( SNUG 99 Item 11 ) ----------------------------------------------- [3/31/99]
MAKING "VICTORIA'S SECRET" BETTER FOR EVERYONE!: If you're a guy, I'm
sure you'll remember the fashion show "Victoria's Secret" had on the web
at half-time during the Super Bowl. It crashed because too many men
were trying to access that web site simultaneously -- the web server
couldn't handle the demand! It turns out that there's an EDA start-up
that may make such disappoints a thing of the past. (Yes, you're about
to hear another scoop.) It's called "LavaLogic" and word is that they're
working on a Java-to-Synthesizable-Verilog translator called "Forge".
The story is that they're a bunch of ex-NASA technonerds who used to do
contract work for the NASA Goddard Space Center and that Sun Microsystems
is beta testing Forge on the FPU of the Sun picoJAVA embedded uP. This,
when taken altogether, means that the zillions of Internet software Java
applets will be easily synthesized onto FPGAs or ASICs -- and that means
web sites will run with 1,000 to 1,000,000 times more effective CPU!
"Yay, Naiomi Campbell!!! You go, girl!" (Check out www.lavalogic.com)
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