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unusual facts about integrated circuits



Eldon C. Hall

Eldon Hall was the leader of hardware design efforts for the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) at MIT, and advocated the use of integrated circuits for this task.

General Microelectronics

With Frank Wanlass as director of research and engineering, GMe was the first company to design, fabricate, and sell MOS integrated circuits, small-scale integrated chips for NASA satellites.

John Cohn

Cohn has been an innovator in the area of design automation for both analog and digital custom integrated circuits.


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Canonical normal form

Most gate circuits accept more than 2 input variables; for example, the spaceborne Apollo Guidance Computer, which pioneered the application of integrated circuits in the 1960s, was built with only one type of gate, a 3-input NOR, whose output is true only when all 3 inputs are false.

EM Microelectronic-Marin

EM Microelectronic-Marin SA, based in Marin near Neuchâtel in Switzerland, is a developer and semiconductor manufacturer specialized in the design and production of ultra low power, low voltage integrated circuits for battery-operated and field-powered applications in consumer, automotive and industrial areas.

Erwin Hochmair

He worked as a research associate at Marshall Space Flight Center, in the U.S. from 1970 to 1972 where he designed analog integrated circuits in CMOS technology.

Hybrid integrated circuit

Thick film technology is often used as the interconnecting medium for hybrid integrated circuits.

Mosel

Mosel Vitelic Corporation, a company that produces integrated circuits for memory

National Public School, Rajajinagar

Gopal Krishna, 1975; Managing Director - Maxim India Integrated Circuits.

Soft error

Boron has been used in BPSG, the insulator in the interconnection layers of integrated circuits, particularly in the lowest one.

SPMT

Serial Port Memory Technology, a coalition of companies involved in designing and manufacturing mobile devices, integrated circuits, and semiconductor IP.

Ultra Low Delay Audio Coder

The Ultra Low Delay Audio Coder (ULD) is a development of the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology (IDMT), which is headed by one of the fathers of MP3, Karlheinz Brandenburg, and of the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS).