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Wednesday Keynote Addresss 4:30
Modeling the Future of Semiconductors (AND TEST!)
Room DGB Center
Andrew B. Kahng, Professor, University of California at San Diego
Which semiconductor products will drive manufacturing and test technology over the next 10 to 15 years? In the past, Moore’s Law has been used to predict the continuing evolution of semiconductors. Now, however, we are seeing an explosion of new device, memory and heterogeneous integration technologies aimed at achieving "More than Moore" scaling of product value. By looking at the applications that drive this explosion of new technologies, we can begin to model what the future might look like, and how the industry can deploy cost-effective manufacture and test strategies in the coming years. Three applications in particular—Smart Phone, Datacenter and IoT—will continue to have great influence on both semiconductors and systems. The ITRS "2.0" semiconductor roadmap projects these applications into the future to model potential benefits of future technologies. What will semiconductors look like in the next 10 to 15 years? Let’s find out!
About the speaker: Andrew B. Kahng is Professor of CSE and ECE at UC San Diego, where he holds the endowed chair in High-Performance Computing. He has served as visiting scientist at Cadence (1995-1997) and as founder, chairman and CTO at Blaze DFM (2004-2006). He is the coauthor of three books and over 400 journal and conference papers, holds 30 issued U.S. patents, and is a fellow of ACM and IEEE. He has served as general chair of DAC, ISQED, ISPD and other conferences. He is also international chair and co-chair of the Design Technology working group, and recently of the System Integration focus team, in the ITRS since 2000. His research interests include IC physical design and performance analysis, the IC design-manufacturing interface, combinatorial algorithms and optimization, and the roadmapping of systems and technology.