Hitchhikers' Guide to Electronics in the '90s (eBook)

David Manners (Autor)

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2013 | 1. Auflage
224 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-1-4831-0525-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Hitchhikers Guide to Electronics in the '90s covers the advances in electronics in a historical context, the microchip technology, which is at the heart of all technological advances, and the major industrial electronics power houses. The book tackles what's most interesting about electronics, such as the democratizing effects of technology, profits in electronics, and the importance of electronics, and then defines terminologies related to the componentry of the electronics industry. The text discusses the beneficiaries of electronics and the sectors of the electronics industry (i.e. computers, consumers, telecommunications, industrial, transportation, and military). The issues in chip technology including the importance of chips; vast cost of chip research and development and production; effect of erratic chip supplies on equipment companies; East/West imbalance in chip production; and the American and Japanese approaches to chip-making are also considered. The book concludes by describing the trends in electronics for the '90s, including the innovation, development, and rock-bottom cost of the technology. Students of electronics engineering and practicing electronics engineers will find this book useful.

Inhalt

Front Cover 1
Hitchhikers' Guide To Electronics in the ' 90s 2
Copyright Page 3
Table of Contents 4
FOREWORD 7
CHAPTER 1. WHAT'S INTERESTING ABOUT ELECTRONICS? 8
THE DEMOCRATISING EFFECTS OFTECHNOLOGY 11
ELECTRONICS PRODUCTS OF THEFUTURE 12
PROFITS IN ELECTRONICS 14
THE INTERNATIONAL RACE FOR ELECTRONICS LEADERSHIP 16
THE IMPORTANCE OF ELECTRONICS 22
CHAPTER 2. WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT? 24
THE BIRTH OF ELECTRICITY 29
THE AGE OF ELECTRONICS 30
CHAPTER 3. WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN? 40
ACTIVES AND PASSIVES 43
CONDUCTORS, INSULATORS AND SEMICONDUCTORS 43
BITS AND BYTES 45
MILLI, MICRO, NANO, AND PICO 46
Hz, KHz, MHz, GHz 47
AMPS/VOLTS 47
FARAD 47
BIPOLAR AND MOS (metal oxide semiconductor) 47
BICMOS 48
LOGIC AND MEMORY AND LINEAR CHIPS 48
RAMS AND ROMS 49
VOLATILE AND NON-VOLATILE 49
STATIC RAMS AND DYNAMIC RAMS 49
PROMS AND EPROMS 50
E2PROMS AND FLASH 50
LOW POWER SCHOTTKY 50
MICROPROCESSORS AND MICROCONTROLLERS 51
CUSTOM AND SEMI-CUSTOM (generically known as ASICs) 51
GATE ARRAY AND STANDARD CELL 52
PALS, GALS AND PLDS 52
WAFERS, DIES AND PACKAGES 53
PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD 53
SURFACE MOUNT TECHNOLOGY 54
HYBRID CIRCUIT 54
INTEGRATION 55
SUBSTRATE 57
DISPLAYS 57
A SUMMARY OF COMPONENTRY 58
Chapter 4. Where does it all go? 62
COMPUTERS 64
CONSUMERS 69
TELECOMMUNICATIONS 71
INDUSTRIAL 77
TRANSPORTATION 79
MILITARY 80
CHAPTER 4. WHERE DOES IT ALL GO? 62
COMPUTERS 64
CONSUMERS 69
TELECOMMUNICATIONS 71
INDUSTRIAL 77
TRANSPORTATION 79
MILITARY 80
CHAPTER 5. WHAT'S THE CHIP BUSINESS ALL ABOUT? (PART 1) 82
THE CHIP 83
HOW DID THE JAPANESE DO IT? 90
THE SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY AND THE AMERICANS 90
THE SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY AND THE JAPANESE 99
THE CHANGES IN THE STRUCTURE OF THE CHIP INDUSTRY 102
CHAPTER 6. WHAT'S THE CHIP BUSINESS ALL ABOUT? (PART 2) 104
THE SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY ANDTHE EUROPEANS 105
GERMANY 108
FRANCE 109
BRITAIN 112
HOLLAND 114
ITALY 116
A SUMMARY OF EUROPE'S INVOLVEMENT IN THE CHIP INDUSTRY 118
THE SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY AND ASIA/PACIFIC 118
TAIWAN 123
HONG KONG 126
SINGAPORE 127
THE PHILIPPINES 129
MALAYSIA 130
OTHER COUNTRIES IN THE SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY 130
CHAPTER 7. WHO ARE THE PLAYERS? 132
THE BIGGEST WORLDWIDE COMPANIES 133
COMPUTERS 136
COMMUNICATIONS 138
CONSUMERS 140
COMPONENTS 142
CHAPTER 8. WHERE DOES IT ALL HAPPEN? 150
AMERICA 151
JAPAN 153
WEST GERMANY 155
FRANCE 155
BRITAIN 157
ITALY 158
KOREA 159
TAIWAN 160
SINGAPORE 160
HOLLAND 161
CANADA 162
BRAZIL 162
SWITZERLAND 163
SWEDEN 163
HONG KONG 164
BELGIUM 164
SPAIN 165
INDIA 165
SOUTHERN IRELAND 166
MALAYSIA 167
THE REST OF THE WORLD 167
CHAPTER 9. WHERE ARE WE ALL GOING? 168
OPEN SYSTEMS 169
TRON - A New Japanese Operating System 174
COMPATIBILITY 174
THE CONVERGENCE OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND COMPUTING 176
GLOBALISATION 177
TRANS-BORDER TAKE OVERS AND MERGERS 177
THE DECLINE OF DEFENCE ELECTRONICS 178
SYSTEMS ON CHIPS 179
MULTIPROCESSING 180
NETWORKING AND THE DECLINE OF THE MAINFRAME 181
THE RISE OF THE CORDLESS TELEPHONE 182
THE PRE-EMINENCE OF SOFTWARE 182
TRANSPORTABILITY 184
DEMOCRATISING EFFECT OF TECHNOLOGY 185
CHAPTER 10. WHAT'S IN IT FOR ME? 188
HOW TO BECOME A MILLIONAIRE 189
WHAT THE TECHNOLOGY/PRICE TRENDS ARE AND HOW TO PREDICT THEM 190
DEVELOPMENTS IN KEY COMPONENT TECHNOLOGIES 192
CHANGES IN MICROPROCESSORS 196
THE REPLACEMENT SCREEN 197
IMPROVEMENT IN THE BATTERY 199
CD-ROMs AND THEIR FUTURE 200
CHAPTER 11. WHERE WILL IT ALL END? 204
WILL SUPERCONDUCTIVITY TAKEOVER? 206
THE BUG AS AN ALTERNATIVE 207
OPTICAL COMPUTING 208
WILL THE DOMINATION BY JAPANCONTINUE? 209
NEW POTENTIAL ELECTRONICSMARKETS FOR THE WEST 211
THE GOLDEN AGE OF ELECTRONICS? 213
Index 214

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.10.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Bauwesen
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
• ISBN-10: 1-4831-0525-3 / 1483105253
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4831-0525-3 / 9781483105253