Glasgow scientists predict the unpredictable to guide future nano-chip design

Scientists at the University of Glasgow, in collaboration with colleagues from Edinburgh, Manchester, Southampton and York universities, have developed technology which will help microchip designers create future integrated circuits.
As part of a £5.3m Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) eScience pilot project called NanoCMOS they have developed simulation tools which take advantage of grid computing to predict how billions of nano-transistors, each with their own unique and unpredictable atomic-scale variations, will perform within a circuit.
The simulations will help tackle the problem of ‘statistical variability’ within transistors which is a major obstacle in the continued scaling of Complementary Metal-oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) microchips in future nano-scale technology generations.
Source:physorg