What is the function of integrated circuit?
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An integrated circuit (IC), sometimes called a chip or microchip, is a semiconductor wafer on which a thousand or millions of tiny resistors, capacitors, and transistors are fabricated. An IC can be a function as an amplifier, oscillator, timer, counter, computer memory, or microprocessor. An exact IC is categorized as either linear (analog) or digital depending on its future application. Integrated circuits distorted all that. The fundamental idea was to obtain a complete circuit, with lots of components and the connections between them, and reconstruct the whole thing in a microscopically tiny form on the surface of a piece of silicon.
The function of the integrated circuit chip is to replace many separate electronic components that could have been used to build a particular electronic circuit. Most of those separate components are replaced by just one tiny IC chip that has been manufactured (“fabricated” is the correct technical word) to include extremely miniature circuits that imitate the behavior of all those separate components.
The current development trend of electronic technology is the diversification of functions and miniaturization. Only the larger circuits are packaged in a small chip, and the circuit composed of the latter several chips can meet the rich electronic function requirements and save the assembly space as much as possible.