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To: Scotsman who wrote (34335)	7/16/1998 12:01:00 PM
From: Don Dorsey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

Cameras on a chip coming. Electronic Eyes Get Smaller by Chris Oakes 4:00am 16.Jul.98.PDT Lucent Technologies has signed up its first customer for a technology that could herald a market for remarkably compact and inexpensive video cameras. The cameras could capture images comparable in quality to today's camcorders, Lucent said. Vanguard International Semiconductor will use the technology to build chips that will, in turn, be sold to video equipment manufacturers. "You can expect small cameras and cheaper camera systems," said Bryan Ackland, head of the DSP and VLSI systems research department at Bell Labs, the research and development arm of Lucent. That's because Lucent has found a way to integrate disparate video circuitry into a single chip, without losing image resolution. "You can also expect lower-power, lighter-weight systems," he said. His examples include a camera in a cell phone and a camera "you can just stick on the wall as part of a security system." wired.com

To: Scotsman who wrote (34335)	7/16/1998 3:54:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

JVC again.......................................... eet.com The D-VHS VCR, combined with the set-top box of a particular service provider, requires a 32-bit microprocessor for housekeeping and running of a real-time operating system. Further chips are required for handling the RF portion of the set-top, D/A and A/D conversion, conditional access decryption and MPEG-2 decoding. JVC has teamed with an unidentified silicon vendor on a chip that will format incoming signals into D-VHS and that will integrate a number of features currently assigned to discrete chips, according to Shimizu. JVC has not yet launched yet a standalone D-VHS VCR without a set-top. When such a product does debut, however, it is expected to have an IEEE-1394 interface for connection to a TV or PC.