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Intel licence lets Fujitsu second source 80X86
• . . and LSI Logic's array design centre Munich has been chosen asthe site for a design centre as well, this time by UK-based LSI Logic. Its purpose will be to let customers design arrays with complexity from 800 to 10k gates in HCMOS. The design centre will serve the FRG, Belgium, The Netherlands, Austria, Luxembourg, Switzerland, France, Spain and Portugal. Would-be designers will use an Amdahl V7 system running LDS TM+ software. This software drives various LSI Logic systems. For example, the LL3000 family produces singlelayer metallization, whereas the 5000, 7000 and 8000 families carry out a dual-metal-layer process. Gate speeds with the latter products are quoted as 5 ns, 2.5 nsand 1.5 ns respectively. HCMOS for application-specific integrated circuits will be on offer in both two- and three-micro technologies. Full support for these products will be provided by the integrated CAD design system, promises LSI Logic.
Analog injects £35M to expand its Irish plant Semiconductor firm Analog Devices is putting £35M into its plant in Limerick, Ireland, over the next five years. The plans include an increase in staff from 600 to 800 between now and mid-1986, expansion of the existing wafer fabrication line and the setting up of a research and development centre. Analog Devices makes linear integrated circuits for data acquistion and measurement and control applications. The Limerick plant is a standalone entity, with responsibility for marketing, design, research, development and manufacture. It also has links with the National Microelectronics Research Centre at University College, Cork, and the National Institute for Higher Education at Limerick. World wide Analog Devices has 4700 employees with (1983) sales in the region of £190M.
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Motorola states commitment to VME Motorola has followed Plessey Microsystems (see Microprocessors and Microsystems, November) in announcing its intention to invest in VME. The firm forecasts that the VME board business will double each year for the next three years. It intends to take advantage of this growing market with new board designs, developments in Versados and Unix system V and support products. Having brought 12 VME designs
to market in 1984, the firm has scheduled 15 new product announcements for 1985. The 32bit VMEbus used by Motorola's designers in Munich is more than two years ahead of other secondgeneration microcomputer buses, says the firm, in terms of bus design and available products. Planned launches include modules (CPU, memory and intelligent I/O) based on the 68000, 68010 and 68020.
32000 family gets Perennial software support Custom software support for the 32000 family is to be provided by US company Perennial Software Services Group, as a result of an authorization agreement with National Semiconductor. Perrennial's function is to help adapt Genix (the National Semiconductor version of Unix for the 32000) to customer-specific hardware designs. Such adaptations are most often called for by I/O drivers, memory management, interrupts, clocks, bus structures and processor arrangement--ie in applications where hardware most affects software operation.
'Perennial will approach Genix adaptations in a stepwise fashion,' said the firm's president Dave Fast, 'so that each new phase can be implemented and fully tested before going to the next phase. 'This incremental approach will be especially important to clients dealing with new hardware that has not been exercised extensively.' During testing of a Genixadaptation, Perennial will use a National Semiconductor SYS32 system as a reference system. The acceptability of a Genix adaptation will also be tested by executing Perennial's Unix Validation Suite under the newly adapted operating system.
Intel licence lets Fujitsu second source 80X86 Fujitsu has been granted a licence to make and market Intel's 80186 and 80286 processors and the 8051 microcontroller. The agreement also includes the 80188 (a version of the 80186 with an 8-bit instead of a 16-bit bus), the 82284 clock generator and the 82288 bus controller for the 80286. Mask set information will be transferred from Intel to Fujitsu. The Japanese firm plans to have samples available by mid-1985, with the 8051 coming out in January 1985. The 80286 is software compatible with the 8086. Intel claims it is the first microprocessor to offer memory management and protection on a chip. The 80186 and 80188, bigger versions of the 8086 and 8088, combine about 20
peripheral components with the processor on one chip. Fujitsu has been secondsourcing for Intel since 1981, when it obtained a licence to cover the 8086, 8088, 8089 coprocessor, and support devices.
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Analog injects £35M to expand its Irish plant Semiconductor firm Analog Devices is putting £35M into its plant in Limerick, Ireland, over the next five years. The plans include an increase in staff from 600 to 800 between now and mid-1986, expansion of the existing wafer fabrication line and the setting up of a research and development centre. Analog Devices makes linear integrated circuits for data acquistion and measurement and control applications. The Limerick plant is a standalone entity, with responsibility for marketing, design, research, development and manufacture. It also has links with the National Microelectronics Research Centre at University College, Cork, and the National Institute for Higher Education at Limerick. World wide Analog Devices has 4700 employees with (1983) sales in the region of £190M.
vol 8 no 10 december 1984
Motorola states commitment to VME Motorola has followed Plessey Microsystems (see Microprocessors and Microsystems, November) in announcing its intention to invest in VME. The firm forecasts that the VME board business will double each year for the next three years. It intends to take advantage of this growing market with new board designs, developments in Versados and Unix system V and support products. Having brought 12 VME designs
to market in 1984, the firm has scheduled 15 new product announcements for 1985. The 32bit VMEbus used by Motorola's designers in Munich is more than two years ahead of other secondgeneration microcomputer buses, says the firm, in terms of bus design and available products. Planned launches include modules (CPU, memory and intelligent I/O) based on the 68000, 68010 and 68020.
32000 family gets Perennial software support Custom software support for the 32000 family is to be provided by US company Perennial Software Services Group, as a result of an authorization agreement with National Semiconductor. Perrennial's function is to help adapt Genix (the National Semiconductor version of Unix for the 32000) to customer-specific hardware designs. Such adaptations are most often called for by I/O drivers, memory management, interrupts, clocks, bus structures and processor arrangement--ie in applications where hardware most affects software operation.
'Perennial will approach Genix adaptations in a stepwise fashion,' said the firm's president Dave Fast, 'so that each new phase can be implemented and fully tested before going to the next phase. 'This incremental approach will be especially important to clients dealing with new hardware that has not been exercised extensively.' During testing of a Genixadaptation, Perennial will use a National Semiconductor SYS32 system as a reference system. The acceptability of a Genix adaptation will also be tested by executing Perennial's Unix Validation Suite under the newly adapted operating system.
Intel licence lets Fujitsu second source 80X86 Fujitsu has been granted a licence to make and market Intel's 80186 and 80286 processors and the 8051 microcontroller. The agreement also includes the 80188 (a version of the 80186 with an 8-bit instead of a 16-bit bus), the 82284 clock generator and the 82288 bus controller for the 80286. Mask set information will be transferred from Intel to Fujitsu. The Japanese firm plans to have samples available by mid-1985, with the 8051 coming out in January 1985. The 80286 is software compatible with the 8086. Intel claims it is the first microprocessor to offer memory management and protection on a chip. The 80186 and 80188, bigger versions of the 8086 and 8088, combine about 20
peripheral components with the processor on one chip. Fujitsu has been secondsourcing for Intel since 1981, when it obtained a licence to cover the 8086, 8088, 8089 coprocessor, and support devices.
Fujitsu's centre
European
VLSI design
557