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Ross Freeman (July 26, 1948 – October 22, 1989), was an American electrical engineer and inventor, and co-founder of the leading FPGA developer Xilinx.
Ross Freeman (July 26, 1948 – October 22, 1989), was an American electrical engineer and inventor, and co-founder of the leading FPGA developer Xilinx.
Feb 27, 2009 · Remembering Ross Freeman. In retrospect, it seems it took a long time for Xilinx Inc. co-founder Ross Freeman to be honored by the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Freeman’s induction into the Hall of Fame May 2 comes 19 years and seven months after his untimely death in October 1989.
Born July 26, 1948 - Died Oct. 22, 1989. Ross Freeman invented the field programmable gate array (FPGA), a computer chip full of "open gates" that engineers can reprogram as much as needed to add new functionality, adapt to changing standards or specifications, and make last minute design changes.
Aug 5, 2022 · In 1984, after some fundraising, Ross Freeman, Bernard Vonderschmitt, and James V. Barnett II founded a company called Xilinx. Freeman speculated that transistors would experience a fall in price and eventually invented the FPGA. He made the FPGA an economical solution for various applications.
Jun 30, 2017 · But then Ross Freeman had a pretty radical idea. He came up with a chip packed with transistors that formed loosely organized logic blocks with connections that could be configured and reconfigured with software.
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Ross H. Freeman (* 26. Juli 1944 in Michigan; † 22. Oktober 1989) war ein US-amerikanischer Physiker. Er war im Bereich elektronischer Halbleiterbauelemente wesentlicher Entwickler und Pionier bei den ersten verfügbaren programmierbaren Logikarrays, sogenannten Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA).
