At a glance
November 9, 2022
Date
Taiwan
Region
Virtual
Format
12
Sessions in 1 tracks
Silvaco held its annual SURGE users event on November 9, 2022. You may view the event in the archive below.
SURGE brings the TCAD, EDA, and IP communities together to discuss new technologies, share users’ experiences, and discover innovative techniques for advanced semiconductor design.
Date
- GENERAL SESSION
Agenda
GENERAL SESSION
Dr. Babak Taheri – CEO and Board Member – Silvaco, Inc.
Recent Progress of WBG Semiconductor for EV – Hao-Chung Kuo, Chair Professor, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Director, HHRI, Semi Research
Hao-Chung Kuo
Speaker bio
Prof. Hao-Chung Kuo received the B.S. degree in physics from the National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, the M.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, in 1995, and the Ph.D. degree from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, in 1999.
From 1993 to 1995, he was a Research Consultant in Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories, and from 1999 to 2001 he was a Member of Technical Staff in Fiber-Optics Division at Agilent Technologies. From 2001 to 2002, he was with LuxNet Corporation. Since October 2002, he has been a Faculty Member of the Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. His current research interests include semiconductor lasers, vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers, blue and UV LED lasers, quantum-confined optoelectronic structures, optoelectronic materials, and solar cell. He has authored or coauthored more than 400 journal papers and holds 45 granted and 10 pending patents.
Prof. Kuo’s service to the III-V community is multifaceted. He was elected as the Chairman of IEEE/Photonics Taipei Chapter (since 2012). In addition, he was in the Technical Program Committee for several major technical conferences for the IEEE, the OSA, and the SPIE, which include IEEE/OSA CLEO (2009 – Present), SPIE Photonics West (2009 – Present), and others. He serves as a Panel Member for Taiwan National Science Council (Photonic Program- especially in semiconductor lasers and LEDs). He was the Guest Editor of the IEEE JSTQE (2009) and was an Associate Editor of the OSA/IEEE Journal of lightwave technology (2008-2013) and Associate Editor of the OSA Photonics Research (2019-now). He was the recipient of The Optical Engineering Society of Taiwan (SPIE Taipei Chapter) – Young Researcher Award in 2007. NSC of Taiwan- Dr. Ta-You Wu Award in 2007. Faculty Research Award of NCTU in 2010, 2011. Micro-optics Conference (MOC) Contribution Award-10th MOC Program-committee Chairman (2011). He was recognized by the Photonics community and received OSA(2011), IET (2011), SPIE (2012) IEEE (2015) Fellow.
TCAD Simulation Update – Dr. Eric Guichard, Silvaco, Inc.
Dr Eric Guichard, Senior VP and GM of TCAD Division
Speaker bio
Dr. Eric Guichard is Vice President of Silvaco’s TCAD Division. He is responsible for managing all aspects of the TCAD division from R&D to field operations. Since joining Silvaco in 1995, he has held numerous positions including director of Silvaco France and most recently Director of Worldwide TCAD Field Operations. Prior to joining Silvaco, Guichard was a senior SOI engineer specializing in transistor and circuit aging at LETI and Thomson Military and Space.
Dr. Guichard holds an MS in material science and a Ph.D in semiconductor physics from Ecole Nationale Polytechnique de Grenoble, France.
Analog Custom Design Update - Thomas Blaesi, Silvaco, Inc.
Thomas Blaesi, VP and GM of EDA Division
Speaker bio
Thomas F. Blaesi is Vice President and General Manager of the EDA Business Unit. He is responsible for managing the development of all EDA tools including analog customer design, circuit simulation and SPICE modeling. Thomas joined Silvaco in October 2017 and held the position of Vice President of Global Marketing until December 2019. He has more than 25 years of experience in corporate strategy, business development, and marketing in semiconductor, and electronic design automation industries. He has led major projects in SoC platform-based design, system-level design, and design for manufacturing in addition to hands-on experience in custom and semi-custom chip design and development.
Most recently, Thomas was the managing partner at Zeema Technologies. Before that, he served as CEO of Chipvision, and held various senior business and technical positions at Cadence, Synopsys, and LSI Logic.
Thomas holds a BS in electrical engineering and computer science from Hochschule Furtwangen University, Germany.
Design IP Solutions Update – Ben Louie, Silvaco, Inc.
Ben Louie, Associate Vice President of Foundation IP
Speaker bio
Latest Update on Interconnect Parasitic Reduction and Analysis with Jivaro and Viso - Simon-Alexis Abric, Silvaco, Inc.
Simon-Alexis Abric, Corporate Application Engineer
Speaker bio
Mr. Simon-Alexis Abric is a Corporate Application Engineer for Silvaco France. He is responsible for customer technical support for reduction (Jivaro) and parasitic analysis (Alps) products. Prior to Silvaco, he was an Application Engineer at Edxact SA for four years.
Mr. Abric earned a Master of Engineering degree in integrated circuits and systems in 2013 from the engineering school ENSEIRB in Bordeaux, France.
Modern Circuit Placement - Yao-Wen Chang - Dean & Distinguished Professor College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, National Taiwan University
Yao-Wen Chang, Dean & Distinguished Professor
Speaker bio
Dr. Yao-Wen Chang is a fellow of the ACM and IEEE. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin in 1996. He is currently a Distinguished Professor of the Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Dean of the EECS College, National Taiwan University (NTU). His current research interests lie in electronic design automation (EDA). He has co-authored one 934-page textbook on EDA (Morgan Kaufmann, 2009) and one research book on routing (Springer, 2007), 17 U.S. patents, and more than 350 ACM/IEEE conference/journal papers, including highly cited works on floorplanning, placement, routing, design for manufacturability, heterogeneous integration, and FPGA. His NTUplace3 placer was transferred into the popular Digital Custom Placer of Synopsys. His NTUplace4 is a champion circuit placer for the three top contests, DAC, ICCAD, and ISPD, and now the core engine of MaxPlace, the flagship placer of Maxeda and a leading commercial placer. Dr. Chang is the all-time most prolific author in DAC’s 59-year history, also with its longest publication streak (24 years 1999-2022). He received four research awards at the 50th DAC in 2013, eleven Best Paper Awards (including one for the 2017 DAC), and 21 top-3 place contest awards with six champions. He published the world’s most DAC+ICCAD+TCAD papers during the past three decades. He has received many research awards and two distinguished teaching awards for ten years (the highest honor for the top 1% of teachers) and nine excellent teaching awards from NTU.
Dr. Chang has served as the steering committee/general/program chair of ISPD, general/program chair of ICCAD, and program chair of ASP-DAC and FPT, and on the executive/steering committees of ASP-DAC, DAC, and ICCAD. He has been an associate editor of IEEE TCAD, IEEE TVLSI, IEEE D&T, etc. He has served as the IEEE CEDA President, President-elect, and Vice President. Currently, he serves on the IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal Committee. He is a recipient of the 2015 IEEE CEDA Outstanding Service Award and the 2012 ACM Service Award. He has served as an independent board director of Genesys Logic, Inc, and a technical consultant for MediaTek Inc., Realtek Semiconductor Corp., and Faraday Technology Inc. He is a co-founder of profit-earning Maxeda Technologies, the provider of the leading commercial placer MaxPlace.
Advances in Device Modeling Using Utmost IV – Bogdan Tudor, Silvaco, Inc.
Bogdan Tudor, Senior Manager, Device Characterization
Speaker bio
Bogdan Tudor is Head of Device Characterization for Silvaco, leading the Utmost and Modeling Service teams. He has over 20 years of experience in model development and characterization software.
Back-End-of-Line Compatible Amorphous Oxide Semiconductor Thin Film Transistor and Numerical Analysis of Oxygen Defects for Monolithic Three-dimensional Integrated Circuit Applications - Po-Tsun Liu - Chair Professor, Department of Photonics, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Po-Tsun Liu, Chair Professor,
Speaker bio
Prof. Po-Tsun Liu is currently a Chair Professor and Director of Display Research Center at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) in Taiwan. He is a well-known specialist in TFT and TFT-based functional devices/circuits for TFT-LCDs and AMOLEDs, including amorphous oxide semiconductor (AOS)-based photo-sensors, nonvolatile memory devices (Flash, EEPROM, RRAM) and gate driver on array technologies. Furthermore, he extends the TFT technologies from flat-panel displays to the monolithic 3D-ICs application of advanced semiconductor engineering. He has published over 350 papers in peer-reviewed journals and international conferences, 1 Book and 1 Book chapter editor. He has given more than 100 invited presentations at international and national conferences. Additionally, Prof. Liu was elected IEEE Fellow (2020), SID Fellow (2021) and won the Outstanding Research Award (2021) from National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), in recognition of his unusual distinction in the profession and significant contributions to TFT technologies. He was named on the list of the World’s Top Electronics and Electrical Engineering Scientists (by Research.com). He has also received numerous international conference paper awards, among other national awards in Taiwan, such as the Outstanding Engineering Professor Award from The Chinese Institute of Engineers (2022), Outstanding Electrical Engineering Professor Award from The Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering in 2015, Excellent Young Scholar Research Grant, The Award for University Special Talents (National Science Council, from 2006-Present).
Prof. Liu’s lectures are always well-received by college students and researchers in FPD industries. For instance, he has won the Outstanding Teaching Award (NCTU, 2019) and has been praised four times by AUO at the annual Teacher’s Day celebrations (2015, 2016, 2018, 2020). Prof. Liu has been always dedicated to contributing himself to the work of scientific research and talent cultivation for many years.
VarMan Delivers Unprecedented High-Sigma Performance within a User-Friendly GUI Environment - Vincent Annezo, Silvaco, Inc.
Vincent Annezo, VarMan Corporate Application Engineer
Speaker bio
Standard Cells and I/O Library Optimization and Validation - Mr. Faris Amsyar Bin Ahmad Zhaki, IP Staff Engineer, SilTerra Malaysia Sdn. Bhd
Mr. Faris Amsyar Bin Ahmad Zhaki, IP Staff Engineer
Speaker bio
A Robust 3nm to 350nm Design Flow Utilizing Silvaco Tools - Chung-Chun Chen, Director of Analog Design, Silicon Creations
Chung-Chun Chen, Director of Analog Design
Speaker bio
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