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• Smithsonian National Museum of Chips
• The Intel Museum
• Intel 4004 (4 bit): the first microprocessor
  • Die photo (color)
  • Die photo with overlay of logical blocks.
  • 1EEE Micro 25th Anniversary paper on 4004
  • Wikipedia page with lots more detail
  • 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
• Low Precision floating point for Machine Learning and AI
  • Wikipedia on TPU
  • Google's first TPU
  • Paper on "In-Datacenter Performance Analysis of a Tensor Processing Unit"
  • CACM: "A Domain-Specific Architecture for Deep Neural Networks"
  • Paper: "Deep Convolutional Neural Network Inference with Floating-point Weights and Fixed-point Activations">
  • Wikipedia on Tensor Flow Library
  • Short floating Point
  • TPUs as Systoloc Arrays
• Opteron Quad core Processor
• Memory Bandwidth Statistics
• A Real "Out of this World" MIPS Machine
• Sun's PicoJava Homepage
• Intel 1103 World's first commercial DRAM

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