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3/7/2002 5:03 PM EST
Soc: Opto-electronics
Merging materials key to SoC optical success
The answer is always easy in CMOS: You shrink the die, you integrate it with neighboring shrunken die. Shrink, integrate, repeat. The end game is the so-called system-on-chip (SoC), where all the circuitry of a system is produced on a single die, minus fudge-factor FPGAs and discretes, of course. And they all lived happily ever after.Hybrid integration: Production ready
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Merging materials key to SoC optical success
The answer is always easy in CMOS: You shrink the die, you integrate it with neighboring shrunken die. Shrink, integrate, repeat. The end game is the so-called system-on-chip (SoC), where all the circuitry of a system is produced on a single die, minus fudge-factor FPGAs and discretes, of course. And they all lived happily ever after.
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