Transistors and Integrated Circuits

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Transistorsand Integrated Circuits

• Lecture L1.2

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Discovery of the Electron -- 1898
Cathode Tube
J. J. Thomson
Electric Field -- corpuscle
Cavendish Labs
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The Vacuum Tube
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The FirstPoint-Contact Transistor1947
Bell Labs Museum
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Bell Labs
The FirstJunction Transistor1951
M1752 Outside the Lab
Lab model
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Texas Instruments First IC -- 1958
Jack Kilby
Robert Noyce Fairchild Intel
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Moores Law
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Moores Law
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The PLDT-3 Prototyping Board
Xilinx 95108 CPLD 2,400 gates 108 registers