The CADC was the Central Air Data Computer for the F-14 Tomcat.[^1] It was the worlds first microprocessor.[^1] It was designed and developed from 1968-1970.[^1] It was able to evaluate 6th-order polynomial expressions required to move the control surfaces of the fighter.[^2] It had execution pipelines, built-in boundary scan self test, math co-processing, and multiprocessing.[^2] The CADC computer needed to be able to operate a a temperature of 100deg C.
[[CADC Design]]
[[CADC Manufacturing]]
[[CADC Team]]
[[CADC Firsts]]
[[Garret AiResearch]] – developed by
[[MOS semiconductors]] – used MOS integrated circuits
[[F-14 Tomcat]]
F-14 Automatic Wing Sweep]] – controlled by the CADC
Sources
- F14CADC2022
- “Reviewers,” First Microprocessor | 50th Anniversary of the Microprocessor 2020. Accessed: Dec. 08, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://firstmicroprocessor.com/reviewers/
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[[American Microsystems]]
Built-in Self Test
[[Digital Signal Processor]]
[[F-14 Flight Control System]]
[[Flight Computer]]
History of Digital Fly-By-Wire
[[IBM]]
[[Pipelined Processor]]