Gaadz Spiro, you're making me work pretty hard today, and I thought I was on bloody vacation this week <GRIN>
Most of the stuff on chips is transistors. These are made by putting very small bits of impurities on to very pure silicon wafers. these impurities make the silicon become a semi conductor, it will pass current better in one direction than another. This is now a days done down at the micron level, one micrometer per transistor or other feature. they do do resistors and capacitors but I don't think many inductors. Inductors can be simulated by doing strips of copper on printed boards, just like a coil in two dimentions, or more likely two strips close together will appear like an inductor or capacitor. but most of it is transistors and resistors. computer or other digital chiips are nearly all gates, and, or and so on and circuits made up from those basic components and those only need transistors and resistors. it's all done under very high magnification and by dribbling or electrically depositing small amounts of impurities on the pure silicon. tom Net-Tamer V 1.13 Beta - Registered
