Advanced Silicon Microelectronics/ULSI
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Technology Map Detailed Contents July 2008
Importance of the Technology
The Technology in Brief
- Design
- Computer-Aided Design and Engineering
- Logic Synthesis
- Design for Testability
- Mixed-Signal/Analog IC Design and Test
- Design Verification
- Evolvable Hardware
- Reliability, Fault Detection, and Correction
- Embedded Memory
- DSP Developments
- ASIC Developments
- Low-Voltage Strategies
- System-Level Integration
- Fabrication
- Wet Chemicals in Semiconductor Processing
- Manufacturing Strategy
- Lithography
- Optical Enhancement with RET
- Immersion Lithography
- Next-Generation Lithography
- Etching and Deposition
- Low-k Dielectrics
- Rapid Thermal Processing
- ALD and Sub-100-nm Deposition Choices
- Mass-Removal and Planarization Methods
- Particulates and Defects
- Nanoelectronics
- Process Technology
- CMOS and BiCMOS
- Testing
- Process/Fabrication Testing
- Known Good Die
- Memory-Chip Testing
- Packaging
- Multichip Modules
- Ultrathin ICs
- Chip-Scale Packaging
- Wafer-Level Packaging
- The Fusion of Test and Packaging
- Thermal Management
Commercial Development Parameters
- International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors
- Demand Factors
- Industry Cycles
- Supply-Chain Dynamics
- Silicon Supply
- Synergistic Technologies
- New Materials for Sub-90-nm Devices
- Silicon Photonics
- Advanced Memory and High-k Dielectrics
- Ferroelectric Memories
- Future Memory Devices
- Increasing Diversity in Memory Choices
- Competing Technologies
- Silicon Carbide
- Gallium Arsenide
- Carbon Nanotubes
- Quantum Computers
- Required Resources
- Industry Investment
- The Growth of Foundry Manufacturing
- 300-mm-Wafer Production
- Manufacturing Productivity and E-Diagnostics
- Research and Development Programs
- U.S. Initiatives
- European Initiatives
- Regulatory Factors
Areas to Monitor
- CMP Consumables
- China's Growth
- Scaling and Moore's Law
- Nanoelectronics
- Portable Fuel Cells
- New Memory
- Industry Cycles
- Processor Architectures
- Foundry Business
- Silicon Supply
- New Models for Chemical Suppliers
- Lithography Developments
- Low-k Developments
Implications of Commercialization
- Information Overload?
- The Electronics Future
- Electronics in the Information Age
Opportunities
- ITRS
- General Computing
- Ubiquitous Multicore Computing
- Multiprocessor-Programming Tools
- Massively Multicore Computing
- Multi-GPU and Advanced Gaming Platforms
- GPGPU
- NAND-SSD Mass Storage
- Next-Generation Memory
- Universal Memory
- Communications
- Next-Generation Memory: Cell-Phone Flash
- RF CMOS Single-Chip 3G
- RF CMOS Single-Chip 4G
- CMOS WPAN
- CMOS RF-MEMS
- Military Electronics
- Silicon Carbide Sensors and Electronics
- JTRS Deployment
- Automotive Applications
- Digital Infotainment and Navigation
- Next-Generation Memory
- Multicore MCUs
- MEMS Sensors
- Silicon Carbide Sensors and Power ICs