Large Scale Integration and Microprocessors

The problem of these high development costs was foreseen by the American computer giants IBM when, in 1971, they filed a patent application for a recon-figurable circuit — in other words, a single circuit which could be programmed to perform many different functions to suit different applications, avoiding the cost of 

In the following section we will consider some of the applications of microprocessors in laboratory microcomputers, but we conclude this section with an illustration of the effects which electronic developments (and in particular microprocessors) have had upon analytical instruments by comparing an infrared spectrometer produced two decades ago with an equivalent model manufactured today. 

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