Buried Power Rail

Belgium based IMEC  has announced functioning devices using a new technique of burying power rails below active devices. Is this technique effective in addressing power rail congestion issues prevalent in state-of-art devices. Buried power rail is usually referred as BPR. Its is a new topic and before diving deep into it, lets’s start with some definitions :1. What is a power rail ?Power rail can be defined as the voltage source within...

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Nano Sheet FET (NSFET)

  Fig 1 : Different Types of FETFor last few decades VLSI industry has kept pace with Moore’s law and transition from one node to another happened. As the node proceeds designers were able to produce faster, more powerful, more energy-efficient microchips.This constant advancement has fueled advances in everything from cloud computing to smartphones, virtual reality to robotics, and additive fabrication to the Internet of Things (IoT)....

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