Semiconductors & Chipmaking · Recorded milestone
Chip design software (EDA)
Recorded year1981
Daisy, Mentor and Valid sell workstation tools to draw and simulate chips, as designs grow too big to lay out by hand.
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- MicroprocessorRecorded · 1971enables
- UNIX and CRecorded · 1971enables
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