June 24, 2003

Last weeks EE Times

First story, Germanium MOSFETs again under study in U.S. and Europe is basically about new Germanium research. Or more accuratly that germanium reseach is happening again. The reason this is significant is it was the first semi-conductor used to built solid state transistors. New applications aren't for pure Ge based chips but using Ge-Si with high K dopants.

This is for Tim T., AI software gives virtual guitars a lifelike sound describes software that adds human like interpritation to music. The software plays a guitar with temp varied for effect and emphesis added to selected notes. The interesting thing is the temp and emphesis are all decided by the sw with no human input.

As a very early adopter of home networking (my father and I spent a weekend in '93/'94 pulling coax through the house for 802.3 thinnet (yes, even at the time I yelled at the moron and told him we should be doing the then just bergening cat5 so some day we could do 100mbit.)) I was very interested in this article,
Concerns over home nets take center stage at ICCE. The article is about using 1394, gigabit, 100baseT, and 802.11x for linking all computers, tvs, stereos, and internet appliances in your house together. A folow on article, QoS a concern in linking 1394, Ethernet, addresses the QoS link between 1394 and ethernet. It does this with the 802.1q extension and defining a set of prioritues for different services.

Tune in next week...

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