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unusual facts about Transistor


TAT-1

Transistors were not used, being a recent invention of unknown longevity.


Airdrie Academy

Sir George G. Macfarlane CB, engineer, scientific administrator, public servant, Director from 1962-7 of the Royal Radar Establishment (wartime scientist working on radar), and designed the Royal Radar Establishment Automatic Computer (RREAC) - the first transistor digital computer

Alloy-junction transistor

The post-alloy diffused transistor (PADT), or post-alloy diffused-base transistor, was developed by Philips (but GE and RCA filed for patent and Jacques Pankove of RCA received patent for it) as an improvement to the germanium alloy-junction transistor, it offered even higher speed.

Busicom

Intel's Ted Hoff was assigned to studying Busicom's design, and came up with a much more elegant, 4 ICs architecture centered on what was to become the 4004 microprocessor surrounded by a mixture of 3 different ICs containing ROM, shift registers, input/output ports and RAM—Intel's first product (1969) was the 3101 Schottky TTL bipolar 64-bit SRAM.

Chris Monroe

Her work has been published in Funny Times, Ripsaw, the Funny Pages, Zenith City Arts, Madcap, Twin Cities Reader, Pulse of the Twin Cities, Transistor and Ruminator.

Chrysler Imperial

On April 28, 1955, Chrysler and Philco had announced the development and production of the World’s First All-Transistor car radio.

Display driver

The display driver will typically accept commands and data using an industry-standard general-purpose serial or parallel interface, such as TTL, CMOS, RS232, SPI, voltage, current, timing and demultiplexing to make the display show the desired text or image.

Electronics industry in Japan

Japanese companies have been responsible for a number of important innovations, including having pioneered the transistor radio and the Walkman (Sony), the first mass-produced laptops (Toshiba), the VHS recorder (JVC), and solar cells and LCD screens (Sharp).

Floating-gate MOSFET

Some applications of the FGMOS are digital storage element in EPROM, EEPROM and flash memories, neuronal computational element in neural networks, analog storage element, digital potentiometers and single-transistor DACs.

Gate Drivers

The switching time of a transistor is inversely proportional to the amount of current used to charge the gate.

Gilbert Davey

However he soon relaxed these reservations, and his first transistor radio design appeared in Boy's Own Paper in January 1957.

Herbert Mataré

At the same time as the American researchers and independently, the German researchers Mataré and Heinrich Welker developed the first operational "French transistor" at Compagnie des Freins & Signaux Westinghouse in Aulnay-sous-Bois near Paris during the years 1945 to 1948.

History of Sony

Although the American companies Regency Electronics and Texas Instruments built the first transistor radio as joint venture, it was Ibuka's company that made them commercially successful for the first time.

IBM 8000

The IBM 8000 series was a proposed transistor-based successor to the IBM 7000 series.

Lazer's Interactive Symbolic Assembler

Apple II's hi-res display pages (Hi-Res 1: 280 × 160 and Hi-Res 2: 280 × 192) were implemented by Steve Wozniak using two TTL chips.

Logic gate

For small-scale logic, designers now use prefabricated logic gates from families of devices such as the TTL 7400 series by Texas Instruments and the CMOS 4000 series by RCA, and their more recent descendants.

Masatoshi Shima

However, according to Shima himself, the logic was first tested on breadboards using TTL chips, before being manually translated into MOS transistor equivalents.

Oskar Heil

Heil is mentioned as the inventor of an early transistor-like device (see also History of the transistor), based on several patents that were issued to him.

PFET

p-channel MOSFET (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor)

Pin compatibility

The tick-mark here represents the omitted subfamily designator – most commonly HC (high-speed CMOS), but can also be blank (original TTL), C (CMOS), LS (low-power Schottky), and many others.

Polycide

In a polycide MOSFET transistor process, the silicide is formed only over the polysilicon film as formation occurs prior to any polysilicon etch.

Random-access memory

Robert H. Dennard invented dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) in 1968; this allowed replacement of a 4 or 6-transistor latch circuit by a single transistor for each memory bit, greatly increasing memory density at the cost of volatility.

Robert Arns

R. G. Arns, "The other transistor: early history of the metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor," Engineering Science and Education Journal, 7, No. 5 (October, 1998): 233-240

Sadeg Faris

At IBM Watson, he received 7 Invention Achievement Award, Outstanding Innovation Award, for the world fastest oscilloscope (picosecond speed), and Invention of the Year and Award for inventing the Quiteron, a superconducting transistor.

Scientific calculator

The HP-9100 series was built entirely from discrete transistor logic with no integrated circuits, and was one of the first uses of the CORDIC algorithm for trigonometric computation in a personal computing device, as well as the first calculator based on Reverse Polish Notation (RPN) entry.

Shotgun Jimmie

His 2011 album Transistor Sister was named as a longlisted nominee for the 2011 Polaris Music Prize.

Sonobuoy

With the development of better hydrophones, the transistor and miniaturization, and the realisation that very low frequency sound was important, more effective acoustic sensors followed.

Spidola

VEF Spidola, the first Soviet mass-produced transistor manufactured by VEF

Tetracene

In May 2007, researchers from two Japanese universities, Tohoku University in Sendai and Osaka University, reported an ambipolar light-emitting transistor made of a single tetracene crystal.

The Detergents

Jordan had had a 1960 single release on Kapp Records' Leader label: "Just Couldn't Resist Her With Her Pocket Transistor" (writers: Jack Keller/ Larry Kolber), a disc highly reminiscent of the then recent "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" by Leader artist Brian Hyland and like that #1 hit produced by Vance.

Transistor Blast: The Best of the BBC Sessions

Transistor Blast: The Best of the BBC Sessions is a boxed set by XTC released in 1998, just two months prior to Apple Venus Volume 1.

Transistor–transistor logic

Lancaster, D. TTL Cookbook. Indianapolis: Howard W. Sams and Co. 1975.

Tube sound

Some individual characteristics of the tube sound, such as the waveshaping on overdrive, are straightforward to produce in a transistor circuit or digital filter.

Zetex

Zetex Semiconductors, a transistor and diode manufacturer, once part of Ferranti.


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