Talk:Very-large-scale integration

message: Could someone put a list of popular layout software tools? Thanks.
66.75.49.213 23:06, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Some tools are listed near the end of the electronic design automation article. Should this VLSI article mention that that article has the tools? --75.37.227.177 14:26, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

text: one such tool, open source, HERB, is in development by Alliance VLSI project , may not be usable, but its a start. HERB  --Gartral (talk) 06:06, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  tools 

message: The VHSIC article currently claims "VHSIC" is another, less common, name for "VLSI".
So I think they should all be in the same article, like Puma and Mountain Lion are both in the same article.
--75.37.227.177 14:16, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No, that's not what it claims.  VHSIC is a much more narrow term referring to a specific US government program.  There's probably enough info out there to write an adequate article on it, but it should not be attempted as part of the VLSI article. Dicklyon 15:37, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

text: See for example this book, or this. Dicklyon 15:40, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  merge 

message: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Custom Integrated Circuit Conference WLU (talk) 22:20, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Note 

message: I've added a section for the challenges faced by current VLSI designers. If someone can tidy up and elaborate on this, it'd be great. Fire (talk) 20:05, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Challenges 

message: Article says:
Now known retrospectively as "small-scale integration" (SSI), improvements in technique led to devices with hundreds of logic gates, known as large-scale integration (LSI), i.e. systems with at least a thousand logic gates.
Pretty bad sentence. To fix it, need to know which is LSI: hundreds of gates or thousands?
60.240.207.146 (talk) 02:47, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed, that's AFU.  The version from a few years ago had it a bit better (LSI = thousands). Here is the diff where it got mangled by User:Maury Markowitz. Dicklyon (talk) 05:30, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  LSI 

message: In the Structured Design section, the name of hardware description language mentioned, KARL, had been a link.  However, it linked to the page KARL, which appears to be a radio station.  I removed the link, but I don't know enough about the topic to know if KARL is the wrong name, or if there's a place on Wikipedia that this should link to.  Someone might want to look at. --129.2.218.250 (talk) 03:59, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  KARL 

message: The article linked for abutment primarily discusses this term in reference to civil engineering and architecture (possibly dentistry?), making it potentially unclear at first glance as to the meaning in an electrical engineering context.
208.85.190.19 (talk) 00:50, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  wiring by abutment 

message: As frequent in many wikipedia articles, the above plugs several products and never once describes the thing of it's topic.
VLSI (very large scale integration) was the very next step after LSI, with no in-betweens.  A worker in a U.S.A. chip factory, with no college degree or formal study (though a self studied factory worker, as many were at the time), invented VLSI (excuse me i cannot remember his name).
He worked on the factory floor where part of his job was to to skip a pool of hot liquid silicon with a bar or rod (much like iron factory practice do).
He knew by company information the limit of the number of transisitors on the chip (LSI) was directly related to the purity of the silicon.  LSI allowed perhaps a few thousand of transistors at best.  His discovery was that if sinusoidal waves "wave tank" were made in the hot liquid tank of silicon that impurities would gradually be trasported (and removable).  Impurities impossible for a rude instrument dragged across the top to remove, impurities impossible to see.  He had learned this trick from working in another factory where he learned the technique was used in an unrelated non-metal product - and was smart enough to realize it applied to liquid silicon - and infact it did.
Almost immediately the company was able to put millions of transistors on this newly pure silicon and it was dubbed "VLSI" (compared to only a few thousand for LSI, a major notable leap).  There was not any articles at the time which did not mention this man or his invention as the beginning of VLSI.  One might see old Harvard vector VLSI circuit software whose README (documentation) mention it passingly, one might see an article on it on a BBS; it was pervasive knowlege at the time.
Because he was employed by the company, the company owned the patent, though he did receive appluad and some benefits for the discovery.  Apparently not in wikipedia historic rewrites, not yet.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.219.202.186 (talk) 17:37, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  criticism 

message: The leap to VLSI was by an "un-educated" floor worker in the VLI factory (Texax).  From experience in another factory (molten metal work) he realized that producing waves in the alreayd molten Silicon tank, and skimming, removes move contaminants than skimming alone.  The purity gained allowed many times the transistors as previous
the above was common knowlege in the 80's - people talked allot about VLSI back then when it was new
another source, publicized TV with images of the factory floor worker was on:
"James Burke - How The Universe Changed" (tail of the series).  now so you know i'm not pulling this out of a hat let me explain the series and why the above was in the series...
the series surveys major inventions man relies on (ie, nylon), when and who did it: often citing that who created it discovered one of the most "necessary" inventions by luck (and *realized* it), while most of the rest were discovered by scientists who were looking for something and found it by mistake.  The series end by an investigation into how deeply man is dependant upon "chips and software" for survival of the masses and caps off the series with a foreboding warning about reliance upon something which may be attacked or fail.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.219.204.96 (talk) 23:02, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: information was deleted from article

message: previously i added a short note about VLSI and that it was a floor worker who caused the great leap from LSI to VLSI (a several time the transitor factor jump and sorely needed at the time) (he was not well compensated, as he was employed when he found it, company kept the discovery)
LSI is NOT the same as VLSI they are several factors of transistors apart, and the "discovery" was years apart and not by the same person  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.219.204.96 (talk) 23:08, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
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message: A lot of new engineers consider 'VLSI' to be an outdated term because the techniques it refers to are now for methods of stacking SMALLER groups of transistors than maximally allowed with other tech. Should there be a section about that? CessnaMan1989 (talk) 15:54, 12 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Outdated Term?