Introduction
Digital circuit design has evolved rapidly over the last two decades. The earliest digital circuits were designed with transistors and large vacuum tubes. Integrated circuits were then invented where logic gates were placed on a single chip.
Generations of IC:
Technology No. of gate count
Generations of IC:
Technology No. of gate count
- SSI (Small Scale Integration) Few gates
- MSI (Medium Scale Integration) Hundreds of gates
- LSI (Large Scale Integration) Thousands of gates