EE related info required!!

ASMAJ
Sun, 10 Jun 2007 12:42:16 +0000

In layman’s terms, what is the purpose of VLSI.

Went to wiki and got this, but I don’t have the knowledge base to know what it means.



Very-large-scale integration (VLSI) is the process of creating integrated circuits by combining thousands of transistor-based circuits into a single chip. VLSI began in the 1970s when complex semiconductor and communication technologies were being developed. The microprocessor is a VLSI device. The term is no longer as common as it once was, as chips have increased in complexity into the hundreds of millions of transistors.