IEEE AlexSB ITW'09 Day Two Nano-meter RF Integrated Circuits 8/8

Dr. Yehea Ismail , Dr. Mohamed Ismail To download the session presentation http://www.alexsb.org/downloads/Dr_Mohamed_ismaiel.rar Semiconductor technologies exhibited explosive growth in complexity and speed over the last two decades. Since the early 1980s, the device sizes have scaled down from few micrometers to tens of Nano-meters and the operating frequencies have increased from a few megahertz to several gigahertz. Also, the spacing between devices and interconnect have dramatically decreased due to the continuous scaling down of the technology feature size. These trends have led to issues and challenges in the design and analysis of high performance integrated circuits that previous generations did not exhibit. Most of these issues are at the circuit and interconnect (physical) levels. Also, these issues are expected only to increase in importance in future generations of integrated circuits since frequencies and device densities will only increase. This session will overview the most important challenges for electronics design in the nano-scale.