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What is a GSi integrated circuit?
It could be an integrated circuit chip made by a company called GSI Technology that is based in Silicon Valley, California.But if you are asking about a GeSi integrated circuit, that could be referring to one that has been fabricated using the elements Germanium and Silicon which have been specially doped to make its semiconductor components.
Why germanium not used in VLSI design?
Germanium cannot be used in any integrated circuit as its oxide is crumbly and water soluble (unlike silicon's oxide which is hard and stable). The only germanium integrated circuits ever made were very low density and the interconnects between components on the chip had to be done by hand under a microscope. There has been work done on integrated circuits using a silicon germanium alloy wafer, but this has not produced any production chips yet that I am aware of. If this can be made to work, I see no reason why this material could not be used in VLSI designs and even higher density designs.
What does a microchip do?
A Microchip is a semiconductor integrated circuit. The function depends on what it is designed to do. It could be a micro processor, memory chip, or digital tuner. It could be used in your wristwatch, microwave oven, cell phone, garage door opener, the space shuttle, or almost anything. Scroll down to related links and look for "Integrated circuit - Wikipedia".
What did Gordon Moore notice about transistors?
Gordon Moore observed in the early 1960s that the number of transistors that could be successfully integrated on a single integrated circuit chip was growing at an exponential rate over time. He then quantified this observation into an equation. This equation has come to be called "Moore's Law" and the growth in the number of transistors in a single integrated circuit chip has continued to follow that equation since then (even though many potential problems that could have stalled the growth have come and gone).
When was the transistor and integrated circuit and microchip invented and by whom?
Transistor: 1947 by Shockley, Bardeen, and Brattain at Bell Labs.Integrated Circuit/Microchip: 1958 by Noyce at Fairchild.Note: Kilby at Texas Instruments invented an Integrated Circuit (using Germanium) 6 months prior to Noyce, but it had to be hand wired under a microscope. Noyce's design (using Silicon) could be done entirely photolithographically. All modern Integrated Circuits/Microchips derive from the Noyce/Fairchild process, not the earlier Kilby/Texas Instruments process.
What materials are needed to make switches?
In an electrical system, essentially any conductive substance could be used to form a switch. At the integrated circuit level, it would be a partial conductor.
What is the abbreviation Tj?
Tj could stand for "temperature junction," which refers to the temperature at a specific point in an electronic component like a transistor or integrated circuit.
What does a microchip do in circuit?
Almost anything. Question is far too broad to answer...it like asking "What do people do?"
What electronic function made the transistor famous?
The importance of the Transistor was that it could amplify an electrical signal. It was thus an analog of the vacuum tube devices, and could take advantage of the circuit history and applications that had built up over the preceding 50 years.
What would EMP do to a car?
EMP fries the delicate integrated circuits in an electronic circuit, so it would basically fry anything in the car that had an integrated circuit (ECU/BCM/etc) making it inoperable. If you had either an older vehicle that ran without a computer or placed the vehicle in an all metal garage forming a makeshift Faraday cage around it, it could very well come out unharmed.
What does a microchip do in an electronic circuit?
The term microchip is a general one, and a microchip (sometimes called an integrated circuit or IC) can perform one or more functions in an electric circuit. Whatever the function or functions, they are all performed in one device, or one microchip. As to what these devices do, we have a wide variety of choices when it comes to electronic circuits. A microchip might perform all the functions to control a microwave oven, including timing and variation in the operation of the high voltage circuit to control magnetron output. It might perform all the tuning functions in a satellite receiver, or do the digital-to-analog conversion in a digital music player. A microchip may be composed of nothing but digital memory, and is at the heart of devices that use solid state memory to store data. There integrated circuits that we know as microcontrollers or even microprocessors could be considered microchips as the components on the single substrate are extremely small and are densely packed.
How is an integrated circuit manufactured?
In an integrated circuit, electronic components such as resistors, capacitors, diodes, and transistors are formed directly onto the surface of a silicon crystal. The process of manufacturing an integrated circuit will make more sense if one first understands some of the basics of how these components are formed. Even before the first IC was developed, it was known that common electronic components could be made from silicon. The question was how to make them, and the connecting circuits, from the same piece of silicon? The solution was to alter, the chemical composition of tiny areas on the silicon crystal surface by adding other chemicals, called dopants. Some dopants bond with the silicon to produce regions where the dopant atoms have one electron they can give up. These are called N regions. Other dopants bond with the silicon to produce regions where the dopant atoms have room to take one electron. These are called P regions. When a P region touches an N region, the boundary between them is referred to . This boundary is only 0.000004 inches (0.0001 cm) wide, but is crucial to the operation of integrated circuit components.
