Transistor countThe transistor count is the number of transistors in an electronic device (typically on a single substrate or "chip"). It is the most common measure of integrated circuit complexity (although the majority of transistors in modern microprocessors are contained in the cache memories, which consist mostly of the same memory cell circuits replicated many times). The rate at which MOS transistor counts have increased generally follows Moore's law, which observed that the transistor count doubles approximately every two years.
Semiconductor memorySemiconductor memory is a digital electronic semiconductor device used for digital data storage, such as computer memory. It typically refers to devices in which data is stored within metal–oxide–semiconductor (MOS) memory cells on a silicon integrated circuit memory chip. There are numerous different types using different semiconductor technologies. The two main types of random-access memory (RAM) are static RAM (SRAM), which uses several transistors per memory cell, and dynamic RAM (DRAM), which uses a transistor and a MOS capacitor per cell.
Combinational logicIn automata theory, combinational logic (also referred to as time-independent logic or combinatorial logic ) is a type of digital logic which is implemented by Boolean circuits, where the output is a pure function of the present input only. This is in contrast to sequential logic, in which the output depends not only on the present input but also on the history of the input. In other words, sequential logic has memory while combinational logic does not.
Entrée-sortieDans un système à base de processeur, de microprocesseur, de microcontrôleur ou d'automate, on appelle entrée-sortie toute interface permettant d’échanger des données entre le processeur et les périphériques qui lui sont associés. De la sorte, le système peut réagir à des modifications de son environnement, voire le contrôler. Elles sont parfois désignées par l'acronyme I/O, issu de l'anglais Input/Output ou encore E/S pour entrée/sortie. Dans un système d'exploitation : les entrées sont les données envoyées par un périphérique (disque, réseau, clavier, capteur.