History of developing and commercializing families of solid-state calculators

Author

Chiba, T. ; Iwase, Takahiro ; Yoshida, Yutaka ; Shirakawa, I.

Author_Institution

Media Assoc. Corp., Nara, Japan

fYear

2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Beginning with the first all-electronic transistorized desktop calculator released in June of 1964., Sharp Corporation commercialized a sequence of solid-state calculators in rapid succession one after another by adopting germanium and silicon transistors, bipolar and MOS IC´s, MOS and CMOS LSI´s, LCD´s, and photovoltaic-cells. The present article outlines Sharp´s history of developing and commercializing these families of solid-state calculators, for which IEEE Milestone of Electrical Engineering and Computing was awarded in December 2005.

Keywords

MOS integrated circuits; bipolar integrated circuits; electronic calculators; liquid crystal devices; photovoltaic cells; CMOS LSI; IEEE Milestone of Electrical Engineering and Computing; LCD; MOS IC; MOS LSI; Sharp Corporation; all-electronic transistorized desktop calculator; bipolar IC; germanium transistors; photovoltaic cells; silicon transistors; solid-state calculators; COS(Crystal on Substrate); Calculator; IC; LCD; LSI; micro-processing; photovoltaic-cells; transistor;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

HISTory of ELectro-technology CONference (HISTELCON), 2012 Third IEEE

Conference_Location

Pavia

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-3079-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-3077-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HISTELCON.2012.6487586

Filename

6487586