From jacobson@cns.uni.edu Thu Jan 13 11:10:10 2011 Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:10:10 -0600 (CST) From: Mark Jacobson To: 810-023-01-spring@uni.edu Subject: Moore's law ... Honey, I shrunk the transistors... Hi 023 students, Moore's Law on doubling the number of transistors... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Transistor_Count_and_Moore%27s_Law_-_2008.svg --------------------------------------------------------------------------- More about Moore's Law and the "Honey I Shrunk the Transistors" drama. Wow, I shrunk the transistors so much we can now have the entire CPU of the computer on a single chip, on a single Integrated Circuit. That is truly a very small CPU, a very micro sized processor. 4th generation of computers: A new generation is declared and named the Microprocessor generation. DOUBLING sheets of paper. DOUBLING transistors one one chip by reducing the size of each transistor and the distance needed to connect them. EXPONENTIAL GROWTH. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Assignment due on Tuesday (day after the Martin Luther King holiday) at the beginning of class: One page of notes, ideas, confusions, drawings, definitions or whatever from your study and reading of the TIC (Tiny Imaginary Computer) handouts. You can have more than one page if you wish, but one side of one sheet is the minimum. Mark