Transistors and Integrated Circuits Lecture L1.2
Discovery of the Electron -- 1898 Cathode Tube J. J. Thomson Electric Field -- “corpuscle” Cavendish Labs
The Vacuum Tube
The First Point-Contact Transistor 1947 Bell Labs Museum The First Point-Contact Transistor 1947
The First Junction Transistor 1951 Bell Labs The First Junction Transistor 1951 M1752 Outside the Lab Lab model
Texas Instrument’s First IC -- 1958 Jack Kilby Robert Noyce Fairchild Intel
Moore’s Law
Moore’s Law
The PLDT-3 Prototyping Board Xilinx 95108 CPLD 2,400 gates 108 registers