Title
Hulme patent notebook (#1016)
Catalog Number
102722974
Type
Document
Description
This book records action items and schedules established at regular section meetings on the status and progress on the development of new IC products. Key product areas include a custom logic family for Litton for use in the TFX (Tactical Fighter Experimental), AC Sparkplug op amp, MWL (Milliwatt Micrologic), and a DTL family to compete with Signetics. By 1964 a Nixie display tube driver, a counter family and a Complementary Transistor Logic (CTL) family conceived by Robert Seeds and used by Burroughs were added to the list. Book includes an organization chart of the Applications Department dated 1964-10-11.
Date
1963-07-01-1965-04-28
Author
Hulme, John
Biographical Notes
John Hulme received a B.S.E.E. from the University of Utah, and an M.S.E.E. from the University of Southern California. He managed the Microelectronics (integrated circuits) section of Fairchild’s Applications Department under Robert Schultz in Mountain View from circa 1963 through the 1970s. Circa 1963 his responsibilities included new product circuit design and system applications. In this role he hired Robert Widlar to work on linear (analog) IC design over the objections of managers responsible for that product category in the R&D group. Widlar went on to be one of Fairchild’s most productive design engineers and created some of the industry’s first high-volume standard linear ICs. Hulme later worked for Hewlett-Packard, Siliconix, and Adaptec.
Publisher
Fairchild Semiconductor
Extent
Approximately 36 dated entries over 58 pages.
Dimensions
12 x 10 inches
Category
Notebooks
Collection Title
Fairchild Semiconductor notebooks and technical papers
Publications
The author participated in a number of industry panel discussions including a session on “Trends in Microelectronics” at the Eighth Chicago Spring Conference on Broadcast and Television Receivers in June 1967.
Credit
Gift of Texas Instruments Incorporated
