• DocumentCode
    1169662
  • Title

    History of the Development of Swiss Watch Microprocessors

  • Author

    Piguet, Christian

  • Author_Institution
    Member, IEEE, CSEM, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
  • Volume
    13
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    2008
  • Firstpage
    50
  • Lastpage
    55
  • Abstract
    While the microprocessors used today in most personal computers, PDA\´s and self-phones are very well known, the evolution of watch microprocessors is a completely unknown and a very "Swiss" or "Neuchatel" story. Christian Piguet, a designer of low-power low-voltage integrated circuits in CMOS technology and the author of more than a dozen patents on digital design, microprocessors and watch systems, provides a first hand view of this chronology.
  • Keywords
    Clocks; Computer architecture; History; Microprocessors; Reduced instruction set computing; Transistors; Watches; CMOS; Microprocessors; electronic watches; history of sciences and techniques; integrated circuits;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Solid-State Circuits Society Newsletter, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1098-4232
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/N-SSC.2008.4785781
  • Filename
    4785781
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1169662