Radical Innovation and Lateral Thinking: the role of silicon technologies

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Radical Innovation and Lateral Thinking:the role of silicon technologies

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Semiconductor Market Cycles – Long Term Trend

Source : WSTS, ST

Main FrameC.T.V.

VCRDefense

Office PC

Convergence

Home PC

Communication

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Moore’s Law and more

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ION

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NO ROADMAP–CLUSTERS OF INVENTIONS(*)Room for Nobel Prize

(*) – Modified by Bruno Murari

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System-in-a-Box: a digital brain with analog muscles and interfaces

Bipolar, BCD, CMOSBiCMOS, VIP,µ-Machining

Power Management

InformationProcessing(Super Integration)

MultifunctionPeripheral (System

Oriented Tech.)

Data Acquisitionand Conversion

Bipolar, CMOS,RF-BiCMOS,µ-Machining

Central Processing(µP, DSP)

Digital CMOS

PowerActuators

Bipolar, BCD,CMOS, HVCMOS,VIP, µ-Machining

Memories

CMOS, Flash,DRAM, µ-Machining

Line, Batteries,Alternators, Solar Cells, Fuel Cells

Sensors

Antennas

Keyboards

LineInterfaces

Switches

Clock Clock

Clock

Lamps

Motors

Displays

Solenoids

Speakers

CRTs

Inkjets

Antennas

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Chip Size Trends – 2007 ITRS Functions/ Chip Model

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Intelligent Power

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High Voltage BCD• Voltage Capability up to 800V (off-line applications)• Fully dielectric isolation (SOI) up to 200V • SOI solution for Low Voltage (LV) high efficiency application

High Voltage BCD• Voltage Capability up to 800V (off-line applications)• Fully dielectric isolation (SOI) up to 200V • SOI solution for Low Voltage (LV) high efficiency application

BCD (Bipolar + CMOS + DMOS)Solid know-how and proprietary technology background

High Voltage CMOS:•High Voltage (up to 40V) & Logic CMOS integration

•Display Driver & Sensor Interface Applications

Main stream BCD•Voltage capability up to 100V

•Wide Application Variety in many fields

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A long lasting success

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SIP

Need to bring “More Moore” & “More than Moore” at work!

Digital Analog

DFM ProgrammingModel

SW

More MooreMore than

Moore

Mechanical

OrganicsBio

Optical

Fluidics

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Silicon is not only a semiconductor

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Digital technologies, and much more

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passiveintegration

fluidicslighting

GSM radio RF-ID tag

rotation image

LED lamp bio-sampler

Xray pressure

inkjet head

sensors

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Ink Jet Cartridge

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Lab-on-Chip

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MEMS

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• MEMS:

Micro Electro Mechanical System– three dimensional device

embedded in silicon– multifunction system

consisting of sensors, actuators, electronics.

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Probe storage

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High DopedSilicon

CantileverHeater

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Microactuator Concept

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Accelerometers

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Accelerometers in cars

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Vehicle control Front light inclination Assisted GPS navigation Roll over detection Collision detection (air

bag) Antitheft Collision reconstruction

(black box)