Special seminex 1981 edition semiconductors and microprocessors

Microelectrom Reltgb., Vol. 21, No. 6, p.767, 1981 Printedin Great Britain

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EDITORIAL SPECIAL

SEMINEX

SEMICONDUCTOR

S AND

1981 E D I T I O N MICR OPR OCESSOR

A s last year, an a r r a n g e m e n t has been m a d e SEMINEX

between the organisers of

'81 and this Journal to publish s o m e of the papers read at the S e m i n e x '81

S e m i n a r s held at the D e p a r t m e n t of Mechanical Engineering, London,

S

on 23rd - Z7th M a r c h ,

Imperial College,

1981.

T h e S e m i n e x Technical S e m i n a r s and Exhibition are held annually in L o n d o n and cover international semiconductor technology.

This year the five all-day

s e m i n a r s reflected semiconductor technology's importance to industry and c o m m e r c e by covering m i c r o p r o c e s s o r s DAY

and also a specific area each day as follows :-

1 :

Power

semiconductor applications.

Linear devices and applications. DAY

Z :

Microprocessor

development systems.

Optoelectronics and displays. Custom DAY

3 :

ICs - I.

Software. Hybrids. Custom

DAY

4 :

ICs - H.

V L S I devices. Memories.

DAY 5 :

Devices and systems

near and future.

Speech synthesis. Papers

or their abstracts

be of i n t e r e s t to r e a d e r s issue.

selected from the Sessions which are considered to

of " M i c r o e l e c t r o n i c s

and Reliability" are included in this

It m u s t b e p o i n t e d o u t t h a t t h e p a p e r s w e r e p r i m a r i l y

prepared

for reading

and can no doubt be supplemented by the authors if desired. It i s h o p e d t h a t t h i s s p e c i a l i s s u e w i l l b e f o u n d of i n t e r e s t .

G.W.A. Dummer EDITOR -IN-CHIEF.

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