Terms Used with Electronic Integrated Circuits

Unfortunately the only simple answer may not help you much, because it depends on how the chip is used. Here you'll find a nice more verbose description and history that the basic difference is if the whole product or function resides on the chip. So a 1 Gigabyte memory chip can be the whole memory of a thumb drive or just one part of a desktop computer. But most silicon produced today, with the exception of what's commonly called discrete are monolithic.

Aha ....... what we are importing most of the time then are not even ICs. We are importing the ICs installed on a printed circuit board (the usually green board). This takes them right out of 8542 and I won't need the gritty details about MOS, BiMOS, DRAM or SDRAM.

Once the ICs are installed on the board they become specific enough to be classifed as parts of what ever they are to be installed in. In customs language a "Printed circuit assembly". An assembly of ICs (8542) on a printed circuit board (8534).

In other words my computer memory card is not an integrated circuit but a computer part.

Or as I explain it to my staff, the circuit board is the map (the green board), the integrated circuits are the houses placed on the map( the black boxy things on the board). Put them together you have neither an IC or a PCB.

Thanks folks just made my life a bit easier.

I'd just add that the integrated circuits "( the black boxy things on the board)" are more like communities of houses.

ASIC's anyone?

Start here:

http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~wylie/ICs/monolith.htm

A good description.

I like to add:

Example below is a hybrid PCB in a sense that it contains different components, monolithic ICs + Passive components.

But exactly here all the components are mounted NOT a single is developed on the PCB.

Completely it should have at least one of the device developed on the PCB & certain mounted.

There on PCB you will see a almost Black Mole Like developement. And this component cannot be replaced.

Have a fine day & a GA from me.

Regards.

I have to correct my statement:

For detailed description please visit Hybrid

Briefly it is:

hybrid

(1) Refers to a myriad of products that combine two or more different technologies. The term more often than not refers to hardware, rather than software

5. Electronics

a.

(of a circuit) consisting of transistors and valves

b.

(of an integrated circuit) consisting of one or more fully integrated circuits and other components, attached to a ceramic substrate

Collins Discovery Encyclopedia, 1st edition © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

Conclusion:

In which 2 or more technologies are used. such as:

Chip-on-Board (COB), Flip Chip, Ball Grid Array (BGA, Wire-Bonding and more.

I see nothing wrong with the statement, "Happy New Year to all those using that calender".

I see plenty wrong with your outrageous statement.

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