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• Project Groundrules and Evaluation Sheets
• Simple Microprocessors suitable for project use (You may suggest others)
• Intel 4004 (4 bit): the first microprocessor
  • Die photo
  • 1EEE Micro 25th Anniversary paper on 4004
  • Lots of data
  • Schematic
• 6502 (8 bit): the original Apple II and many games
  • Die Photo
  • Data Sheet
  • 6502
  • Overview
  • The designer of the CMOS version William D. Mensch has a strong ND College of Engineering connection.
  • A visual Transistor-level Simulation
• 8048 (8b): Intel's first microcontroller from 1976 - still in production, and used as main CPU on Mars Pathfinder rover. Followon 8051 aka MCS-51
  • History
  • Data Sheet
  • Die Photo of 8749 variant
• The RCA 1802 (8 bit): the chip that went to Jupiter
  • Overview.
  • An overview of the ISA
  • More
• 8080 (8 bit): the chip that started the personal computer
  • Die Photo
  • Data Sheet
• PDP-8 (12 bit): first minicomputer processor
  • Photo
  • Intersil 6100 die photo
  • Overview of family
  • ISA
  • The Intersil 6100 single chip implementation
  • Data sheet See pages 15-36
• Data General Nova (16 bit): the machine from The Soul of a New Machine
  • History
  • Die Photo of mn602 single chip implementation
  • Instruction Set
• MIPS (32 bit): an early RISC architecture
  • Overview
  • Die Photo of R2000 single chip implementation
  • See Computer Organization and Design, Fifth Edition: The Hardware/Software Interface by David A. Patterson and John L. Hennessy
  • 8-bit version discussed in Chap. 1 of Weste and Harris
• Class Projects: Undergraduate
  • Alexander Rosner: 8-bit MIPS from book
  • Jesse Brunelle and David Wieczorek: 6502
  • Gerald Martinez and Chris Ravasio: 8080
  • Peter Forbes and Jose Perrone: RCA 1802
• Class Projects: Graduate
  • Neil Butcher: Ferro-electric FETs
  • Hadrian Aquino: Nano Magnetic Logic
  • Jingshan Wang: GaN Vertical Junction FETS