Three new prototyping boards are available for developing highly integrated VLSI and surface-mount circuits. AAE, Box 232440, San Diego, CA 92193-2440. Verification system Vampire is a verification system optimized to ensure working first silicon for deep submicron ICs. This technology is said to allow Vampire to automatically recognize circuit structure for all design styles and hierarchy permutations, and adapt itself to check the minimum set of unique instances of data. Vampire has been engineered to support Dracula process description files.
Vampire is marketed as a modular product.
A new PLL-based clock generator, the S4406Q, provides 12 outputs configured in three banks of four each. The S4406Q can be tailored to individual system clocking requirements. It allows 32 configuration options over a range of output frequencies from 20- to 66MHz. Each output can drive 35pF or two to three typical input clock loads. All 12 outputs switch within 500ps of each other, with less than 500ps of jitter.