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Summary
IEDM 2005 provided a wealth of technical presentations. Despite the length of this article, the coverage in this article summarized fewer than 5% of the 240 presentations given at IEDM. Other interesting technologies that were presented but not covered in this article included technology such as carbon nanotube based DRAM devices (paper 11.4), or a novel technique for assembling multiple known good dice (paper 14.4). IEDM 2005 also provided interesting updates on the latest trends. In particular, as a direct consequence of the difficulty in process scaling, process complexity and process design rules are continuing to grow unabated in each process generation, and the family of logic-optimized semiconductor processes are growing increasingly divergent to separately target performance and low power characteristics.
Acknowledgments
We thank the follow persons and organizations for their respective contributions to this brief summary of IEDM 2005:
Gary Dagastine, co-media relations director of IEDM, for providing the IEDM archives on DVD. The IEDM archives on DVD made possible quick research on previous IEDM papers. (A whole lot faster than going though IEEE Archives)
Professor Weizhong Wang of the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, for providing context to the numerous technical disclosures on semiconductor processes made at IEDM 2005.
Dr. Woo-Hyeong Lee of IBM, for providing his presentations slides on IBM’s 65 nm SOI process, and his time in answering additional questions.
Dr. Gary Bronner of IBM, for his insights on the discussion of area and performance trade-offs on the 65 nm SOI process.
Yuzuru Ohji of Renesas, William Almon of Grandis, and Dr. Yiming Huai of Grandis, for the discussion on the use of MRAM in Renesas’ next generation products, and the implications of MRAM proliferation in future products.
Applied Materials, for providing the informative evening seminar on scaling difficulties past the 45 nm process generation.
Copyright
Copyright 2005 David T. Wang. All rights reserved.
References
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