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Title

The essential guide to semiconductors / Jim Turley.

Author

Turley, James L.

Publication

Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall, c2003.

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Details

Description

xix, 217 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"The Essential Guide to Semiconductors is a complete professional's guide to the business and technology of semiconductor design and manufacturing. Leading semiconductor industry analyst and editor Jim Turley illuminates every facet of the industry, explaining its fast-changing technologies, markets, and business models simply, clearly, and without unnecessary jargon."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Prentice Hall PTR essential guide series

Uniform Title

Essential guide series (Prentice-Hall, inc.)

Subjects

• Semiconductors > Design and construction
• Integrated circuits > Design and construction

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-200) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

013046404X

LCCN

^^2002193134

OCLC

• 51459909
• SCSB-10470534

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library