[comp.lsi] State of the art

guillaum@trl.oz.au (Andrew Guillaume) (06/21/91)

One often sees technology reviews at the end of a calendar year, but I have
to provide my management facts and figures now. I'm after facts and figures
which would qualify the current state of the art of CMOS and BiCMOS
technologies, and any records of course.

What I have at present : in excess of 1 million transistors on a CMOS
processor (1.4 million ?), feature sizes of 0.8microns available with
0.4microns in the offing, CMOS processor speeds commonly around the 30MHz
mark, with expected 50-60MHz speeds, and experimental around 450MHz, double
layer (triple ?) metal is commonplace.

Any information would be appreciated (largest gate arrays, impact of BiCMOS,
complexity of mixed analog/digital chips, etc.) And yes, I know my local
library might have all that info, but, no, I do not have access to my local
library right NOW :-)

I'd prefer email responses to a.guillaume@trl.oz.au, and if there is
interest I could summarise to the net.

Thanks in advance

Andrew Guillaume

a.guillaume@trl.oz.au