Future technological and economic prospects for VLSI

Author

Komiya, H.

Author_Institution

Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Itami, Japan

fYear

1993

Firstpage

16

Lastpage

19

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISSCC.1993.280101

Filename

280101