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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"Moore’s law"”.
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Magnetic mitigation of energetic ions for extreme ultraviolet lithography sources
… industry has followed a trend known as Moore’s Law by doubling the number of transistors that can fit on a given area every two years. Moore’s Law has been obeyed with remarkable reliability. Now, however, the future of Moore’s Law is in doubt, as current methods of semiconductor …
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Network-on-chip design for a chiplet-based waferscale processor
Motivated by the failing of Moore’s law and Dennard scaling, as well as increasingly large parallel tasks like machine learning and big data analysis, processors continue to increase in area and incorporate more computational cores. This growth requires innovation in manufacturing processes to …
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Games meet Concurrency: Algorithms and Hardness
… turn of the 21st century, seeing the decline of Moore’s Law on the horizon, the pursuit of continued software performance gains has led to the prominence of computer architectures with high degrees of parallelism and memory cache hierarchies. However, there are still many challenges to designing …
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Toward high-performance, low-power, carbon-based interconnects and transistors
As the physical limits of Moore’s law scaling are immediately apparent, industry has explored new ways of pushing technological progress. For integrated circuit applications, major limiting factors are the electrical and thermal performance of interconnects and transistors. This thesis explores two …
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Materials for next-generation lithography: Crosslinked molecular resists and photo-patternable underlayers
… chips) continue to decrease in accordance with Moore’s Law, new technologies are needed to maintain pace. Next-generation lithographic techniques, including extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUVL), are expected to replace current lithography processes in the coming years. This new technique will …
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Instance-Optimized Data Structures for Membership Queries
We are near the end of Moore’s law and hardware growth has hit a stagnation. Modern data processing systems need to continuously improve their performance to match the humongous growth of data. Data structures and algorithms such as sorting, indexes, filters, hash tables, query optimization, etc …
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LightSpeed: A Framework to Profile and Evaluate Inference Accelerators at Scale
… learning-based applications, and the end of Moore’s law, created a pressing need to build highly efficient computing platforms from the ground up. Consequently, researchers and practitioners have been developing highly innovative cutting-edge architectures to meet today’s exponentially …
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ADVANCED MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT AND MANUFACTURING - DEVELOPMENT OF THERMALLY STABLE THIN FILMS WITH HIGH STRESS TUNABILITY
As Moore’s Law continues to push its limit, the semiconductor industry is heading towards 3D integrated circuits by stacking die or NAND cells vertically. The higher number of film deposition from NAND cell stacking result in higher compressive wafer bow of Production Silicon Wafers which is …
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ELECTRONIC DESIGN AUTOMATION TOOLS AND DESIGN STUDY FOR HETEROGENEOUS MONOLITHIC 3D INTEGRATED CIRCUITS
Technology scaling predicted by Moore's law is gradually slowing down and new alternatives to silicon-based transistors are being explored. Some of the most promising solutions make use of materials such as carbon nanotubes or ferroelectric layers in the gate stack. While such materials bring …
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Unsupervised machine learning applied to radio data
… several years, computers have been governed by Moore’s law, which posited that computing power would double every two years. The consequence was that computing has also become increasingly cost-effective, which has been a driving force in the ability to generate and analyse large volumes of …
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Device and circuit-level models for carbon nanotube and graphene nanoribbon transistors
… on a single chip to keep in pace with Moore’s Law. After forty years of advances in integrated circuit (IC) technology, the scaling of silicon (Si) MOSFET has entered the nanometer dimension with the introduction of 90 nm high volume manufacturing in 2004. The latest technological …
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Toward high-level synthesis of reliable circuits through low-cost modulo shadow datapaths
… problems presents a barrier to continued Moore’s law scaling. Traditional modular redundancy techniques with 2x and 3x area cost eliminate the area reduction benefits of such scaling. In this study, we take a partial redundancy approach to the reliability problem for arithmetic-orientated …
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Efficient Deep Learning Computing: From TinyML to LargeLM
… applications. It is increasingly important as Moore’s law slows down while the model size scaling speeds up. We need efficient algorithms and systems to help us bridge the gap. In this thesis, we will discuss techniques to improve the efficiency of deep learning by removing redundancies. We …
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Power Electronics Meet Piezoelectrics: Converters, Components, and Miniaturization
… and expanded performance characterized by Moore’s Law, power electronics often remain the bulkiest, lossiest, and costliest components in the systems they serve. Miniaturization of power electronics is fundamentally bottlenecked by passive components, particularly magnetics (i.e., inductors …
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Implosion Fabrication: Rethinking 3D Nanofabrication from First Principles
… same way the planar process did for computation (Moore’s law) and microelectromechanical systems.
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Combining RF Machine Learning and RF Photonics to Enable New Analog Communications Architectures
… data rates and computing performance. However, Moore’s Law of exponentially growing computing capabilities has slowed, meaning that the traditional computing architecture has reached a bottleneck in processing performance, largely due to data movement. Considerable efforts have been made to …
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Assembling Integrated Electronics
… driven by lithographic technology has pushed Moore’s Law to its limit after more than half a century, to the point that new chips require multi-billion dollar investments and supercomputer systems are built on a decades-long planning horizon. At the same time, typical HPC workloads like …
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Investigation into obstacles to the implementation of the directed-self assembly of block copolymers
… industry and their desire to continue Moore’s Law, a variety of routes to extend or replace optical lithography have been suggested. Among these options is the directed self-assembly (DSA) of block copolymers (BCPs) which have the ability to microphase separate into features with …
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Design Automation and Evaluation Of Emerging 3D – IC Technology Using Stacked Horizontal Nanowires
… This miniaturization trend, also known as Moore’s law, needs to be maintained intact to meet the current day computational demands. Further miniaturization of transistors below sub 10nm regime now faces fundamental device scaling and interconnect bottlenecks. These limitations are …
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Investigating structure and chemistry in functional ferroelectric ceramics via transmission electron microscopy
… device miniaturisation in accordance with Moore’s law; a problem which has received much attention as current technology approaches fundamental limits, which may only be surpassed with a new paradigm of electronics design.
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