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6.012
Microelectronic Devices and Circuits
Charles G. Sodini
Jing Kong
Shaya Famini, Stephanie Hsu, Ming Tang
Contents:
Overview of 6.012
Reading Assignment:
Howe and Sodini, Ch. 2
Overview of 6.012
Microelectronics:
cornerstone of computing revolution
In last 30 years, computer performance per dollar has improved more than a million fold!
Microelectronics: cornerstone of
communications revolution
In last 20 years, communication bandwidth through a single optical fiber has increased by tenthousand fold.
Microelectronics: cornerstone of
consumer electronics revolution
Images of consumer electronics (cell phones, digital cameras, PDA) removed due to copyright restrictions.
Intels Pentium IV
Interconnects
Transistorsize scaling
sizeofhumanbloodcell
Intel processors
costperfunction,
Clock speed
4ordersof magnitude
improvement in 30
years.
Transistor cost
3order of magnitude reduction in 30 years.
MOSFET = switch
TiSi2
N+
PolySi gate
P+
Si3N4
N+
N+
STI
P+
P+
P-well
N-well
P-substrate
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