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25 Microchips That Shook the World
- ableal 17y agoAnother two workhorse candidates: - The 7400 TTL quad 2-input NAND gate (pre-1970, TI and others?). And family ... many other pages in the catalog. - The 2408 1kB UV-erasable EPROM (~1980, Intel), and siblings: 2416 2kB, etc. Perhaps also the 2900 4-bit slice ALU from AMD, possibly more often admired than actually used ;-)
- joe_bleau 17y agoYou may be right about the 2900, but I think that one of the 2900 books ("Bit-slice Microprocessor Design" by Mick and Brick) could be considered very influential to a certain generation of older digital designer. Thanks for bringing this up--I'll need to add a copy to my library now!
- dthakur 17y agoThe print version has everything on one page: http://spectrum.ieee.org/print/8747 http://spectrum.ieee.org/print/8747