This document provides a history of electronics and discusses key topics such as vacuum tubes, CMOS technology, diodes, LEDs, gates, digital signal processing, MOSFETs, microprocessors, VLSI, 3D transistors, and Moore's law. It also describes application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) which are customized for specific uses and often contain entire microprocessors and memory blocks. Finally, it discusses field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) which contain an array of programmable logic blocks that can be configured and interconnected by customers using a hardware description language.