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VLSI Trends
VLSI Trends
A Brief History
2011
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Moores Law
Growth rate
2G to 3G to 4G wireless communications
Moores Law
Moores Law
Standard Cells
NOR-3
XOR-2
GeForce 8800
* NVIDIA Graphics
Processor
Subwavelength Lithography
Challenges
Pdynamic = a C VDD2 f
Courtesy Intel
Increase performance by
higher clock frequency and
more complex pipelining &
speculative execution
INT6
Cache logic
Multicore Era
Multicore era
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