Silicio - English Fan Translation 9788852094194

Table of contents :
Cover
The image
The book
The author
Frontispiece
Silicon
Introduction
1. My first life
The years of my growth
The Olivetti experience
The university years and the first look at the future
2. My second life
Fairchild, the company that created Silicon Valley
MOS silicon gate technology
Il Fairchild 3708
The fight with the production engineers
The SGT patent
3. The first microprocessor
Intel and the Busicom project
The 4000 family project
Works!
The Intel 8008 microprocessor
Announcing the microprocessor to the world
The Intel 8080 microprocessor
The history of the microprocessor in perspective
Ralph Ungermann
Elvia's fight for the truth
4. My third life
Zilog, Inc.
Lo Z80-CPU
The battle of the 80s
Finally self-sufficient!
The Z8000
Exxon Enterprises
5. My third life continues
Cygnet Technologies: voice and data come together
Synaptics: the search for cognitive chips
Is it possible to build a conscious computer?
The awakening
6. Living a double life
From neural networks to touchpads and touchscreens
The touchpad takes off
The battle with Logitech
In search of meaning
Foveon and the end of my third life
7. My fourth life
Change of direction
What is awareness?
Qualia
Reviewing the fundamental hypotheses
We are not machines!
Appendix 1. MOS silicon gate technology
MOS integrated circuits
The architecture of the silicon gate process
The process architecture with the aluminum gate
The SGT with the buried contact
The layout with the SGT
The bootstrap load
The pass transistor
I buffer push-pull
The depletion load
Appendix 2. Making masks
Appendix 3. The history of computers
The abacus, the pascaline and the arithmometer
The Jacquard loom and the electromechanical tabulator
The relay
The Turing machine
Zuse's first electromechanical computer
The beginning of electronic computers
Eniac, the first electronic computer
Edsac, the first stored program computer
Univac I, the first commercial electronic computer
The minicomputer
The versatility of the computer
The mother of the computer
The art of programming
Not just calculations
The information revolution
Appendix 4. The fundamental difference between human intelligence and artificial intelligence. Conference by Federico Faggin at the V Congress of the Future, Santiago de Chile, 21 January 2016
Thanks
Bibliography
Photographic insert
Copyright