{"title":"Transforming the PC into a TV, radio, VCR, and video editing studio","authors":"R. Willner","doi":"10.1109/WESCON.1995.485494","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WESCON.1995.485494","url":null,"abstract":"PCs are increasingly sold as home consumer products. A modular PCI based architecture for providing the embedded functions of the TV, Radio and VCR into PCs is discussed. This architecture also supports video conferencing and video authoring applications. PC Applications PC designers have increasingly looked to integrate consumer product features into their PCs. Current motherboard and add-on card manufacturers allow the consumer to watch TV or cable TV, listen to radio and/or play his favorite audio and video CDs on his computer. The PCI architecture described below goes one step further to allow computers to also conduct video conferences, edit still and motion images and incorporate these images nto interactive applications. -. I I V & Cable Compressed Video Conference Audio & Video Editing Playback Publishing :igure 1 Multimedia architectures allow computers to receive, edit, and play back audio and video from a variety of sources. TV Audio and Video Signals The composite video signal received from a TV antenna, cable TV set top box, video tape recorder (VCR) or video camera can be broken down into its components: blackand-white image, color image information and ISBN# 0-7803-2636-9 timing signals required to display each horizontal line and each frames on the TV display. Video signals can also contain the stereo sound, closed caption text, teletext and other information. The analog composite signal first needs to be decoded into a digitized format to allow the computer to store, process and display the information. into black-and-white (luminance or “Y”) and color (chrominance) components. This format is often referred to as S-Video. These signals are digitized with the chrominance signal further separated into its orthogonal “U” (B Y) and “v” (R-Y) color components. The computer can process this YUV image data or matrix decoded into an RGB signal. S or Cv In 1 3yl Mux, Amp d-h I’””lfsDA Interface The composite video signal is filtered","PeriodicalId":177121,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of WESCON'95","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131105275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Media independent interface: concepts and guidelines","authors":"H. Frazier","doi":"10.1109/WESCON.1995.485301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WESCON.1995.485301","url":null,"abstract":"In the course of their efforts to upgrade the operating speed of Ethernet from 10 Mbps to 100 Mbps, the members of the IEEE 802.3~ 1OOBASE-T Task Force recognized that it was vital to preserve the media independent nature of Ethernet, but they also recognized that the mechanism by which this was accomplished at 10 Mbps was not up to the task. Thus, they set out to define a new Media Independent Interface (MII) which would allow the development of a family of specifications for operation over various types of network media.","PeriodicalId":177121,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of WESCON'95","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132532940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In cyberspace the map is definitely the territory","authors":"D. Rowley","doi":"10.1109/WESCON.1995.485488","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WESCON.1995.485488","url":null,"abstract":"I adopted the manner of speech called E-Prime, shortly after I encountered the concept in writings of Robert Anton Wilson. E-Prime seemed to present a remedy for the uneasiness I feel when hearing or making statements that carry any degree of absolute certainty regarding complex issues. I had often felt a palpable anguish regarding the simple fact that I just didn't feel capable of absolute certainty about those things that arose singly within my own mind and dealt only with my own self how could I possibly lend any degree of certainty to those things that arose from without? In the era of my childhood my Dyslexia was recognized as stupidity or stubborn laziness. I left behind a long line of perpiexed Guidance Counselors who could not explain the gap between my grades and my aptitude test scores except as willful disdain for the standard educational process. Words would literally shift and morph as I watched the ink flow from one pattern to another making textual data inherently uncertain, no matter what authority lay behind them. Spatial reasoning was another matter entirely. At 48 years old, I still cannot tell left from right unless I point and take time to correlate the orientation of my finger with both a range of other attempts to determine this simple factor most others accomplish with apparent instinct. I should take a moment here to apologize for typographical errors and misspelling in this paper. Even with the use of spell checking programs, If I am given a choice of corrective measures, I will introduce significant new errors in a ratio that borrows from Zenos paradox. :-) I also apologize in advance for those areas where I contradict my own desire to maintain E-prime and descend to certainty or dogma. I plead guilty to being all too human.","PeriodicalId":177121,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of WESCON'95","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133523442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introductory EPAC: an analog FPGA","authors":"H. Klein","doi":"10.1109/WESCON.1995.485284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WESCON.1995.485284","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":177121,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of WESCON'95","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116805760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Customers' needs drive complex PLDs to in-system programmability (ISP)","authors":"M. A. Moran","doi":"10.1109/WESCON.1995.485279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WESCON.1995.485279","url":null,"abstract":"As PLDs architectures evolved from lowdensity to Complex PLDs (CPLDs), new problems arose in the system manufacturing flow. The production flow was becoming longer and more costly due to increases in programming time and complexity. The following areas were impacted: Design enhancements Programming cost Board assembly Board rework Testtimes Field upgrades ISP INTRODUCTION Lattice Semiconductor listened to their system designers' concerns and set an objective to provide customers with a complete design solution. From this, Lattice developed the first family of CPLDs with lSPm (In-System Programmability). The ISP capability allows designers to reconfigure the logic and functionality of a CPLD \"in-system.\"","PeriodicalId":177121,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of WESCON'95","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121869939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An eye on the future: advances in eye care technology","authors":"L. Hake, R. B. Knapp","doi":"10.1109/WESCON.1995.485454","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WESCON.1995.485454","url":null,"abstract":"The tools available for the diagnosis and treatment of ocular disease are vastly different from what they were just ten to fifteen years ago. This talk will focus on the biomedical engineering improvements that ophthalmologists have already witnessed as well as those that are not yet in clinical practice. The practice of ophthalmology will be approached from the anatomical perspective, progressing from the anterior to posterior segment of the eye, highlighting the associated emerging technologies along the way. The brief tour of 21st century ophthalmology will include:","PeriodicalId":177121,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of WESCON'95","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129678139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Submicron delay calculation for accurate timing analysis","authors":"V. Raghavan","doi":"10.1109/WESCON.1995.485264","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WESCON.1995.485264","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":177121,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of WESCON'95","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127633493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Network solutions for client server and video applications","authors":"H. Shahnasser, P. Grams","doi":"10.1109/WESCON.1995.485412","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WESCON.1995.485412","url":null,"abstract":"Increasing capabilities of distributed workstations and servers, coupled with new information gathering applications will increase the need for higher speed networks. This paper investigates the impact of system improvements and new applications on network traffic. The performance of switched Ethernet and FDDI is simulated to see if they are capable of handling high volume data and video traffic. The performance of Ethernet switches is compared to FDDl networks using a block oriented network simulation software, called BONeS PlanNet [l]. Both Ethernet switches and the FDDl are capable of handling high volume traffic. Ethernet switches are superior for data traffic having a throughput of 72 Mbps under full load with a delay of 150 to 400 ms in all configurations simulated. For video traffic however, the FDDI ring is superior to the Ethernet switch because FDDl has close to 100 Mbps throughput and nearly zero delay.","PeriodicalId":177121,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of WESCON'95","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122631359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Outlook for sealed rechargeable batteries","authors":"R. Brodd, A. Kozawa","doi":"10.1109/WESCON.1995.485436","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WESCON.1995.485436","url":null,"abstract":"The growth rate for small sealed rechargeable cells has ranged between 15% and 20% per year for the past several years. Various forecasts estimate that over one half of the portable electronic devices made in the year 2000 will be battery powered. If this proves true, the growth rate in this market segment should continue. There are four major small sealed battery chemistries: nickel cadmium (Ni-Cd), sealed lead acid (SLA), nickel metal hydride (Ni-MH) and lithium ion (Li-Ion). The rechargeable alkaline is a relative newcomer to the marketplace.","PeriodicalId":177121,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of WESCON'95","volume":"138 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120888436","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}