The International Roadmap for Devices and Systems, or IRDS, is a set of predictions about likely developments in electronic devices and systems. The IRDS was established in 2016 and is the successor to the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors. These predictions are intended to allow coordination of efforts across academia, manufacturers, equipment suppliers, and national research laboratories. The

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specifies the goals of the roadmap as: * Identifying key trends related to devices, systems, and all related technologies by generating a roadmap with a 15-year horizon * Determining generic devices and systems needs, challenges, potential solutions, and opportunities for innovation. * Encouraging related activities world-wide through collaborative events such as related IEEE conferences and roadmap workshops The executive committee is drawn from regions with a major stake in developments in electronics:

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, and the

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. International Focus Teams (IFTs) assess present status and future evolution of the ecosystem in their specific field of expertise and produce a 15-year roadmap. IFT reports includes evolution, key challenges, major roadblocks, and possible solutions. IFTs include: * Application

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Systems A system is a group of interacting or interrelated elements that act according to a set of rules to form a unified whole. A system, surrounded and influenced by its environment, is described by its boundaries, structure and purpose and is exp ...

and Architectures * More Moore - further developments in traditional

integrated circuits An integrated circuit (IC), also known as a microchip or simply chip, is a set of electronic circuits, consisting of various electronic components (such as transistors, resistors, and capacitors) and their interconnections. These components a ...

, referring to historical improvements described by

Moore's law Moore's law is the observation that the Transistor count, number of transistors in an integrated circuit (IC) doubles about every two years. Moore's law is an observation and Forecasting, projection of a historical trend. Rather than a law of ...

* Beyond CMOS - technologies that may allow further progress once CMOS reaches its fundamental limits. * Packaging Integration * Outside System Connectivity * Factory Integration *

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* Emerging Research Materials * Environment, Safety, Health, and Sustainability * Yield Enhancement * Cryogenic Electronics and Quantum Information Processing (added in 2018)

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