Semiconductors And Integrated Circuits Flashcards
Information technologies are based on…
Digital and analog electronic systems
Systems are made of ____
Circuits
Main element of the circuit
Transistor (active element)
Integrated circuits
Circuits with a very high density of transistors per unit area
Transistor
Has three electrodes
Make integrated circuits on a wafer chip
Gate
Electrical potential of one electrode in a transistor
Controls the electrical current of voltage between two other electrodes
A huge number of transistors can be fabricated on a ____
Silicon wafer
Moore’s Law 1964
The number of transistors on a chip double every year to 18 months
1 nm = ____ m
10^-9
Diameter of an atom
0.1 nm
Wavelength of green light
550 nm
LSI
Large scale integration
10^4 devices per chip
VLSI
Very large scale integration
10^6 devices per chip
ULSI
Ultra scale integration
10^8 devices per chip
GSI
Giga scale integration
10^9 - 10^10 devices per chip
