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What is the name of the invention that combined transistors and capacitors on a single chip?
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A microprocessor combines Transistors, Capacitors, and Resistors on a very small 'chip'
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Why is a computer chip called a chip?
Computer chips are built on a slice of silicon. Silicon forms the basis of transistors which make up a complete circuit. The circuit is photo etched onto the silcon forming complex circuits containg transistors, resistors, capacitors and diodes. The silicon is grown as a single crystal. The crystal is then sliced into thin wafers, onto which the circuit is etched. These resemble a sliced potato or CHIP.
The first CPUs contained around 2000 transistors. How many might you find on a CPU today?
The first CPU did not have transistors. They were not yet invented. The first computers used the electronic components available at that time. They included resisters, capacitors, diodes, and vacuum tubes (and wires). A vacuum tubes was a glass container with a wire assembly inside in a vacuum. It has a glowing filament (similar to that of an incandescent light bulb) that generated heat to make the tube function. Tubes would be replaced when the filament burns out after a while and their were many of these tubes in a computer generating a lot of heat. Vacuum tubes were later replaced by transistors when the technology became available. Transistors used much lower voltage and less electricity. Much of the wires were replaced with printed circuit boards where the wires were printed, painted, or etched on a board. The wire connectors of transistors, diodes, capacitors and resistors were attached to the board circuitry. Scientists later learned that they can eliminate the casing and wire leads of components and embed them directly into a circuit boards making everything smaller. They put components on both sides of a board, They used components instead of wiring through a hole in the board to connect the top to the bottom of a board. Circuit board layouts were redesigned eliminating wiring between connecting components. That with the technology to have thinner wiring and smaller components led to ability to put the parts of a cpu into its own sealed board small enough to be called a computer chip. The first CPU chips were only CPUs with much supporting circuitry around it. Today much of the supporting circuitry has been incorporated into the CPU chip and the instruction set supported by the CPU has been greatly enhanced requiring even more components. A current CPU has millions of transistors and other components incorporated into a single chip and a CPU chip can have multiple CPUs in it.
What is an ic how it helps in reducing the size of computers?
IC stands for integrated circuits. They help to reduce the size of the computer because it is simply a small chip that is embedded with all the information needed. Because the chip is so small, the sizes of computers can be reduced.
How did the transistor change computers?
Very little for over a decade because it took that long to learn how to make high speed transistors needed for computer use, that were reliable, and at the same time had high gain. And then it took several more years to learn how to make silicon planar transistors which were not destroyed by humidity and could then be packaged in inexpensive plastic packages and at the same time made monolithic integrated circuits possible.
What are the advantages of intergrated circuits over transistors?
"LSI" refers to the practice of putting more components, more transistors, and more functions on a single chip. This reduces the number of packages required to do the job, and reduces the circuit-board area required for the device. The microprocessor in any household PC or laptop is an example of a large-scale- integrated circuit. And by the way, while we're on the subject, they're "integrated" circuits, not "intergrated".
What is monolithic integration?
A monolithic integrated circuit is a collection of interconnected electronic devices (transistors, diodes, resistors and capacitors) all formed on the surface of a single pieceof a semiconductor crystal (usually silicon). "Monolith" means "one rock".
What is a monolithic integrate circuits?
A monolithic integrated circuit is a collection of interconnected electronic devices (transistors, diodes, resistors and capacitors) all formed on the surface of a single pieceof a semiconductor crystal (usually silicon). "Monolith" means "one rock".
What is monolithic integrated circuit?
A monolithic integrated circuit is a collection of interconnected electronic devices (transistors, diodes, resistors and capacitors) all formed on the surface of a single pieceof a semiconductor crystal (usually silicon). "Monolith" means "one rock".
Can you replace a capacitor of two different sizes?
Not sure what you are asking.There are two formulae for working out equivalent capacitance:Two capacitors in parallelThe equivalent single capacitance is the sum of the two capacitors: Ce = C1 + C2Two capacitors in seriesThe equivalent single capacitance is the reciprocal of the sum of the reciprocals of the two capacitors: 1/Ce = 1/C1 + 1/C2⇒ Ce = C1C2/(C1+C2)So you can replace two capacitors by a single one, or a single one by two.
What is the principle of operation of gang capacitors?
Gang capacitors are a series of capacitors that are mounted to a common location. When they are mounted in series, they can be controlled by a single switch instead of multiple ones.
Why is a computer chip called a chip?
Computer chips are built on a slice of silicon. Silicon forms the basis of transistors which make up a complete circuit. The circuit is photo etched onto the silcon forming complex circuits containg transistors, resistors, capacitors and diodes. The silicon is grown as a single crystal. The crystal is then sliced into thin wafers, onto which the circuit is etched. These resemble a sliced potato or CHIP.
What is a monolithic IC?
A monolithic IC is a type of "integrated circuit" electronic device (commonly referred to as a "chip") that contains active and passive devices (transistors, diodes, resistors, capacitors) that are made in and on the surface of a single piece of a single crystal semiconductor, such as a Silicon (Si) wafer. A process called "planar technology" must be used in the single block (monolith), and be interconnected to the insulating layer over the same body of the semiconductor to produce a solid integral monolithic-IC. If the devices are interconnected by bonding wires dangling above the chip, is not a monolithic-IC; it is a hybrid-IC. In monolithic-ICs, the devices (transistors, diodes, resistors and capacitors) are fabricated on the same single chip of a single Silicon crystal by PLANAR technology, and have ISOLATED p-n junctions, and have interconnections adherent to the insulator layers without shorting to the adjacent areas and each other.
What is the original invention computers are based upon?
There was no single "original invention".
Is there a single phase capacitor?
All capacitors fundamentally have two sides or "connections" so that any single capacitor will have two terminals. That is true whether capacitors are used in single phase (using one or more capacitors), or in three phase power (same number of discrete capacitors on each phase). The packaging of capacitors is mostly as "singles" having just two connecting wires or terminals, but certain applications - such as three-phase motor speed controllers - often use "blocks" of three or more capacitors, packaged together into one "body" or "casing". Those "capacitor blocks" have four or more connecting wires or terminals.
How many transistors on an integrated circuit?
ICs have been built with as few as two to as many as hundreds of billions of transistors. I believe the first germanium prototype IC built by Kilby may have had only one transistor (it was an integrated circuit not for having many transistors, but because it integrated both resistors and transistors into a single germanium crystal).
What is the capacitor for on a shallow well pump?
Most domestic well pumps have alternating current motors which either have a single combined 'start and run' capacitor or two separate capacitors, one for 'start' and the other for 'run'. If a capacitor fails the motor will either not start properly or won't run properly (or won't do either). Almost every town has an electric parts shop where you can buy new capacitors and test your old ones.
What invention led to single cell organisms?
The brain
