The Electronic Design Automation Handbook

When I attended college we studied vacuum tubes in our junior year. At that time an average radio had five vacuum tubes and better ones even seven. Then transistors appeared in 1960s. A good radio was judged to be one with more thententransistors. Later good radios had 15–20 transistors and after that everyone stopped counting transistors. Today modern processors runing personal computers have over 10 million transistors and more millions will be added every year. The difference between 20 ...