The document discusses input/output (I/O) circuits and packaging for integrated circuits. It begins by describing how chips are connected to the outside world via I/O circuits, bonding wires, and packages. It then discusses the main properties and requirements of packages, including electrical characteristics, number of I/O pins, and thermal properties. The document outlines different packaging technologies like wire bonding and flip chip packaging. It also discusses I/O circuit requirements and different types of I/O cells like digital I/O buffers and analog I/O cells. Finally, it briefly introduces system-in-package technologies that integrate multiple silicon chips or dies into a single package using techniques like multi-chip modules, silicon interposers,
22. The Chip Hall of Fame
• Most chips are covered by a package.
But that was not exactly the case for the
• The chip that brought digital photography outside the lab.
• The imager of the DCS 100, the first commercially available DSLR.
• Release date: 1991 Technology: CCD
• Resolution: 1.3 MegaPixel
• Initial cost of Kodak DCS 100: $25,000
• The image sensor was mounted on a Nikon F3 Body.
• Required a 5kg external data storage unit that users
had to carry on a shoulder strap.
• Had a 200MB HDD that could store 156 images
2017 Inductee to the IEEE Chip Hall of Fame
Source: Kodak
Source: Kodak