CYPRESS SEMICONDUCTOR CORP. (San Jose, Calif.) will offer its first free VHDL seminar on the Web, aimed at giving engineers preliminary information about VHDL design.

Though this one-hour multime dia presentation is targeted at engineers looking to understand the basics of using VHDL in programmable-logic devices, the site will also offer an open forum to discuss basic concepts,design flow and trends for this high-level language.

The seminar will take place April 7, from 9 to 10 a.m. Pacific time, with additional time allotted for questions and answers following the presentation. Engineers must register for the event at the Cypress Web site, clicking on the "Free VHDL primer" icon.

The seminar will be presented by industry Web-presentation startup E.N.E.N., which is a subsidiary of Marshall Industries.

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ENGINEERING AYRSHIRE (Ayrshire, Scotland), an association of companies offering services in engineering and electronics subcontracting in and around Scotland, has a site.

KINETICSYSTEMS CORP. (Lockport, Ill.), a manufacturer of high-performance data acquisition and control systems, has info on products that include A/D, D/A, digital I/O, controllers, timers, counters and DSP. Applications include wind-tunnel data acquisition and control, jet-engine testing, automotive-component testing, missile testing, crash-sled testing, plasma physics, acoustics and vibration.

KEYNOTE ADDRESSES from the Intel Developers Forum
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MOTOROLA SEMICONDUCTORS has added a highly technical site on programmable arrays, notably field-programmable analog ones. Info, data sheets and a forum are at their site.

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