What is the role of integrated circuits?

The role of integrated circuits:

1, reduce the use of components. The birth of integrated circuits, small-scale integrated circuits so that the number of content components to reduce the number of scattered components in a great technical improvement.

2, product performance has been effectively improved. The components are gathered together, not only to reduce the interference of external electrical signals, but also in the circuit design has been greatly improved, improving the operating speed.

3, more convenient application. A function corresponds to a circuit, a function will be centralized into an integrated circuit, in this way, in the future application, to what function can be applied to the corresponding integrated circuit, thus greatly facilitating the application.

Integrated circuits, or microcircuit (microcircuit), microchip (microchip), chip (chip) in electronics is a way to miniaturize circuits (mainly semiconductor devices, but also passive components, etc.), and is usually manufactured on the surface of semiconductor wafers.

The aforementioned integrated circuits are manufactured on the surface of semiconductor chips, also known as thin-film integrated circuits. There is another thick film (thick-film) hybrid integrated circuit (hybrid integrated circuit) is composed of independent semiconductor devices and passive components, integrated into the substrate or circuit board composed of miniaturized circuits.

This article is about monolithic (monolithic) integrated circuits, i.e. thin-film integrated circuits.

Integrated circuits have the advantages of small size, light weight, fewer lead wires and soldering points, long life, high reliability, good performance, etc., and at the same time, low cost, easy to mass production. It is not only in the industrial and civilian electronic equipment such as recorders, televisions, computers and other aspects of a wide range of applications, while in the military, communications, remote control and other aspects of a wide range of applications. With integrated circuits to assemble electronic equipment, its assembly density than the transistor can be increased dozens of times to thousands of times, the stability of the equipment can also greatly improve the working time.

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