SRC Forum on Nano-Morphic Systems: Processes, Devices, and Architectures

拉尔夫·凯文半导体研究公司集成电路技术正在推动一系列不断扩大的应用，这些应用本身就推动了技术创新。在这个论坛中，我们考虑将一个极端的原型应用程序作为集中研究努力的工具。想象一下，我们希望设计和制造一个有源的微米大小的系统，它可以在体内进行感知，并可能与单个活细胞相互作用。开发这种系统必须解决的技术挑战令人望而生畏，几乎涵盖了集成系统技术的方方面面，包括传感信息处理、能量、通信、包装以及可能的驱动。在这个论坛上，我们希望从最终可能实现的角度来审查这些基本技术，考虑到我们目前对科学和集成电路技术预测的未来能力的理解。最终目标是就体内原型系统未来的可行性达成论坛共识。

ABSTRACT0739436Ralph CavinSemiconductor Research CorporationIntegrated Circuit technology is enabling an expanding array of applications which themselves drive technology innovation. In this forum, we consider an extreme prototypical application as a vehicle to focus research efforts. Imagine that we desire to design and fabricate an active micron-sized system that performs in-vivo sensing and possibly interaction with a single living cell. The technological challenges that must be addressed to develop such a system are daunting and encompass almost every facet of integrated system technology including sensing information processing, energetics, communication, packaging, and possibly actuation. In this forum, we expect to examine these essential technologies from the point of view what may beultimately achievable, given our present comprehension of the projected future capabilities of science and integrated circuit technology. The ultimate goal is to obtain a forum consensus on future feasibility of the prototypical in-vivo systems.