Nick Tredennick

Harry L. Tredennick III
Born(1946-08-08)August 8, 1946[1]
DiedJuly 26, 2022(2022-07-26) (aged 75)[1]
Alma mater
Engineering career
Disciplinemicrocode
Employer(s)Motorola IBM NexGen Altera
Significant designMC68000 IBM Micro/370
AwardsIEEE Fellow

Harry L. "Nick" Tredennick was an American manager, inventor, VLSI design engineer and author who was involved in the development for Motorola's MC68000 and for IBM's Micro/370 microprocessors. [2] He held BSEE and MSEE degrees from Texas Tech University, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.[2] Tredennick was named a Fellow of the IEEE; the citation reads "For the design and implementation of the execution unit and controller of the MC68000 workstation microprocessor".[3]

He died July 26, 2022, in an All-terrain vehicle accident.[2]

  1. ^ a b Certificate of Death, Santa Cruz County, CA, August 4, 2022
  2. ^ a b c Leibson, Steven (August 3, 2022), "Nick Tredennick: Requiem for a Heavyweight", Electronic Engineering Journal, archived from the original on August 3, 2022, retrieved August 24, 2022
  3. ^ IEEE Fellows Directory: Harry Tredennick, archived from the original on August 25, 2022, retrieved August 24, 2022