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Basically a transistor is just one single component and has no function by itself, while an IC is composed of several components of various types (transistors, diodes, resistors, and capacitors) pre-wired into a specific circuit having a specific function that it performs.
An IC can now have as few as two components in it to hundreds of billions of components in it, soon the technology for making ICs will probably be able to put hundreds of trillions of components in one IC and the ultimate limit is still uncertain.
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∙ 12y agoChip and integrated circuit are both names for the same thing. Sometimes, the integrated circuit can be multiple chips and other components mounted on one assembly, such as the L1 cache on certain microprocessors, but, in general, its the same thing.
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What is monolithic integrated circuit technology?
Monolithic integrated circuit technology is a system of electronics that are interconnected through a single piece. This single piece is a semiconductor crystal.
What is the difference between electric and electrical?
Pronunciation. An electrical circuit is the exact same as the electric system.
When was the modern radio invented?
Generally in the 20th century (1900-1999), because there were so many different kinds, including AM, FM, satellite, digital, tube (valve), transistor, integrated circuit, boombox, walkman, shortwave, AC/DC, hi-fi, stereo, quadraphonic, SCA (muzak), HDradio, digital radio mondiale, SDR (software defined radio), superheterodyne, walkie-talkie, cellular, etc.
Why biasing is needed at all?
Biasing is used in a transistor amplifier circuit in order to place the transistor as nearly as possible in the center of its linear region. Transistors have cutoff, linear, and saturation regions. Too little bias current, and you enter cutoff - Too much, and you saturate. Both conditions cause distortion when you attempt to use the transistor as an amplifier, as opposed to a switch.
How do you identify an integrated circuit from serial numbers?
Semiconductor integrated circuits usually don't have serial numbers on them with the exception of VLSIC's (very large scale integrated circuits) or microprocessors. Semiconductors almost universally have two identifiers marked on them. One is a code the manufacturer uses to identify the lot (or batch) that the semiconductor came from. The other number is an identifier that can almost certainly be used to find out about the semiconductor, discover its characteristics and what it does. That identification number can be used to cross-reference the device, and there are a number of online resources that will provide cross reference information and even device characteristics without cost save the time it takes to access the data and read it.
Function of resistor capacitor and transistor on integrated circuit?
resistor
What is basic electronic building block of a integrated circuit?
A transistor.
What is difference between the ic555 and ic741?
The 555 is a timer integrated circuit. The 741 is an operational amplifier (op amp) integrated circuit. Both are some of the most popular 8 pin integrated circuits ever produced.
What is the difference in transistor between VCB and VCBO?
Vcb is what is measured in a particular circuit. Vcbo is the manufacturer's maximum for base-emitter voltage.
What is the basic building block for computer circuitry?
Integrated Circuit is not exactly correct. The circuit contains 100s and even 1000s of Transistors. The transistor is the basic building block.
What disadvantage of the transistor did the integrated circuit eliminate?
This sounds like a question from a sheet I did or actually had for HW the answer is they eliminated the heat sensitive components
What is the difference between a 54AS139 and a 74As139 integrated circuit?
The 54 series are military specification versions with a greater operating temperature range.
What is the application of TTL in integrated circuits?
Transistor transistor logic is one type of many different types of bipolar transistor based digital logic circuitry. It is very efficiently implemented in integrated circuit chips, needs only one power supply voltage, and operates at reasonably high speeds. Transistor transistor logic was first developed in the middle 1960s as a modification of the diode transistor logic, then in use in some digital logic integrated circuit chips but dating back to the earliest discrete bipolar transistor logic developed in the late 1950s and derived from vacuum tube point contact diode logic used in many early first generation computers. Transistor transistor logic integrated circuits dominated the computer and electronic digital controller market from the late 1960s until the middle 1980s, when metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor based microprocessors and microcontrollers began to replace it. By the early 1990s transistor transistor logic and other bipolar transistor based digital logic integrated circuits had been replaced with equivalent complementary metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor integrated circuits that were both faster and consumed less power (thus running much cooler) or with programmable logic devices of various types. In general transistor transistor logic is now considered obsolete.
What is the difference between upstream and downstream in electrical network?
Generally upstream is closer to the positive (+) voltage source. In the case of an NPN transistor upstream of the transistor is the part of the circuit from (+) to the NPN collector pin. Downstream of the transistor is from the NPN emitter pin to the ground / sink / negative (-) terminal.
At integrated circuit level what are the three principal constituents of a computer system?
1)Transistors 2)Capacitors 3)Resistors
Due to a need for smaller and more powerful computers the what was invented and replaced transistor-based computers by the mid-1960s?
integrated circuit computer or microprocessor
A 7812 transistor is pnp type?
The 7812 is not a transistor. It is an integrated circuit, a voltage regulator designed to regulate an input voltage down to 12 volts output. It typically comes in a TO-220 case, and has three leads, so it sure does look like a transistor though!
