The Design of Microcomputer Systems.

Abstract

The nature of integrated circuit technology dictates an upper limit on the number of gates that can be placed on a single chip and still permit production that is economically feasible. This upper limit is constantly being increased by improving technology. The first integrated circuits had a small number of individual gates on a chip. As technology progressed, medium-scale-integrated (MSI) chips were produced with complex functions such as multiplexers, counters and shift registers. Early in the 1970's the maximum number of gates had increased to the point where a complete system or subsystem, such as a microprocessor could be placed on a single chip. This technology is referred to as large-scale-integration (LSI). (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA069768

Entities

People

  • Thomas Alan Lane

Organizations

  • University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Central Processing Units
  • Circuit Analysis
  • Circuits
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Control Systems Engineering
  • Data Storage Systems
  • Decoding
  • Fabrication
  • Integrated Circuits
  • Large Scale Integration
  • Logic
  • Logic Gates
  • Semiconductors
  • Shift Registers
  • Transmission Lines

Readers

  • Applied Combinatorial Optimization and Logic Circuit Design.
  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Integrated Circuit Design and Technology.