[Jerry]

Serge Auckland wrote on 8/27/2006:

Jerry, my own experience this side of the pond backs up Dick's usage. An
IC consists of a single piece of silicon onto which the various circuit
components (active devices, resistors and, with a little more
difficulty, capacitors) are etched. By its very nature, only low value
of capacitance can be included, and inductance hardly at all (except for
specialist RF circuits) A Hybrid circuit consists of silicon chip
devices plus passive components, all attached to a normally ceramic
substrate and encapsulated. The passive components can theoretically be
of any value, but for space reasons are also normally confined to small
values. However, the method of construction of ICs and Hybrids use very
different technologies.

S.

Hi, Serge!

Dick, in his normal abrupt fashion expounded, "It's not an IC, it's a
hybrid"

Turns out, hybrids fall under the definition of IC, ... as a subclass.

In my other post, I quoted the ieee approved index for keywords.

Unless someone objects to the ieee approved keyword index, I think we can
conclude things are NOT always "black and white" and no one person "knows it
all".

Regards,
Jerry