Integrated circuits

electronic circuit formed on a small, flat piece of semiconductor material

high-gain voltage amplifier with a differential input

thumb|300px|Intel i945GC Northbridge with Intel Pentium Dual-Core E2220 2.40 GHz on an Intel D945GCCR motherboard ()

thumb|CMOS inverter (a Inverter (logic gate)|NOT logic gate)

integrated circuit designed to be configured by a customer or a designer after manufacturing

device for the movement of electrical charge

specialized microprocessor optimized for digital signal processing in real time, mainly used for audio and/or video applications

thumb|An EPROM: the Texas Instruments TMS27C040, a CMOS chip with 4 megabits of storage and 8-bit output (shown here in a 600-mil ceramic dual-in-line package). The TMS27C040 operates at 5 volts, but must be programmed at 13 volts.

logic gate implementing negation

chips that have been designs to do only one specific task

physico-chemical processes contributing to protect a surface against oxidation

A lab-on-a-chip (LOC) is a device that integrates one or several laboratory functions on a single integrated circuit (commonly called a "chip") of only millimeters to a few square centimeters to achieve automation and high-throughput screening. LOCs can handle extremely small fluid volumes down to less than pico-liters. Lab-on-a-chip devices are a subset of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) devices and sometimes called "micro total analysis systems" (μTAS). LOCs may use microfluidics, the physics, manipulation and study of minute amounts of fluids. However, strictly regarded "lab-on-a-chip

process of creating an integrated circuit by combining thousands of transistors into a single chip that began in the 1970s when complex semiconductor and communication technologies were being developed

computer clock in the form of an integrated circuit that keeps track of the current time

naked single chip, microchip or semiconductor chip - e.g. transistor chip - or IC chip.

series of transistor–transistor logic integrated circuits

user-controllable digital signal pin on an integrated circuit

class of digital circuits

data storage device

Family of integrated circuits

a type of integrated circuit (IC) device that operates at microwave frequencies

device that configures programmable non-volatile integrated circuits

floating-point coprocessor for the Motorola 68k

type of integrated circuit

device that integrates multiple (at least two) photonic functions

digital circuit that manages the flow of data going to and from the computer's main memory

Bipolar CMOS (BiCMOS) is a semiconductor technology that integrates two semiconductor technologies, those of the bipolar junction transistor and the CMOS (complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor) logic gate, into a single integrated circuit. In more recent times the bipolar processes have been extended to include high mobility devices using silicon–germanium junctions.

act of making electronic components and systems resistant to damage or malfunctions caused by ionizing radiation (particle radiation and high-energy electromagnetic radiation)

principle in the function of solid-state electronic devices

group of a number of integrated circuits enclosed in a single module (a package)

POKEY (Pot Keyboard Integrated Circuit) is a digital I/O chip designed by Doug Neubauer at Atari, Inc. for the Atari 8-bit computers. It was first released with the Atari 400 and Atari 800 in 1979 and is included in all later models and the Atari 5200 console.

engineering process for electronic hardware

SiGe ( or ), or silicon–germanium, is an alloy with any molar ratio of silicon and germanium, i.e. with a molecular formula of the form Si1−xGex. It is commonly used as a semiconductor material in integrated circuits (ICs) for heterojunction bipolar transistors or as a strain-inducing layer for CMOS transistors. IBM introduced the technology into mainstream manufacturing in 1989. This relatively new technology offers opportunities in mixed-signal circuit and analog circuit IC design and manufacture. SiGe is also used as a thermoelectric material for high-temperature applications (>700 K).

device which limits the rate at which electric current is added to or drawn from electric batteries

metal-plated holes used to vertically electrically connect several dies that are atop each other

1980s U.S. government program to research and develop very high speed integrated circuits

hardware timer used in personal computers, developed jointly by Intel and Microsoft, incorporated in PC chipsets since ca. 2005

IP protections for computer hardware

process of scaling down the size of semiconductor devices

REDIRECT Physical layer#PHY

controller for disk storage, usually integrated into the drive

representation of an integrated circuit in terms of planar geometric shapes which correspond to the patterns of metal, oxide, or semiconductor layers that make up the components of the integrated circuit

integrated circuit with vertical interconnections

integrated circuit designed for power management in electronic devices

processor with an instruction set customized (optimized) for a specific task

connected graph in which any two simple cycles have at most one vertex in common

American electronics engineer and technical author

In electronics, a latch-up is a type of short circuit which can occur in an integrated circuit (IC). More specifically, it is the inadvertent creation of a low-impedance path between the power supply rails of a MOSFET circuit, triggering a parasitic structure which disrupts proper functioning of the part, possibly even leading to its destruction due to overcurrent. A power cycle is required to correct this situation.

versions of a processor of the same processor type

circuitry that controls reading from and writing to a computer's floppy disk drive

List of integrated circuits belonging to the 74xx family.

HCMOS ("high-speed CMOS") is the set of specifications for electrical ratings and characteristics, forming the 74HC00 family, a part of the 7400 series of integrated circuits.

A chiplet is a tiny integrated circuit (IC) that contains a well-defined subset of functionality. It is designed to be combined with other chiplets on an interposer in a single package to create a complex component such as a computer processor. Each chiplet in a computer processor provides only a portion of the processor's total functionality. A set of chiplets can be implemented in a mix-and-match "Lego-like" assembly. This provides several advantages over a traditional system on chip (SoC) which is monolithic as it comprises a single silicon die:

number of transistors in an electronic device

thumb|MAX232 chip in Dual in-line package|DIP-16 package thumb|upright|The die of a MAX232 thumb|MAX232 pinout: Red: power, Yellow: charge pump capacitors,Blue: outputs, Green: inputs,Pins 9–12: TTL/CMOS I/O voltages

type of mechanism that permits a machine or electronic component to test itself

communication subsystem on an integrated circuit

thumb|ANTIC chip on an Atari 130XE motherboard

verification of geometric constraints on electronic designs

integrated device containing configurable analog blocks and interconnects between these blocks