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Economics & Benefits

(Courtesy of ARM, IBM, and Soitec, August 2007)

SOI provides significant PPA advantages over bulk CMOS for digital applications using standard EDA flows and physical IP.

SOI CMOS technical benefits compared to bulk CMOS:

• higher performance at the same power
• lower dynamic power for the same performance