CICC 1999 Technical Program: Keynote - Monday, May 17 - Morning

Keynote - Monday, May 17 - Morning

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8:00am
Welcome/Opening Remarks
Rakesh Kumar, General Chairman
Brian Fitzgerald, Conference Chairman

8:10am
CICC '99 - Technical Program
Michiel Beunder, Technical Program Chairman

8:20am
Keynote Address - "Internet Age and System Level Integration:New Challenges or Business as Usual?"

Dr. Pallab K. Chatterjee, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Texas Instruments Incorporated

The Internet age is driven by Metcalf's law which bases industry growth on the number of people on the network. Indeed there are over 100 million people on the Internet today and over a terabyte of new information being added every month. The key silicon imperative for the information age-Internet and cellular phones is system level integration. Cell phones, Modems, Routers, LAN, and WAN IP networks and mass storage are the most exciting new systems of today. They are the highest growth and highest volume 'systems' and will thus be key to optimize silicon and design capabilities around.

This paper will provide an overview of how system level integration plays into these systems. A common theme is the need for analog functions, preferably designed in scaled CMOS. This paper will also examine technology requirements and global standards for software and interfaces. We are in a very exciting stage of evolution of the information age. System Level Integration of Silicon functions will play a more significant role in the next five years than pure scaling of feature size. It will also drive a different set of demands on the semiconductor industry than the microprocessor did.