What Technology Will You Most Likely be Working on 10 Years from Now?
Abstract:
Even if you barely care about technology your ears have most likely been bombarded with terms and phrases such as: Quantum Supremacy, Quantum Computing, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Augmented Reality (AR), Autonomous Driving and perhaps few more.
Almost all those emerging technologies are far from being mature technologies and some are in their embryonic phases. The current technology we use in EE today is CMOS technology. Two energy efficient technology candidates are strongly emerging as major candidates for beyond CMOS: Superconducting Electronics (SCE) and Spintronics. And while neither superconducting electronics nor spintronics are totally new, the manner they are being considered and the recent developments in both areas makes them strong candidates for beyond CMOS VLSI. This talk will address both technologies at a high level in terms of their state of technological development and their suitability for VLSI circuits.
This talk will address major features and developments in spintronics that made spintronics a solid candidate for embedded memory caches, for logic devices and for ultra-compact and efficient hard disk replacement. STT-MRAMs, SOT-MRAMs, and Racetrack storage devices will be explained. Suitability of spintronics quantum dots for quantum computing will be discussed.
The talk will also cover the basics of superconducting electronics, of quantum computing, and of photonics and how all those technologies will most likely talk to each other.
Speaker: Jamil Kawa
Bio:
Jamil Kawa is a Synopsys Fellow in the Solutions Group at Synopsys working on advanced nodes technology development and IP architectures. He is the Co-PI of the IARPA sponsored Synopsys Super Tools for Enablement of Superconducting Electronics. Before that he was Group Director of R&D of the Implementation Group of Synopsys overseeing projects in 3-D IC and SIP design. He has been with Synopsys since 1998 where he originally managed the Memory Compiler and IO design groups before joining the Advanced Technology Group (ATG) where he worked on DFM / DFY, 3-T SRAM technology, corrugated substrate technology (for FinFET manufacturing), low power design, and Structured ASICs research. Jamil holds over 30 patents in the areas of circuits, nano-wire devices, device reliability 3D-IC, and design architecture. He has authored over 20 papers and articles, and co-authored the book Design for Manufacturability and Yield for Nano-scale CMOS published by Springer in 2007.
Jamil got his M.B.A. at Santa Clara University and his Master’s degree and post graduate work in EE at The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor