Background information

• The wonderful Fullman Kinetics web-site, documenting the semiconductor process, has unfortunately been taken off-line. Some other web-sites provide great overviews as well.

  • "How chips are made" - from Intel Education

  • Microelectronics 101 at IBM Microelectronics

  • History of Intel's Microprocessors - from Intel

  • Fabrication of pn diode, from Education Applets in Solid State Materials, Center for Active Learning of Microelectronics and Photonics at SUNY Buffalo

• A full grab-bag of simulation applets from the Educational Java Applet Service (JAS) at SUNY Buffalo. Covers mostly semiconductor devices, but also inverters, memories, etc.

• Phil Restle's home page. Contains great animations of transmission line effects, clock and power distribution networks, etc.

Home Pages of Related Courses around the World

• eecs 141 (Digital Integrated Circuits) and eecs 241 (Advanced Digital Integrated Circuits) at UC Berkeley