TY - BOOK AU - Turley,James L TI - The essential guide to semiconductors T2 - Prentice Hall PTR essential guide series SN - 013046404X U1 - 621.38152 PY - 2003/// CY - Upper Saddle River, NJ PB - Prentice Hall KW - Circuitos integrados KW - Diseño y construcción KW - Semiconductores N1 - Incluye bibliografía (p. 193-200); _; 1; Running Start --; About This Book --; Some Words to Know --; 2; Semiconductor Family Tree --; Semiconductor Family Tree --; Simple Analog Components --; Advanced Analog Components --; A/D and D/A Converters --; MEMS --; Medium-Scale Digital Chips --; Highly Integrated Digital Chips --; 3; How Chips Are Designed --; Old-Style Design Process --; New-Style Design Process --; Verifying the Design Works --; Using Outside IP --; Getting to Tape Out and Film --; Current Problems and Future Trends --; 4; How Chips Are Made --; Clean Rooms and Fabs --; Developing Technology: Chips and Photography --; Silicon Ingots to Start --; Polishing the Wafer Smooth --; Building the Layer Cake --; Laser Surgery: Etching Away the Transistors --; Step and Repeat --; Etching Bath --; Ready for the Metal Round --; Testing Phase I --; Bringing out the Diamonds --; Sorting the Fast From the Merely Good --; Wrap It Up --; How Many Nanometers in a Micron? --; Let´s Get Small --; 5; Business and Markets --; Worldwide Production of Semiconductors --; Worldwide Consumption of Semiconductors --; Military Electronics --; Business of Making Semiconductors --; 6; Essential Guide to Microprocessors --; Overview of Microprocessors --; Microprocessor History and Evolution --; What´s a Processor Architecture? --; Microprocessor Anatomy and Gazetteer --; What Do 4-Bit, 8-Bit, 16-Bit, and 32-Bit Mean? --; Performance, Benchmarks, and Gigahertz --; What Is Software? --; Choosing Microprocessors --; Microprocessor Future Trends --; 7; Essential Guide to Memory --; Overview of Memory Chips --; Nonvolatile ROM --; Volatile RAM --; Memory Interfaces --; Future Memories --; 8; Essential Guide to Custom and Configurable Chips --; Overview of Custom Chips --; Field-Programmable Chips --; Custom ASIC Chips --; Dynamically Reconfigurable Chips --; Intellectual Property Licensing --; Future Outlook for Custom Chips --; 9; Theory -- ER -