Lee Boysel
American electrical engineer and entrepreneur
Lee Loren Boysel (December 31, 1938 – April 25, 2021) was an American electrical engineer and entrepreneur. While at Fairchild Semiconductor, he developed four-phase logic and built the first integrated circuit with over 100 logic gates, and designed the Fairchild 3800 / 3804 8-bit ALUs.2
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Born Dec 31, 1938, died Apr 25, 2021.1
About
Boysel designed the Four-Phase Systems AL1. He founded Four-Phase Systems to commercialize the technology, and sold the company to Motorola in 1981.
He was a graduate of the University of Michigan with a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering.
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Companies
- Four-Phase SystemsFounder6
Early life and education
- Date not recordedUniversity of Michigan3
Career
Occupation: engineer.5
- Date not recordedFounded Four-Phase Systems4
Legal issues and controversies
Texas Instruments claimed to have patented the microprocessor and, in response, Boysel assembled a system in which a single 8-bit AL1 was used as part of a courtroom demonstration computer system, together with ROM, RAM and an input-output device.
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- 1WikidataLee Boysel on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaLee Boysel on Wikipedia
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- 6WikidataFour-Phase Systems, Founder