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Across
- 4. Electrical potential difference driving current
- 7. Component used to store data
- 9. Physical arrangement of transistors and wires on a chip
- 10. Technique that processes multiple instructions in stages
- 13. Fundamental building block of modern electronics
- 14. Technology generation, often named by feature size (e.g., 5 nm)
- 15. Circular slice of silicon used to manufacture chips
- 16. Material with conductivity between conductor and insulator
- 18. Unwanted resistances and capacitances in a circuit
- 19. Flow of electric charge
- 21. Electrical representation of data
- 22. Circuit element that stores one bit of information
- 24. Path through which electrical current flows
Down
- 1. Energy consumption of a circuit
- 2. Basic unit that performs operations like AND, OR, and NOT
- 3. Process used to pattern features onto a chip using light
- 5. Complete electronic system fabricated on a single piece of silicon
- 6. Protective casing that connects a chip to the outside world
- 8. Most widely used material for chip fabrication
- 11. Delay between input and output
- 12. Common transistor type used in digital chips
- 17. Tiny piece of silicon that powers your phone or laptop
- 20. Signal that synchronizes operations in a digital system
- 23. “Brain” of a computer that executes instructions