Prospects of Electronic Systems

摘要

The field of Electronic Systems, implementing all ICT applications, experienced a big growth during the last decades, with products ever more powerful but, (at the same time, also smaller, better cheaper, safer,...). Transistors density on chips still is still increasing approximately following Moore’s law [1], but it is inevitably approaching its limits, due to technical problems (excessive power consumption because of higher frequencies and transistor count, worse noise margins due to reduced supply voltages, statistical dispersion of transistor parameters,...) as well as because of economic reasons (skyrocketing cost of fab lines). Nevertheless, the current trend in microelectronics will certainly continue for at least the next decade. Thus some forecasts can be done for Electronic Systems in such a timeframe.