, Kembrey Park, Swindon, Wilts SN2 5UH, UK. Tel: (0793) 615400. Tx: 444940 CDX EU G) computer-aided design