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| ====== The VLSI Memos ====== | ====== The VLSI Memos ====== |
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| Over the course of 7 years, the [[category:places:microsystems_technology_laboratories|Microsystems Research Center]] of MIT undertook a series of advanced research inquiries in early Very Large Scale Integrated-circuit (VLSI) technology. Publicized as 428 unique papers documenting their research in three distinct phases, fifteen MIT faculty worked tirelessly to achieve this relatively obscure body of work which culminated in the design and fabrication of [[category:hardware|two unique chips]]. A detailed summary can be found by reading the final report [[category:vlsi_memos:a_coherent_vlsi_design_environment|"A Coherent VLSI Design Environment"]]. | Over the course of 7 years, the [[category:places:microsystems_technology_laboratories|Microsystems Research Center]] of MIT undertook a series of advanced research inquiries in early Very Large Scale Integrated-circuit (VLSI) technology. Publicized as 428 unique papers documenting their research in three distinct phases, fifteen MIT faculty and dozens of others worked tirelessly to achieve this relatively obscure body of work which culminated in the design and fabrication of [[category:hardware|three unique chips]]. A detailed summary can be found by reading the final report [[category:vlsi_memos:a_coherent_vlsi_design_environment|"A Coherent VLSI Design Environment"]]. |
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| Currently only a small number of these papers have been excavated from the MIT Archives with the studious help of the staff there. There presently remains the challenge of correctly converting RCA titles into their correct form. | Currently only a small number of these papers have been excavated from the MIT Archives with the studious help of the staff there. There presently remains the challenge of correctly converting RCA titles into their correct form. |
| [[category:vlsi_memos:82-98|82-98 "Optimal Layer Assignment for Interconnect,"]] [[category:people:ron_y_pinter|Ron Y. Pinter]], April 1982. (9 pp.)\\ | [[category:vlsi_memos:82-98|82-98 "Optimal Layer Assignment for Interconnect,"]] [[category:people:ron_y_pinter|Ron Y. Pinter]], April 1982. (9 pp.)\\ |
| [[category:vlsi_memos:82-99|82-99 "On Routing Two-Point Nets Across a Channel,"]] [[category:people:ron_y_pinter|Ron Y. Pinter]], April 1982. (9 pp.)\\ | [[category:vlsi_memos:82-99|82-99 "On Routing Two-Point Nets Across a Channel,"]] [[category:people:ron_y_pinter|Ron Y. Pinter]], April 1982. (9 pp.)\\ |
| [[category:vlsi_memos:82-100|82-100 "Digital Circuit Optimization,"]] [[category:people:charles_e_leiserson|Charles E. Leiserson], [[category:people:flavio_m_rose|Flavio M. Rose]], and [[category:people:james_b_saxe|James B. Saxe]], April 1982. (17 pp.)\\ | [[category:vlsi_memos:82-100|82-100 "Digital Circuit Optimization,"]] [[category:people:charles_e_leiserson|Charles E. Leiserson]], [[category:people:flavio_m_rose|Flavio M. Rose]], and [[category:people:james_b_saxe|James B. Saxe]], April 1982. (17 pp.)\\ |
| [[category:vlsi_memos:82-101|82-101 "Wafer-Scale Integration of Systolic Arrays,"]] [[category:people:frank_thomson_leighton|Frank Thomson Leighton]] and [[category:people:charles_e_leiserson|Charles E. Leiserson]], April 1982. (29 pp.)\\ | [[category:vlsi_memos:82-101|82-101 "Wafer-Scale Integration of Systolic Arrays,"]] [[category:people:frank_thomson_leighton|Frank Thomson Leighton]] and [[category:people:charles_e_leiserson|Charles E. Leiserson]], April 1982. (29 pp.)\\ |
| [[category:vlsi_memos:82-102|82-102 "Three-Dimensional Circuit Layouts,"]] [[category:people:frank_thomson_leighton|Frank Thomson Leighton]] and [[category:people:arnold_l_rosenberg|Arnold L. Rosenberg]], April 1982. (13 pp.)\\ | [[category:vlsi_memos:82-102|82-102 "Three-Dimensional Circuit Layouts,"]] [[category:people:frank_thomson_leighton|Frank Thomson Leighton]] and [[category:people:arnold_l_rosenberg|Arnold L. Rosenberg]], April 1982. (13 pp.)\\ |
| [[category:vlsi_memos:82-108|82-108 "Schematic Diagram Plotter,"]] [[category:people:carol_j_chiang|Carol J. Chiang]], June 1982. (26 pp.)\\ | [[category:vlsi_memos:82-108|82-108 "Schematic Diagram Plotter,"]] [[category:people:carol_j_chiang|Carol J. Chiang]], June 1982. (26 pp.)\\ |
| [[category:vlsi_memos:82-109|82-109 "The Structural Crisis of American Microelectronics: Analysis and Policy Implications,"]] [[category:people:charles_h_ferguson|Charles H. Ferguson]], June 1982. (36 pp.)\\ | [[category:vlsi_memos:82-109|82-109 "The Structural Crisis of American Microelectronics: Analysis and Policy Implications,"]] [[category:people:charles_h_ferguson|Charles H. Ferguson]], June 1982. (36 pp.)\\ |
| [[category:vlsi_memos:82-110|82-110 "Layouts for the Shuffle-Exchange Graph Based on the Complex Plane Diagram,"]] [[category:people:frank_thomson_leighton|Frank Thomson Leighton], [[category:people:margaret|lepley|Margaret Lepley]] and [[category:people:gary_l_miller|Gary L. Miller]], July 1982. (21 pp.)\\ | [[category:vlsi_memos:82-110|82-110 "Layouts for the Shuffle-Exchange Graph Based on the Complex Plane Diagram,"]] [[category:people:frank_thomson_leighton|Frank Thomson Leighton]], [[category:people:margaret_lepley|Margaret Lepley]] and [[category:people:gary_l_miller|Gary L. Miller]], July 1982. (21 pp.)\\ |
| [[category:vlsi_memos:82-111|82-111 "A Functional Tester Design for the University Environment,"]] [[category:people:mark_sherred|Mark Sherred]], July 1982. (36 pp.)\\ | [[category:vlsi_memos:82-111|82-111 "A Functional Tester Design for the University Environment,"]] [[category:people:mark_sherred|Mark Sherred]], July 1982. (36 pp.)\\ |
| [[category:vlsi_memos:82-112|82-112 "User's Guide to NET, PRESIM, and RNL/NL,"]] [[category:people:christopher_j_terman|Christopher J. Terman]], July 1982. (45 pp.)\\ | [[category:vlsi_memos:82-112|82-112 "User's Guide to NET, PRESIM, and RNL/NL,"]] [[category:people:christopher_j_terman|Christopher J. Terman]], July 1982. (45 pp.)\\ |
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| === 1983 === | === 1983 === |
| 83-131 "A Calibrated Digital Delay Line Implemented in VLSI," Jonathan D. Taft, January 1983. (58 pp.) | [[category:vlsi_memos:82-131|83-131 "A Calibrated Digital Delay Line Implemented in VLSI,"]] Jonathan D. Taft, January 1983. (58 pp.)\\ |
| 83-132 "Optimization of the MacPi s Silicon Compiler for Telecommunication Circuitry," J.R. Fox,January | [[category:vlsi_memos:82-132|83-132 "Optimization of the MacPitts Silicon Compiler for Telecommunication Circuitry,"]] J.R. Fox, January 1983. (21 pp.)\\ |
| 1983. (21 pp.) | [[category:vlsi_memos:82-133|83-133 "Design of a Fully Associative Cache Memory Controller,"]] John Chia Lin Hou, January 1983. (150 pp.)\\ |
| 83-133 "Design of P Fully Associative Cache Memory Controller," John Chia Lin Hou, January 1983. (150 pp.) | [[category:vlsi_memos:82-134|83-134 "An Expert System for VLSI Design,"]] [[category:people:richard_zippel|Richard Zippel]], February 1983. (3 pp.)\\ |
| 83-134 "An Expert System for VLSI Design," Rchard Zippel, February 1983. (3 pp.) | [[category:vlsi_memos:82-135|83-135 "The Design, Implementation and Testing of a Self-Timed Two by Two Packet Router,"]] Tam-Anh Chu, February 1983. (41 pp.)\\ |
| 83-135 "The Design, Implementation and Testing of a Self-Tuned Two by Two Packet Router," Tam-Anh Chu, | [[category:vlsi_memos:82-136|83-136 "On Bisecting Random Graphs,"]] [[category:people:thang_nguyen_bui|Thang Nguyen Bui]], February 1983. (41 pp.)\\ |
| 3 February 1983. (41 pp.) | [[category:vlsi_memos:82-137|83-137 Test Generation Algorithms: Overcoming the Von Neumann Bottleneck,"]] [[category:people:glenn_a_kramer|Glenn A. Kramer]], April 1983. (10 pp.)\\ |
| 83-136 -On Bisecting Random Graphs," Thkg Nguyen Bu, February 1963. (41 pp.) | |
| 83-137 -lest Generation Alrithms: Overcoming the Von Neuman Bottleneck," Glenn A. Kramer, April 1963. (10 pp.) | |
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| ==== A Coherent VLSI Design Environment ==== | ==== A Coherent VLSI Design Environment ==== |
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| | ===== Acknowledgements ===== |
| | The MIT Library has provided these files with permission for publication <pending> |
| | and I extend my utmost gratitude to the staff responsible for the processing, retrieval and scanning of these documents. |
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| | This website would not be possible without them. |
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| | From Distinctive Collections; <pending>, |
| | and from the Imaging Lab; <pending>. |
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| ===== References ===== | ===== References ===== |
