Labels:book | car | earth | fence | person | plant | plaything | remote | road | shelf | sky | stairs | table | windowpane OCR: DIG ITAL NG 5 -3 InfoWet Inte gra ted Circuits Why isn't the system unit filled with a lot of wires? Most the components inside computer are integrated circuits, commonly called chips or microchips An integrated Intecr ec circuit (IC) is thin slice of crystal packed with microscopic circuit elements such as ;wires Circuit: transistors capacitors and resistors Figure 5-2 A single integr ated circui than quarte er-inch square could contain more than one milliOD micro scopic circuit elements chip in ceramic carrier that prov ides connectors to other computer com- ponents Inside of computer you are likely to find sev eral kinds of chip packages in clud- ing DIP SIMM SEC and PGA as shown ir Figure 5-3. Figure 5- Com puter chip ped ages 481.02 DIP (dual in-line (uid) has tvo rove of con SIMM (si ...
