Specialist Reading
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 501.
18. Read the text ‘Integrated Circuits' and fill in the table.
| Phenomenon | Definition |
| Integrated Circuit | |
| Pin number | |
| IC holder | |
| Antistatic bags for ICs |
Integrated Circuits are usually called ICs or chips. They are complex circuits which have been etched onto tiny chips of semiconductor (silicon). The chip is packaged in a plastic holder with pins spaced on a 0.1" (2.54mm) grid which will fit the holes on stripboard and breadboards. Very fine wires inside the package link the chip to the pins.
Pin numbers
The pins are numbered anti-clockwise around the IC (chip) starting near the notch or dot. The diagram shows the numbering for 8-pin and 14-pin ICs, but the principle is the same for all sizes.
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