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Calma R&D in NY
Array processor links skydata
CADCAM specialist Calma is to carry out R & D in Troy, New York. A new organization - called Calma Advanced Systems - will be Rensslaer nurtured in the Polytechnic Institute’s ‘incubator program’ for new high technology business. ‘At our Troy facility, our researchers will take a totally new approach to tomorrow’s computerengineering and aided design, manufacturing systems’, said Calma president, Robert J Smuland. ‘We will be working on products that are revolutionary, not evolutionary.’ Calma Advanced Systems will have about 35 full time scientists, engineers and technicians. There will also be consultants and graduate students. Calma is a subsidiary of the General Electric Company of the USA.
The first delivery of a Floating Point System series 5000 array processor has been made to Manchester University, UK. It provides online access to a store of astronomical data for an organization of major observations in the UK called Starlink. The FPS 5205 is configured with a VAX 111780 minicomputer. It will assist in processing radio signals and producing contour maps of star functions. The FPS 5205 is configured with a VAX 111780 minicomputer. It will assist in processing radio signals and producing contour maps of star formations. ‘The installation ofthe array processor will increase the power of our computing facility by a factor of ten, and enable us to develop a more detailed picture of the radio universe’, said lecturer in radio astronomy at Manchester Univer-
sity, Dr Alan Pedlar. Four product groups make up the FPS 5000 series: the 5100, 5200, 5300 and 5400. Peak performances range from 26 Mflop to 62 Mflop. Data memory of 0.5M to 1 Mword is available with a program memory of 32 kword.
NTT stores images The state-run Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation of Japan (NTT) has developed an image storage chip. The Jumbo has a 1.5 Mbyte capacity and will be used in telecommunications, especially teletext and videotext. Four of the devices can be used to store data equivalent to a single colour frame says the Japanese Journal of Electronic Engineering. The chip also has a 1.2 Mbyte selfdiagnostic subsection.
Transatlantic deal sets up UK image processing company Three firms have agreed a transatlantic deal to set up Visual Machines Ltd in Manchester, UK.
The new company will apply image processing techniques developed at Manchester University’s Wolfson
Front-lit visuaE inspection from transatlantic deal
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Image Analysis Unit. There is a unique combination of skills, technology and commercial stability that gives the company a head start in the visual inspection business, said managing director, Paul Gregory. The major shareholders are Vuman Ltd, owned by Manchester University, American Robot Corporation of Pittsburgh, Pensylvania, and Rediffusion Robot Systems Ltd, of the UK. Rediffision and American Robot will be marketing systems in the UK and USA respectively. Visual Machines is using reflected light techniques rather than backlighting in a visual inspection unit. Their system is aimed at product line use. It may be used as a standalone unit or in computerbased factory automation. The firm is currently located in Manchester University. It will be one of the first companies to move into the new science park next to the campus.
image and vision computing
Array processor links skydata
CADCAM specialist Calma is to carry out R & D in Troy, New York. A new organization - called Calma Advanced Systems - will be Rensslaer nurtured in the Polytechnic Institute’s ‘incubator program’ for new high technology business. ‘At our Troy facility, our researchers will take a totally new approach to tomorrow’s computerengineering and aided design, manufacturing systems’, said Calma president, Robert J Smuland. ‘We will be working on products that are revolutionary, not evolutionary.’ Calma Advanced Systems will have about 35 full time scientists, engineers and technicians. There will also be consultants and graduate students. Calma is a subsidiary of the General Electric Company of the USA.
The first delivery of a Floating Point System series 5000 array processor has been made to Manchester University, UK. It provides online access to a store of astronomical data for an organization of major observations in the UK called Starlink. The FPS 5205 is configured with a VAX 111780 minicomputer. It will assist in processing radio signals and producing contour maps of star functions. The FPS 5205 is configured with a VAX 111780 minicomputer. It will assist in processing radio signals and producing contour maps of star formations. ‘The installation ofthe array processor will increase the power of our computing facility by a factor of ten, and enable us to develop a more detailed picture of the radio universe’, said lecturer in radio astronomy at Manchester Univer-
sity, Dr Alan Pedlar. Four product groups make up the FPS 5000 series: the 5100, 5200, 5300 and 5400. Peak performances range from 26 Mflop to 62 Mflop. Data memory of 0.5M to 1 Mword is available with a program memory of 32 kword.
NTT stores images The state-run Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation of Japan (NTT) has developed an image storage chip. The Jumbo has a 1.5 Mbyte capacity and will be used in telecommunications, especially teletext and videotext. Four of the devices can be used to store data equivalent to a single colour frame says the Japanese Journal of Electronic Engineering. The chip also has a 1.2 Mbyte selfdiagnostic subsection.
Transatlantic deal sets up UK image processing company Three firms have agreed a transatlantic deal to set up Visual Machines Ltd in Manchester, UK.
The new company will apply image processing techniques developed at Manchester University’s Wolfson
Front-lit visuaE inspection from transatlantic deal
118
Image Analysis Unit. There is a unique combination of skills, technology and commercial stability that gives the company a head start in the visual inspection business, said managing director, Paul Gregory. The major shareholders are Vuman Ltd, owned by Manchester University, American Robot Corporation of Pittsburgh, Pensylvania, and Rediffusion Robot Systems Ltd, of the UK. Rediffision and American Robot will be marketing systems in the UK and USA respectively. Visual Machines is using reflected light techniques rather than backlighting in a visual inspection unit. Their system is aimed at product line use. It may be used as a standalone unit or in computerbased factory automation. The firm is currently located in Manchester University. It will be one of the first companies to move into the new science park next to the campus.
image and vision computing