| Reference | STATE OF THE ART | Stan Augarten | |
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This book is provided for general reference. The National Museum of American History and the Smithsonian Institution make no claims as to the accuracy or completeness of this work. |
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 Cover |
 Title Page |
 Dedication |
 Acknowledgements |
 Back Cover |
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| FOREWORD | Three Bright Mice;, page iii and
More, on the Run! |
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| State of the Art, page v INTRODUCTION |
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| 1947 | The Birth of Modern Electronics, page
2 The
Point-Contact Transistor |
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| 1950 | Solid-State Electronics Goes Commercial, page
4 The
Junction Transistor |
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| 1958 | The Microelectronic Revolution Begins, page
6 The
First IC |
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| 1959 | The Most Efficient Way to Make Transistors, page
8 The
Planar Process |
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| 1961 | Putting the Planar Process to Good Use, page
10 The
First Planar IC |
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| 1962 | A New Form of Transistor, page 12 The
Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor |
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| 1963 | Resistor - Transistor Logic, page
14 The
907 |
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| 1964 | The First Linear IC, page 16 The
µA702 Operational Amplifier |
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| 1965 | A Semiconductor Best-Seller, page
18 The
µA709 Operational Amplifier |
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| 1966 | Storing Data Through Magnetization, page
20 Magnetic-Bubble
Memories |
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| 1967 | The First IC Made with Computer-Aided Design, page
22 Micromosaic |
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| 1970 | The First 256-Bit Static RAM, page
24 The
4100 |
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| 1970 | The First 1,024-Bit (1K) Dynamic RAM, page
26 The
1103 |
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| 1970 | A New Method of Sensing Images, page
28 The
First 8-bit Charge-Coupled Device |
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| 1971 | The First Microprocessor, page 30 The
4004 |
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| 1971 | A Piece of Electronic Magic, page
32 The
First Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory, the 1702 |
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| 1972 | The First 8-bit Microprocessor, page
34 The
8008 |
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| 1974 | The First General-Purpose Microprocessor, page
36 The
8-bit 8080 |
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| 1974 | The Most Widely Used Computer on a Chip, page
38 The
TMS 1000 |
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| 1974 | The First 16-Bit Microprocessor, page
40 PACE |
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| 1974 | The Most Widely Used Digital-to-Analog Converter, page
42 The
DAC-08 |
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| 1975 | A Popular Personal Computer Microprocessor, page
44 The
6502 |
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| 1975 | The Microprocessor Decentralized, page
46 A
Bit-Slice Processor, the 2901 |
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| 1976 | One of the Most Popular 8-bit Microprocessors, page
48 The
Z-80 |
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| 1976 | One of the Most Successful 16K Dynamic RAMs, page
50 The
4116 |
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| 1977 | The First Telephone Coder-Decoder on a Chip, page
52 The
2910 |
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| 1977 | A Programmable Logic Chip, page
54 The
PAL 16L8 |
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| 1977 | An Unexpected Breakthrough, page
56 The
First 65,536-Bit (64K) Dynamic RAM |
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| 1979 | One of the Most Powerful 16-Bit Microprocessors, page
58 The
68000 |
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| 1980 | The Optical Mouse, page 60 A
Chip that Detects Motion |
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| 1980 | Synchronizing the Transfer of Data, page
62 A
Dynamic Memory Controller, the AM2964 |
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| 1980 | One of the Most Popular 65,536-Bit (64K) Dynamic RAMs, page
64 The
TMS 4164 |
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| 1981 | The Cutting Edge of IC Technology, page
66 The
First 294,912-Bit (288K) Dynamic RAM |
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| 1981 | The Fourth Stage in Microprocessor Development, page
68 A
32-Bit Microprocessor |
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| 1982 | Another Way to Record Sound, page
70 A
Digital Speech Synthesizer, the S3610 LPC-10 |
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| 1982 | A High-Voltage Driver, page 72 The
S4535 |
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| The Near Future, page 74 Chips
Made Out of Gallium Arsenide |
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| The Distant Future, page 76 Josephson
Junctions |
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STATE OF THE ART ©Copyright Stan Augarten |
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