sscs_NLwinter08 1/8/08 10:37 AM Page 1 SSCSSSSCSSSSCCSS IEEE SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS SOCIETY NEWS Winter 2008 Vol. 13, No. 1 www.ieee.org/sscs-news The DRAM Story with articles by Dennard, Itoh, Koyanagi, Sunami, Foss and Isaac sscs_NLwinter08 1/8/08 10:37 AM Page 2 Editor’s Column elcome to The goal of each issue is to be a Dennard, Itoh, Sunami, Koyanagi, the Winter, self-contained resource with back- Isaac and Foss," discussing the evo- 2008, issue ground articles (that is, the 'original lution and current status of DRAM: W sources') and new articles by (1) "Revisting ‘Evolution of the of the Solid-State Cir- cuits Society News- experts who describe the current MOSFET Dynamic RAM-A Per- letter! We appreciate state of affairs in technology in view sonal View’" by Robert Dennard all of your feedback of the impact of the original papers (IBM); on our first year of and/or patents. (2) "The History of DRAM Circuit issues presenting The Technical This issue contains one Education Designs - At the Forefront of Impact of Moore's Law, The Impact Highlights article: DRAM Development" by Kiyoo of Dennard’s Scaling Theory, The "Turning Students On to Circuits," Itoh (Hitachi Ltd); 40th Anniversary of Amdahl's Law, by Yannis Tsividis of Columbia Uni- (3) "Stacked Capacitor DRAM Cell and Barrie Gilbert: The Gears of versity in New York City, NY. and Three-Dimensional Memo- Genius. Thank you for supporting The theme of the issue is "The ry" by Mitsumasa Koyanagi our efforts! DRAM Story with new articles by (Tohoku University); (4) "The Role of the Trench Capaci- tor in DRAM Innovation" by IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society AdCom Hideo Sunami (Hiroshima Uni- President: Elected AdCom Members at Large versity); Willy Sansen Terms to 31 Dec. 08: K. U. Leuven Wanda K. Gass (5) "The Remarkable Story of the Leuven, Belgium Ali Hajimiri DRAM Industry" by Randy Isaac, [email protected] Paul J. Hurst retired Vice President (IBM); Fax: +32 16 321975 Akira Matsuzawa (6) "DRAM - A Personal View" by R. Vice President: Ian Young C. Foss, retired Chairman of the Bernhard Boser Terms to 31 Dec. 09: University of California John J. Corcoran Board and Founder (MOSAID Berkeley, CA Kevin Kornegay Technologies Incorporated). Secretary: Hae-Seung (Harry) Lee In addition, the issue includes David A. Johns Thomas H. Lee reprints of two original papers and University of Toronto Jan Van der Spiegel Toronto, Ontario, Canada Terms to 31 Dec. 10: an original patent: Treasurer: Terri S. Fiez (1) R. H. Dennard, "Evolution of the Rakesh Kumar Tadahiro Kuroda MOSFET Dynamic RAM - A Per- Technology Connexions Bram Nauta sonal View," IEEE Transactions Poway, CA Jan Sevenhans on Electron Devices, vol. ED-31, Mehmet Soyuer Past President: No. 11, November, 1984, pp. Richard C. Jaeger Alabama Microelectronics Center Region 8 Representative: 1549-1555. Auburn University, AL Jan Sevenhans (2) R. H. Dennard, "Field-Effect Transistor Memory," Patent Other Representatives: Region 10 Representative: Representative to Sensors Council C.K. Wang 3,387,286, June 4, 1968. Darrin Young (3) K. Itoh, "In Quest of the Joy of Representative from CAS to SSCS Chairs of Standing Committees: Creation," in "Innovate the Domine Leenaerts Awards John J. Corcoran Representative to CAS from SSCS Future," 2005 Hitachi Hyoron Chapters Jan Van der Spiegel Un-Ku Moon Education C.K. Ken Yang Special Edition, pp. 34-39, Newsletter Editor: Meetings Bill Bidermann Hitachi Hyoronsha, Tokyo, Mary Y. Lanzerotti Membership Bruce Hecht Japan. IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Nominations Stephen H. Lewis [email protected] Publications Bernhard Boser Fax: +1 914 945 1358 Thank you for taking the time to For detailed contact information, see the Soci- read the SSCS News. We appreciate Associate Editor for Europe/Africa: ety e-News: www.ieee.org/portal/site/sscs Tony Harker all of your comments and feedback! ISLI Alba Centre Alba Campus Please send comments to Livingston Scotland EH54 7EG [email protected]. [email protected] For questions regarding Society business, contact the SSCS Executive Office. Contributions for the Spring 2008 issue of the Newsletter must be received by 8 February 2008 at the SSCS Executive Office. A complete media kit for advertisers is available at www.spectrum.ieee.org/mc_print. Scroll down to find SSCS. Anne O’Neill, Executive Director Katherine Olstein, SSCS Administrator IEEE SSCS IEEE SSCS SSCS-West: 1500 SW 11th Ave. #1801 445 Hoes Lane, Portland, OR 97201 Piscataway, NJ 08854 Tel: +1 732 981 3400 Tel: +1 732 981 3410 Fax: +1 732 981 3401 Fax: +1 732 981 3401 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] 2 IEEE SSCS NEWS Winter 2008 sscs_NLwinter08 1/8/08 10:38 AM Page 3 Photo by Michiko Sunami. From left, Kiyoo Itoh, Hideo Sunami, Robert H. Dennard, Mitsumasa Koyanagi. Winter 2008 Volume 13, Number 1 Editor’s Column . .2 President’s Message . .4 Introducing Tony Harker, Associate Editor for Europe/Africa . .4 Letters to the Editor . .81 Corrections . .81 EDUCATION HIGHLIGHTS Turning Students On to Circuits, Yannis Tsividis . .6 TECHNICAL LITERATURE Revisiting “Evolution of the MOSFET Dynamic RAM – A Personal View,” Robert H. Dennard, reprinted from IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 31(11):1549-1555, November 1984 . .10 Field-Effect Transistor Memory (U.S. Patent No. 3,387,286) R. H. Dennard, 1968 . 17 The History of DRAM Circuit Designs – At the Forefront of DRAM Development, Kiyoo Itoh . .27 40 In Quest of the Joy of Creation, Kiyoo Itoh, reprinted from “Innovate the Future,” 2005 Hitachi Hyoron Special Edition . .31 The Stacked-Capacitor DRAM Cell and Three-Dimensional Memory, Mitsumasa Koyanagi, . .37 The Role of the Trench Capacitor in DRAM Innovation, Hideo Sunami . .42 The Remarkable Story of the DRAM Industry, Randy Isaac . .45 DRAM - A Personal View, R. C. Foss . .50 PEOPLE Asad Abidi Recognized for Work in RF-CMOS, Anne O’Neill . .57 R. Jacob Baker Honored at FIE Conference in October . .59 60 Van der Spiegel Acclaimed for Educational Innovation at IEEE EAB Meeting, Katherine Olstein . .60 Lanzerotti Applauded for Editorship of LEOS Newsletter . .62 SSCS Distinguished Lecturers Visit Athens and Varna . .62 Betty Prince Talks in Brazil . .64 New Senior Members . .64 Call for Fellow Nominations . .64 Tools: How to Write Readable Reports and Winning Proposals: Part 5, Peter and Cheryl Reimold . .65 62 CONFERENCES ISSCC 2008 to Focus on System Integration for Life and Style, Bill Bowhill . .66 Invitation from the ISSCC 2008 Technical Program Chair, Yoshiaki Hagihara . .68 VLSI-TSA and VLSI-DAT to Convene on 21-25 April in Hsinchu, Taiwan, Clara Wu . .69 Mm-Wave CMOS Applications: A Report from a CSICS Panel, Anne O’Neill . .70 CHAPTER NEWS SSCS-Germany Cosponsors SAMOS 2007, Holger Blume . .71 Sakurai and Razavi Visit SSCS-Seoul . .72 18th VLSI Design/CAD Symposium Cosponsored by IEEE Taipei & Tainan, C. C. Wang .72 75 Murmann and Razavi Visit SSCS-Taipei . .74 230 Papers Represent Intennational Community at ASICON 2007 . .75 Ian Galton Speaks on Fractional-N PPLS at SSCS-CAS/Atlanta, Gabriel Rincon-Mora . .76 Academia and Industry Interact in Ireland, Peter Kennedy . .78 Eight Technical Meetings in Fort Collins, Alvin Loke . .80 SSCS Far East Chapters Meet in Jeju, Korea . .81 NEWS Fiez, Kuroda, Nauta, Sevenhans & Soyuer Elected to AdCom . .82 CEDA Celebrates Second Anniversary . .85 81 Keep Your Professional Edge with Innovative Courses from IEEE . .88 Winter 2008 IEEE SSCS NEWS 3 sscs_NLwinter08 1/8/08 10:38 AM Page 4 President’s Message Richard C. Jaeger, Auburn University, [email protected] y two-year term as President exceptional efforts of Anne O’Neill, Sansen, Professor at KU Leuven, of the IEEE Solid-State Cir- Executive Director of the Society, Belgium, and Director of ESAT- cuits Society is nearly at an and Katherine Olstein, SSCS Admin- MICAS, becomes SSCS President. M istrator, who ensure smooth day-to- Professor Sansen is well known end. Thanks to the efforts of our membership, staff, and volunteers, day operation of the society and sup- internationally for his work in ana- the Society continues to strengthen port the President in ways that are log circuits and has been involved and expand its international activities. too many to enumerate. I thank Past with a wide range of SSCS activities Our conferences are attracting record President Steve Lewis for his always including Society Vice President and numbers of paper submissions and considered advice and insight, and I Chair of the 2002 ISSCC. attendees. The Journal of Solid-State also want to acknowledge the many Our Society will be in good hands Circuits sees strong submissions, and contributions of the members of our under Willy’s leadership. the Journal’s papers continue to have Administrative Committee and Sub- some of the highest download rates committees. Finally, the past two Richard C. Jaeger from IEEE Xplore. The number of years have seen outstanding devel- SSCS chapters and their activities are opment of the content of the at a record level. By the end of 2007, Newsletter through the hard work of SSCS financial reserves are also pro- Anne, Katherine and technical Editor, jected to be at a record level. Mary Lanzerotti. We all should be thankful for the As of January 1, 2008, Willy Outgoing President New Recruit to the SSCS Editorial Team Tony Harker, ISLI Alba Centre, [email protected] Hello Everyone support, supervise and deliver Mas- Such phenomena are not simply ter’s and PhD--level programmes at UK or Europe-wide. The constant As the newest recruit to the SSCS our campus in Livingston. drive for cost-effective develop- News Editorial team, I’d like to ISLI also has its own research ment, the quest for competitive introduce myself and give you some group specialising in integrated sili- margins, the need to maintain inno- ideas about the subject areas I will con MEMS, and a design group, vation, and the availability of a high- be addressing in future issues.