Design Features: August 18, 1994

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Peace Can Pay	Or can it? Those in electronics and aviation who have relied exclusively on government-funded defense contracts are wary. But innovative businesses with strong survival instincts are stirring up new applications for military products and technologies. -- James P. Leonard, Senior Associate Editor
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ESL's new-venture process offers defense companies a commercial future	The Cold War's end brought defense-budget reductions. So defense contractor ESL Inc found a way to pursue civilian opportunities. --Richard A Quinnel, Technical Editor
Raytheon parlays military expertise into commercial ventures	Following World War II, Raytheon harnessed the power of military radar to invent microwave cooking. Today, the company is finding new opportunities to diversify defense technology into commercial markets. --Frances T Granville, Senior Associate Editor
High-speed bipolar process forms bedrock for wireless ICs	As military-communications business drifts further to the sidelines, one UK-based company sees new and exciting commercial opportunities leap to the fore. Providentially, the new business requires an almost identical set of technologies. --Brian Kerridge, Senior Technical Editor
Building a CRADA	A Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, or CRADA, involving TriQuint and Sandia Labs demonstrates how to become allies in technological breakthroughs. --Gordon Cumming, TriQuint Semiconductor --James A Heise, Sandia National Laboratories
Israel and America team up for conversion	The US Binational Industrial R&D Foundation pairs a US company that is strong in its market with an Israeli company with novel technology. -- Alberto Socolovsky, Contributing Editor
VHDL emerges as a commercial design tool	Despite the initial challenges imposed by VHDL, the language, born of the military, has made the commercial sector sit up and take notice. --Karen Bartleson, United Technologies Microelectronics Center