Title
Altera EP300 oral history panel : design and development
Catalog Number
102702147
Type
Document
Description
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.
Date
2009-08-20
Contributor
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Chan, Yiu-Fai, Panelist
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Frankovich, Robert, Panelist
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Hartmann, Robert, Panelist
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McCarthy, Clive, Panelist
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Smith, Stephen, Moderator; Editor
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Wong, Don, Panelist
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Publisher
Computer History Museum
Place of Publication
Mountain View, CA, USA
Extent
25 p.
Category
Transcription
Subject
semiconductor history; Fairchild; Programmable Logic Array (PLA); Monolithic Memories, Inc. (MMI); Programmable Logic; Ricoh; Source III; Signetics; Gate array; Programmable Logic Device (PLD); ECAD; erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM)
Collection Title
Oral history collection
