Transcript R6-IEEEMilestones(Berg)

IEEE Milestones in
Region 6
Brian Berg:
IEEE Region 6 Milestone Coordinator
16 IEEE Milestones in R6
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Requirements for a Milestone
Must be at least 25 years old
Typically an invention, location or event
Achievement must be within IEEE’s fields of
interest, e.g.,
– “the theory and practice of electrical, electronics,
communications and computer engineering, as
well as computer science, the allied branches of
engineering and the related arts and sciences”
(from the IEEE Constitution)
An appropriate publicly-accessible location for
permanent display of the plaque
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What Appears on the Plaque
Title of the proposed milestone including
the year(s)
Citation
summarizes
the
achievement
and its
significance
in 70 words
or less
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10 IEEE Milestones in
the SF BAY Area
RAMAC, 1956: San Jose, CA (IBM)
Semiconductor Planar Process and Integrated Circuit, 1959: Palo
Alto (Fairchild)
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, 1962: Menlo Park
Inception of the ARPANET, 1969: Menlo Park
Birth of the SPICE Circuit Simulation Program, 1971: Berkeley
Development of the HP-35, the First Handheld Scientific
Calculator, 1972: Palo Alto
The CP/M Microcomputer Operating System, 1974: Pacific Grove
The Floating Gate EEPROM, 1976-1978: Milpitas
First RISC (Reduced Instruction-Set Computing) Microprocessor,
1980-1982: Berkeley
SPARC RISC Architecture, 1987: Santa Clara
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1: RAMAC, 1956:
99 Notre Dame St,
San Jose, CA (IBM)
Developed by IBM in San Jose, California at 99 Notre Dame
Street from 1952 until 1956, the Random Access Method of
Accounting and Control (RAMAC) was the first computer system
conceived around a radically new magnetic disk storage device.
The extremely large capacity, rapid access, and low cost of
magnetic disk storage revolutionized computer architecture,
performance, and applications.
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2: Semiconductor
Planar Process and
Integrated Circuit, 1959:
Charleston Rd, Palo Alto
(Fairchild) (near San Antonio Rd/US-101)
The 1959 invention of the Planar Process by Jean A. Hoerni and
the Integrated Circuit (IC) based on planar technology by Robert
N. Noyce catapulted the semiconductor industry into the silicon
IC era. This pair of pioneering inventions led to the present IC
industry, which today supplies a wide and growing variety of
advanced semiconductor products used throughout the world.
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3: Stanford Linear
Accelerator Center,
1962: Sand Hill Rd,
Menlo Park
The Stanford two-mile accelerator, the longest in the world,
accelerates electrons to the very high energy needed in the
study of subatomic particles and forces. Experiments performed
here have shown that the proton, one of the building blocks of
the atom, is in turn composed of smaller particles now called
quarks.
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4: Inception of the
ARPANET, 1969:
SRI, Menlo Park
SRI was one of the first two nodes,
with the University of California at
Los Angeles, on the ARPANET, the
first digital global network based
on packet switching and demand
access. The first documented
ARPANET connection was from
UCLA to SRI on 29 October 1969
at 10:30p.m. The ARPANET’s
technology and deployment laid
the foundation for the
development of the Internet.
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5: Birth of the SPICE
Circuit Simulation
Program, 1971:
UC Berkeley
SPICE (Simulation Program with Integrated
Circuit Emphasis) was created at UC
Berkeley as a class project in 1969-1970. It
evolved to become the worldwide standard
integrated circuit simulator. SPICE has
been used to train many students in the
intricacies of circuit simulation. SPICE and
its descendents have become essential tools
employed by virtually all integrated circuit
designers.
Dr. Larry Nagel was primarily responsible
for writing the SPICE software.
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6: Development of the
HP-35, the First
Handheld Scientific
Calculator, 1972:
HP, Palo Alto
The HP-35 was the first handheld
calculator to perform transcendental
functions (such as trigonometric,
logarithmic and exponential
functions). Most contemporary
calculators could only perform the four
basic operations – addition,
subtraction, multiplication, and
division. The HP-35 and subsequent
models have replaced the slide rule,
used by generations of engineers and
scientists. The HP-35 performed all
the functions of the slide rule to tendigit precision over a full two-hundred11
decade range.
7: The Floating Gate
EEPROM, 1976-1978:
SanDisk, Milpitas
From 1976-1978, at Hughes Microelectronics
in Newport Beach, California, the practicality,
reliability, manufacturability and endurance of
the Floating Gate EEPROM -- an electrically
erasable device using a thin gate oxide and
Fowler-Nordheim tunneling for writing and
erasing -- was proven. As a significant
foundation of data storage in flash memory,
this fostered new classes of portable
computing and communication devices which
allow ubiquitous personal access to data.
Dr. Eli Harari was responsible for the 1976-78
(SiO2 thickness) and 1988 (flash emulation of
a disk drive) work behind this milestone.
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8: First RISC (Reduced
Instruction-Set Computing) Microprocessor,
1980-1982: UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley students designed and
built the first VLSI reduced
instruction-set computer in 1981. The
simplified instructions of RISC-I
reduced the hardware for instruction
decode and control, which enabled a
flat 32-bit address space, a large set
of registers, and pipelined execution.
A good match to C programs and the
Unix operating system, RISC-I
influenced instruction sets widely
used today, including those for game
consoles, smartphones and tablets.
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9: SPARC RISC Architecture
1987: Santa Clara
(Oracle; formerly Sun
Microsystems)
Sun Microsystems introduced SPARC
(Scalable Processor Architecture) RISC
(Reduced Instruction-Set Computing) in
1987. Building upon UC Berkeley RISC
and Sun compiler and operating system
developments, SPARC architecture was
highly adaptable to evolving
semiconductor, software, and system
technology and user needs. The
architecture delivered the highest
performance, scalable workstations and
servers, for engineering, business,
Internet, and cloud computing
applications.
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10: The CP/M Microcomputer
Operating System and BIOS,
1974: 801 Lighthouse Ave
(1.2 miles from here)
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CP/M and BIOS Milestone Dedication
at Pacific Grove City Hall (25 April 2015)
David Laws, John Wharton, Brian Berg, Tom
Rolander, Gordon Eubanks (Symantec
founder), Brian Halla (past President,
National Semiconductor) and Howard Michel
(IEEE President-Elect)
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CP/M and BIOS Milestone Dedication
at 801 Lighthouse Ave. (25 April 2015)
Kristin and Scott Kildall (Gary’s two children)
Ted Hoff (uP co-inventor; worked with Gary Kildall at Intel)
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Upcoming Milestones
Apple I, II, Macintosh
Mother of all Demos
– Doug Engelbart’s 1968 Demo of mouse, windows, hyperlinks
Ampex Videorecorder
Birthplace of Silicon Valley
– Site of Shockley Labs in Mtn. View
Pixar RenderMan
TCP (Vint Cerf)
ROLM CBX/Phonemail
Cisco
Qualcomm
Dialog (first search engine)
Shakey (first mobile and intelligent robot)
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Can You Be a Milestone
“Champion”?
If you are interested, contact me
Brian Berg, R6 Milestone
Coordinator
–[email protected]
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