Moore's Law and Semiconductor Design and Manufacturing
March 14, 2011
The semiconductor design and manufacturing challenges at 40nm and 28nm are a direct result of Moore’s Law, the climbing transistor count and shrinking geometries. It’s a process AND design issue and the interaction is at the transistor level. Transistors may be shrinking, but atoms aren’t. So now it actually matters when even a few atoms are out of place. So process variations, whether they are statistical, proximity, or otherwise, have got to be thoughtfully accounted for, if we are to achieve low-power, high-performance, and high yield design goals.
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