DATE - Design, Automation and Test in Europe

3.3 Game-Changing Technologies for System Design

Date: 
Tue, 2010-03-09
Time: 
14:30 - 16:00
Location / Room: 
Konferenz 1

Moderators: 
T Simunic Rosing, UC San Diego, US
D Atienza, EPF Lausanne, CH
 

This session discusses new technologies and design ideas for 3D chips, memories and atomic-scale computing.  The first paper presents a self-reference sensing scheme for memories, resolving large bit-to-bit variations of magnetic tunnelling junctions.  The second paper proposes a Pseudo-CMOS design style for flexible electronics.  It uses only mono-type thin-fin transistors, and has a comparable performance than complementary-type designs.  The third paper proposes a redundancy scheme improving timing closure and fault tolerance of 3D stacked chips.  Finally, the last paper explores the prospect of atomic-scale computing in nonferromagnetic lattices or spin-glasses.

1430 A NONDESTRUCTIVE SELF-REFERENCE SCHEME FOR SPIN-TRANSFER TORQUE RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY (STT-RAM)
Y Chen, X Wang and W Zhu, Seagate Technology, US
H Li, Polytechnic Institute of NYU, US
W Xu and T Zhang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US
 
1500 PSEUDO-CMOS: A NOVEL DESIGN STYLE FOR FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS
T-C Huang, C-M Lo and K-T Cheng, UC Santa Barbara, US
K Fukuda, T Sekitani and T Someya, Tokyo U, JP
Y-H Yeh, EOL/ITRI, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC
 
1530 SPINTO: A HIGH-PERFORMANCE SOLVER FOR ENERGY MINIMIZATION IN ISING SPIN-GLASSES
H J Garcia and I L Markov, U of Michigan, US
1545 TSV REDUNDANCY: ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN ISSUES IN 3D IC
A-C Hsieh and T T Hwang, National Tsing Hua U, ROC
M-T Chang, M-H Tsai, C-M Tseng and H-C Li, Global Unichip Corporation, ROC
IPs IP1-10, IP1-11, IP1-12, IP1-13
1600  BREAK/IP1