CHAPTER 6

Drivers Proposed by ITRS for More-than-Moore and Beyond CMOS

Introduction

Over the last half a century, the technological progress of Moore’s law has been associated with a reduction in the gate length of transistors on silicon, thereby increasing the speed of operation of integrated circuits (ICs) fabricated on silicon substrate. The international technology roadmap for semiconductors (ITRS) has also provided a roadmap for the semiconductor industry, which was based on the continuous shrinking of the transistors on silicon substrate. However, now the cost of shrinking transistor dimensions is not providing significant return on investment (RoI) any longer. Hence, ITRS has proposed other non-silicon drivers to sustain the profitability ...

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