Chip - Integrated circuit (IC) - microchip

About

A chip is a set of electronic circuits on one small flat piece (the ''chip“) of semiconductor material, normally silicon.

A chip is also known as:

• Integrated circuit
• microchip
• monolithic integrated circuit

Each chip is responsible for a function, e.g.:

• memory controller
• graphic controllers,
• network controller,
• power controller,
• etc.

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Example

The 74HC00 is a chip device composed:

• internally of four 2-input NAND gates
• and externally of 14 pins:
  • 8 input pins (red)
  • 4 output pins (green)
  • 1 pin for connecting to a voltage source (Vcc brown)
  • 1 pin for connecting to the ground. (GND brown)

The chip comes with 4 gates that can be combined to create other logic gates (ie logic function)

Documentation / Reference

• wiki/Integrated_circuit