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To: Steve Porter who wrote (47120)	2/3/1998 11:56:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Steve - Re: "here has to be some new problems not faced before with this kinda thing?" There are always limitations. Propogation delays - again due to RC time constants - will be a major limiting factor and copper and low dielectric constant insulators will be required to circumvent this problem. In addition - low voltage swings will be required to limit power dissipation and switching noise. One odd ball limitation may end up being radiation induced upsets - as with Alpha particle radiation that has hampered DRAMS (and certain types of SRAMs) for the past 20 years. As voltages drop and gate/diffusion capacitances drop, the switching energy of circuits drop, and eventually when this approaches that of an Alpha Particle (a few MeV). , radiation induced upsets - totally random - could come in to play. Paul