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TECHFIND - ELECTRONICS
NanoCMOS
To keep Europe at the forefront of semiconductor technology, the European Commission will seed-fund an Integrated Project called NanoCMOS. The project aims to pioneer the necessary changes in materials, processes, device architectures, and interconnections to keep pushing the limits of semiconductor performance and density, The accurate forecasting of statistical variability requires 3D simulations of huge numbers of transistors, which differ on the atomic scale due to random discrete dopants, line edge roughness and poly silicon gate granularity. The 3D simulation of a single transistor can take anywhere between several hours and several days. The Grid technology developed at in NanoCMOS allows the simulation of literally thousands of transistors to be carried out simultaneously on hundreds and thousands of processors provided by Grid connected computers making it possible to study these phenomena on realistic timescales.