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National Semiconductor to support CAE workstations Cut in price for urruy processors
Analog ic price cuts Analogic has taken fl 000 off the UK price of its array processors - the AP400 Series - bringing the basic price of the standard processor down to f 11 500. At the same time the memory size has been increased from 8 kbyte to 16 kbyte, which can then be increased in 16 kbyte increments up to 64 kbyte, each increment costing f2 000. The price also includes an interface for DEC LSI-11 or Vax computers. Interfaces for other machines, such as the Hewlett Packard HP 1000 or Data General Nova or Eclipse, cost f2 000. (Anulogic Ltd, 68 High Street, Weybridge, Surrey KT73 SBN, UK. Tel: (0923) 5607 7)
National Semiconductor has concluded an agreement with Daisy Systems that means National’s customers will be able to use Daisy workstations to access National’s library of CMOS 21.( and 31_(technology and bipolar gate array macrocells for capturing schematics, simulating logic circuits, and getting automatic layout and logic verification. National will buy and support software for the Daisy Systems CAE Gatemaster workstation as part of this agreement. According to National, the Gatemaster will give its customers complete, inhouse control over chip design. (National Semiconductor, lndustriestrasse 10, D-8080 Fiirstenfeldbruck, West Germany)
Sale of turnkey system Applied Research of Cambridge will be implementing its turnkey Arcad
system for Landis Lund Ltd, a US multinational’s British division which supplies grinding machines worldwide. The system will be used to produce electrical schematic diagrams in the first instance. Later it will be expanded to handle all aspects of drawing required for submission to customers, such as tooling and machine foundation layoutsand installation diagrams. The system will run on a Prime computer. (ARC Ltd, Wellington House, East Road, Cambridge CBl IBH, UK. Tel: (0223) 314041)
CIS launches sheet metal design A CAD and draughting system has been launched by Cambridge Interactive Systems (Products) Ltd for sheet metal design. According to the authors, this system takes out the need for sheet metal fabricators to use trial and error methods for designing items such as boxes. There are three programs in the system for determining the prefolding pattern and other details without resorting to experimentation in metal. The system takes the Medusa drawing and modelling approach. (Cambridge Interactive Systems (Products) L td, Harston Mill, Royston Road, Hanton CB2 SNL, UK. Tel: (0223) 871717)
Graphicson Data General distributed systems Data General is putting its Graphics Instruction Set (GIS) on the workstations in its recently announced Distributed Systems (DS) family of computers. The systems will also feature a new implementation of video random access memory components, supplied by Texas Instruments, and a raster buffer. Data General is using GIS on all its 32.bit workstations implemented with bitmapped graphics. It is used as the basis of window management, providing a firmware item called a form. The GIS instructions give the pixel coordinates for the form, which is then the building block for windows. The Graphical Kernel System (GKS) uses GIS in producing twodimensional
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graphics. These workstations are the first to use the Texas Instruments 64 kbyte video DRAM which appears to the CPU as part of main memory, but allows graphics drawing simultaneously with screen refresh. The raster buffer is closely buffered to the workstations’ CPUs and system memories, which Data General says is the fastest path between an application and what appears on the screen. With a good response time, Data General argues that this makes the DS/4200 and DS/4000 ideal for interactive engineering applications. (D&u General Ltd, Hounslow House, 724734 London Road, Hounslow, Middx TW3 lPD, UK. Tel: 01-572 7455)
Plant set up in Dublin A manufacturing facility for CAD and CAM systems is being set up in Dublin, Ireland, by General Electric Automation Europe. The plant, which is part of the company’s drive into Europe, will produce Calma systems, products of sister company Calma. Initial investment in the plant is $8M, including grants from the Irish government. Under agreement with the Irish Development Authority, there are plans for further development. This will include major assemblies such as graphic stations, equipment racks, digitizers and even full systems.
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Analog ic price cuts Analogic has taken fl 000 off the UK price of its array processors - the AP400 Series - bringing the basic price of the standard processor down to f 11 500. At the same time the memory size has been increased from 8 kbyte to 16 kbyte, which can then be increased in 16 kbyte increments up to 64 kbyte, each increment costing f2 000. The price also includes an interface for DEC LSI-11 or Vax computers. Interfaces for other machines, such as the Hewlett Packard HP 1000 or Data General Nova or Eclipse, cost f2 000. (Anulogic Ltd, 68 High Street, Weybridge, Surrey KT73 SBN, UK. Tel: (0923) 5607 7)
National Semiconductor has concluded an agreement with Daisy Systems that means National’s customers will be able to use Daisy workstations to access National’s library of CMOS 21.( and 31_(technology and bipolar gate array macrocells for capturing schematics, simulating logic circuits, and getting automatic layout and logic verification. National will buy and support software for the Daisy Systems CAE Gatemaster workstation as part of this agreement. According to National, the Gatemaster will give its customers complete, inhouse control over chip design. (National Semiconductor, lndustriestrasse 10, D-8080 Fiirstenfeldbruck, West Germany)
Sale of turnkey system Applied Research of Cambridge will be implementing its turnkey Arcad
system for Landis Lund Ltd, a US multinational’s British division which supplies grinding machines worldwide. The system will be used to produce electrical schematic diagrams in the first instance. Later it will be expanded to handle all aspects of drawing required for submission to customers, such as tooling and machine foundation layoutsand installation diagrams. The system will run on a Prime computer. (ARC Ltd, Wellington House, East Road, Cambridge CBl IBH, UK. Tel: (0223) 314041)
CIS launches sheet metal design A CAD and draughting system has been launched by Cambridge Interactive Systems (Products) Ltd for sheet metal design. According to the authors, this system takes out the need for sheet metal fabricators to use trial and error methods for designing items such as boxes. There are three programs in the system for determining the prefolding pattern and other details without resorting to experimentation in metal. The system takes the Medusa drawing and modelling approach. (Cambridge Interactive Systems (Products) L td, Harston Mill, Royston Road, Hanton CB2 SNL, UK. Tel: (0223) 871717)
Graphicson Data General distributed systems Data General is putting its Graphics Instruction Set (GIS) on the workstations in its recently announced Distributed Systems (DS) family of computers. The systems will also feature a new implementation of video random access memory components, supplied by Texas Instruments, and a raster buffer. Data General is using GIS on all its 32.bit workstations implemented with bitmapped graphics. It is used as the basis of window management, providing a firmware item called a form. The GIS instructions give the pixel coordinates for the form, which is then the building block for windows. The Graphical Kernel System (GKS) uses GIS in producing twodimensional
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graphics. These workstations are the first to use the Texas Instruments 64 kbyte video DRAM which appears to the CPU as part of main memory, but allows graphics drawing simultaneously with screen refresh. The raster buffer is closely buffered to the workstations’ CPUs and system memories, which Data General says is the fastest path between an application and what appears on the screen. With a good response time, Data General argues that this makes the DS/4200 and DS/4000 ideal for interactive engineering applications. (D&u General Ltd, Hounslow House, 724734 London Road, Hounslow, Middx TW3 lPD, UK. Tel: 01-572 7455)
Plant set up in Dublin A manufacturing facility for CAD and CAM systems is being set up in Dublin, Ireland, by General Electric Automation Europe. The plant, which is part of the company’s drive into Europe, will produce Calma systems, products of sister company Calma. Initial investment in the plant is $8M, including grants from the Irish government. Under agreement with the Irish Development Authority, there are plans for further development. This will include major assemblies such as graphic stations, equipment racks, digitizers and even full systems.
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