SN510B SN514B Texas Instruments Flight Module Card First ICs into Orbit IMP NASA for Sale

SN510B SN514B Texas Instruments Flight Module Card First ICs into Orbit IMP NASA For Sale

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SN510B SN514B Texas Instruments Flight Module Card First ICs into Orbit IMP NASA:
$3600.00

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Historical NASA flight module card.4 early ic's made by Texas Instruments for NASAThe first Earth orbiting ICs by Texas Instruments in mission Explorer 18 in 1963.The 4 IC's are encapsulated on a circuit board with epoxy seal over the chips and board.13 long gold lead flat wires extend out from the circuit board.
Manufacturer: Texas Instruments for NASA
Part: SN510B, SN514B, SN3368, SN3368, 80045/ASSY 352258-2
Quantity: 1 flight module card with 4 IC's You will receive the 4 ic's and circuit board shown in the pictures.
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NASA DOCUMENTS can be printed from the NASA WEBSITE.There are many websites that can be found on Google regards to the historyof the SN510B and SN514B made by Texas Instruments.
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS WEBSITE, TI.COM, , COMPUTER HISTORY.ORG, INDUSTRIAL ALCHEMY, ONELECTRONTECH, ETC..Texas Instruments’ engineer Jack Kilby invented the IC (Integrated Circuit) on September 12, 1958. Jack Kilby’s invention earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000. The Integrated Circuits have changed the world in a way nothing else can be comparable. At the time of the invention, nobody could know that these chips would be one day the key to enable cell phones, smart TVs, autonomous cars, and portable smart devices. But the engineers including Charles “Bob” Cook of the TI semiconductor lab led by Jack Kilby knew for sure they were key parts for winning the heated Space Race in the year 1961.
NASA had big plans for space exploration, for example, the Project Apollo mission, aiming on the moon. Therefore, NASA wanted greater computing power and lighter weight for the onboard modules. They asked for a better IC than TI’s first commercially available SN502. This led to TI’s SN514, the first IC that orbited the Earth in mission Explorer 18 satellite in 1963. The heart of the onboard Optical Aspect Computer includes a pair of Series 51 ICs, SN510 and SN514, designed by Cook and the team.
DIGITAL DATA PROCESSOR
The satellite included the first digital data processor (DDP) telemetry system to use integrated circuits in a flying spacecraft, predating the D-37C computer used in the Minuteman II missile system and the Apollo guidance computer. was DDP enabled various on-board digital experiments to store the results in an accumulator, which was read in repeated cycles and encoded into a pulse frequency modulated (PFM) signal that was transmitted to the ground station. The accumulator is a total of 105 bits plus 15 bit clocks. In addition to digital data transmitted in PFM format, just over half of the normal transmission cycle (9 out of 16 frames) was used to transmit analog signals. The processor used was a Series 51 chip from Texas Instruments, specifically the SN510 (a). clocked SR latch) and SN514 (dual 3-input NAND/NOR gate), both in 8-pin flatpack packages and using resistor-capacitor-transistor logic (RCTL). However, at that time, only two transistors could fit on a single die, so multiple dies with various logic components had to be manually connected with fine wires before being encapsulated in a package. , the manufacturing cost has become very high. Early examples cost over US$400 (equivalent to US$3,900 in 2022).

TI's SN51x series of RCTL logic chips, released in 1961, is widely recognized to be the world's first commercially available line of integrated circuits. 'SN' stands for 'Semiconductor Network', TI's nod towards the then-radical idea of combining multiple solid state devices into a single package. The SN51x series chips were manufactured from multiple transistor and diode dies, which were hand-wired together with thread-like interconnect leads inside the package. Constructing chips in this manner was both labor-intensive and expensive: early SN51x series chips sold for over $400 when first released.

These early ICs were primarily targeted towards the military and aerospace industry, and the SN514 (along with the SN510) were the first integrated circuits to orbit the earth. The earliest SN51x series chips were packaged in gold plated flat-packs.

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