Vacuum Tube Amplifiers
Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer (ENIAC) Built by the US Army in ,468 vacuum tubes! Computer programs used to actually contain bugs!
The First Solid-state Trasistor Invented at Bell Labs in 1947 by John Bardeen, Walter Houser Brattain, and William Bradford Shockley
Integrated Circuits (I.C.s) Solid state transistors can be fabricated en masse on a silicon substrate!
Integrated Circuits (I.C.s)
Moore’s Law We can print over 1 billion transistors on a single chip!
Operational Amplifier Circuit
Integrated Circuits (I.C.s) Wafers are diced up and packaged as IC chips. DIP – “Dual inline package”
Silicon IC chips are encased in plastic. Can be treated as a “Black Box”. Integrated Circuits
Modern Accelerometers “interdigitated” electrodes 3-axis gyro from an iPhone 4 Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) have largely replace gyroscopes for intertial measurements.