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To: Patriarch who wrote (4716)	11/3/1999 7:07:00 PM
From: Walter Morton	Respond to of 6180

TXN will use e.Digital's (EDIG) newly designed portable digital music player to demonstrate its DSP during November 15-17 at the Webnoize show: edig.com

To: Patriarch who wrote (4716)	11/9/1999 12:38:00 PM
From: slacker711	Respond to of 6180

Lucent's chip announcement....they did it by shrinking the gates to .12 microns. I never did see a date attached to any of the annoucements....it might be a little while <g>. edtn.com Lucent claims fastest 1-volt DSP developed by Bell Labs Semiconductor Business News (11/05/99, 12:24 p.m. EDT) MURRAY HILL, N.J.--Lucent Technologies Inc. here today announced the development of a 1-volt digital signal processor that operates at 100 MHz. The prototype processor is the fastest DSP operating at 1.0 volts of power, according to Lucent. The 1-V DSP chip was produced by Lucent's Bell Labs using standard manufacturing equipment and 248-nanometer optical lithography, but phase-shifting photomask technology enabled researchers to shrink the processor's gate widths to 0.12 micron, said the company. Lucent predicted that the 1-V processor could become instrumental in new systems for packet voice and data transport over wireless telephones as well as higher speeds for Internet use, new video applications, and digital audio broadcasts. The 1-V DSP processor is also likely to be used in system-on-chip applications, Lucent said. Bell Labs researcher said they produced the 1-V design from a "turbo-charged" version of Lucent's existing DSP 1628 chip. The current 1628 processor is fabricated with 0.25-micron gates, but researcher Isik C. Kizilyalli and Pat Watson increased the speed and lowered the power of the DSP by shrinking the gates to 0.12 micron, Lucent said. To shrink the gate size, researchers used phase-shifting mask software from Numerical Technologies Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif. A 248-nm lithography system used the phase-shift photomasks to print the 0.12-micron gates. During the development project, Bell Labs researchers powered the modified DSP 1628 at two different voltages to measure performance. At 1.0 volt, the DSP ran at 100 MHz, and at 1.5 volts, it ran at 170 MHz. Today's unmodified 1628 DSP processor operates at 60 MHz using 1.5 volts of power.