very large-scale integration

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• MOSFET technology
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    In semiconductor device: Metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors

    …become the dominant device for very-large-scale integrated circuits are: (1) the MOSFET can be easily scaled down to smaller dimensions, (2) it consumes much less power, and (3) it has relatively simple processing steps, and this results in a high manufacturing yield (i.e., the ratio of good devices to the…

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digital computer architecture

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  In computer science: Algorithms and complexity

  Similarly, in very-large-scale integration (VLSI) chip design it is important to know whether the graph representing a circuit is planar, that is, whether it can be drawn in two dimensions without any links crossing (wires touching).

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  In computer science: Architecture and organization

  VLSI microprocessor design occurs in a number of stages, which include creating the initial functional or behavioral specification, encoding this specification into a hardware description language, and breaking down the design into modules and generating sizes and shapes for the eventual chip components. It also…

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• fourth generation computers
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    In digital computer: Development of the digital computer

    …integrated circuitry had advanced to very large-scale integration (VLSI). This design and manufacturing technology greatly increased the circuit density of microprocessor, memory, and support chips—i.e., those that serve to interface microprocessors with input-output devices. By the 1990s some VLSI circuits contained more than 3 million transistors on a silicon chip…

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• integrated circuits
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    In electronics: Integrated circuits

    …to very large-scale integration (VLSI), which substantially increased the circuit density of microprocessors. These technological advances, coupled with further cost reductions stemming from improved manufacturing methods, made feasible the mass production of personal computers for use in offices, schools, and homes.

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• microcomputers
  • In microcomputer

    As large-scale integration and then very-large-scale integration progressively increased the number of transistors that could be placed on one semiconductor chip, so the processing capacity of microcomputers using such single chips grew commensurately. During the 1980s microcomputers came to be used widely in other applications besides electronic game systems and…

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• microprocessors
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    In microprocessor

    …1980s very large-scale integration (VLSI) vastly increased the circuit density of microprocessors. In the 2010s a single VLSI circuit holds billions of electronic components on a chip identical in size to the LSI circuit. (For more about the history of microprocessors, see computer: The microprocessor.)

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