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Title: |
VLSI & Computer Architecture |
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| Edited by: |
Kenzo Watanabe |
| ISBN10-13: |
1606920758 : 9781606920756 |
| Illustrations: |
tables, charts & illus |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Size: |
180x260mm |
| Pages: |
239 |
| Weight: |
.690 Kg. |
| Published: |
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US) - December 2009 |
| List Price: |
172.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon
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| Subjects: |
Computing & information technology |
| Very-large-scale integration (VLSI) is the process of creating integrated circuits by combining thousands of transistor-based circuits into a single chip. The first semiconductor chips held one transistor each. Subsequent advances added more and more transistors, and as a consequence more individual functions or systems were integrated over time. The first integrated circuits held only a few devices, perhaps as many as ten diodes, transistors, resistors and capacitors, making it possible to fabricate one or more logic gates on a single device. Now known retrospectively as "small-scale integration" (SSI), improvements in technique led to devices with hundreds of logic gates, known as large-scale integration (LSI), i.e. systems with at least a thousand logic gates. Current technology has moved far past this mark and today's microprocessors have many millions of gates and hundreds of millions of individual transistors. As of early 2008, billion-transistor processors are commercially available, an example of which is Intel's Montecito Itanium chip. This is expected to become more commonplace as semiconductor fabrication moves from the current generation of 65 nm processes to the next 45 nm generations. Another notable example is Nvidia's 280 series GPU. This microprocessor is unique in the fact that its 1.4 Billion transistor count, capable of a teraflop of performance, is almost entirely dedicated to logic (Itanium's transistor count is largely due to the 24MB L3 cache). At one time, there was an effort to name and calibrate various levels of large-scale integration above VLSI. Terms like Ultra-large-scale Integration (ULSI) were used. But the huge number of gates and transistors available on common devices has rendered such fine distinctions moot. Terms suggesting greater than VLSI levels of integration are no longer in widespread use. Even VLSI is now somewhat quaint, given the common assumption that all microprocessors are VLSI or better. |
| Table of Contents: |
| Preface; An Ontology of Computer-Aided Design; Flexible CMOS Analog Circuits for The Next Generation of Wireless Hand Held Devices-Review & State of the Art Survey; Design Considerations & Algorithms for Broadband Fixed WiMAX Systems; VLSI Interconnections & Their Delay Performances; Development, Validation & Evaluation of a Space Qualified long Life Flight Computer Server; Reference Architecture Model & Tools for Multi-modal Perceptual Systems; MOSFET's Programmable Conductance: The Way of VLSI Implementation for Emerging Applications from Biologically Plausible Neuromorphic Devices to Mobile Communications; Vision-Based Path Planning with Onboard VLSI Array Processors; VLSI Architectures for Autonomous Robots -- A Review; Design of an Enhanced MAC Architecture for Multi-Hop Wireless Networks; Index. |
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