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| Term | Definition |
| Semiconductor | (Also "microchip," "chip," "integrated circuit" or "IC"). Components that provide the memory, logic and virtually all other intelligence functions in today's electronic systems. |
| Simulation | Simulating a chip design through software programs that use models to replicate how a device will perform in terms of timing and results. |
| Synthesis | The process by which a designer is able to fully automate the contents of an IC design. Today's chip designs have millions of switches. An engineer cannot possibly design all of these gates with pencil and paper. Companies such as Synopsys create software tools, called synthesis, that fully automate the creation of these switches -- making possible the design of semiconductors. |
| System-on-a-Chip (SoC) | Combining several chips with different functions onto one, single chip. |
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