Keynote speeches [2 full artcile presentations]

Abstract

Presents the full-length article "Low Energy Silicon Solution toward Smart and Sustainable Society" by Toshiaki Masuhara. The abstract follows: Low-voltage technology solutions for future IT systems are discussed. New SOTB CMOS transistors with small variation for Vth and Ion, new non-volatile memories for cache and data storage, atom switch for logic reconfiguration, and new carbon interconnect are discussed. Also presents the article "Low-Power Ultrahigh-Speed Wireless Communication with Short-Millimeter-Wave CMOS Technology" by Minoru Fujishima. The abstract follows: Recently, short-distance high-speed wireless communication using a 60 GHz band has been studied for mobile application. To realize higher-speed wireless communication while maintaining low power consumption for mobile application D-band (110-170 GHz) is promising since it can potentially provide a wider frequency band. Thus, we have studied D-band CMOS circuits to realize lowpower ultrahigh-speed wireless communication. In the D-band, however, since no sufficient device model is provided, research generally has to start from device modeling. In this paper, a 10 Gbps wireless transceiver with a power consumption of 98 mW is demonstrated using the 135 GHz band, where the architecture is optimized to realize both low power and high data transfer rate.