A good book that covers device modeling and design for both CMOS and bipolar VLSI devices is "Fundamentals of Modern VLSI Devices" by Yuan Tar and Tak Ning. It doesn't cover fabrication much but it does a great job of introducing the various electrical effects that modern process integration engineers have to deal with. For a more process-oriented approach there is always Andy Grove's book "Physics and Technology of Semiconductor Devices."
I suppose big is a relative term, but if your K6-II solves differential equations faster than you desire then your system can't be *that* big. I've run semiconductor process simulations that took 2 hours on a SunBlade 2000...
Also, I must defend the memory manufacturers: there is a tremendous amount of R&D that goes into RAM every year. The focus is just on density rather than speed.
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A good book that covers device modeling and design for both CMOS and bipolar VLSI devices is "Fundamentals of Modern VLSI Devices" by Yuan Tar and Tak Ning. It doesn't cover fabrication much but it does a great job of introducing the various electrical effects that modern process integration engineers have to deal with. For a more process-oriented approach there is always Andy Grove's book "Physics and Technology of Semiconductor Devices."
It looks like XFce to me.
I just have to point out: 1 femtometer is about 10000 times smaller than the nominal "diameter" of a hydrogen atom.
Buy who knows, maybe we will have superstring transistors in the future.
What could be more trendy than Gentoo right now?
Who gets to define what things are more important in each of our lives? Not you I think...
I suppose big is a relative term, but if your K6-II solves differential equations faster than you desire then your system can't be *that* big. I've run semiconductor process simulations that took 2 hours on a SunBlade 2000...
Also, I must defend the memory manufacturers: there is a tremendous amount of R&D that goes into RAM every year. The focus is just on density rather than speed.