X-Nico

unusual facts about circuit design



John Simonton

(June 24, 1943 – November 25, 2005) was a circuit designer, author of electronics articles, and founder of PAiA Electronics, a manufacturer of analog synthesizer kits.


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IBM Rivina

The idea was to use aggressive circuit design techniques, a carefully crafted floorplan and microarchitecture while keeping a short six stage pipeline.

Lookahead

Lookahead carry unit, a logical unit in digital circuit design used to decrease calculation time in adder units

Randy Wigginton

Wigginton collaborated with Wozniak on the circuit design and ROM software for the Apple II in 1977.