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Article: Readers Sound Off.(Motorola Inc.)
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- Design News
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- October 1, 2009
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By Design News Staff
'Lazy' Drivers Need to get Back to Basics
I just had to take keyboard in hand and respond to the article by Charles Murray on the electronic content in cars, "Cutting the Electrical Fat," (DN 08.09, http://designnews.hotims.com/23122-514 ).
In 1983 I went to work for Motorola. One of the projects that Motorola was working on at the time, was the 6804 (dubbed the popcorn processor). It was about the size of an AND gate die, and Motorola thought they could sell it for less than a dollar, because of its small size. We designed an intelligent dash around another of the Motorola chips, and a two-wire bus to communicate to the ...