Glenn Keller became a chip designer under the guidance of Jay Miner – father of the Amiga computer and a chip developer for the Atari 2600 / 8-bit range of computers. Keller’s life in computing includes the Paula sound chip for the Amiga computer; contract work with Commodore for the AAA chipset, as well as helping RJ Mical and Dave Needle bring the Handy (Atari Lynx) and 3DO gaming machines to life. He has been designing imaging sensors at Foveon since 1998.
RIP 16 starts out with Glenn’s background as an MIT graduate in Ocean Engineering and goes straight through his storied career. Topics of discussion include chip and sensor design; computer and video game console design; scientist and engineer Carver Mead; as well as fellow Amiga Corp. alumni like Carl Sassenrath and Dale Luck.
Paula audio chip:http://www.polynominal.com/Commodore-Amiga/commodore-amiga-500-paula.htm
Foveon camera:http://www.foveon.com/article.php?a=67
History of Amiga video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg8uKYLa1Aw
Chipsets:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipsethttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_Chip_Set
Carver Mead:http://www.cns.caltech.edu/people/faculty/mead.htmlIntroduction to VLSI Systems:http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/VLSI/VLSIText/PP-V2/V2.pdf
Handy / Atari Lynx:http://www.filfre.net/2016/12/a-time-of-endings-part-2-epyx/
3DO:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_3DO_Company
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