Solid state: VLSI with a vengeance: The Pentagon´s very-high-speed integrated circuits project requires revolutionary advances in systems and IC technology

The VHSIC program was initiated by the U.S. Department of Defense to develop VLSI signal processors with several hundred times higher speed and computing power than today´s LSI devices. The planned processors must also consume less power and be smaller and more reliable than current integrated circuits would allow. They will be used in military applications with no counterparts in commerce or industry — mainly real-time signal processors for weapons systems of the next decade.