A manufacturer’s perspective on determining parts layout.

Noyce thought of a much better way to connect the parts. That spring, Fairchild began a push to build what they called "unitary circuits" and they also applied for a patent on the idea.

The current is different in different parts of a parallel circuit. In most buildings, the lights and sockets are all connected in big circuits but you can switch individual devices off ...

The wiring diagram and its data ... "It has all sorts of rules of connections that we knew from various parts of neuroscience, and within the reconstruction itself, we can test the old theories ...