Future silicon technology trends from a system application perspective

Author

Ning, Tak H.

Author_Institution

IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA

fYear

2003

fDate

6-8 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

121

Lastpage

124

Abstract

Digital CMOS is fast reaching its scaling limits. Nonetheless, CMOS will remain the backbone technology for building all computing functions. While attempts to extend the limits of CMOS will continue, there will also be increasing focus on other silicon technologies that are needed by system designers. For computing systems, large amounts of high-performance on-chip memory are needed to minimize memory-bottleneck penalty. For systems where magnetic disks are not available, large amounts of NVRAM are needed for data storage. High-performance and low-power mixed-signal technology is needed for systems requiring wireless communication. Recent as well as expected advances in these developments are discussed.

Keywords

CMOS memory circuits; DRAM chips; SRAM chips; elemental semiconductors; mixed analogue-digital integrated circuits; silicon; NVRAM; Si; computing functions; data storage; digital CMOS; magnetic disks; memory bottleneck penalty; mixed-signal technology; on-chip memory; silicon technology; system designers; wireless communication; CMOS digital integrated circuits; CMOS logic circuits; CMOS technology; Nonvolatile memory; Personal digital assistants; Power system reliability; Radio frequency; Random access memory; Silicon; System performance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

VLSI Technology, Systems, and Applications, 2003 International Symposium on

ISSN

1524-766X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7765-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VTSA.2003.1252567

Filename

1252567