Artifact Details

Title

Rice patent notebook (#307)

Catalog Number

102723008

Type

Document

Description

This volume contains a detailed typed “Table of Contents” listing for this volume as well as Rice (429) and Smith (314). Key topics include packaging proposals for single in-line and flat packs; lead design considerations for improved system applications; and redundancy schemes to allow use of otherwise bad components. Much of the book contains pasted-in pages describing the fundamental design concepts and specifications for two machine projects referred to as PSYCL and NIMBLE.

Date

1963-05-13-1965-04-25

Author

Rice, Rex

Biographical Notes

Rex Rice was born in Douglas, Arizona, and graduated from Stanford University in 1940 with a degree in mechanical engineering. He joined Douglas Aircraft and later Northrup Aircraft and conducted research in stress analysis of sloped-wing design. In 1955, Rice joined the IBM Research Laboratory in Poughkeepsie, New York, where he took part in the development of the first fully transistorized digital calculator. His expertise in high-level language computing led him to join the Fairchild Semiconductor R&D Laboratory, Palo Alto circa 1963 to establish a department to investigate opportunities for ICs in digital system applications. He proposed many improved packaging designs and co-invented the dual-in-line package with Bryant “Buck” Rogers and Don Forbes. In 1966 he was listed on the R&D Professional Staff organizational chart as Manager of the Digital Systems Research Department reporting to Gordon Moore. Rice led the development of the SYMBOL computer and in 1970 the semiconductor memory system for the Illiac IV computer. Later, Rice held successive engineering management positions at the Fairchild Systems Technology Division, including Director of Technology, Manager – Multi-chip Memories, Director of Memory Systems Operations, and Director of Advanced Systems Development, He retired from Fairchild to become a consulting engineer in 1980. Engineers (IEEE).

Publisher

Fairchild Semiconductor

Identifying Numbers

Document number 307

Extent

Approximately 107 dated entries over 152 pages.

Dimensions

12 x 10 inches

Patents

The author is named as inventor on 16 U.S patents, including 5 patents assigned to Fairchild:

U.S. patent 3577130, “Means for limiting field length of computed data.” Filed 1969-10-03. Issued 1971-05-04.

U.S. patent 3643225, “Memory control system.” Filed 1969-04-02. Issued 1972-02-01.

U.S. patent 3643227, “Job flow and multiprocessor operation control system.” Filed 1969-09-15. Issued 1972-02-05.

U.S. patent 3647348, “Hardware-oriented paging control system.” Filed 1970-01-19. Issued 1972-03-07.

U.S. patent 4365332, “Method and circuitry for correcting errors in recirculating memories.” Filed 1980-11-03. Issued 1982-12-21.

Category

Notebooks

Collection Title

Fairchild Semiconductor notebooks and technical papers

Publications

The author contributed to the following papers in professional publications during his service at Fairchild:

Rice, R. The chief architect's reflections on symbol IIR. Computer, vol. 14, iss. 7 (1981): 49-54.

Rice, R. Impact of arrays on digital systems. IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 2, iss. 4 (1967): 148-155.

Rice, R. LSI - Impact on digital systems. 1967 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference: Digest of Technical Papers, vol. X (1967): 34-35.

Rice, R. Modular bipolar LSI memory systems. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 6, iss. 3 (1970): 591.

Rice, R. Systematic procedures for digital system realization from logic design to production. Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 52, iss. 12 (1964): 1691-1702.
Rice, R.

Rice, R. A system designer views "Micro-integrated electronics." IRE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 8, iss. 5 (1961): 421.

Rice, R., Sander, W.B., Jr. and Greene, F.S. Design considerations leading to the ILLIAC IV LSI process element memories. IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 5, iss. 5 (1970): 174-181.

Credit

Gift of Texas Instruments Incorporated

Lot Number

X6464.2012