第1页共10页编号：时间：2021年x月x日书山有路勤为径，学海无涯苦作舟页码：第1页共10页IntegratedCircuits(集成电路)TheIntegratedCircuitDigitallogicandelectroniccircuitsderivetheirfunctionalityfromelectronicswitchescalledtransistor.Roughlyspeaking,thetransistorcanbelikenedtoanelectronicallycontrolledvalvewherebyenergyappliedtooneconnectionofthevalveenablesenergytoflowbetweentwootherconnections.Bycombiningmultipletransistors,digitallogicbuildingblockssuchasANDgatesandflip-flopsareformed.Transistors,inturn,aremadefromsemiconductors.Consultaperiodictableofelementsinacollegechemistrytextbook,andyouwilllocatesemiconductorsasagroupofelementsseparatingthemetalsandnonmetals.Theyarecalledsemiconductorsbecauseoftheirabilitytobehaveasbothmetalsandnonmetals.Asemiconductorcanbemadetoconductelectricitylikeametalortoinsulateasanonmetaldoes.Thesedifferingelectricalpropertiescanbeaccuratelycontrolledbymixingthesemiconductorwithsmallamountsofotherelements.Thismixingiscalleddoping.Asemiconductorcanbedopedtocontainmoreelectrons(N-type)orfewerelectrons(P-type).Examplesofcommonlyusedsemiconductorsaresiliconandgermanium.PhosphorousandboronaretwoelementsthatareusedtodopeN-typeandP-typesilicon,respectively.Atransistorisconstructedbycreatingasandwichofdifferentlydopedsemiconductorlayers.Thetwomostcommontypesoftransistors,thebipolar-junctiontransistor(BJT)andthefield-effecttransistor(FET)areschematicallyillustratedinFigure2.1.Thisfigureshowsboththesiliconstructuresoftheseelementsandtheirgraphicalsymbolicrepresentationaswouldbeseeninacircuitdiagram.TheBJTshownisanNPNtransistor,becauseitiscomposedofasandwichofN-P-Ndopedsilicon.Whenasmallcurrentisinjectedintothebaseterminal,alargercurrentisenabledtoflowfromthecollectortotheemitter.TheFETshownisanN-channelFET,whichiscomposedoftwoN-typeregionsseparatedbyaP-typesubstrate.Whenavoltageisappliedtotheinsulatedgateterminal,acurrentisenabledtoflowfromthedraintothesource.ItiscalledN-channel,becausethegatevoltageinducesanN-channelwithinthesubstrate,enablingcurrenttoflowbetweentheN-regions.Anotherbasicsemiconductorstructureisadiode,whichisformedsimplybyajunctionofN-typeandP-typesilicon.Diodesactlikeone-wayvalvesbyconductingcurrentonlyfromPtoN.Specialdiodescanbecreatedthatemitlightwhenavoltageisapplied.Appropriatelyenough,thesecomponentsarecalledlightemittingdiodes,orLEDs.Thesesmalllightsaremanufacturedbythemillionsandarefoundindiverseapplicationsfromtelephonestotrafficlights.Theresultingsmallchipofsemiconductormaterialonwhichatransistorordiodeisfabricatedcanbeencasedinasmallplasticpackageforprotectionagainstdamageandcontaminationfromtheoutsideworld.Smallwiresareconnectedwithinthispackagebetweenthesemiconductorsandwichandpinsthatprotrudefromthepackagetomakeelectricalcontactwithotherpartsoftheintendedcircuit.Onceyouhaveseveraldiscretetransistors,digitallogiccanbebuiltbydirectlywiringthese第2页共10页第1页共10页编号：时间：2021年x月x日书山有路勤为径，学海无涯苦作舟页码：第2页共10页componentstogether.Thecircuitwillfunction,butanysubstantialamountofdigitallogicwillbeverybulky,becauseseveraltransistorsarerequiredtoimplementeachofthevarioustypesoflogicgates.Atthetimeoftheinventionofthetransistorin1947byJohnBardeen,WalterBrattain,andWilliamShockley,theonlywaytoassemblemultipletransistorsintoasinglecircuitwastobuyseparatediscretetransistorsandwirethemtogether.In1959,JackKilbya...
