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unusual facts about microprocessors



Berkeley IRAM project

Its publications were early advocates of the incorporation of vector processing and vector instruction sets into microprocessors, and several commercial microprocessors, such as the Intel AVX, subsequently adopted vector processing instruction set extensions.

Ceibo Emulators

Supported microprocessors and microcontrollers include Atmel, Dallas Semiconductor, Infineon, Intel,

IBM POWER

the IBM POWER microprocessors, a line of microprocessors implementing the IBM POWER and the PowerPC/Power ISA instruction set architectures.

IMP-16

The IMP-16 was later superseded by National Semiconductor's PACE and INS8900 single-chip 16-bit microprocessors, which had a similar architecture but were not binary compatible.

Joseph Mangan

Joseph Mangan is an American aerospace engineer who, in 2004, told European aviation authorities of his belief that the microprocessors controlling cabin pressurization valves in the new Airbus A380 might allow a sudden depressurization of the passenger cabin in flight—which, at normal cruising altitudes, could endanger the lives of people aboard the aircraft.

The review process, incorporating the participation of Joseph Mangan, successfully finished in late 2006 when the Airbus A380 including the internal communication system and the microprocessors of the cabin pressure control system was certified by EASA and FAA.

Judith Estrin

After Stanford she worked at Zilog Corporation, where she contributed to the design of the Z8 and Z8000 microprocessors and led the team that developed one of the first commercial local area network systems called Z-net.

KOMDIV

KOMDIV-32, a family of 32-bit microprocessors developed by NIISI, Russia

LGA 1356

It supports Intel Sandy Bridge-E microprocessors, codenamed Romley-EN, marketed under the Xeon-E5 2400 series.

MikroSim

With this e-learning tool, devices like miniaturized calculators, microcontroller, microprocessors, and computer can be explained didactically on own-developed instruction code on register transfer level, which are controlled by program sequences of micro instructions (microcode).

Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies

MCST develops microprocessors based on 2 different instruction set architecture (ISA): Elbrus and SPARC

Elbrus-90micro (1998-2010) is a computer line based on SPARC instruction set architecture (ISA) microprocessors: MCST R80, R150, R500, R500S and MCST-4R working at 80, 150, 500 and 1000 MHz.

Mostek

Mostek cut a deal with a startup, Zilog, in which Mostek provided fab resources to manufacture the Zilog microprocessors in return for second sourcing rights to the Zilog family.

Nick Tredennick

Harry L. ("Nick") Tredennick is an American manager, inventor, VLSI design engineer and author who was involved in the development for Motorola's MC68000 and for IBM's Micro/370 microprocessors.

From 1977 to 1979, he was a Senior Design Engineer at Motorola, where he specified and designed the microcode and the controller core of the MC68000 microprocessor, one of the first microprocessors designed by structured VLSI design.

OBJ

Relocatable Object Module Format, an Object file for Intel microprocessors with .

Out of Order

Out-of-order execution, a paradigm used in high-performance microprocessors

Precision guided firearm

The precision guided firearm integrates technology commonly found in drones, tanks, jet fighters, smartphones and microprocessors, into the conventional system.

Productive nanosystems

Some would argue that Zettl's machines fit in this category; others argue that modern microprocessors and FPGAs also fit.

Rich Page

At Fairchild Semiconductor, Rich developed test programs for Fairchild's microprocessors, memory products and custom chips.

He was responsible for the decision to use the Motorola MC68000 family of microprocessors for Apple's Lisa and Macintosh computers and was instrumental in the initial design of the Lisa.

RTEMS

RTEMS is also popular for space uses since it supports multiple microprocessors developed for use in space including SPARC, ERC32 and LEON, MIPS Mongoose-V, Coldfire, and PowerPC architectures, which are available in space hardened models.

Sony NEWS

It originally came equipped with a dual 680x0 (68020 or 68030) processor configuration running at 16-25 MHz, later shifting to the MIPS R3000 and R4000 RISC microprocessors.

SPARCbook

The SPARCbook is a line of laptop computers based on SPARC microprocessors produced by Tadpole Computer (now General Dynamics).

Texas Instruments TMS9900

Unlike other 16-bit microprocessors such as the National Semiconductor IMP-16 or DEC LSI-11, some of which predated the TMS9900, the latter was a single-chip, self-contained 16-bit microprocessor.

Time-Triggered Protocol

In 2004, Joseph Mangan, a former employee of TTTech, created controversy surrounding TTTech's products on the Airbus A380 by asserting that there was danger that microprocessors in the plane could result in sudden decompression.

United States v. Univis Lens Co.

The Supreme Court relied on Univis in its 2008 decision in Quanta Computer, Inc. v. LG Electronics, Inc. to hold that the sale of patented microprocessors exhausted the patent monopoly even as to patents covering the combination of the patented microprocessors with other components, where (as in Univis) the essential features of the invention were all contained in the microprocessors, i.e., the sold article embodies the essential features of the patented invention.


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