Introduction - If you have any usage issues, please Google them yourself
The semiconductor industry has a proven track record of quickly reducing
reference to IC design scale to the ridiculously irrelevant. We, as a group,
quickly saturated our terminology to refer to levels of integration as we
applied the term "Large Scale Integration" (LSI) in the mid 80 s to chips
containing more than 1,000 transistors and moved to the more progressive
"Very Large Scale" (VLSI) as we passed into the 10,000 to 100,000
transistor territory only a year or two later. A few more attempts at renaming
our design output with terms such as ULSI (Ultra-Large Scale Integration)
were fortunately left in the annals of history as the more insightful realized
that the consequences of Moore s Law would quickly require us to move
beyond the confines of the English language to create appropriate
superlatives.