Apr 14, 2009

Olympics of semiconductors

"Olympics of semiconductors!" ISSCC 2009 was held in San Francisco, California from Feb 8 to 12, 2009 with more papers form Asia.

(source: Nikkei Electronics Asia -- April 2009)

“Living with Variability” - Are You Ready?

  • How to understand and manage variability impact at 45nm and below?
  • What impact does variability have on interfacing the Foundry?
  • How will the industry characterise and model variability?
answers: Living with Variability: 12th & 13th May 2009. Savoy Place, London

Apr 12, 2009

36th Birthday Party for SPICE

SPICE (“Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis”) was announced to the world on April 12, 1973. So, in honor of SPICE’s thirty-sixth “birthday”, here is a link to the first of several interactive posts about how SPICE works:

http://signal-integrity-tips.com/2009/circuit-simulation-part-one-spice-turns-thirty-six/

Apr 11, 2009

MOS-AK/GSA Frankfurt(O) meeting on-line publications

MOS-AK/GSA Frankfurt(O) meeting on-line publications are available:

http://www.mos-ak.org/frankfurt_o
http://www.mos-ak.org/frankfurt_o/posters.php

Together with the IHP Team we have also issued the press release:
"Europäische Experten beraten zu konkreten Problemen der Beschreibung von
CMOS Bauelementen "
http://www.ihp-microelectronics.com/fileadmin/press/PM_AK_MOS020409.pdf
(an English version will be available soon)

in the meantime, read info about coming modeling events:
* Munich: June 2-3, http://www.gsaietsemiconductorforum.com/
* Warsaw: June 22-24, http://www.dy.imio.pw.edu.pl/
* Lodz: June 25-27, http://www.mixdes.org/Special_sessions.htm
* Athens: Sept. 18, http://www.mos-ak.org/athens

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The Global MOS-AK/GSA CM Working Group Committee:
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North America: Pekka Ojala, Exar Corporation
South America: Gilson I Wirth; UFRGS; Brazil
Europe: Ehrenfried Seebacher, austriamicrosystems AG
Asia/Pacific: Al Kordesch, Silterra Malaysia
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Apr 8, 2009

April 14, 2009: ESSDERC/ESSCIRC submission deadlines

ESSDERC/ESSCIRC submission deadlines have been moved to April 14, 2009!

Visit the conference web site: http://www.essderc2009.org

ESSDERC/ESSCIRC FRINGE POSTER SESSION

Following a successful 'fringe' event during last Conference in Edinburgh, ESSCIRC and ESSDERC will be holding also a "fringe" event in addition to the main conference in Athens. The Fringe forum is ideally suited for the submissions of recent progress which may, in some cases, not be ready for a full paper submission. The emphasis of fringe submissions should be on the presentation of the latest data (both measurement and/or simulation) and new ideas. This forum provides the opportunity to network with the ESSDERC/CIRC community to discuss these ideas and latest results. Reviewing will be undertaken by a sub-committee under the main Technical Programme committee, and a separate proceedings will be published on CD for this event. To attract the latest results, submissions close at the later date of 12 June 2009. Submissions will be in the form of abstracts of one page of text and two pages of figures. Submission will be via the website fridge section, where further details can be found.

After MOS-AK at IHP in Frankfurt(O)

Arbeitskreis „MOS-Modelle und Parameterextraktion“ tagt im IHP. Europäische Experten beraten zu konkreten Problemen der Beschreibung von CMOS Bauelementen