microcircuitry

[ mahy-kroh-sur-ki-tree ]

noun

, Electronics.

1. a detailed plan of an integrated circuit or a network of such circuits.
2. the components of a network of integrated circuits.

Word History and Origins

Origin of microcircuitry¹

First recorded in 1960–65; micro- + circuitry

Example Sentences

"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

In addition to needing to be miniaturized to fit on a lander, Gasda says, both instruments also require more robust housings and microcircuitry to allow them to endure rocket launches, planetfall and the deleterious effects of cosmic radiation.

From Scientific American

Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan said in the 1980s, while rising Asian nations — although not yet China — were flooding the world with microcircuitry, the Soviet Union was “peddling fish eggs and furs, the trading goods of a hunter-gatherer society.”

From Washington Post

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

Kevan Martin, a director at the city's Institute of Neuroinformatics, had to stop mapping the functional microcircuitry of the macaque brain in 2006, when his licence expired.

From Nature

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