David of Vertical Memory

By 1980, Honeywell Solid State Electronics in Plymouth, MN had developed a family of SSI and MSI Current Mode Logic (CML) Bipolar ICs manufactured using 5 micron lithography for application to Honeywell’s large scale and medium scale computer systems.  Designs and layout was manual.  Honeywell would win one of six Very High Speed Integrated Circuit (VHSIC) contracts from the US Government to accelerate the development of 1.25 micron and 0.5 micron technology.  I would arrive at Honeywell SSEC in 1980 and participate in several major programs driving Honeywell’s commercial and military application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) and the computer-aided design systems to support development of commercial computers and critical military systems.  By 1988, Honeywell Digital Product Center had commercializing 1.25 micron VHSIC technology with a family of bipolar CML, CMOS, and radiation hard CMOS ASIC chips and a VHSIC design systems to support them.  The ASIC technology was already deployed in computers from Honeywell, Honeywell Bull, and ETA Systems. 

Biography:

David Bondurant has been involved with the computer and semiconductor industry for 50-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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