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Manufacturing
To meet the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) forecast that device with gate length of sub-10nm will be fabricated by 2016 advanced gate stacks with high-k dielectrics are of intensive research interests. Stringent power requirements in the chips also dictate replacement of silicon dioxide as it has already reached the direct tunneling regime. Currently, many different high-k materials have been explored to replace the s…
Synthesis
Primarily design for low power depends on the characteristics design being accomplished. If it is a multi-million gate design we cannot implement any technique that is gate specific, it has to be a global technique. Multi-Vdd, variable Vdd and Multi-Vth seems to be a good global solution. Reducing the clock speed will result in low power consumption, but on the cost of performance. Using power headers and power footer transistors on logic gates …
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The Editor's Desk
April 20, 2004
Verification
An application-specific integrated circuit or ASIC comprises an integrated circuit (IC) with functionality customized for a particular use (equipment or project), rather than serving for general-purpose use. For example, a chip designed solely to run a cash register is an ASIC. In contrast, a microprocessor is not application-specific, because users can adapt it to many purposes. The initial ASICs used gate-array technology. The British firm Fer…
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The Editor's Desk
February 19, 2004
