Sherwood Technical Career
Digital Equipment Corp (DEC) / Intel (1975-2005)
Sherwood graduated from Carnegie-Mellon in 1975 with dual degrees BSEE, MSEE in Computer Engineering, and enjoyed a 30-year career in VLSI Microprocessor Design and Verification and CAD tools, culminating with two decades as a Sr. Engineering Manager responsible for some 70 engineers. He retired from industry in 2005 and focused on music performance and composition, and running his own businesses in the areas of Graphic & Web Design, Web Hosting, Database Design, Commercial Photography, and Art Photography (see portfolios).
Throughout his career, he hosted themed benefit fundraisers with a creative flair, always having music performances, a themed art gallery, and creative printed invitations.
(Visit Page) Art Director for Architectural Design Verification – Print Ads in the 1980s
Technical Publications & Books
The VLSI VAX Chip Set Microarchitecture
Springer eBooks, 1985
Using LSI processor bit-slices to build a PDP-11: a case study in microcomputer design. [PDP-11 computer architecture built with bipolar microcomputer bit-slices]
National Computer Conference 1977
Patchable control store for reduced microcode risk in a VLSI VAX microcomputer
ACM Sigmicro Newsletter, Dec 1, 1984
Simulation hierarchy for microprocessor design
Design Automation Conference, Feb 24, 1977
PLATO – PLA Translator/Optimizer – “a ROM is a PLA in no uncertain terms.”
Design Automation Conference, Feb 24, 1977
A prototype engineering tester for microcode and hardware debugging
ACM SIGMICRO Newsletter, 1984
A MOS Modelling Technique for 4-State True-Value Hierarchical Logic Simulation or Karnough Knowledge
18th Design Automation Conference, 1981
A Hybrid Scheduling Technique for Hierarchical Logic Simulators or “Close Encounters of the Simulated Kind
16th Design Automation Conference, 1979
CMU-11 Engineering Documentation
Defense Technical Information Center 1977
Apparatus and method for improving the efficiency and quality of functional verification
IEEE WG10.2 Conference
The VLSI VAX Chip Set Microarchitecture
Microarchitecture of VLSI Computers, 1985
Patchable control store for reduced microcode risk in a VLSI VAX microcomputer
ACM SIGMICRO Newsletter, 1984
Some applications of the Stanford University Drawing System for LSI microprocessor – “a picture is worth a thousand bytes.”
Design Automation Conference, Feb 24, 1977