The essential guide to semiconductors / Jim Turley.

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 --