The Man Who Put a Computer on One Chip

Описание: Today billions of devices contain microcontrollers… but it all started when one engineer had the idea to put an entire computer on a single chip.

In this excerpt from Science Live with Roger Billings, we explore the story of Gary Boone and the invention that helped transform modern electronics. Gary Boone helped design one of the first true microcontrollers, combining processing power, memory, and control functions onto a single chip. This breakthrough made it possible to embed computing into everyday devices.

This innovation helped launch the era of embedded systems, leading to the billions of microcontrollers that power modern electronics today.

Timestamps:
0:00 A Guy Who Got Bored… and Had an Idea
0:14 Meet Gary Boone
1:06 Designing Chips
2:37 A Chip That Does Everything
3:14 RAM vs ROM Memory
4:10 Patent Diagram
5:00 The TMS 1802 Microcontroller
5:38 Sinclair Executive Calculator
6:04 The TMS 1000
7:00 The Speak & Spell

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