Study on the evolution of silicon integrated circuit technology: fromscaling to lower power consumption

Abstract

Silicon-integrated circuit technology has a profound influence on people’s daily lives. Throughout history, the goal of
the evolution of this integrated technology has changed from scaling to lower power consumption because of multiple
difficulties scientists face. By measuring and estimating the trade-off between circuit size and power, scientists have
already developed multiple new technologies to upgrade the silicon-integrated circuit. Some new methods people are
trying to find out that could be better to solve the problem. We did the research through one of the methods called postscaling technology. We found out it is possible to control the heat and power consumption of the circuit, which, under
the circumstance of minor scaling and stable operation mode.