Former soviet chips

Introduction

The Cyrillic characters on these pages should by now be shown correctly. At least under the different flavors of Windows and using an up-to-date Netscape or Internet Explorer. Not yet under Linux it seems. Some of the lists are in transliterared Cyrillic, so each Cyrillic character is replaced by its Latin equivalent. Cyrillic was originally based on the Greek alphabet when the script was designed by the brothers and orthodox Slavonic monks Cyrill and Methodius in Macedonia in the year 863 with extensions for special Slavic sounds. It was later Romanized under Tsar Peter the Great.

For more details, see:

czyborra.com/charsets/cyrillic.html

In transliterated mode, the Greek letter phi (pronounced fi) becomes an f, the Greek letter gamma becomes a g, the Greek letter ro becomes an r etc. There is a table at the bottom of this page.

Most former Soviet chips were copies of existing western chips.

Christoph Zingg around 1996:

Russian Semiconductors are often very much cheaper than their western equivalents. For example specialities as microwave GaAs-Transistors or fast Mixed signal circuits (AD/DA) or just simple linear or digital circuits.
Optical quality is often not as good as that of western chips but electrical quality is at least equal!
Almost all standard circuits are available in military versions (honestly I don't know yet if it's possible to export them in quantities).
Deliverability is good if the parts are still in production. Standard logic and linear circuits should be available very quickly and in large quantities.
For specialities I would have to find out whether they are still in full production.

Data

local	List with a lot of chips, special chapters are missing
local	Translate CMOS* chip numbers
local	Translate ECL* chip numbers
local	Translate TTL* chip numbers
local	List in transliterared Cyrillic
www.chipinfo.ru/	Good site in Moscow (In Russian)
www.chipinfo.ru/e/	Good site in Moscow (In English)

Letter conversion table

(With thanks to Alexander Derazhne, Chris Costello and Vaidas Balsys for pointing out errors in the previous version of the table.)

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Former soviet chips

Introduction

Data

See also

Letter conversion table