IC TECHNOLOGY

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Introduction to IC Technology

Definition of IC: The technique where many circuit components

are integrated on single silicon wafer.

Feature size: The feature size of any semiconductor technology is

defined as the minimum length of the MOS transistor channel
between the drain and the source.

Speed and Power: Smaller size of IC components yields higher

speed and lower power consumption due to smaller parasitic
resistances, capacitances and inductances.

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 Levels of Integration:-

i) Small Scale Integration:- (10-100) transistors => Example: Logic gates

ii) Medium Scale Integration:- (100-1000) => Example: counters

iii) Large Scale Integration:- (1000-20000) => Example:8-bit chip

iv) Very Large Scale Integration:- (20000-1000000) => Example:16 & 32 bit
up

v) Ultra Large Scale Integration:- (1000000-10000000) => Example:

Special processors, virtual reality machines, smart sensors

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Moore’s Law
Definition: As Gordon Moore(one of the founder of Intel)
predicted in the early 1970s that number of transistors
per chip continued to double every one and half year or
18 months at the same time dimension of the transistor
is dropped down from 25µm in 1960 to 0.18µ in 2000.

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 Questions

Session – 1 Learning Plan : IC Technology

At the end of this class hour on 18-12-14 my students will be able to

1. Define the functionality of Bipolar Junction Transistor

2. State Moore’s law

3. Define Integrated Circuit(IC)

4. Define feature size

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IC Technology
There are 2 types of IC technologies.

• Bipolar Technology

• MOS Technology

 PMOS Technology

 NMOS Technology

 CMOS Technology

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Comparison of available technologies

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Transistors integrated on a chip

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 Questions
Session – 1 Learning Plan : IC Technology
At the end of this class hour on 18-12-14 my students will be able to

1. Define levels of integration

2. Define SSI(Small Scale Integration)

3. Define MSI(Medium Scale Integration)

4. Define LSI(Large Scale Integration)

5. Define VLSI(Very Large Scale Integration)

6. Illustrate levels of integration

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