The chips in present-day cell phones already contain billions of
sub-100-nanometer transistors. By 2020, however, we will see
systems-on-chips with trillions of 10-nanometer transistors. But this
will be the end of the miniaturization, because yet smaller transistors,
containing just a few control atoms, are subject to statistical
fluctuations and thus no longer useful. We also need to worry about a
potential energy crisis, because in less than five years from now, with
current chip technology, the internet alone would consume the total
global electrical power!
This book presents a new, sustainable roadmap towards ultra-low-energy
(femto-Joule), high-performance electronics. The focus is on the
energy-efficiency of the various chip functions: sensing, processing,
and communication, in a top-down spirit involving new architectures such
as silicon brains, ultra-low-voltage circuits, energy harvesting, and 3D
silicon technologies. Recognized world leaders from industry and from
the research community share their views of this nanoelectronics future.
They discuss, among other things, ubiquitous communication based on
mobile companions, health and care supported by autonomous implants and
by personal carebots, safe and efficient mobility assisted by co-pilots
equipped with intelligent micro-electromechanical systems, and
internet-based education for a billion people from kindergarden to
retirement. This book should help and interest all those who will have
to make decisions associated with future electronics: students,
graduates, educators, and researchers, as well as managers, investors,
and policy makers.
This book presents a new, sustainable roadmap towards ultra-low-energy
(femto-Joule), high-performance electronics. The focus is on the
energy-efficiency of the various chip functions: sensing, processing,
and communication, in a top-down spirit involving new architectures such
as silicon brains, ultra-low-voltage circuits, energy harvesting, and 3D
silicon technologies. Recognized world leaders from industry and from
the research community share their views of this nanoelectronics future.
They discuss, among other things, ubiquitous communication based on
mobile companions, health and care supported by autonomous implants and
by personal carebots, safe and efficient mobility assisted by co-pilots
equipped with intelligent micro-electromechanical systems, and
internet-based education for a billion people from kindergarden to
retirement. This book should help and interest all those who will have
to make decisions associated with future electronics: students,
graduates, educators, and researchers, as well as managers, investors,
and policy makers.
