1. Lecture 1.0 Computer Basics
What is in a computer?

2. Computers do some pretty impressive things!
CFD Modeling
Flow Sheet Simulation

3. Computer is a simple machine, in principle!
Add
Subtract
Count
Switching
Pass information for one place to another
CPU to RAM
Bus = Communication with Equipment
Hard Drive / RAM

4. At the circuit level Computers use Binary Math;
a switch is either on or off Instructions in Binary math = Machine Language
What is Hexadecimal math?

5. What is inside the Computer?

6. What are these Components?

7. Computer Components - I
Mother Board
Memory (RAM) (128 mbyte, 256 mbyte, 512 mbyte, 1024 mbyte)
Serial Communications Bus
CPU with math coprocessor and memory cache (512 k byte)
Battery
Clock = counting circuit

8. Computer Components - II
Connections for
Key Board
Mouse
Hard Disk Drive ( Giga byte)
Floppy Drive (2 Mega byte)
Zip Drive (100/250 Mega byte)
CD Rom (650 Mega byte)
DVD (4.7 Giga byte)
Video Card that Drives Monitor (analogue)
Sound Card that Drives Speakers (analogue)
Modem Card (digital)
Ethernet Card(digital)
A-to-D/D-to-A Card = Data Acquisition Card
IEEE bus = external communications

9. Moore’s Law
please see

10. Chip Feature Scaling

11. What does a ChE need to know to work in materials processing?
Materials Nomenclature
Materials are High Purity Chemicals
Silicon = % pure
Structure is Important
Defects in the Structure are Important
Trace Impurities Play a Critical Role
Where they are in the structure is also critical

12. Course Overview Physics of Solids
Materials Properties
Device Physics
Materials Processing of Silicon Chips
Photolithography
Deposition / Etching
Implantation
Planarization

13. Course Overview Chip Devices Limits on Computer speed
Materials’ Properties
Structure – Metals, Oxides, Semi-conductors
Electrical Properties – Metals, Oxides, Semi-conductors
Other Properties – Piezo, magnetic, ferro-electric
Device Physics
Conductor
Resistor
Capacitor
Diode
Transistor
Chip Devices
Structures
Memory
CPU/Switches
Multi-layer Interconnects
barrier layers
Limits on Computer speed

14. Course Overview - Chemical Engineering in Processing of Silicon Chips
Wafer Fabrication
Doping Wafers
Diffusion
Implantation
Patterning
Spin Coating
Photo-resist Development
Photo-resist dissolution
Etching
Deposition
Oxides
Silicon
Metals
Multi-layer Interconnects
Patterning
Deposition
Chemical Mechanical Polishing/Planarization

15. Course Overview - II What Can Go Wrong?
Understanding the electrical problem in terms of chip processing.
Understanding what causes the problem
Developing a solution to the problem
Developing a strategy so that the problem will not occur again.