Wednesday, Jan 25, 2006
IEEE Circuits and Systems, Dallas Chapter: Seminar
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IEEE Circuits and Systems, Dallas Chapter: Seminar
Title: Circuit Design using a FinFET process
Presenter: Dr. Andrew Marshall, Texas
Instruments Incorporated, Dallas,
TX
Date: Wednesday January 25,
2006. 6:30pm, Refreshments; 7:00pm, Program
Location: Dallas Texins
Activities Center, Conf Room 1 (North end of
Texas Instruments expressway site, 13900 N Central Expw.; site entrance on north-bound access road, between
Midpark Rd. & Spring Valley Rd.)
Abstract :
Silicon on insulator (SOI) technology
has evolved into an important frontier in the development of low power and high
performance circuit design. Finfet SOI has recently become an area of intense
scrutiny, and circuits are being designed with these structures. Finfet SOI is
inherently simpler to design with than the previous generations of SOI, while
still offering performance improvement, reduced power, component isolation and
an increase in circuit density.
A brief history and overview of the
major SOI process options is given and comparison is made between SOI and bulk
material. The challenge of modeling SOI devices is explored and some concepts
for successful SOI circuit layout are introduced, including discussion of
various options for the reduction of thermal self-heating effects. The
development of circuits for low voltage and low power are discussed for analog
and digital applications.
Biography
:
Dr. Andrew Marshall has been with Texas
Instruments Incorporated for over 20 years. He is currently a Distinguished
Member of the Technical Staff, and works in the Silicon Technology Development
Organization. His interests include the definition of process performance
metrics and the development of circuit designs to evaluate and verify
performance and power metrics for deep submicron technologies, in both bulk
silicon and silicon-on-insulator processes. He is the author or co-author of
over 50 papers and conference presentations, including the book "SOI
Design: Analog, Memory and Digital Techniques" (Springer 2002). Andrew is
a Senior Member of the IEEE, a Professional Engineer registered in the state of
Texas and a
member of the IEEE System on a Chip Conference committee.
Sudhind Dhamankar, Publicity Chair,
IEEE CAS/Dallas, 214-567-8914