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SURGE Virtual Event Korea 2023

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2023

Date

Korea

Region

Virtual

Format

10

Sessions in 3 tracks

SURGE (Silvaco UserRs Global Event) is a global event hosted by Silvaco.

SURGE is an event for discussing new technologies for advanced semiconductor design in the fields of TCAD, EDA, and IP, sharing user experiences, and discovering innovative technologies. It will be held online.

You can watch the lecture video from that day on demand.
A Silvaco account is required to view. (If you don’t have one, please take this opportunity to register.

Date

  • General Session
  • TCAD TRACK
  • EDA AND IP TRACK

Agenda

General Session

Welcome and Introduction - Dr. Babak Taheri – CEO and Board Member – Silvaco, Inc.​

Dr. Babak Taheri

Dr. Babak A. Taheri, CEO and Board Member, has served as CEO and Board Member of Silvaco from August 2019 to September 2021 and from November 2021 to the present. He served as CTO and Senior Vice President of Product at Silvaco from October 2018 to August 2019. From May 2015 to October 2018, he served as CEO and President of IBT (Integrated Biosensing Technologies), an advisory and consulting firm. Additionally, he served on various advisory boards, including the MEMS World Summit, a conference for MEMS manufacturers, equipment and materials companies, and research institutions, and Novasentis, Inc., an electromechanical polymer technology development company; he also served as the Chair of the Advisory Board for the Department of Electrical Engineering at UC. Davis. Furthermore, Dr. Taheri served on the Board of Directors of Parisi House on The Hill, a non-profit organization focused on alcohol and drugs, from June 2021 to May 2022. I received a Bachelor of Engineering degree from San Francisco State University, a Master of Electrical Engineering degree from San Jose State University, and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from UC Davis.
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Machine Learning: A New Revolution for EDA – Patrick Groeneveld, Ph.D.

Dr. Patrick Groeneveld

Dr. Patrick Groeneveld has worked at Magma, Cadence, Synopsys, and Cerebras, and teaches at Stanford. Dr. Groeneveld has extensive experience in the EDA industry. As a Senior Engineer at Magma Design Automation, he was part of the team that developed the innovative RTL-GDS2 synthesis product. He also served as a full professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Eindhoven. Currently, he teaches in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University and serves as the Treasurer Chair of the Design Automation Conference Executive Committee. He received his Master’s and Ph.D. degrees from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.
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TCAD TRACK

TCAD Simulation Update – Dr. Eric Guichard, SVP and GM of TCAD Business Unit, Silvaco​, Inc.

Dr. Eric Guichard, Head of TCAD, Senior Vice President

Dr. Eric Guichard has served as the Head of the TCAD Division and Senior Vice President at Silvaco since November 2012. He served as the Vice President of Applications at Silvaco from July 2008 to November 2012. From September 1995 to July 2008, he held numerous positions at Silvaco SA, including Application Engineer. He obtained a Master’s degree in Materials Engineering and a Ph.D. in Semiconductor Physics from the National Polytechnic University of Grenoble in France.
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Impact of Surface Defect Dot on Short Circuit Phenomena – Salvatore Cascino, SiC R&D Engineer, STMicroelectronics​

Salvatore Cascino, SiC R&D Engineer

Salvatore Cascino was born in Palermo, Italy in 1970 and received his physics degree from the University of Palermo. He participated in ENEA (Frascati-Roma) as part of the Fusion Unit (Project FTU) and the Fusion Research Group (Project RFX) in Padua. He is currently part of a research and development group at ST Microelectronics (Catania) and is also interested in technology development for silicon carbide devices. He has also participated in the development of sensing applications and radio frequency devices.
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Silvaco Simulation Tools Assisting GaN-based Power Devices Design and Development – ​​Dr. Eldad Bahat-Treidel, Senior Scientist, Ferdinand-Braun-Institut

Dr. Eldad Bahat-Treidel, Senior Scientist,

Eldad Bahat-Treidel received his Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Process Engineering and his Master’s degree in Electro-Optical Engineering from Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba, Israel, in 1996 and 2004, respectively. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Berlin in 2012. He joined Intel Electronics Ltd. in 1996 as a Photolithography Critical Layer Process Engineer and Tower Semiconductor Ltd. in 2004 as a Senior Research and Development Engineer. In 2006, he joined FBH (Ferdinand-Braun-Institut GmbH, Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik) in Berlin and participated in the development of GaN switching transistors for high-voltage power electronic devices. Since 2014, he has been dedicated to the research and development of innovative electronic devices, such as vertical GaN-based transistors.
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Advanced Modeling Solutions for Development and Manufacturing of Memory Technologies – Sumeet Pandey, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Micron​ Technology

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EDA AND IP TRACK

Power Device Modeling for SPICE – Bogdan Tudor, Silvaco, Inc.

Bogdan Tudor, Head of Device Characterization

As the Head of Device Characterization at Silvaco, Bogdan Tudor leads the Utmost and Modeling Services teams. He has over 20 years of experience in model development and characterization software.
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Silvaco and Tower Collaboration in Design Kit and Standard Cell Library Development and QA – Ofer Tamir, Managing Director, CAD, Design Enablement and Support, Tower Semiconductor

Ofer Tamir, Senior Vice President, CAD, Design Support,

Ofer Tamir joined Tower in 2001 as Director of Design Support and CAD. He is responsible for overall design kit development, WW design support, and the CAD team, and possesses over 30 years of experience in EDA and CAD. He has worked at National Semiconductor (now TI), DSPG, and Tower. He also presents at various technical conferences, such as EDA, DAC, and Tech Forum.
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Designing High-Performance I/O for Cryogenic Applications with Silvaco Analog Custom Design Platform – Ahmad S. Mazumder / Shaikh Shams, Silvaco, Inc.​

Ahmad S. Mazumder, Technical Director , Shaikh A Shams, Chief Engineer

Ahmad S. Majumder serves as the Technical Director of Silvaco’s IP Business Unit. As an industry veteran dedicated to the development of high-speed memory and interface IP as well as various types of analog IP, he is responsible for development and customer support in the analog and interface IP sector. He spent 28 years researching cutting-edge DDR, ultra-high-speed Serdes, interfaces, ESD, quality, and reliability at various SoC companies, including Intel, Broadcom, and C-Cube Microsystems. He joined Silvaco’s IP Business Unit in 2019 and plays a key role in the Analog/IP business unit.
Majumder holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Bangladesh Institute of Technology and a Master of Science degree in VLSI Semiconductor Design from the City University of New York.

Shaikh A. Shams is a Senior Engineer in Silvaco’s Analog & Interface IP business unit, responsible for the development of analog and interface IP. He spent 22 years designing and verifying high-speed SerDes, interfaces, voltage regulators, and AMS at various companies, including Intel, GlobalFoundries, and Dialog Semiconductor. He joined Silvaco’s IP Engineering business unit in 2020. Shaikh A. Shams holds a Master of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Arizona.

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Advanced Parasitics Analysis Demonstration with Viso - Ayoub HAGROU, Analog Design Engineer, STMicroelectronics

Ayoub Hagrou, Analog Design Engineer

Ayoub Hagrou works in the MDG division of STMicroelectronics as an analog design engineer for STM32 general-purpose microcontroller products.
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