The Digital Technical]ournal publishes papers that explore
the technological foundations of Digital's major products. Each journal focuses on at least one product area and presents a
compilation of papers written by the engineers who developed the product. The content for the journal is selected by the journal A dvisory Board.
Topics covered in previous issues of the Digital Technical journal are as follows:
Transaction Processing, Databases, and Fault-tolerant Systems
Vol. 3, No. 1, Winter 1991
The architecture and products of D igita l 's distributed transaction processing systems, with i nformation on mon itors, performance measurement, system sizing, database availabi l i ty, commit processing, and fault tolerance
VAX 9000 Series Vol. 2, No. 4, Fall 1990
The technologies and processes used to build D igital's first mainframe compu ter, including papers on the architectu re , m icroarchitecture, chip set, vector processor, and power system, as wel l as CAD and test methodologies DECwindows Program
Vol. 2, No. 3, Summer 1990
An overview and descriptions of the enhancements Digital's engineers have made to MIT's X Window System in such areas as the server, tool kit, interface language, and graphics, as wel l as contributions made to related i ndustry standards
VAX 6000 Model 400 System Vol. 2, No. 2, Spring 1990
The highly expandable and configurable midrange fam i l y of VA)(. systems that includes a vector pro
cessor, a high-performance scalar processor, and advances in chip design and physical technology Compound Document Architecture
Vol. 2, No. 1, Winter 1990
The CDA fam ily of architectures and services t hat support the creation, interchange, and processing of compound documents in a heterogeneous network environment
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Distributed Systems Vol. 1, No. 9,]une 1989
Products that allow system resou rce sharing throughout a network, the methods and tools to evaluate product and system performance Storage Technology
Vol. 1, No. 8, February 1989
Engineering technologies used i n the design, manufactu re, and mai ntenance of D igital's storage and informat ion management products
CVAX-based Systems Vol. 1, No. 7, A ugust 1988
CVAX chip set design and multiprocessing architec
ture of the midrange V�'C 6200 fam i ly of systems and the Micro VAX 3500/3600 systems
Software Productivity Tools Vol. 1, No. 6, February 1988
Tools that assist programmers i n the development of high-quality, reliable software
VAXcluster Systems Vol. 1, No. 5, September 1987
System communication architecture, design and implementation of a d istribu ted lock manager, and performance measurements
VAX 8800 Family
Vol. 1, No. 4, February 1987
The m icroarchitecture, internal boxes, VAXBI bus, and VMS support for the VAX 8800 high-end multi
processor, simulation, and CAD methodology Networking Products
VOL. 1, No. 3, September 1986
The D igital Network Architecture (DNA), network performance, L<\Nbridge 100, DECnet-ULTRIX and DECnet-DOS, monitor design
MicroVAX II System Vol. 1, No. 2, March 1986
The implementation of the m icroprocessor and floating point chips, CAD su ite, M icro VAX work
station, d isk controllers, and TK50 tape drive VAX 8600 Processor
Vol. 1, No. 1, August 1985
The system design with pipeli ned architecture, the I-box, F-box, packaging considerations, signal integrity, and design for reliability
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Technical Papers by Digital Authors E. Atakov, ·' Electrom igrat ion Resistance of TiN
layered Ti Doped A1 I nterconnects," !ELE VL'il
MulUleuel Conference Oune 1990).
R. Bansal, H. Fu, C. Haggerty, anu P Posco , " Hyper
i nformation Systems and Technology Transfer,'' ASMT: Computers in Engineering (August 1990).
D. Benson, P C iarfella, and P Hayden, "FDIC:
Meet ing the lnteroperability Chal lenge," IEEE Local Computer Networks (October 1990).
D. Bhandarkar and R. Brunner, " Vfu'{ Vector Archi tectu re," International Symposium on Cornputer A rchitecture (May 1990).
G. Champine and D. Geer, " Project ATH ENA as a Distributed Computer System," IEEE Computer (September 1990).
R. Col lica, "The Physical Mechanisms of Defect Cluste ring and Its Correlation to Yield Model Parameters for Yield I mprovement," A dvanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Conference (September 1990).
R. Csencsits, ). Rose, N. Riel, and ). Dion, "Cross Sect ion Preparation of CU/PI Interfaces for TEM Analyses," Electron Microscopv '90 (August 1990).
D. Dalal, "A 500 KHz Multi-output Converter with Zero Voltage Switching," IEEE Applied Power Electronics (March 1990).
S. Das and W Chaurette, "Self Heating Effects on MR Head Performance," IEEE lntermag '90 (April 1990).
B. Doyle and K. Mistry, "The Generation and Char
acterization of Electron and Hole Traps Created by Hole Injection during Low Gate Voltage Hot -carrier Stressing of N-MOS Transistors," IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices (August 1990).
A. Enver and ). Clement, "Fin ite-element Numerical Model ing of Currents in VLSI Interconnects," IEEE V/51 Multilevel Conference Oune 1990).
Digital Technical journal Vol. .l No. 2 Spring 1991
A. Garde! and P Deosthali, "Using Simulation in Semiconductor fabricat ion," Electro '90 (May 1990).
C. Gil bert, "Improving D istance Learning i n Industry," College Industry Education Conference (February 1990).
H. Hvostov anu M . Luksic, "On the Structure of H-Infi n ity Control lers," A merican Con trol Conference (May 1990).
A. Incorvaia, "Case Stud ies in Software Reuse," IEEE Software Applications Conference (November 1990).
K. M istry and B. Doyle, "The Role of the Electron Trap Created in Enhanced Hot-carrier Degradation during AC Stress," IEEE Electron Device Letters Oune 1990).
C. Nofsinger and Z. Cvetanoric, " Parallel As tar on Message-passing Architectures," International Conference on System Sciences Oune 1990).
S. Novotny, " Performance Evaluation of a Gifford
McMahon Refrigerator for Cryogenically Cooled Computer Appl icat ions," 1-Therm II (May 1990).
P Riley and T. Clark, "Integrated Deposition and Etchback of Tungsten in a Multichamber, Single Wafe r System," IEEE VLSI Multilevel Conference Oune 1990).
M. Sidman, "Parametric System Identificat ion on Logarithmic Frequency Response Data," A merican Control Conference (May 1990).
E. Zimran, "Generic Material Hand l ing System,"
International Conference on C!M (May 1990).
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