WEEK 1 LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Day 1

• State the importance of the transistor discovery.
• State the year that the transistor was first demonstrated successfully.
• Describe the principle control difference between bipolar junction transistors and field-effect transistors.
• State Lilienfeld's fundamental principle of the field effect.
• Describe how the complexity of FET fabrication allowed bipolar junction transistors to dominate early IC technology.
• Draw the simple geometry diagram of MOSFET transistor.
• Describe the basic operation of a MOSFET transistor.
• Justify the dominance of MOSFET technology in todays semiconductor market.
• Define integration density.
• State Moore's Law.
• State the classic levels of integration in terms of gates per chip.
• Summarize semiconductor technology trends in processor and memory transistor density, clock speed, and power consumption.

Day 2

• Draw the passive pull-up, passive pull-down, and fully-active inverter configurations.
• Draw the passive pull-up configuration as a resistor-transistor logic inverter.
• Draw the active pull-up configuration as a CMOS inverter.
• Describe how the passive and active inverter configurations can be extended to implement NAND and NOR functionality.
• State the number of transistors in standard n-input CMOS gates.