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To: Stoctrash who wrote (35361)	8/21/1998 3:52:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

Another Media Processor...................................... eet.com Posted: 3:00 p.m., EDT, 8/21/98 Equator takes software-first tack on VLIW By Stephan Ohr SEATTLE - Equator Technology Inc. is developing programmable processor architectures that will add multimedia features to computers and consumer electronics, and it expects to accomplish its work almost entirely in software. The company hopes its work will find use in high-definition TVs, set-top boxes and interactive 3-D games. Equator is already touting partnerships with a number of high-profile companies: Hitachi on HDTV; Criterion in 3-D rendering algorithms; and with Microsoft on Talisman frameworks and an API for DSP. "We'll do an HDTV in C - fully in software," said John O'Donnell, president of Equator, based here. The micro-architectures Equator spins out - in effect, VLIW ASICs - will be specifically designed to execute this code. Equator's embrace of VLIW (very-long instruction word) technology might seem a bold move in light of Chromatic Research's retreat from the technology. The media-processor pioneer has apparently given up its quest to harness VLIW architectures to the needs of multimedia. And Philips' TriMedia group, another media-processor developer, has scaled back the applications of its products to HDTV decoding and videoconferencing.