Integrated Circuits

ALSO CALLED: Framers, MAC, Media Access Controllers, SERDES (Serializer/Deserializer), and IC
DEFINITION:

An integrated circuit (IC), sometimes called a chip or microchip, is a semiconductor wafer on which thousands or millions of tiny resistors, capacitors, and transistors are fabricated. An IC can function as an amplifier,  … 
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INTEGRATED CIRCUITS DEFINITION (continued): …  oscillator, timer, counter, computer memory, or microprocessor. A particular IC is categorized as either linear (analog) or digital, depending on its intended application.

Linear ICs have continuously variable output (theoretically capable of attaining an infinite number of states) that depends on the input signal level. As the term implies, the output signal level is a linear function of the input signal level. Ideally, … 
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