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Led by an international roadmap committee (IRC), International Focus Teams (IFTs) collaborate in the development of a roadmap, and engage with other segments of the IEEE, such as Rebooting Computing, and related industry communities, in complementary activities to help ensure alignment and consensus across a range of stakeholders, such as:</p> <ul> <li>Academia</li> <li>Consortia</li> <li>Industry</li> <li>National laboratories</li> </ul> <p>IEEE, the world's largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, through the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) Industry Connections (IC) program, supports the IRDS™ to ensure alignment and consensus across a range of stakeholders to identify trends and develop the roadmap for all of the related technologies in the computer industry.</p> <p>The IRDS™ is an <a href="https://standards.ieee.org/industry-connections/">IEEE Standards Association Industry Connections</a> activity and supported by the IEEE Computer Society that encompasses the <a href="http://rebootingcomputing.ieee.org/">IEEE Rebooting Computing (IEEE RC) Initiative</a> in consultation from many IEEE Operating Units and Partner organizations including:</p> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-6">CASS - <a href="http://ieee-cas.org/">Circuits and Systems Society</a><br /> CEDA - <a href="http://ieee-ceda.org/">Council on Electronic Design Automation</a><br /> CPMT - <a href="http://cpmt.ieee.org/">Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Society</a><br /> CS - <a href="http://www.computer.org/">Computer Society</a><br /> CSC - <a href="http://www.ewh.ieee.org/tc/csc/">Council on Superconductivity</a> <br />SPS - <a href="https://signalprocessingsociety.org/">Signal Processing Society</a></div> <div class="col-md-6">EDS - <a href="http://eds.ieee.org/">Electron Devices Society</a><br /> MAG - <a href="http://www.ieeemagnetics.org/">Magnetics Society</a><br /> NTC - <a href="http://sites.ieee.org/nanotech/">Nanotechnology Council</a><br /> RS - <a href="http://rs.ieee.org/">Reliability Society</a><br /> SSCS - <a href="http://sscs.ieee.org/">Solid State Circuits Society <br /></a>PELS - <a href="https://www.ieee-pels.org/">Power Electronics</a></div> </div> <p> </p> <div style="background-color: #d3d3d3; font-size: medium; margin: 0 20px 0 20px; padding: 10px; text-align: center;"> <p><em>“A major new initiative, the International Roadmap for Devices and Systems will ensure alignment and consensus across a range of stakeholders to identify trends and develop the road map for all related technologies in the computer industry. With the launch of the IRDS™ program, IEEE is taking the lead in building a comprehensive, end-to-end view of the computing ecosystem, including devices, components, systems, architecture, and software.”<br /> – Barry Shoop, 2 December 2016, The Institute</em></p> </div> <p> </p> <h2 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted;"><a name="mission"></a>IRDS™ Mission</h2> <p>To identify the roadmap of the electronic industry from devices to systems and from systems to devices.</p> <p><strong>Who We Are</strong><br /> Our roadmap executive committee is comprised of leaders from five regions of the world: Europe, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and the U.S.A.</p> <p>The 2024 IRDS™ roadmap IFTs are:</p> <ul> <li>Applications, Systems and Architectures</li> <li>More Moore</li> <li>More than Moore</li> <li>Beyond CMOS and Emerging Materials Integration</li> <li>Cryogenic Electronics and Quantum Information Processing</li> <li>Autonomous Machine Computing</li> <li>Mass Digital Storage</li> <li>Packaging Integration</li> <li>Outside System Connectivity</li> <li>Factory Integration</li> <li>Lithography & Patternining</li> <li>Metrology</li> <li>Environment, Health, Safety and Sustainability and the Environmental Sustainability of the Semiconductor Facilities (ESSF)</li> <li>Yield Enhancement</li> </ul> <p>Additionally, special topic teams analyze and report the Overall Roadmap Technology Characteristics (ORTC) and Overall Roadmap System Characterics (ORSC), the future of computing and a variety of devices' and systems' drivers (e.g., medical).</p> <p>Participants of the IRDS™ are:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.sinano.eu/">European SiNANO Institute (ESI) (SiNANO)</a> and the <a href="https://www.nereid-h2020.eu/">NanoElectronics Roadmap for Europe: “Identification and Dissemination” (NEREID)</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.sdrj.jp/">The System Device Roadmap Committee of Japan (SDRJ)</a>, <a href="https://www.jsap.or.jp/english">The Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP)</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.inemi.org/">The International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (iNEMI)</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.semi.org/en/">SEMI</a></li> </ul> <p>Related work:<br /> Previous versions of the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors 2.0 (ITRS2.0) can be found at the <a href="http://www.itrs2.net">ITRS website</a>.</p> <p>Our Subject Matter Experts include industry leaders from these communities:</p> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-6"> <ul> <li>Device and Systems Manufacturers</li> <li>Researchers</li> <li>Suppliers</li> <li>Vendors</li> <li>Computer Manufacturers</li> <li>Process and Device Modeling Companies</li> <li>MEMS and NEMS Manufacturers</li> <li>Semiconductor Process Equipment Manufacturers</li> <li>Integrated Circuit CAD Vendors</li> </ul> </div> </div> <p style="float: right; margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href="#top1"><img src="/images/files/images/uparrow.gif" alt="Top of page" width="11" height="11" /> Top of page</a></p> <p> </p> <h2 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted;"><a name="method"></a>Method</h2> <ul> <li>Each of the IFTs assess present status and future evolution of the ecosystem in their specific field of expertise</li> <li>This includes: evolution, key challenges, major roadblocks and possible solutions</li> <li>Integration of all the IFTs roadmaps will produce a 15-year roadmap</li> <li>This IRDS™  <ul> <li>Identifies the technology needs and the key enablers, potential solutions, and areas of innovations in order to resolve challenges and meet the 15-year targets for the industries enabled by the IRDS™.</li> <li>Identifies any potential cooperation with organizations interested to demonstrating possible solutions</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p style="float: right; margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href="#top1"><img src="/images/files/images/uparrow.gif" alt="Top of page" width="11" height="11" /> Top of page</a></p> <p> </p> <h2 style="border-bottom: 1px dotted;"><a name="deliverables"></a>Deliverables</h2> <ul> <li>2024 Edition IRDS™ Roadmap Reports - underway</li> <li><a href="/editions/2023">2023 Update IRDS™ Roadmap Reports</a></li> <li><a href="/editions/2022">2022 Edition IRDS™ Roadmap Reports</a></li> <li><a href="/editions/2021">2021 Update IRDS™ Roadmap Reports</a></li> <li><a href="/editions/2020">2020 Edition IRDS™ Roadmap Reports</a></li> <li><a href="/editions/2018">2018 Update IRDS™ Roadmap Reports</a></li> <li><a href="/editions/2017">2017 Edition IRDS™ Roadmap Reports</a></li> <li>Identifying key trends related to devices, systems, and all related technologies</li> <li>Determining generic devices' and systems' needs, challenges, potential solutions, and opportunities for innovation.</li> <li>Encouraging related activities world-wide through collaborative events such as related IEEE conferences and roadmap workshops</li> </ul> <p><strong><a href="/images/files/pdf/IC16-006_IRDS_Entity_PNP.pdf" target="_blank">Policy and Procedures</a></strong> (PDF, 131 KB)</p> <p>Interested in participating on one of the Focus Teams? 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