Homework Number Five

Due Wednesday November 25, 2015

1) Prepare a report comparing the fabrication of a populated circuit board with an integrated circuit.

2) Your supervisor is holding a chip that measures 3x3 inches in one hand, and a bunch of resistors, capacitors, and diodes in the other. They ask you "Someone told me that this thing has 100,000 electric components and is only 0.5in x 0.5inches. I figured this out because they told me they could make 500 of these on a 12 in wafer of Si. OK, how do they get these things (the components) into this (the chip) and I figured they can only get 12 of these (the chips) into a 12in diameter circle. What is going on?" Answer their question.