microcircuitry
Americannoun
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a detailed plan of an integrated circuit or a network of such circuits.
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the components of a network of integrated circuits.
Etymology
Origin of microcircuitry
Example Sentences
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"More recent technology allows recording of all layers of cortex simultaneously. This paints a broader perspective of microcircuitry and allowed us to observe this layered pattern," Major says.
From Science Daily • Jan. 18, 2024
Instead of etching flat circuits onto the surface of a silicon wafer, build skyscrapers: stack many thin layers of silicon with microcircuitry etched into each.
From Nature • Feb. 8, 2016
When the U.S. sent young scholars to Moscow to study Slavic languages, the Soviets exchanged "graduate students" who were often middle-age technocrats with a more than academic interest in microcircuitry.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The greatest promise offered by microcircuitry, apart from smallness, is reliability.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He produced a handheld diagnostic tool and pointed it at my melon, then pronounced every bit of digital microcircuitry in it dead.
From Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Doctorow, Cory
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