Title
Nichols patent notebook (#1111)
Catalog Number
102723001
Type
Document
Description
This volume contains proposal for new products, including; method of determining distance from an aircraft to a radio station (pp. 1-4); construction of complex sequential circuits with ROMs (pp. 5-10); frequency discrimination with simple digital circuits (pp. 13-17); digital to shaft rotation conversion (pp. 18-25); and time division multiplexing on a single line (pp. 30-32).
Date
1965-12-28-1971-04-29
Author
Nichols, John
Biographical Notes
John Nichols was raised in Muskogee, Oklahoma. On graduating from college he joined the Philco Western Development Labs in Palo Alto, California, where he developed computer programs, and designed IO equipment and systems for satellite tracking stations. At Fairchild he reported to R. Walker on the Micromosaic and Micromatrix CAD chip programs. Together with C. Ghest, he conceived the architecture for many of the popular 9300 TTL MSI functions that were later copied by AMD, TI, and others. In 1973 Nichols joined R. Ulrickson as co-founder of Logical Services Incorporated in Santa Clara. Logical developed hundreds of new products incorporating microprocessors before and after it being acquired by Smartflex Systems in 1998.
Publisher
Fairchild Semiconductor
Extent
Approximately 7 dated entries over 32 pages.
Dimensions
12 x 10 inches
Category
Notebooks
Collection Title
Fairchild Semiconductor notebooks and technical papers
Credit
Gift of Texas Instruments Incorporated