Paper Info
Title
ITRS 2.0: Toward a re-framing of the Semiconductor Technology Roadmap
Abstract
The International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) has roadmapped technology requirements of the semiconductor industry over the past two decades. The roadmap identifies major challenges in advanced technology and leads the investment of research in a cost-effective way. Traditionally, the ITRS identifies major semiconductor IC products as drivers; these set requirements for the state-of-the-art semiconductor technologies. High-performance microprocessor unit (MPU-HP) for servers and consumer portable system-on-chip (SOC-CP) for smartphones are two examples. Throughout the history of the ITRS, Moore's Law has been the main impetus for these drivers, continuously pushing the transistor density to scale at a rate of 2× per technology generation (aka “node”). However, as new requirements from applications such as data center, mobility, and context-aware computing emerge, the existing roadmapping methodology is unable to capture the entire evolution of the current semiconductor industry. Today, comprehending how key markets and applications drive the process, design and integration technology roadmap requires new system-level studies along with chip-level studies. In this paper, we extend the current ITRS roadmapping process with studies of key requirements from a system-level perspective, based on multiple generations of smartphones and microservers. We describe potential new system drivers and new metrics, and we refer to the new system-level framing of the roadmap as ITRS 2.0.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/ICCD.2014.6974673
Computer Design
Keywords
Field
DocType
microprocessor chips,semiconductor technology,system-on-chip,ITRS 2.0,Moore's Law,consumer portable system-on-chip,context-aware computing,high-performance microprocessor unit,international technology roadmap for semiconductors,microservers,semiconductor industry,semiconductor technology roadmap,smartphones,transistor density
Framing (construction),Telecommunications,Semiconductor technology,Computer science,Microprocessor,Server,Technology roadmap,Real-time computing,International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors,Data center,AKA,Embedded system
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1063-6404
10
0.70
References 
Authors
6
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Juan Antonio Carballo1100.70
Wei-Ting Jonas Chan2696.70
Paolo A. Gargini3100.70
Andrew B. Kahng47582859.06
Siddhartha Nath524015.01