Trends in nanoelectronic education from FDSOI and FinFET technologies to circuit design specifications

With the upcoming FDSOI and FinFET technologies, the gap between education and industry has never been so huge. Indeed, no university is able to provide access to such technologies before the PhD programs. Moreover, the situation is similar when looking the integrated circuit design. The incredible degrees of freedom offered to designers by CAD tools and the need to ever integrate more constraints makes really challenging the design of complex integrated circuits. The universities are facing really difficult issues: designing and fabricating advanced integrated circuits with no real experience in technologies and design techniques. In this context, this paper investigates what we should teach in our nanoelectronics Master curriculum in order to efficiently prepare our students to work in this industry.