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KOC UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
ENGINEERING SEMINAR SERIES
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Title : How Much Faster Can We Go With Semicondictors?:
A Technology Outlook
Speaker : Yusuf Leblebici
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Time : November 19, 2008 Wednesday, 3.30 P.M.
Place : Room ENG B18
Koc University
Rumeli Feneri Yolu
Sariyer, Istanbul
Abstract:
The computational capabilities of high-speed hardware building blocks
are mainly determined by the chosen architecture, as well as the
physical capabilities of devices and circuits that are used to
implemement this architecture. The overall performance of digital
circuits, in turn, is a strong function of technology scaling which
enabled the successful continuation of "Moore's Law" over more than
three decades. Our ability to build sufficiently powerful hardware
solutions for high-speed computation will depend on how we can further
exploit technology scaling, and what the fundamental limitations are. In
this talk, we will review the current and near-term status of
developments in device technologies; the prospects of CMOS and other
technologies (especially nano-scale devices) to succeed in
tera-transistor systems; the status of photonic devices and
optoelectronics; potentially problematic issues such as clock
distribution, reliability and power density; and the fundamental limits
imposed on irreversible von Neumann computing machines through Boltzmann
statistics and Heisenberg relations.
A short biography:
Yusuf Leblebici received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical
engineering from Istanbul Technical University in 1984 and 1986,
respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer
engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
in 1990. Between 1991 and 2001, he worked as a faculty member in at
UIUC, at Istanbul Technical University, and at Worcester Polytechnic
Institute (WPI), where he established and directed the VLSI Design
Laboratory. From 2000 to 2001, he also took the responsibility of
developing the microelectronics degree program at Sabanci University, as
the Microelectronics Program Coordinator.
Since 2002, Dr. Leblebici has been a Chair Professor at the Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), and director of
Microelectronic Systems Laboratory. His research interests include
design of high-speed CMOS digital and mixed-signal integrated circuits,
computer-aided design of VLSI systems, intelligent sensor interfaces,
modeling and simulation of semiconductor devices, and VLSI reliability
issues. Dr. Leblebici is the coauthor of three textbooks, namely,
Hot-Carrier Reliability of MOS VLSI Circuits (Kluwer Academic
Publishers, 1993), CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits: Analysis and Design
(McGraw Hill, 1st Edition 1996, 2nd Edition 1998, 3rd Edition 2002), and
CMOS Multichannel Single-Chip Receivers for Multi-Gigabit Optical Data
Communications (Springer, 2007) as well as more than 150 scientific
articles published in international journals and conferences.
