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Surge China 2022

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SURGE aims to provide a sustainable learning and exchange platform for global customers, enabling them to share the latest technologies and user experiences in TCAD, EDA, and IP, and to explore innovative technologies for advanced semiconductor design.

 

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  • Main venue
  • IC/Foundry/IP Sub-venue
  • Display Panel Sub-venue

Agenda

Main venue

Company Updates - Dr. Babak Taheri - Silvaco

Dr. Babak Taheri, CEO, Board Member,

Dr. Babak Taheri serves as CEO and Board Member of Silvaco, a leading company in TCAD, EDA, and design IP software, and previously served as CTO and Senior Vice President of Product at Silvaco. Prior to Silvaco, he served as CEO and President of IBT, working with investors, private equity firms, and M&A, technology, and business startups.

At IBT, he served as an advisor to MEMS World Summit, Novasentis, AGCM, ALEA Laboratories, Lion Point Capital, and Silver Lake. He also served as Executive Vice President of the Sensor Solutions business unit at Freescale Semiconductor (now NXP).

He received “The Perfect Project Award” from Cypress in 2003 and the “Diamond Chip Award” twice from Freescale in 2013 and 2014. He received the MEMS & Sensors Executive of the Year Award from the UC Davis School of Engineering in 2014 and the Distinguished Engineering Alumni Medal in 2015, and currently serves as an advisor to the UC Davis School of Engineering. Dr. Taheri served on the Governing Board of the ESDA Alliance from 2019 to 2021 and as a director of Parisi House on The Hill from June 2021 to May 2022.

Dr. Babak Taheri has also served as Executive Vice President at Cypress Semiconductors and Invensense (now TDK), and held key positions at SRI International and Apple. He received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering with a major in EECS and Neuroscience from UC Davis. He has published over 20 papers and holds more than 30 patents. In 2021, he published a book titled “Artificial Sensors Shape the Six Pillars of Our Lives.”

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TCAD Simulation Moving Model Optimization for 4H-SiC Prediction - Dr. Hemant Dixit - Wolfspeed

Dr. Hemant Dixit,

Hemant Dixit holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Antwerp, Belgium, and has over 10 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. He is an expert in multi-scale modeling of semiconductor devices (including atomic-level and continuous dielectric models) using TCAD tools. At Wolfspeed, his work focuses on improving the mechanistic understanding of power MOSFETs to accelerate the design and development of next-generation devices. Prior to joining Wolfspeed, he worked at Motorola, IBM, and GlobalFoundries. Dr. Hemant Dixit has published over 35 research papers, which have been cited over 1700 times, and has filed 15 patent applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (6 of which have been granted).

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Design Challenges of SoCs (Quantum Computers) - Jack Berg - PsiQuantum

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IC/Foundry/IP Sub-venue

Latest Advances in Silvaco TCAD Simulation - Dr. Eric Guichard - Silvaco

Dr. Eric Guichard

Dr. Eric Guichard is the Vice President of TCAD at Silvaco. He oversees all aspects of TCAD, from R&D to field implementation. Since joining Silvaco in 1995, he has held various positions, including Director of Silvaco France and most recently, Director of Global TCAD Field Operations. Prior to joining Silvaco, Guichard was a Senior SOI Engineer at LETI and Thomson Military & Aerospace, specializing in transistors and circuit aging.

Dr. Guichard holds a Master of Science degree in Materials Science and a PhD in Semiconductor Physics from the École Nationale Supérieure de Grenoble, France.

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Latest Advances in Victory Atomistics: 2D Materials, CNTs, and How to Bridge Atomic-Level Simulation and TCAD Simulation - Associate Professor Tillmann Kubis - Purdue University

Tillmann Kubis Associate Professor;

Tillmann Kubis is the head of the NEMO5 development team at Purdue University. His research focuses on equilibrium and non-equilibrium phenomena in nanodevices and molecular devices, including electronic and phonon band structures, as well as heat, charge, and spin transport in nanodevices. Tillmann Kubis holds a Dr.rer.rat degree in theoretical semiconductor physics from the Technical University of Munich, Germany.
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TCAD Model of Epitaxial Structure Characteristics of Gallium Nitride Power Devices - Dr. Qiu Shaoyan - Huacan Optoelectronics

Dr. Shao-Yan Chiu

Dr. Shao-Yen Chiu has over 15 years of experience in academic research, semiconductor manufacturing, and design companies. After graduating from the Department of Electrical Engineering at National Taiwan Ocean University in 2009, he has been dedicated to research on third-generation semiconductor epitaxy, processes, and horizontal and vertical epitaxial structures of gallium nitride power devices, and has published over 50 papers on compound semiconductors.
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Latest Developments in Silvaco's Simulation/Custom Design Products - Thomas Blaesi - Silvaco

Thomas Blaesi

Thomas F. Blaesi is the General Manager of EDA Business and Corporate Vice President at Silvaco. He is responsible for the development of all EDA tools, including analog/custom design, circuit simulation, and SPICE modeling. Thomas joined Silvaco in October 2017 and served as Vice President of Global Marketing until December 2019. He has over 25 years of experience in corporate strategy, business development, and marketing in the semiconductor and electronic design automation industry. In addition to custom and semi-custom chip design and development, he has led several major projects in SoC platform design, system-level design, and manufacturing design.

Prior to joining Silvaco, Thomas was a managing partner at Zeema Technologies. He also served as CEO of Chipvision and held several senior positions in business and technology at Cadence, Synopsys, and LSI Logic.

Thomas holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Furtwangen in Germany.

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Achieving a robust 3nm to 350nm design flow using Silvaco tools - Chung-Chun Chen - Silicon Creations

Chung-Chun Chen

Chung-Chun (CC) Chen rejoined Silicon Creations in 2019 as Director of Analog/Mixed-Signal Design, leading the SerDes team. From 2011 to 2018, he served as Senior Analog Designer/Manager at Silicon Creations, responsible for the design of analog IP products, including Ring PLLs and LC Tank PLLs, serializers, and deserializers with clock building blocks (PLL/CDR, phase interpolators) and equalizers (FFE, CTLE, DFE) circuitry. From 2018 to 2019, CC worked at Ubilinx Technology as an enabler/architect of SerDes technology. Prior to that, he was a researcher at Samsung Electro-Mechanics Design Center in Atlanta and a principal engineer at TSMC in Hsinchu, Taiwan.

CC was born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1979. He received his Master’s and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University in Taipei in 2004 and 2009, respectively. His current research focuses on the circuit design of clocks and other SerDes building blocks for high-speed communication systems. CC has published over 15 papers, is a Senior Member of IEEE, and has served as a reviewer for JSSC and T-MTT.

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Varman: Unprecedented high-Sigma performance and user-friendly interactive environment - Vincent Annezo - Silvaco

Vincent Annezo

Vincent Annezo is an Applications Engineer for VarMan products, dedicated to helping customers successfully use and continuously optimize VarMan. Prior to joining Silvaco, he worked for nine years as a Software Verification and Applications Engineer at the French EDA startup Selta. Vincent Annezo received his Master of Science degree in Physics Engineering from INSA Engineering School in France in 2003.
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Recent advances in interconnect parasitic reduction and analysis using Jivaro and Viso - Simon-Alexis Abric - Silvaco, France

Simon-Alexis Abric

Simon-Alexis Abric is an Applications Engineer at Silvaco France, providing technical support to customers for the parasitism reduction tool Jivaro and the parasitism analysis tool Alps. Prior to joining Silvaco, he worked as an Applications Engineer at Edxact SA for four years.

Mr. Abric obtained his Master of Science degree in Integrated Circuits and Systems Engineering from ENSEIRB School of Engineering in Bordeaux, France in 2013.

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Latest Developments in Silvaco's IP Design Solutions - Ben Louie - Silvaco

Silvaco, VP of IP Business at Foundation

Ben Louie has over 22 years of experience in memory design, including NOR Flash, NAND Flash, and MRAM. Prior to joining Silvaco, he served as Director of Memory Design at Spin Memory, leading MRAM memory design and being one of the company’s key developers of the MRAM engine IP. He also served as Design Director and Principal Design Engineer at Zeno Semiconductor, working on a new type of 1T SRAM memory. He previously worked at Magsil, a field MRAM IP startup. Prior to that, Ben Louie worked at several large semiconductor companies, including Micron Technology and Xilinx. At Micron, Ben served as Design Lead/Manager for the company’s first NAND products, leading the design team in iterating from NOR Flash to NAND Flash.

Ben Louie earned a Master of Science and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Santa Clara University, a prestigious American university, and holds more than 116 patents.

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Using Cello to tackle the design challenges of FinFET standard cell libraries - Dan Fitzpatrick - Silvaco

Dan Fitzpatrick

Dan Fitzpatrick leads the Design IP team in Santa Clara, California, where he is responsible for IP design, characterization, and IP management, as well as related product development. Dan Fitzpatrick holds a Master of Engineering degree from the University of Florida, a top-ranked public university in the United States.

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Display Panel Sub-venue

Latest Advances in Silvaco TCAD Simulation - Dr. Eric Guichard - Silvaco

Dr. Eric Guichard

Dr. Eric Guichard is the Vice President of TCAD at Silvaco. He oversees all aspects of TCAD, from R&D to field implementation. Since joining Silvaco in 1995, he has held various positions, including Director of Silvaco France and most recently, Director of Global TCAD Field Operations. Prior to joining Silvaco, Guichard was a Senior SOI Engineer at LETI and Thomson Military & Aerospace, specializing in transistors and circuit aging.

Dr. Guichard holds a Master of Science degree in Materials Science and a PhD in Semiconductor Physics from the École Nationale Supérieure de Grenoble, France.

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Solution-Processed Organic Thin-Film Transistors - For Displays and Beyond - Professor Guo Xiaojun - Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Professor Guo Xiaojun

Professor and Vice Dean (in charge of research) of the School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Electronic Science and Technology from Jilin University in 2002 and his PhD in Electronic Engineering from the University of Surrey, UK in 2007. He previously worked at Plastic Logic (now FlexEnable) in the UK, conducting research on flexible display technology. He joined Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2009, focusing on developing more user-friendly human-machine-environment interface electronics technologies, researching related core device technologies (thin-film transistors, sensors, displays), hybrid device circuit design, heterogeneous integration, and novel manufacturing processes. He has published over 100 papers as first/corresponding author in leading international journals and conferences in the field of electronic materials and devices, and has been invited to present at over 20 international academic conferences. He serves as a council member of the Chinese Vacuum Society, deputy secretary-general of SID-China, editorial board member of academic journals such as IEEE TED/IEEE JEDS, senior editorial board member of Flexible and Printed Electronics, member of the IEEE Electron Devices Society (BoG) Council (2021-2023), chair of the Technical Committee on Flexible Electronics and Displays (2016-2019), member of the SID Technical Committee, and co-chair of the Program Committee of the International Conference on Information Display (ICDT) (2017-2019). He has received the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scientists, been selected for the Ministry of Education’s “New Century Excellent Talents Program,” the Shanghai Higher Education Institutions Distinguished Professor (Oriental Scholar) Program, and the Shanghai Pujiang Talent Program, and received the SID Presidential Citation Award (2018, 2019).
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TCAD Simulation: A Key Driver in Photodiode Design - Sungwon Kong - Silvaco, South Korea

Sungwon Kong

Sungwon Kong has worked at Silvaco in South Korea since 1996, where he has been responsible for providing TCAD application support to digital display customers. He graduated from Inha University with a degree in Electrical Materials and Devices Engineering and previously worked at Samsung Electronics.
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SmartSpice 4-terminal TFT model simulation aids advanced flat panel design - Dr. Jody Matos - Silvaco

Dr. Jody Matos

Dr. Jody Matos is a computer scientist with a passion for software and hardware design. As the Director of Circuit Simulation at Silvaco, Dr. Matos manages cutting-edge R&D and business-related projects for EDA tools, including circuit simulation and analysis for analog, digital, and mixed-signal IC designs.

Dr. Jody Matos holds a PhD in Computer Science and a Master’s degree in Microelectronics from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Brazil. He has published over 30 papers and holds patents. He has served as an expert reviewer and technical committee member for several prestigious journals and international conferences in the field of design automation

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Design and Simulation of Emerging Devices for Display Technology - Chang Zhiqiang - Silvaco China

Chang Zhiqiang

I have long been engaged in the technical promotion and customer support of Silvaco TCAD in China, focusing on the simulation application of TCAD in semiconductor processes and devices, and helping customers build TCAD simulation capabilities and platforms. I received my bachelor’s degree from Nanjing University and my master’s degree from Fudan University.
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Recent Advances in Utmost IV Device Modeling - Dr. Bogdan Tudor - Silvaco

Dr. Bogdan Tudor

Dr. Bogdan Tudor is the lead device characterization engineer at Silvaco and leads the Utmost and Modeling Service teams. He has over 20 years of experience in model development and characterization software.
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Numerical Analysis of Back-End Compatible AOS Semiconductor TFTs and Oxygen Defects for M3D-IC - Professor Liu Po-tsun - National Yang-Ming University

Professor Liu Po-tsun,

Professor Liu Po-tsun is a Chair Professor and Director of the Display Research Center at National Yang-Ming National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. He is a renowned expert in TFT, TFT-LCD, and AMOLED devices/circuits. His research encompasses amorphous oxide semiconductor (AOS)-based photoelectric sensors, non-volatile memory devices (flash memory, EEPROM, and RRAM), and gate drivers for array technology. He has expanded TFT technology from flat panel displays to monolithic 3D-IC applications in advanced semiconductor engineering. Professor Liu has published over 350 papers, authored one monograph, and served as a chapter editor for a book. He has been invited to speak at over 100 international and national conferences.

In recognition of his exceptional achievements and significant contributions to TFT technology, Professor Liu Bocun was elected an IEEE Fellow (2020) and a SID Fellow (2021), received the Outstanding Research Award from the National Science and Technology Commission (NSTC) (2021), and was listed in Research.com’s list of the world’s top electronic and electrical engineering scientists. He has also received numerous international conference paper awards, such as the Outstanding Engineering Professor Award from the Chinese Institute of Engineers (2022), the Outstanding Electrical Engineering Professor Award from the Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering (2015), the Excellent Young Scholar Research Fund, and the University Special Talent Award (National Science and Technology Commission, 2006-present).

Professor Liu Bocun has been dedicated to FPD research and talent cultivation. His lectures are highly praised by students and scholars. He has won the Outstanding Teaching Award (NCTU, 2019) and received the AUO Award four times during the Teachers’ Day celebration (2015, 2016, 2018, 2020).

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