Intelligent microsystems: convergence at the analog-digital interface

Summary form only given: The last two decades have witnessed significant advances in high speed electronics, photonics and MEMS devices for applications in information systems. In this presentation I will review the challenges and opportunities that exist in the coming decade as silicon CMOS technology approaches the end of the scaling paradigm that has been the driving force for Moore´s Law and new capabilities for compound semiconductor electronics in high speed applications emerge. These challenges will be discussed in the context of parallel advances in photonic and MEMS devices, that taken together, offer the opportunity for realizing the integration of electronic, photonic and MEMS technologies in ways that will greatly enhance the capability for intelligent control of chip-scale microsystems for application in future information systems.