Annotated Index of Figures for

Lynn Conway's Career Reminiscence:

http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/VLSI/Career%20Reminiscence/Figures/Index_of_Figures.html

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This page contains a list of figures for inclusion in Lynn's Career Reminiscence, including a draft of the Cover-Art.

>  A thumbnail of each figure is posted further below (accessed by clicking its entry in the table of contents).

>  Captions are also given for each figure, along with background information in some cases.

>  High-resolution online versions of each figure can be accessed by clicking on its thumbnail image.

>  Links to the high-resolution versions are also found at this link:

    http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/VLSI/Career%20Reminiscence/Figures/

>  See also the 'Figure Status Spreadsheet' for detailed status of each figure:

    http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/VLSI/Career%20Reminiscence/Figures/Figure_Status_Spreadsheet.htm  

 

 

Contents:

 

COVER IMAGE:  

Photo of Lynn Conway (2006), with Mead-Conway text cover-art in background

COVER PAGE CONCEPT:  

With TEXT AREAS superimposed over COVER IMAGE

OPENER PHOTO (Top of first page of article):

Photo of Lynn Conway at MIT, fall 2008, exactly 30 years after launching the VLSI design course there.

CONTRIBUTOR PHOTO & INFO

Small 'contributor photo' and info

 

FIGURE 1: Original DIS Functional Diagrams

FIGURE 2: Memorex 7100.

FIGURE 3: Lynn Conway at Xerox PARC (1977)

FIGURE 4: The λ-based scalable NMOS design rules (two parts)

FIGURE 5: Students at DEC-20 terminals in the MIT '78 VLSI design lab

FIGURE 6: Students Jim Cherry and Gerald Roylance and TA Glen Miranker study a checkplot, MIT '78

FIGURE 7: Photo of the MIT '78 chip set

FIGURE 8: Map of the Arpanet in that era (1980)

FIGURE 9: MPC79 implementation system; overview of the software

FIGURE 10: The Mead-Conway text

FIGURE 11: Flowchart of events for MPC79

FIGURE 12: Alan Bell completing the design-file merge for MPC79

FIGURE 13: Lynn Conway, Alan Bell, Martin Newell and Richard Lyon complete the final packaging of MPC79 chips

FIGURE 14: MPC79 wafer, die and packaged chip (two parts)

FIGURE 15: MPC79 die type BK, from Stanford University

FIGURE 16: The "Geometry Engine" prototype by Jim Clark of Stanford (one of the projects on die-type BK)

FIGURE 17: The evolution of a multi-level system of knowledge; design projects provide feedback for debugging at all levels.

FIGURE 18: Premiere issue of Lambda, the Magazine of VLSI Design (1st Qtr, 1980)

FIGURE 19: Conway and Mead receive the Electronics Award for Achievement (1981)

FIGURE 20: Lynn Conway in her office at PARC (1983)

FIGURE 21: Mead and Conway awarded the Wetherill Medal (1985)

FIGURE 22: ACS Reunion, July 29, 1999: (L-R) John Cocke, Fran Allen, Herb Schorr, Lynn Conway

QR Code:    QR Code to access the VLSI Archive

QR Code:    QR Code to Lynn Conway's website

 

List of Figures: thumbnails and links to full-resolution versions:

 

 

COVER IMAGE:

Photo of Lynn Conway (2006) taken by her husband Charles Rogers.

Cover-art from the Mead-Conway text as background.

 

 

COVER PAGE CONCEPT: 

With TEXT AREAS superimposed over COVER IMAGE

 

 

OPENER PHOTO (Top of first page of article):
Photo of Lynn Conway at MIT, fall 2008, exactly 30 years after launching the VLSI design course there.

 

 

           

CONTRIBUTOR PHOTO & INFO:

Lynn Conway is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Emerita, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

 

 

 

FIGURE 1: Original DIS Functional Diagrams

 

 

FIGURE 2: The Memorex 7100.

 

 

FIGURE 3: Lynn at Xerox PARC (1977)

 

 

 

FIGURE 4 (parts a, b): The λ-based scalable NMOS design rules

 

 

FIGURE 5: Students at DEC-20 terminals in the MIT '78 VLSI design lab

 

 

FIGURE 6: Students Jim Cherry and Gerald Roylance and TA Glen Miranker study a checkplot, MIT '78

[For more photos from the MIT '78 course, see this link.]

 

 

FIGURE 7: The MIT '78 chip set

 

 

FIGURE 8: Map of the Arpanet in that era (1980)

 

 

FIGURE 9: MPC79 implementation system; overview of the software

 

 

FIGURE 10: The Mead-Conway text

 

 

FIGURE 11: Flowchart of events for MPC79

 

 

FIGURE 12: Alan Bell at PARC completing the design-file merge for MPC79

 

 

FIGURE 13: Lynn Conway, Alan Bell, Martin Newell and Dick Lyon complete the final packaging of MPC79 chips for distribution to designers.

[Note: Unfortunately, this old Polaroid photo was moved when taken and is rather blurred. However, it is quite historic and should be used if at all possible. If reduced to 3"x3" or so, it should look OK in print.]

 

 

      

FIGURE 14 (parts a, b): MPC79 wafer, die and packaged chip

 

 

FIGURE 15: MPC79 die type BK, from Stanford University

 

 

 

FIGURE 16: The "Geometry Engine" prototype by Jim Clark of Stanford (one of the projects on die-type BK)

 

 

FIGURE 17: The evolution of a multi-level system of knowledge: design projects providing feedback for debugging at all levels.

 

 

FIGURE 18:  The premiere issue of Lambda, the Magazine of VLSI Design (1st Qtr, 1980)

 

 

FIGURE 19: Conway and Mead receive the 1981 Electronics Award for Achievement (1981)

 

 

FIGURE 20: Lynn Conway in her office at PARC (1983)

Photo by Margaret Moulton

 

[Note: On Lynn's desk are the Alto computer she used to write the VLSI text and the TI terminal she used to communicate with PARC while at MIT. She's also holding an issue of VLSI Design Magazine.]

 

 

FIGURE 21: Mead and Conway receive the Wetherill Medal at the Franklin Institute (1985)

 

 

FIGURE 22: ACS Reunion, July 29, 1999: (L-R) John Cocke, Fran Allen, Herb Schorr, Lynn Conway
 

 

 

QR Code to access the VLSI Archive

 

 

QR Code to access Lynn Conway's website

 

 

 

 

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