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Link by link, China crafts its industry An ultra-modern IC design center here is slated to become a hub of creativity, one of several sources that will seed China's domestic design firms. Today, the background noise of construction, and the empty fields and offices nearby, serve as a reminder that there is much work to be done. Defense contractor Curtiss-Wright Corp. (Roseland, N.J.) has strengthened its electronics lineup picking up boards maker Dy4 Systems, Inc. (Kanata, Ontario) and communications products manufacturer Systran Corp. (Dayton, Ohio). The two acquisitions, made on Tuesday and Wednesday (Dec. 2,3), will add to a component portfolio that now includes graphics boards, high-speed interconnects, networking cards, and I/O products, as well as Pentium- and PowerPC-based CPU boards. Canon, Toshiba seed venture for SED flat TVs Canon Corp. and Toshiba Corp. are finalizing preparations for providing flat-panel televisions based on surface-conduction electron-emitter display (SED) technology. The two companies intend to demonstate prototypes at the Winter Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January. EDA startup pioneers assertion-based synthesis Startup Bluespec Inc. will preview an "assertion-based" synthesis technology next week that it describes as a new approach to chip design. The tool set takes high-level SystemVerilog descriptions