American engineer and Amiga director of hardware engineering who contributed to the architecture and custom hardware of the Amiga 1000.
| Biographical Information | |
|---|---|
| Known for | Hardware Designer, Hardware Engineer, Project Lead |
| Nationality | American |
Ron Nicholson is an American hardware engineer who served as Amiga’s director of hardware engineering during development of the original computer. With experience at Apple and other Silicon Valley companies, he helped organise the work needed to turn the Lorraine concept into a manufacturable system.
Nicholson contributed to the architecture of the Amiga 1000 and to the custom-chip designs that supported its graphics and multimedia abilities. He worked with Jay Miner, Joe Decuir, Dave Needle and other members of the team as the Agnus, Denise and Paula functions, memory system and board design were developed and integrated.
His broader engineering career has included contributions to the original Apple Macintosh, RISC workstations, FPGA and network chips, graphics hardware and the Nintendo 64. Nicholson is named as a co-inventor on several patents relating to the Amiga 1000 architecture.
Continued as a senior Amiga hardware leader after Commodore acquired Amiga.
Worked on Apple computer hardware before joining the Amiga project.
Directed hardware engineering and contributed to the Amiga architecture.
Directed hardware engineering and contributed to the Amiga 1000 architecture and custom chips.
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