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4. Electronic fundamentals

A VLS IC has

  • more than 10,000 gates.
  • less than 1000 gates.
  • more than 1000 gates.

Explanation from PART66Online

Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) denotes integrated circuits packing very high gate counts onto one chip, conventionally in the order of tens of thousands of gates or more, which is why the figure of more than 10,000 gates is correct. Counts around a thousand correspond to the lower MSI/LSI classes, not VLSI.

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Maximillian Reinaldo asked · 29 Sep 2012

VLS IC should be more than 1000 gates , but less than 10000 gates.
It is too many if the gates are more than 10000.

Community Comments (4)

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PART66Online 29 Sep 2012
Hello Maximillian.

You are wrong. Please check this article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergrated_Cir...
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Maximillian Reinaldo 30 Sep 2012
How about this article? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very-large-scal....
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Maximillian Reinaldo 30 Sep 2012
This is the link to refer : customsiliconsolutions.com/asic-solut.... look for the VLSIC term.
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PART66Online 30 Sep 2012
Your first link says same as I told. Quote: "... VLSI in the 1970s and 1980s with tens of thousands of transistors on a single chip (later hundreds of thousands, then millions, and now billions)."

Other links:
webopedia.com/TERM/V/VLSI.html
engineerspath.com/vlsi-very-large-sca...
eolss.net/Sample-Chapters/C05/E6-195-...
...

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