Title :
Future technological and economic prospects for VLSI
Author_Institution :
Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Itami, Japan
Abstract :
Technological trends for VLSI are discussed, with emphasis on process/device technology and function/performance forecasts. Economic trends are then examined. The production cost and design cost of VLSI are analyzed. Particular attention is given to the production cost of VLSI, for example, DRAMs (dynamic random access memory) and gate arrays, which have driven the progress in silicon-based-memory process technology and in ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) design technology, respectively. Future production-cost trends are estimated for both.<>
Keywords :
DRAM chips; VLSI; application specific integrated circuits; economics; integrated circuit manufacture; integrated circuit technology; production; technological forecasting; ASIC; DRAMs; IC technology; Si based memory process technology; VLSI; application-specific integrated circuit; design cost; design technology; dynamic random access memory; economic trends; gate arrays; production cost; Capacitance; Economic forecasting; Laboratories; Large scale integration; Lithography; Logic; Random access memory; Research and development; Technology forecasting; Very large scale integration;
Conference_Titel :
Solid-State Circuits Conference, 1993. Digest of Technical Papers. 40th ISSCC., 1993 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0987-1
DOI :
10.1109/ISSCC.1993.280101
