page_title: IBM Solid Logic Technology
hierarchical_section_title: IBM Solid Logic Technology
caption_attribution_description: Solid Logic Technology card-holding board en:IBM en:computers in the en:System/360 era used en:hybrid circuits instead of the then new en:integrated circuits. IBM called this Solid Logic Technology (SLT). This photo shows a board from an en:IBM 1800 full of SLT printed circuit cards. The hybrid circuits are in the square metal cans. This photo was taken by Mike Ross of corestore.org . He has given permission via email: "Feel free to make use of ... my pictures under the GNU license. All I ask is that they are credited &amp; linked...]. --agr 18:55, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
context_page_description: Solid Logic Technology was IBM's method for packaging electronic circuitry introduced in 1964 with the IBM System/360 series and related machines. IBM chose to design custom hybrid circuits using discrete, flip chip-mounted, glass-encapsulated transistors and diodes, with silk screened resistors on a ceramic substrate, forming an SLT module. The circuits were either encapsulated in plastic or covered with a metal lid. Several of these SLT modules were then mounted on a small multi-layer printed circuit board to make an SLT card. Each SLT card had a socket on one edge that plugged into pins on the computer's backplane.
  IBM considered monolithic integrated circuit technology too immature at the time. SLT was a revolutionary technology for 1964, with much higher circuit densities and improved reliability over earlier packaging techniques such as the Standard Modular System. It helped propel the IBM System/360 mainframe family to overwhelming success during the 1960s. SLT research produced ball chip assembly, wafer bumping, trimmed thick film resistors, printed discrete functions, chip capacitors and one of the first volume uses of hybrid thick-film technology.
context_section_description: Solid Logic Technology (SLT) was IBM's method for packaging electronic circuitry introduced in 1964 with the IBM System/360 series and related machines. IBM chose to design custom hybrid circuits using discrete, flip chip-mounted, glass-encapsulated transistors and diodes, with silk screened resistors on a ceramic substrate, forming an SLT module. The circuits were either encapsulated in plastic or covered with a metal lid. Several of these SLT modules (20 in the image on the right) were then mounted on a small multi-layer printed circuit board to make an SLT card. Each SLT card had a socket on one edge that plugged into pins on the computer's backplane (the exact reverse of how most other companies' modules were mounted).
  IBM considered monolithic integrated circuit technology too immature at the time. SLT was a revolutionary technology for 1964, with much higher circuit densities and improved reliability over earlier packaging techniques such as the Standard Modular System. It helped propel the IBM System/360 mainframe family to overwhelming success during the 1960s. SLT research produced ball chip assembly,  wafer bumping, trimmed thick film resistors, printed discrete functions, chip capacitors and one of the first volume uses of hybrid thick-film technology.
  SLT replaced the earlier Standard Modular System, although some later SMS cards held SLT modules.
caption: An SLT card frame. Image from corestore.org.
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