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Much appreciated! I dont quite know yet which routes to take. I need to understand the ecosystem, manufacturing, different semicodnuctor uses, architecture, man
by allie1 5y ago
Much appreciated! I dont quite know yet which routes to take. I need to understand the ecosystem, manufacturing, different semicodnuctor uses, architecture, manufacturing.
Planning on spending the next two years getting up to speed so I can navigate the field from an investment standpoint
- readingnews 5y agoAhh, well, Rabay and Weste have a short chapter on manufacturing. The Hennessy and Patterson book does as well, albeit shorter. Architecture of semiconductors is going to be Rabay and Weste. Architecture of CPU is going to be H&P book. The ecosystem of it all (packaging, die layout, etc, is going to be in more specific books). Do not forget that although H&P will cover architecture, today architecture is done from the behavioral level down, e.g. they design what they want the chip to do, synthesize that in some Hardware Description Language (HDL, like Verilog or VHDL) and then they have a huge team of engineers who will optimize parts of that, as the synthesis is not totally optimized. Then on top of that, another team of engineers will optimize each component or module for speed by sizing the transistors appropriately. I am going to admit, I know from a hand-waving level end to end manufacturing, so I could not point you at a very good resource for understanding the actual "boots on the ground" process of today's lithography. Again, in Rabaeys 3D IC book there are great sections on the processing of 3D ICs which would give you some insight into the process today. Hope that helps some.
- deepnotderp 5y agoIf you're interested in an investment standpoint check out Asianometry on youtube