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September 12 2005 Issue

Keyword .  .  .  p. 10

Palmisano Report

What’s New .  .  .  p. 36

• Honda Unveils a Prototype Car Equipped with Latest Safety Technologies
• With the Release of Cell Technical Documents, Sony Aims to Encourage Software Development
• Blue-ray Disc Adds New Content Protection Technologies
• Digital Terrestrial TV Receiver Technology for Cars Includes Support for 1 Segment Service
• Limited Production of SED Panels Finally Begins
  
  

Leading Trends

Intel Commits to New Architecture with Power Consumption as the First Priority.  .  .  p. 51
Intel Corporation of the U.S. announced at IDF Fall 2005 a new microprocessor architecture in the 86 series that emphasizes lower power consumption.  Products using the new architecture are to start shipping in the second half of 2006.

A Barrier Looms Over Measuring Chip Temperature.  .  .  p. 61
Device designers are starting to rack their brains over eliminating errors in on-chip sensor elements that measure LSI temperature.  
This is because as semiconductor manufacturing technologies are miniaturized, variations become larger.  Attention is now being focused on technologies for correcting the variations and reducing errors.

Cover Story

Medical Applications Seed New Technology.  .  .  p. 85
Numerous cutting-edge electronics technologies are being developed for the latest medical devices.  As a result of changes in the medical treatment environment, diverse new needs are arising.  Electronics manufacturers are sowing seeds in the medical devices field and attempting to create techniques they can later apply in the consumer sector.


(Part 1)
Expanding Field of Activity
Fostering Techniques for the Consumer Sector through Medical Devices with Cutting-Edge Technologies.  .  .  p. 88

(Part 2)
Moving Towards Practical Application
Latest Electronic Technologies Seek Orderly, Miniaturized Applications.  .  .  .  p. 94

(Part 3)
Looking to the Future
Artificial Senses Using Image Element and MEMS; Lasers and LED Used for Early Diagnosis .  .  .  .  p. 103

Interview

Matsushita Electric Industrial’s Senior Managing Director, Member of the Board, Susumu Koike: “We Want to Take Advantage of Our Size”.  .  .  p. 111

Tech Tale

STAR WARS: the Digital Cinema Revolution (Part 3): “The Spell of 24 Frames” .  .  .  p. 114

Guest Paper

The Nuts and Bolts of Tuning for Multicore Performance: Supercomputer Technology Is Applied to CE Processors.  .  .  p. 119
Previously, it was difficult to measure cache hit rates and pipeline stall causes in ordinary microprocessors.  The FR1000, developed by Fujitsu Ltd. and Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., is a microprocessor for multi-core consumer electronics that uses technologies cultivated through the development of supercomputers to measure these parameters.  
Hardware for measuring performance is built into the microprocessor, making it possible to accurately measure these parameters.  Multi-core structures are becoming the norm, and as optimized operation becomes increasingly important for utilizing the parallelism of programs, these types of hardware and software structures for measuring performance play an important role for software engineers.  
Engineers involved in development offer up the FR1000 and its development tools as examples to explain the nuts and bolts of multi-core program optimization.

NETs Buyers’ Guide

5400rpm and Serial ATA Become the Mainstream for 2.5-inch HDDs.  .  .  p. 132
Changes are being made to 2.5-inch hard disc drives (HDDs).  In 2006, it will be possible to purchase high-speed components that lead to higher performance by devices for nearly the same prices as earlier components.  It appears that the transition from the mainstream 4200rpm ATA interface discs to 5400rpm Serial ATA interface discs will accelerate.  Behind this change is the increase in entry of new manufacturers into the 2.5-inch HDD market.  
As a result of intensified competition among HDD makers, the lineup of 5400rpm products and Serial ATA interface products has increased, driving prices lower.  Applications for 2.5-inch HDDs are also expected to change.  
In addition to notebook PCs, which currently account for 90% of 2.5-inch HDD shipments, use in digital consumer electronics such as HDD recorders and game consoles will be likely to expand.

NETs Seminar

Method for Practically Formatting LDPC Code (Part 3).  .  .  p. 137
Low density parity check (LDPC) code provides a high degree of freedom in the code structure including the code length and the parity check matrix, and its applications are varied. On the other hand, decoding performance, and calculation volume during encoding and decoding vary depending on the structure.  
In this third installment, we explain various structural methods and their effects, and touch on some of the latest methods.

An LCD Technology Named “AFFS” from Korea (Part 2).  .  .  p. 146
In this installment, we discuss the properties according to application of products currently in or planned for mass production by the BOE HYDIS group of South Korea.  The group plans to introduce a product for mobile phones that features 300cd/m2 brightness and one for a 1200:1 high-contrast LCD television.

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Keyword:	10
News Ranking	12
What's New:	36
Selected Shorts:	45
Leading Trends:	51
Cover Story:	85
Interview:	111
Tech Tale:	114
Guest Paper:	119
NETs:	132
Calendar:	204
From the Readers:	208
From the Editors:	209