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Scaling I. Mohammad Sharifkhani. Reading. Text book II (pp. 123). Acknowledgement. Some of the slides/figures in this series is brought from other people’s slides in various conferences. So I would like to appreciate them all. What is Scaling ?.
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Scaling I Mohammad Sharifkhani
Reading • Text book II (pp. 123)
Acknowledgement Some of the slides/figures in this series is brought from other people’s slides in various conferences. So I would like to appreciate them all.
What is Scaling ? Smaller devices More devices on a given area
Challenges • 1. Complexity • 2. Cost of integrated circuits is increasing • 3. Power • 4. Robustness issues • 5. The interconnect problem
Transistor count The cost of T. drops at the expense of reliability of the chip and testing cost
Frequency • Multi-core technologies is going to replace the frequency scaling or make it go slower
Power • Power consumption is the limiting factor in high performance designs
Power issue in scaled technologies Let’s assume that these trends continue— that is, frequency doubles, supply voltage scales down 30%, active capacitance grows 30% to 35%, and die size grows 25%. Now we can speculate on power dissipation and supply currents.
Power cont’ Supply voltage scaling is mandatory!
Supply Current Issues • IR drop due to high current Supply rails on the chip • L(di/dt) creates noise on the supplies • Especially when VDD low-voltage is used
Die Size • The size of the die affects • Yield • $ • Testing • $ • Reliability • ~$
Lithography issues • The wavelength of the beam that is used to project an image to a surface determines the accuracy of lines on the image • Consider painting a 1cm line with 3cm brush • EUV: absorbed by matter vaccume • Lower throughput
Lithography Cost • Cost increase due to complexities such as • Lower wavelength laser • Exposure system (mirrors, etc.) • Correcting masks (phase shifting, etc.) • The cost drops after a few years
Fab cost Does it make sense to have a fab or better go fabless?
Process Variation • Remember tolerance in Electronics I? • Feature size↓ Accuracy↓ (random variation↑) • Mean vs. Std. • Sources: • Lithography • Feature size, oxide thickness variations • Random dopant fluctuations • Temperature gradients, supply grid • Affect: • Yield • Speed, power • Leakage power • Reliability • Testing
Interconnect Add process variation Source: Bohr, Mark T., “Interconnect Scaling - The Real Limiter to High Performance ULSI,” Proceedings of the 1995 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, pp 241-242.)