[sdiy] [OT] IC pins named after persons?

[aankrom]

Maybe it's just semantics, but those pins aren't specifically named 
after a person, but rather the concepts associated with those persons & 
that have come into common usage.

On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:10:52 -0500, Kent H Lundberg wrote:
> Jim Williams, in discussing the ROYER pin on the CCFL power-supply 
> chips from
> Linear Tech, once commented that "Local historians can't be certain, 
> but this
> may be the only IC pin ever named after a person."   Other people
> have pointed
> out the ZENER pin on the CD4046 PLL chip and the KELVIN pin on the 
> CAT2300
> switch controller.  Are they any other examples?
>
> 
> http://readingjimwilliams.blogspot.com/2011/11/ic-pins-named-after-persons.html
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