Altera EP300 oral history panel : design and development
In this oral history, five of the engineers involved with the founding of Altera and the development of the its first product describe their experiences during that period. They cover the motivations for the company’s formation and the challenges they faced in the development of the first product. With minimal funds and tools, they do most of the design and verification work by hand. With focus and hard work, they were successful and were able to ship the product with only one mask turn. They were also pioneers in the development of IBM PC based programming tools and in the use of an outside foundry for their fabrication needs.
Item Details
- Date
- 2009-08-20 (Made)
- Type
- Document
- Catalogue number
- 102702147
- Organization
- Computer History Museum
- People
- Don Wong (Panelist)
Yiu-Fai Chan (Panelist)
Stephen Smith (Moderator)
Clive McCarthy (Panelist)
Robert Hartmann (Panelist)
Robert Frankovich (Panelist) - Category
- Transcript
- Extent
- 25 p.
- Place of publication
- North America/USA/CA/Mountain View
- Language
- English
- Acquisition number
- X5498.2010
- Subject
- Signetics, Semiconductor History, ECAD, Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EPROM), Gate Array, Fairchild, Programmable Logic
- Archive collection
- CHM Oral History Collection
- Archive hierarchy
- CHM Oral History Collection