David

This webinar presents the history of Univac military computers from 1970s until the present.  By the 1970s Univac had provided the standard Navy computers for Naval Tactical Data System installed on many US ships and had provided computers to Marines, Air Force, NASA, and FAA.  During the 1970s, Univac develops its first 16-bit minicomputer which becomes the Navy Standard Minicomputer.  Computers during the 1970s are based upon the Microprogrammable Controller (MPC), a new control technique.  The MPC allow easy emulation of multiple instruction sets using microprograms (firmware).  They are basis of UYK-20, AYK-14, and next generation UYK-43 and UYK-44 Navy standard computers.  Univac computers continue to be used by Air Force, Marines, and FAA.  By 1990s, standard microprocessors have exceed the performance of military standard computers and all future military computers are based upon Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS).

Biography:

David Bondurant has been involved with the computer and semiconductor industry for 49-years.  He was a computer architect at Control Data, Sperry-Univac, and Honeywell.  He was involved with the government-sponsored advanced semiconductor program called VHSIC (Very High Speed Integrated Circuits) at Univac & Honeywell where he developed microprocessor and ASIC semiconductor products in bipolar CML, CMOS, and radiation hard CMOS.  He was involved with emerging non-volatile RAM marketing at industry leading companies, Ramtron (FRAM), Simtek (non-volatile SRAM), and Freescale Semiconductor/Everspin Technologies (MRAM).

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