Title :
Interaction of VLSI technology progress with minicomputer product development
Author :
Spencer, Ralph F., Jr.
fDate :
4/1/1979 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The author discusses the interaction of VLSI technology progress with future minicomputer product development over the next five years. He demonstrates how VLSI trends in both cost and performance constitute a technology push generating secondary trends that constrain the direction in which minicomputer product development can proceed. Since a minicomputer system consists basically of a CPU, a primary memory, and an I/O subsystem, the interaction of VLSI technology with each of these subsystems is also discussed.
Keywords :
Computer architecture; Integrated circuit technology; Large scale integration; Minicomputers; computer architecture; integrated circuit technology; large scale integration; minicomputers; Application software; Central Processing Unit; Circuits; Costs; Electronics industry; History; Microcomputers; Paper technology; Product development; Very large scale integration;
Journal_Title :
Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of
DOI :
10.1109/JSSC.1979.1051167
