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The increased complexity available from integrated circuits with passing time has a significant influence on the design of digital computer systems. Integrated circuits (known as chips), where an entire circuit is manufactured in a single piece of silicon, first appeared around 1960. At that time, the chip size and transistor dimensions were such that only a few simple gates offering primitive logic functions such as not, nand, nor etc. could be accommodated; this level of integration is called small scale integration (SSI).
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D. J. Kinniment, ‘Component technology — the next 10 years’, State of the Art Report — Supercomputer Systems Technology, Series 10, No. 6, pp. 317–33, Pergamon, 1982.
W. W. Lattin, J. A. Bayliss, D. L. Budde, J. R. Rattner and W. S. Richardson, ‘A methodology for VLSI chip design’, Lambda (now VLSI Design), No. 2 (1981) pp. 34–44.
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Brackenbury, L.E.M. (1987). Introduction. In: Design of VLSI Systems — A Practical Introduction. Macmillan Computer Science Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18700-3_1
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