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Microelectronic Devices and Circuits• What is it?• Why is this important? Course objective• “Moore’s Law”– # xtrs exponential for 40+ years (unique)• IC complexity
Challenge of IC Fabrication• No other EE discipline is less forgiving of errors– You can change PLD’s or software in a day– You can build and test a printed circuit board in a week– It takes months to tape out and fabricate a chip– Debugging and characterizing a (defective) chip also takes
months
• State-of-the-art chips are never perfect– But they have to be good enough for someone to buy them– If you want to sell bugs, try a career in software