Title :
Another Inconvenient Truth: Snails Are More Intelligent Than Us
Author :
Williams, Thomas
Author_Institution :
Synopsys, Inc., CO, USA
Abstract :
For decades there has been a new CMOS technology node approximately every two years. Until recently, thanks to scaling, the key feature of every new technology node has been a 100% integration capacity and 40% performance improvement... free-of-charge. The International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) has been architected in such a way that this improvement became a self-fulfilling prophecy of the roadmap itself. Everything else has been bent in the attempt to make scaling happen... forever.
Keywords :
CMOS integrated circuits; CMOS technology; International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors; CMOS technology;
Conference_Titel :
Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, 2009. CICC '09. IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4071-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4073-3
DOI :
10.1109/CICC.2009.5280907
