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Computer built using discrete transistors
A transistor computer, now often called a second-generation computer, is a computer which uses discrete transistors instead of vacuum tubes. The first generation of electronic computers used vacuum tubes, which generated large amounts of heat, were bulky and unreliable. A second-generation computer, through the late 1950s and 1960s featured circuit boards filled with individual transistors and magnetic-core memory. These machines remained the mainstream design into the late 1960s, when integrated circuits started appearing and led to the third-generation computer. Wikipedia →
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- Read the overview: Transistor computerA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Review of: "transistor nMOS (with ultra-low power consumption, energy-efficient computing, during the sub-threshold range)"Influential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Halbleiter-SchaltungstechnikThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Computer Aided Two-dimensional Analysis of the Junction Field-effect TransistorCited 68 times
- Go sideways: List of transistorized computersA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Philco computersA closely related topic
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Computer Aided Two-dimensional Analysis of the Junction Field-effect Transistor
Bipolar transistor modeling of avalanche generation for computer circuit simulation
Two-dimensional computer simulation for switching a bipolar transistor out of saturation
Pointer device for thin-film transistor and cathode ray tube computer screens
An Efficient MOS Transistor Model for Computer-Aided Design
Readout scheme of the fullerene-based quantum computer by a single-electron transistor
Computer-aided transistor design, characterization, and optimization
Computer-aided transistor design, characterization, and optimization
🆕 Influential since 2022
Review of: "transistor nMOS (with ultra-low power consumption, energy-efficient computing, during the sub-threshold range)"
Boolean Computation in Single‐Transistor Neuron
Sensitivity study of the SiGe heterojunction bipolar transistor single event effect based on pulsed laser and technology computer-aided design simulation
COMPUTER OPTIMIZATION OF SWITCHING FREQUENCY OF TRANSISTOR PULSE-WIDTH CONVERTERS
Computer-Aided Transistor Circuit Analysis Package for Single-Stage Power Amplifier Using Impedance and Admittance Parameters
📚 Books worth reading
Halbleiter-SchaltungstechnikU. Tietze, Ulrich Tietze · 1969
Operation and modeling of the MOS transistorYannis Tsividis · 1987- 📕Introducing Technology Computer-Aided DesignChinmay K. Maiti · 2017
Semiconductor logic and switching circuitsSamuel L. Oppenheimer · 1966
Analysis and design of analog integrated circuitsPaul R. Gray · 1977
Nanometer CMOSJuin J. Liou, Frank Schwierz · 2010
Design of transistorized circuits for digital computersAbraham I. Pressman · 1959- 📕An introduction to counting techniques and transistor circuit logicK. J. Dean · 1964
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