Cashing In On Chips.

Food, shelter and clothing may keep us alive, but to live we need to communicate. From the first awkward gestures and laboured cries to present day sophisticated methods such as cellular telephony and Internet chats - this underlying principle seems to be continuously gaining ground. As footloose individuals seek out new moorings families are stretching out and relationships are spawning across seas. To fill the void of the lack of information, scientists and the infotech industry are converging to conceive new gadgets and technologies. Communication brings information, information boosts know-how, which ultimately churns the wheel of fortune.

A present day fundamental to communication systems is VLSI or Very Large Scale Integration. VLSI is key to the chip that is the beat of every computer's heart, communication systems and all devices that …