Integrated circuit

An integrated circuit (IC) is a thin chip consisting of at least two interconnected semiconductor devices, mainly transistors, as well as passive components like resistors. As of 2004, typical chips are of size 1 cm2 or smaller, and contain millions of interconnected devices, but larger ones exist as well.

Key industrial and academic data

Notable ICs

• The 555 common multivibrator subcircuit (common in electronic timing circuits)
• The 741 operational amplifier
• 7400 series TTL logic building blocks
• 4000 series, the CMOS counterpart to the 7400 series
• Intel 4004, the world's first microprocessor
• The MOS Technology 6502 and Zilog Z80 microprocessors, used in many home computers

Manufacturers

A list of notable manufacturers; some operating, some defunct:

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• Alcatel
• AMD
• Analog Devices
• Applied Materials
• ATI Technologies
• Atmel
• Agere (formerly part of Lucent, which was formerly part of AT&T)
• Fairchild Semiconductor
• Freescale Semiconductor (formerly part of Motorola)
• IBM
• Infineon Technologies (formerly Siemens)
• Intel
• MOS Technology / Commodore Semiconductor Group (CSG)
• National Semiconductor
• NEC Corporation
• NVIDIA
• Philips
• Renesas
• STMicroelectronics (formerly SGS Thomson)
• Texas Instruments
• VIA Technologies
• ZiLOG

VLSI conferences

• IEDM - IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting
• DAC - Design Automation Conference
• EDS - IEEE EDS Meetings Calendar
• EDS - IEEE EDS Sponsored, Cosponsored & Topical Conferences
• CAS - IEEE Circuits and Systems Conferences

VLSI journals

• ED - IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
• EDL - IEEE Electron Device Letters
• CAD - IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
• JSSC - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
• VLSI - IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems
• CAS II - IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analogy and Digital Signal Processing
• SM - IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing
• SSE - Solid-State Electronics
• SST - Solid-State Technology
• TCAD - Journal of Technology Computer-Aided Design