CMOS VLSI Design Solutions

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Solutions for CMOS VLSI Design 4th Edition. Last updated 26 March 2010.

Chapter 1

1.1 Starting with 100,000,000 transistors in 2004 and doubling every 26 months for 12

years gives transistors.

1.2 See Figure 1.4 for data through 2009. Some data includes:

Table 1: Microprocessor transistor counts

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1.12 The layout is 40 λ x 40 λ if minimum separation to adjacent metal is considered,