Features / IC
　　BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Integrated circuits, or microcircuits, microchips, and chips are a form of electronics that miniaturize circuits (mainly semiconductor devices, passive components, etc.), and are usually manufactured in Semiconductor wafer surface.
　　The aforementioned integrated circuit, which is used to fabricate a circuit on the surface of a semiconductor chip, is also called a thin-film integrated circuit. Another kind of thick-film hybrid integrated circuit (hybrid integrated circuit) is composed of independent semiconductor devices and passive components, integrated into 　　the substrate or circuit board composed of miniaturization circuit.
　　This article is about monolithic integrated circuits, thin film integrated circuits.
　　Integrated circuit has the advantages of small volume, light weight, less lead wire and welding point, long life, high reliability, good performance, etc., and low cost, and is convenient for large-scale production. It is widely used not only in industry, civil electronic equipment, such as tape recorders, televisions, computers, but also in the military, communications, remote control, also widely used. With the integrated circuit to the assembly of electronic equipment, the assembly density than the transistor can improve a few times to several thousand times, the equipment can also greatly improve the stability of working hours.