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To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (57706)	10/8/2001 2:00:32 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Leakage current is also an issue. Compared with 0.18-micron design rules, leakage at 0.13 micron can be twice as high, a fact that has proved too painful for some designers evaluating high-performance transistor options. "[Designers] anticipated higher leakage, but they did not expect it to be this bad. They were unpleasantly shocked," Buehler-Garcia said. That means designers concerned with their power budgets will have to use the low-threshold-voltage transistors sparingly and work with their foundry to mix and match transistor types. The downside is that it will increase the number of masks needed because of the variations in oxide thickness. eetimes.com