2-VLD IC History
2-VLD IC History
2-VLD IC History
Outline
Lecture 1 IC History
Mohammad. Syafrudin
A Brief History
1958: First integrated circuit
Flip-flop using two transistors Built by Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments
Annual Sales
1018 transistors manufactured in 2003
100 million for every human on the planet
Global Semiconductor Billings (Billions of US$)
200
2003
Intel Pentium 4 processor (55 million transistors) 512 Mbit DRAM (> 0.5 billion transistors)
150
100
50
0 1982
1984
1986
1988
1990
1992
1994
1996
1998
2000
2002
Year
Transistor Types
Bipolar Transistors
npn or pnp silicon structure Small current into very thin base layer controls large currents between emitter and collector Base currents limit integration density
Moores Law
1965: Gordon Moore plotted transistor on each chip
Fit straight line on semilog scale Transistor counts have doubled every 26 months
Moores Law
1,000,000,000 100,000,000 Pentium 4 PentiumIII PentiumII PentiumPro Pentium
Moores Law
Integration Levels SSI MSI LSI : 10 gates : 1000 gates : 10,000 gates
10,000,000
10,000
Transistors
1,000
1,000,000 Intel386 100,000 8086 10,000 8008 4004 1,000 8080 80286
Intel486
Corollaries
Many other factors grow exponentially
1980 1985 1990 1995 2000
1970
1975
Year
AT&T Bell Laboratories -- Invention of Point Contact Transistor William Shockley, Walter Brittain, and John Bardeen Winners of the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics
100
10
Pentium 4
1970
1975
1980
1985
1990
1995
2000
2005
Year
Idea of FET
Original idea of FET/MOSFET
Julius Lilienfield, German Scientist, in 1925 [US patent 1.745.175] Oskar Heil, in 1935 [British patent 439,457]
Standard Cell
Full Custom
Summary
Moores Law continues to hold
Transistor count doubles every 26 months Microprocessor clock rates double every 34 months
Progressed through SSI, MSI, LSI, VLSI, ULSI, System-on-a-Chip (SoC) eras Now in System-on-a-Package (SIP) era Nanotechnology era has begun (features smaller than 100 nanometers)