The 16^th International System-on-Chip (SoC)

Conference, Exhibit & Workshops

 October 17 & 18, 2018

University of California, Irvine (UCI) - Calit2

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15^h International System-on-Chip (SoC)

Conference, Exhibit & Workshops

The Theme for This Year’s Conference Is “Secure and Intelligence Silicon Systems for Emerging Applications."

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Day One Wednesday October 19, 2016

SoC Conference Program Agenda*

Savant Company Inc.

Farhad Mafie, SoC Conference Chairman, IEEE OC SSCS & OCEN Chairs.

Welcome and Opening Remarks, Technology/Market Trends.

Farhad Mafie is SoC Conference Chairman. He has over 20 years of experience in semiconductor and computer businesses and more than 10 years of university-level teaching experience. He is the former Vice President of Marketing and Engineering at Toshiba Semiconductor. He has also worked in strategic marketing, project and design engineering at Lucent Technologies, Unisys, and MSI Data. Farhad has a Master of Science and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronic Engineering from California State University, Fullerton. He is an author and a translator, and his articles have been published in a variety of journals and Web-based magazines on technology and political affairs. In 2003, he published the biography of Iranian poet and Nobel nominee who lived in exile, Nader Naderpour (1929-2000), Iranian Poet, Thinker, Patriot. Farhad is also Editor-in-Chief for the CRC Press SoC Design and Technologies Book Series, which includes (1) Low-Power NoC for High-Performance SoC Design and (2) Design of Cost-Efficient Interconnect Processing Units. Farhad is an active member of IEEE, and he is the chair of IEEE Orange County Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS), as well as IEEE Orange County Entrepreneurs' Network (OCEN). He is also a member of two UCI Advisory Committees: Communication System Engineering and Embedded System Engineering Certificate Programs. 

4DS Memory Limited.

Dr. Seshubabu Desu, Chief Technical Officer, 4DS Memory Limited.
 

"Emerging Memories: Challenges and opportunities"
 

Abstract: This presentation will focus on emerging memories in terms of their advantages and challenges with respect to cost, scalability, density and performance. The metrics that are needed for predicting the potential success of these technologies will be analyzed. The physical picture behind the interdependence of endurance, retention, and bit error rates will be emphasized so that the performance optimization could be accomplished. The unique characteristics of these emerging memories for embedded applications as well as IOT, mobile and SCM applications will also be discussed.

Bio: Dr Seshubabu Desu is a highly regarded global subject matter expert in thin films, semi processing and non-volatile memories. He is CTO at 4DS Memory Limited that is pioneering non-filamentary resistive random access memory (ReRAM) for next generation gigabyte silicon storage in mobile and cloud. Dr. Desu currently leads the non-volatile memory technology and product development for 4DS. Prior to this, he was Dean of SUNY Binghamton’s Watson School of Engineering, Head of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at University of Massachusetts Amherst, and a professor at Virginia Tech Blacksburg. He holds 30 US patents, has written over 240 refereed technical articles and is a Highly Cited Researcher. Dr. Desu has co-edited six books and supervised over 35 MS and PhD theses. He is a Fellow of both IEEE and the American Ceramic Society. His previous experience includes being a Group Leader at GE and a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories. He holds a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

SK Hynix

Kevin Tran is a Sr. Manager of Technical Marketing at SK Hynix and Vis Valluri is the Director for Market Intelligence at SK Hynix

"Memory technology targeting smart applications enabled by 5G networks"

Abstract:  While the scope of a 5G network is being finalized, one thing is clear – 5G is going to have a significant change in the way it impacts industries and business models. Very few could envision the proliferation of the smartphones and its impact on the transportation industry, yet we expect even more industry segments/business models to be impacted with the deployment of 5G. As an example, in addition to existing revenue streams, we believe markets/industries will move towards a services driven revenue model – enabled by the increased data capture and ability to provide data analytics and offer compelling value based solutions. The talk will cover key markets that will be impacted by 5G like Automotive, Augmented-Reality/Virtual Reality (AR/VR), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the IoT segments and the opportunities for SoC/IC growth in these markets. SoCs continue to evolve to meet the changing application requirements and technical specifications of next generation system architectures. The memory subsystem is a key area which can enable higher effective performance of next generation SoCs. This talk will look at how next generation memory devices address the key requirements of SoC targeting automotive, AR/VR, AI and IoT applications. Bandwidth intensive system such as autonomous driving vehicle will require hundreds of gigabytes of data per second while low power and small form factor are critical for IoT and AR/VR applications. Computing platforms targeting Artificial Intelligence will be massively parallel and require memory subsystem that can deliver high bandwidth and high capacity. We will review the key characteristics of next generation low power DDR, graphics and memory devices leveraging Through Silicon Via (TSV) to deliver high bandwidth, high capacity, low power and small form factors. This new group of memory technologies will enable more intelligent systems leveraging 5G networks.


Bio: Vis Valluri is the Director for Market Intelligence at SK Hynix focused on the DRAM and NAND markets. Vis has over 20 years of experience in the semiconductor industry and has worked in various functions ranging from manufacturing, marketing, and more recently in corporate strategy. Vis was previously in the Corp Strategy group at SanDisk for close to 4 years, focused on the NAND market, leading market research for the retail and mobile segments. Before joining SanDisk, he spent 5 years doing equity research focused on semis, semicap and solar at Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley. Prior to his Wall Street career, Vis worked in manufacturing/operations at AMD and marketing at KLA Tencor. He has a MBA degree from Cornell University, MS in Mechanical Engineering from the State University of New York, and a BS degree from the Indian Institute of Technology.

Kevin Tran is a Sr. Manager of Technical Marketing at SK Hynix where his primary focus is on advanced memory solutions for high performance applications including networking, high performance compute and automotive. He is also the HBM Program Manager for SK Hynix America and has been developing the ecosystem to enable HBM in 2.5D integration. Kevin has over 14 years of experience in applications engineering and technical marketing in the semiconductor industry. He has worked for Atmel, Micron and Nanya prior to joining SK Hynix. 
 

Western Digital Corporation

Dr. Luis Vitorio Cargnini, Research Technologist Engineer, Western Digital Corporation

“NoC as Interconnect Fabric for Emerging Non-Volatile Memories.“

Abstract:  Memory chips have been designed in a stereotypical fashion for decades. Arrays and sub-arrays of memory elements are organized in such way providing spaces across subarrays, to allow the so-called “H-tree” routing structures, with a "sea-of-metal-tracks" carrying the bits across the chip to the digital interface. This scheme is running into scalability limits, with over two thirds of the chip area accommodating this sea-of-metal in some recent designs. These scalability problems are further exacerbated with emerging non-volatile memories, such as Magnetic RAM (MRAM), Phase Change Memory (PCM) and Resistive-RAM (ReRAM), that scale to even smaller memory cells. We explored a new memory bank architecture organization, one that keeps the traditional memory cell sub-array, but replaces the sea-of-metal routing with a Network-on-Chip. In this presentation we will argue that this design methodology provides better decoupling of data from communication, and is more amenable to innovation in the inevitable evolution of the interface as well as to more rapid deployment of new types of memory. Further, this architecture creates opportunities for more radical innovation in the CPU and SoC architectures, such as the hardware acceleration of coherence to even larger pools of globally shared memory or extending the memory hierarchy to a distributed coherence over fabric. Allowing SoC designers to explore new levels of performance with better controlled latency and predictable scalability.

Bio: Dr. Cargnini is currently a Research Technologist Engineer at the Western Digital Corporation Research Center, in San Jose, California, formerly known as HGST Research Center. He joined the Company in 2014 in the Storage Architecture group under Director Dr. Zvonimir Bandic and group Manager Dr. Dejan Vucinic. Meanwhile he has been working in characterizing MRAM and new emerging NVM memories, researching new Integrated Circuits designs to allow WDC to leverage emerging NVMs technologies with minimum impacts to a system performance. Also, his group is currently investigating and exploring ideas on how to extend the memory coherence all the way to the storage devices and how to aggregate higher processing functionality into a storage device, as well as new I/O architecture and organizations technologies from the IC level all the way to the system level. Previously to join WDC, he was a Research Engineer and obtained his Ph.D at the Laboratoire d’Informatique, de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier (LIRMM) at the Université de Montpellier in France, under the supervision of professor Dr. Lionel Torres, and his thesis was entitled “MRAM APPLIED TO EMBEDDED PROCESSORS ARCHITECTURE AND MEMORY HIERARCHY”.
 

Morning Break

Morning Break

Microsemi

Dr. Rino Micheloni is Engineering Fellow at Microsemi Corporation.

“Impact of 3D Flash Memories on SSD’s Controller Design.“

Abstract:  Flash memory has been a disruptive technology from its inception in the early '90s and innovation is still ongoing after more than 25 years. Thanks to their storage density, NAND Flash memories have changed our lives: USB keys have replaced floppy-disks and Flash Cards (SD, eMMC) record our pictures and movies instead of analog films. In the last 4-5 years Solid State Drives (SSDs) have emerged as the new killer applications for Flash: first in the consumer space (smartphones and tablets) but now expanding to enterprise applications as well. Indeed, being extremely demanding in terms of storage capacity, SSDs fueled a new revolutionary wave of innovations: 3D Flash memories. Today “3D” is a common buzzword but in this specific case it means that multiple layers (up to 64, as we speak) of memory cells are manufactured within the same piece of silicon. In this paper we review the evolutionary path from planar to 3-dimensional NAND Flash memories, and its impact on the design of the Flash Controller located inside a Solid State Drive, with specific reference to enterprise applications, which are the most demanding in terms of performances and reliability.


Bio: Dr. Rino Micheloni is Engineering Fellow at Microsemi Corporation where he currently runs the Non-Volatile Memory Lab in Milan, with special focus on NAND Flash. Prior to joining Microsemi, he was Fellow at PMC-Sierra, working on NAND Flash characterization, LDPC, and NAND Signal Processing as part of the team developing Flash controllers for PCIe SSDs. Before that, he was with IDT (Integrated Device Technology) as Lead Flash Technologist, driving the architecture and design of the BCH engine in the world’s 1st PCIe NVMe SSD controller. Early in his career, he led NAND design teams at STMicroelectronics, Hynix, Infineon, and Qimonda; during this time, he developed the industry’s first MLC NOR device with embedded ECC technology and the industry’s first MLC NAND with embedded BCH. Rino is IEEE Senior Member, he has co-authored more than 50 publications, and he holds 242 patents worldwide (including 120 US patents). He received the STMicroelectronics Exceptional Patent Award in 2003 and 2004, and the Qimonda IP Award in 2007.
Rino has published the following books with Springer: 3D Flash Memories (2016), Inside Solid State Drives (2013), Inside NAND Flash Memories (2010), Error Correction Codes for Non-Volatile Memories (2008), Memories in Wireless Systems (2008), and VLSI-Design of Non-Volatile Memories (2005).

IBM

Dr. Daniel Worledge, Distinguished Research Staff Member,  Senior Manager, MRAM, IBM.
 

"Spin Torque MRAM." 

Abstract: Spin-Transfer-Torque Magnetic Random Access Memory (MRAM) possesses a unique combination of high speed, high endurance, non-volatility, and small cell size. Among the emerging new memory technologies, including phase change memory, resistive random access memory, and conductive bridging random access memory, Spin Torque MRAM is the only candidate with the potential for unlimited endurance, since no atoms are moved during writing. This makes it the only potential candidate for use as a non-volatile working memory. Write current largely determines the cost of Spin Torque MRAM, since the transistor and hence cell area must be sized large enough to source the write current. This talk will give a brief overview of Spin Torque MRAM, including potential applications and materials challenges. I will then review the discovery of interface perpendicular anisotropy in the Ta|CoFeB|MgO system at IBM and the subsequent perpendicular magnetic tunnel junctions which were developed using it, including demonstration of reliable, high speed spin-torque writing, and results on scaling down to 20 nm. Recent experimental results showing low switching current with 10 ns pulses and theoretical predictions for further lowering the switching current will also be shown.
 

Bio: Dr.Daniel C. Worledge IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center
Dr. Worledge received a BA with a double major in Physics and Applied Mathematics from UC Berkeley in 1995. He then received a PhD in Applied Physics from Stanford University in 2000, with a thesis on spin-polarized tunneling in oxide ferromagnets. After joining the Physical Sciences Department at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center as a Post-doc in 2000, he became a Research Staff Member in 2001, developing fast turn-around measurement methods for magnetic tunnel junctions, including Current-in-Plane Tunneling. In 2003, Dr. Worledge became the manager of the MRAM Materials and Devices group, and in 2013 he became Senior Manager of MRAM. He has worked on developing Toggle and then Spin Torque MRAM, including developing new perpendicular magnetic materials. His current research interests include magnetic devices and their behavior at small dimensions, and new magnetic devices for logic applications.

Lunch

Lunch

Microsemi

Ted Marena, Director FPGA SOC Marketing, Microsemi
 

“Microsemi highly-integrated and lowest power FPGAs enable unique camera applications“

Abstract: Because Microsemi FPGAs offer more resources in lower density FPGAs at up to 50% less power, engineers are able to create numerous unique camera designs. This presentation will discuss various image sensor interfaces and explain how Microsemi can support these. Typical image processing functions that can be implemented, designs which benefit by using Microsemi FPGAs and block diagram details of unique camera based products will be shown.

Bio: Ted Marena is the director of FPGA SOC marketing at Microsemi. He has over 20 years’ experience in FPGAs. He was awarded Innovator of the Year in February 2014 when he worked for Lattice Semiconductor. Marena has defined, created and executed unique marketing platform solutions for vertical markets including consumer, wireless small cells, industrial, cameras, displays and automotive applications. Marena started working as a design engineer, field application engineer and a sales manager before he moved to marketing. His understanding of the complete electronics design cycle has earned him a reputation as an expert marketer in the semiconductor industry. Marena holds a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering Magna Cum Laude from the University of Connecticut and a MBA from Bentley College’s Elkin B. McCallum Graduate School of Business.
 

Microsemi

Keynote

Jim Aralis, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), and Vice President of R&D, Microsemi Corporation.

Keynote: “What does a SoC look like in 2025? Who, what and Why”
 

Abstract:  The talk will focus on changes in technology, applications, and economics of the SoC ecosystem, and what it will likely mean for the realization of these devices in the next decade. It will examine the way process technology, packaging technology, design abstraction, and other such factors of true differentiation will push these core devices. These observations are intended to provide insights into where to position your company and career for the coming decade.

Bio: Jim Aralis has served as chief technology officer and vice president of R&D for Microsemi since January 2007. He has more than 30 years experience in developing custom analog device and process technologies, analog and mixed-signal ICs and systems, and CAD systems.  Jim played a key role in transitioning Microsemi to a virtually fabless model, supporting multiple process technologies including, high voltage and high power BCD/CMOS, high power high integration CMOS, GaAs, SiGe, IPD, RF CMOS SoI, GaN, SiC, and several high-density packaging technologies.  From 2000 to 2007, Jim established and served as senior design director of Maxim Integrated Product’s engineering center in Irvine, Calif. Before that, he spent 7 years with Texas Instruments/ Silicon Systems as mixed-signal design head and senior principal engineer. Additional experience includes 11 years with Hughes Aircraft Company in positions of increasing responsibility including senior scientist.  Jim earned a bachelor of science degree in Math Applied Science and Physics and a master of science in electrical engineering from UCLA. He holds 9 patents for circuit and system design.

University of Michigan

Dr. Mina Rais-Zadeh, Associate Professor at University of Michigan, EECS Department. Visiting Professor, Advanced Detectors, Systems & Nanoscience, NASA JPL.

“Reconfigurable front-end components for smart radio applications.“

Abstract:  Currently, most electronic circuits are targeted for a specific application and their functionality is fixed. There is a great demand for smart electronics, where the system response can change in different conditions. To develop such a system, in addition to sensor integration for situation awareness, it is essential to develop adaptable hardware. Examples of this are available mobile handsets, which can select specific frequency bands. With advances in telecommunications, more and more services rely on high data rate spectrum access, but the radio spectrum has become overly crowded. Using reconfigurable or so called smart radios, one can mitigate the problems associated with the limited spectrum availability by tuning to the frequency band that is least heavily used at any given time. To address this need, we are developing required hardware elements of tunable radios. This talk covers a number of technologies developed for smart radio applications including new switch structures using a phase-change material, germanium telluride. Such switches are as small as their semiconductor counterparts and can be integrated on silicon for increased versatility but offer significantly lower loss and higher isolation at the off state. The talk also describes how reconfigurable radios can result in reduce entry costs in wireless phones.

Bio: Dr. Mina Rais-Zadeh received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees both in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2005 and 2008, respectively. From 2008 to 2009, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology. In 2009, she joined the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS). Since 2014, she has been an Associate Professor in EECS with courtesy appointment in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. In 2015, she is on sabbatical leave at NASA JPL. Dr. Rais-Zadeh is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (2011), IEEE Electron Device Society Early Career Award (2011), NASA Early Career Faculty Award (2012), the Crosby Research Award from the University of Michigan (2013), National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering (2013), ONR Young Investigator Award (2014), and IEEE Sensors Council Early Career Technical Achievement Award (2015). Together with her students, she received the best poster award at the Transducers conference (2013), the best paper award at the IEEE SiRF conference (2014), honorable mention at the IEEE IMS (2014), and was the finalist in student paper competitions at the SiRF (2007) and IMS (2011) conferences. She is an associate editor of IEEE Electron Device Letters (EDL) and IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems (JMEMS) and on editorial board of Nature Scientific Reports.
 

Xilinx

Dan Isaacs, Director of Connected Systems at Xilinx.

“Enhancing Intelligence at the Edge, Programmable SoCs for Accelerated Edge Compute.“

Abstract:  Complex algorithms, once requiring server‐class processing to analyze massive amounts of sensor data, can now be accelerated in programmable logic. This real-time processing performed "at the edge" closest to the sensor input, reduces overhead and off chip communication, so only the necessary information is transferred, enabling reduction of system response time and improved operational efficiencies. Advantages to utilizing advanced multiprocessor programmable SoCs in these systems compared to conventional approaches will be compared and contrasted – where concerns around performance, low latency, power, footprint, scalability, flexibility and reliability are addressed in manners that today's devices with comparable features cannot accomplish individually. The programmable multiprocessor SoC presentation will include architectural details on dedicated real time processing for low latency control / response while simultaneously performing application processing for command and control. Separation and isolation capabilities supported by the programmable SoC architecture will be discussed in terms of hardware and software capabilities. Industrial communication protocols with functionality, managed by the processing system and / or the programmable logic will be presented. Security and functional safety aspects, both integrated and third party implementations, will be described in the context of Industrial IoT real world applications.
 

Bio: Dan is Director of Connected Systems at Xilinx. He is responsible for defining and executing the ecosystem strategy for the Industrial IoT and is the representative to the Industrial Internet Consortium. Dan has over 25 years of experience working in mil/aero, automotive, and consumer based companies including Hughes, Ford, NEC and LSI Logic. During his career, Dan has held positions in software design, FPGA design engineer, systems engineer and system verification, applications, other technical related management. He holds degrees in Computer Engineering- EE from Cal State University, B.S. Geophysics from ASU.
 

Afternoon Break

Afternoon Break

University of California, Los Angeles.

Keynote

Dr. Subramanian S. Iyer, Distinguished Chancellor's Professor
Charles P. Reames Endowed Chair, Electrical Engineering Department, Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, UCLA.
 

Abstract:  Moore’s law has so far relied on the aggressive scaling of CMOS silicon minimum features of over 1000X for over four decades, and recently, on the adoption of innovative features, such as Cu interconnects, low- dielectrics for interconnects, strained channels, and high- materials for gate dielectrics, resulting in a better power performance, cost per function, and density every generation. This has spawned a vibrant system-on-chip (SoC) approach, where progressively more function has been integrated on a single die. The integration of multiple dies on packages and boards has, however, scaled only modestly by a factor of three to five times. However, as SoC’s have become more complex and bigger, the NRE and time to market have both ballooned out of control leading to ever increasing consolidation. In this presentation, we show that with the apparent slowing down of semiconductor scaling and the advent of the Internet of Things, there is a focus on heterogeneous integration and system-level scaling. Packaging is undergoing a transformation that focuses on overall system performance and cost rather than on individual components. We propose ways in which this transformation can evolve to provide a significant value at the system level while providing a significantly lower barrier to entry compared with a chip-based SoC approach that is currently used. This transformation is already under way with 3-D stacking of dies and will evolve to make heterogeneous integration the backbone of a new SoC methodology.

Bio: Subramanian S. Iyer (Subu) is Distinguished Chancellor’s Professor and holds the Charles P. Reames Endowed Chair in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of California at Los Angeles and Director of the Center for Heterogeneous Integration and Performance Scaling (CHIPS). He obtained his B.Tech. from IIT-Bombay, and Ph.D. from UCLA and joined the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center at Yorktown heights, NY and later moved to the IBM systems and Technology Group at Hopewell Junction, NY where he was appointed IBM Fellow and was till recently Director of the Systems Scaling Technology Department. His key technical contributions have been the development of the world’s first SiGe base HBT, Salicide, electrical Fuses, embedded DRAM and 45nm technology used at IBM and IBM’s development partners to make the first generation smartphone devices. He also was among the first to commercialize bonded SOI for CMOS applications through a start-up called SiBond LLC. He has published over 300 papers and holds over 70 patents. His current technical interests and work lie in the area of advanced packaging and three-dimensional integration for system-level scaling and new integration and computing paradigms as well as the long-term semiconductor and packaging roadmap for logic, memory and other devices including hardware security and supply-chain integrity. He has received several outstanding technical achievements and corporate awards at IBM. He is an IEEE Fellow and a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE EDS as well as its treasurer. He is a Distinguished Alumnus of IIT Bombay and received the IEEE Daniel Noble Medal for emerging technologies in 2012. He also studies Sanskrit in his spare time.

Panel

Fujitsu

Microsemi

IBM

UCI

NxGn Data, Inc.

SoC Conference

Panel:  

“Memory Trends and Innovations From Big Data to Mobile and Wearable Devices."

Moderator:  Farhad Mafie, SoC Conference Chairman, IEEE OC SSCS & OCEN Chairs.

Panelists: 

1. Dr. Daniel Worledge, Distinguished Research Staff Member, Senior Manager, MRAM. IBM.
2. Dr. Rino Micheloni is Engineering Fellow at Microsemi Corporation.
3. Hitoshi Saito, Director, Emerging Memory Dept., System Memory Business Div., FUJITSU SEMICONDUCTOR LIMITED.
4. Professor Nader Bagherzadeh, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science, UC Irvine.
5. Dr. Vladimir Alves, Co-founder, NxGn Data, Inc.
6. Jim Aralis, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), and Vice President of R&D, Microsemi Corporation.
 

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Microsemi

Dr. Rino Micheloni, Engineering Fellow at Microsemi Corporation.

Panelist

Bio: Dr. Rino Micheloni is Engineering Fellow at Microsemi Corporation where he currently runs the Non-Volatile Memory Lab in Milan, with special focus on NAND Flash. Prior to joining Microsemi, he was Fellow at PMC-Sierra, working on NAND Flash characterization, LDPC, and NAND Signal Processing as part of the team developing Flash controllers for PCIe SSDs. Before that, he was with IDT (Integrated Device Technology) as Lead Flash Technologist, driving the architecture and design of the BCH engine in the world’s 1st PCIe NVMe SSD controller. Early in his career, he led NAND design teams at STMicroelectronics, Hynix, Infineon, and Qimonda; during this time, he developed the industry’s first MLC NOR device with embedded ECC technology and the industry’s first MLC NAND with embedded BCH. Rino is IEEE Senior Member, he has co-authored more than 50 publications, and he holds 242 patents worldwide (including 120 US patents). He received the STMicroelectronics Exceptional Patent Award in 2003 and 2004, and the Qimonda IP Award in 2007.
Rino has published the following books with Springer: 3D Flash Memories (2016), Inside Solid State Drives (2013), Inside NAND Flash Memories (2010), Error Correction Codes for Non-Volatile Memories (2008), Memories in Wireless Systems (2008), and VLSI-Design of Non-Volatile Memories (2005).

IBM

Dr. Daniel Worledge, Distinguished Research Staff Member,  Senior Manager, MRAM, IBM.
 

Panelist  

Bio: Dr.Daniel C. Worledge IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center
Dr. Worledge received a BA with a double major in Physics and Applied Mathematics from UC Berkeley in 1995. He then received a PhD in Applied Physics from Stanford University in 2000, with a thesis on spin-polarized tunneling in oxide ferromagnets. After joining the Physical Sciences Department at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center as a Post-doc in 2000, he became a Research Staff Member in 2001, developing fast turn-around measurement methods for magnetic tunnel junctions, including Current-in-Plane Tunneling. In 2003, Dr. Worledge became the manager of the MRAM Materials and Devices group, and in 2013 he became Senior Manager of MRAM. He has worked on developing Toggle and then Spin Torque MRAM, including developing new perpendicular magnetic materials. His current research interests include magnetic devices and their behavior at small dimensions, and new magnetic devices for logic applications.

Fujitsu

Hitoshi Saito, Director, Emerging Memory Dept., System Memory Business Div., FUJITSU SEMICONDUCTOR LIMITED.

Panelist  

Bio: Hitoshi Saito received the BS in electrical engineering from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology and joined FUJITSU LIMITED in 1990. He had contributed to the development of DRAM, FLASH and FRAM fabrication process and device technology. He started the joint development of NRAM with Nantero, Inc. He is a director of Emerging memory Department of FUJITSU SEMICONDUCTOR LIMITED. His recent interest is emerging nonvolatile memory fabrication process and device technology.

UCI

Professor Nader Bagherzadeh, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science, UC Irvine.

Panelist

 

Bio: Dr. Nader Bagherzadeh has been involved in research and development in the areas of computer architecture, reconfigurable computing, VLSI chip design, and computer graphics. For almost ten years ago, he was the first researcher working on the VLSI design of a Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) processor.   Since then, he has been working on multithreaded superscalars and their application to signal processing and general purpose computing.  His current project at UC, Irvine is concerned with the design of coarse grain reconfigurable pixel processors for video applications.  The proposed architecture, called MorphoSys, is versatile enough to be used for digital signal processing tasks such as the ones encountered in wireless communications and sonar processing.  DARPA and NSF fund the MorphoSys project (total support $1.5 million).  Dr. Bagherzadeh was the Chair of Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Henry Samueli School of Engineering at University of California, Irvine.  Before joining UC, Irvine, from 1979 to 1984, he was a member of the technical staff (MTS) at AT&T Bell Laboratories, developing the hardware and software components of the next-generation digital switching systems (#5 ESS).  Dr. Bagherzadeh holds a Ph.D. in computer engineering from The University of Texas at Austin.  As a Professor, he has published more than a hundred articles in peer-reviewed journals and conference papers in areas such as advanced computer architecture, system software techniques, and high performance algorithms.  He has trained hundreds of students who have assumed key positions in software and computer systems design companies in the past twelve years.  He has been a Principal Investigator (PI) or Co-PI on more than $2.5 million worth of research grants for developing next-generation computer systems for solving computationally intensive applications related to signal and image processing.

Microsemi

Jim Aralis, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), and Vice President of R&D, Microsemi Corporation.

Panelist
 

Bio: Jim Aralis has served as chief technology officer and vice president of R&D for Microsemi since January 2007. He has more than 30 years experience in developing custom analog device and process technologies, analog and mixed-signal ICs and systems, and CAD systems.  Jim played a key role in transitioning Microsemi to a virtually fabless model, supporting multiple process technologies including, high voltage and high power BCD/CMOS, high power high integration CMOS, GaAs, SiGe, IPD, RF CMOS SoI, GaN, SiC, and several high-density packaging technologies.  From 2000 to 2007, Jim established and served as senior design director of Maxim Integrated Product’s engineering center in Irvine, Calif. Before that, he spent 7 years with Texas Instruments/ Silicon Systems as mixed-signal design head and senior principal engineer. Additional experience includes 11 years with Hughes Aircraft Company in positions of increasing responsibility including senior scientist.  Jim earned a bachelor of science degree in Math Applied Science and Physics and a master of science in electrical engineering from UCLA. He holds 9 patents for circuit and system design.

NGD Systems

Vladimir Alves, PhD – Co-founder and CTO, NGD Systems.

Panelist

 

Bio: Dr. Alves has been architecting and implementing solid state storage solutions since 2005. He occupied the position of Sr. Director of SSD SoC Development at Western Digital and STEC (acquired by HGST), in charge of architecting and implementing Enterprise SSD controllers. He is now a co-founder and CTO at NGD Systems focusing on storage technology innovation for the data center and fog. Dr. Alves obtained his Ph.D. degree in Microeletronics in 1992 from the National Polytechnic Institute in Grenoble, France. He is the author of more than 30 scientific publications in the fields of SoC architecture, computer architecture, semiconductor test, self-checking and fail-safe design circuits and the co-author of patents in US and Europe.

Tabletop Exhibit and Networking

Tabletop Exhibit and Networking

Day TWO Thursday, October 20, 2016

SoC Conference Program Agenda*

Savant Company Inc.

Farhad Mafie, SoC Conference Chairman, IEEE OC SSCS & OCEN Chairs.

Welcome and Opening Remarks, Technology/Market Trends.

Farhad Mafie is SoC Conference Chairman. He has over 20 years of experience in semiconductor and computer businesses and more than 10 years of university-level teaching experience. He is the former Vice President of Marketing and Engineering at Toshiba Semiconductor. He has also worked in strategic marketing, project and design engineering at Lucent Technologies, Unisys, and MSI Data. Farhad has a Master of Science and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronic Engineering from California State University, Fullerton. He is an author and a translator, and his articles have been published in a variety of journals and Web-based magazines on technology and political affairs. In 2003, he published the biography of Iranian poet and Nobel nominee who lived in exile, Nader Naderpour (1929-2000), Iranian Poet, Thinker, Patriot. Farhad is also Editor-in-Chief for the CRC Press SoC Design and Technologies Book Series, which includes (1) Low-Power NoC for High-Performance SoC Design and (2) Design of Cost-Efficient Interconnect Processing Units. Farhad is an active member of IEEE, and he is the chair of IEEE Orange County Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS), as well as IEEE Orange County Entrepreneurs' Network (OCEN). He is also a member of two UCI Advisory Committees: Communication System Engineering and Embedded System Engineering Certificate Programs. 

Elphel

Dr. Andrey N. Filippov, Elphel

“Free Software Environment for FPGA Development.“

Abstract:  Abstract: Free/Libre and open-source software (FLOSS) play important role in the software world and constitute the basis of the popular operating system for embedded and mobile devices, most of the SoCs run FLOSS. It is very different for the EDA tools used for the FPGA design, programmable logic is now an integral part of the modern SoC. There are several reasons for this happening, but the result is the same – disadvantage of the FPGA/hardware developers: vendor lock-in (software in addition to the new hardware), limited ability for customization, incompatibility between the software releases. Shortcomings of non-free tools are most obvious in the Integrated Development Environments (IDE) where it is almost impossible to mix-and-match provided software with the new and emerging technologies, this is why many FPGA developers completely forgo the use of GUI and combine manufacturer-provided command line implementation tools with custom scripts. However this professional approach is not very convenient for the newcomers and casual FPGA developers. Verilog Development Tools (VDT) plugin for the popular FLOSS Eclipse IDE and the XML-based Tool Specification Language (TSL) in its core are intended for both professional and casual FPGA developers. Being free software VDT offers unhindered access to the source code for modification, being an Eclipse plugin it provides rich and intuitive GUI already familiar to many software developers, offers features of the modern code editors. In addition to the operational setup (changing predefined tools parameters) TSL offers functional setup by the end user – convenience to integrate and mix new external tools even without getting into plugin Java code that requires specific knowledge of Eclipse API and Java. We use VDT with a mixture of proprietary and free software: Xilinx Vivado and ISE tools, Altera Quartus, Icarus Verilog simulator with GtkWave, and Cocotb that runs the target Python code through the simulator.

Bio: Andrey N. Filippov has over 25 years of experience in the embedded systems design. Andrey holds a PhD in Physics from the Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology. He worked for the General Physics Institute (Moscow, Russia) in the area of high-speed high-resolution, mixed signal design, application of PLDs and FPGAs, and microprocessor-based embedded system hardware and software design. In 1995 Andrey moved to the United States and in 2001 started Elphel, Inc. - Open Hardware and Free Software company. As a lead engineer at Elphel Andrey has been designing and manufacturing digital cameras for variety of applications, including robotics, machine vision, aerial photography, document scanning, stereo and panoramic imaging.

IEEE &

Copernica Institute

Brian Hagerty is the Founder & CEO of the Copernica Institute

“Arduino-on-a-Chip and IEEE’s ‘BRAIN’ Collaborative for Smart Chip Design.“

Abstract:  In this presentation we’ll review IEEE’s “Arduino-on-a-Chip” Design-For-Manufacturing program. — Many students, hobbyists and professionals have learned to use Arduino baseboards and daughterboards, called “shields”, to design and prototype electronic systems of all sorts, from sensors and home automation projects, to robotic subsystems, factory automation and smart grid controllers. But prototypes based on Arduino’s stackable “shields” architecture are not generally ready for commercial product manufacturing. Design For Manufacturing requires an analysis of cost reductions, potential chip-set and board-level consolidations into ASICs or SoCs, as well as decisions about industrial security, commercial form factors, packaging, and enclosures. IEEE has launched a new program, known as the “Business Resource Alliance and Innovation Network” (BRAIN), to encourage collaborations between industry and academia that link education and research & development to workforce training & market readiness. “Arduino-on-a-Chip” (AoC) is just one of these IEEE ‘BRAIN’ Collaborations. The AoC program encourages students and professional R&D engineers to work with academic labs and industry partners to take prototype Arduino projects through the full toolchain process of industrial design for manufacture and commercial product realization.

Bio: Brian Hagerty is the Founder & CEO of the Copernica Institute, a consulting company dedicated to promoting & financing sustainable economic development and lifelong learning programs. He also serves as the Chair of Education Activities for IEEE Region 6, covering the twelve western United States. His focus is on the development of real economic projects through public/private partnerships between industry and academia; most recently in the area of project finance and workforce training for energy infrastructure. — As a consultant with over thirty years of experience in the sectors of information technology, electric power, semiconductor manufacturing, and aerospace, he assists colleges and universities with economic development and education programs in the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM) and Career Technical Education (CTE) as they relate to the workforce needs of industry.

Methodics Inc

Vishal Moondhra, VP of Applications, Methodics Inc.
 

"Meeting Time-to-Market and Cost Reduction Goals Through Platform Based Design."
 

Abstract:  Companies designing today's complex System-on-Chips (SoC’s) must find new ways to meet the challenges imposed by shrinking time-to-market windows and cost pressures. Platform based design methodologies allow companies to reduce the time it takes to bring designs to market and maximize reuse of internal IP on those designs. A platform is the starting point for a new or derivative design that contains all of the IP and design meta data properly configured to be downloaded to a user's workspace. To enable a platform based design methodology, companies must formalize how design IP is handled. By adopting an IP Lifecycle Management solution (IPLM), companies can benefit from streamlining the SoC development process and guarantee that IP is being fully utilized through all of the company’s design projects.

Bio: Vishal Moondhra has over 15 years experience in Digital Design and Verification. He has held engineering and senior management positions with innovative startups including IgT and Montalvo, and large multinationals including Intel and Sun. In 2008, Vishal co-founded Missing Link Tools, which built the industry's first comprehensive DV management solution, bringing together all aspects of verification management. Methodics acquired Missing Link Tools in 2012.

UC Irvine

Dr. Michael J. Klopfer, Technical Director, CalPlug - California Plug Load Research Center, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), University of California, Irvine.

"Intelligent IoT Load Control for Energy Savings Solutions"  

Abstract: TBD.

Bio:  Michael is doctoral graduate in biomedical engineering. He has a background in consumer electronics and power systems, and has designed and constructed high-load power supplies and power management systems for x-ray generators. He has also led numerous projects related to the planning and installation of power, data and low voltage interface lines and assisted in the installation and upgrade of factory automation systems.
 

Morning Break

Morning Break

QuickLogic

Dr. Timothy Saxe, CTO, QuickLogic.
 

“Less’s Law"
 

Abstract:  Historically Moore’s Law has been used to drive more capability for the same cost, which gave us the powerful GHz CPUs that enable the digital revolution. However, all that computational capability needs data to feed it, and that requires looking at Moore’s law in a different way. Instead of driving more performance for the same cost, Moore’s law can be looked at as a way to drive lower cost for the same performance. And this is exactly what is required to create vast low cost, easy to deploy sensor networks that will be required to enable big data to transform our lives.  The QuickLogic EOS S3 device is a third generation sensor processing device that embodies some of the required thinking. The EOS S3 device implements a hierarchical processing architecture that uses small specialized pre-processors to reduce continuous sensor data into interesting events, that are then processed by a standard RISC CPU (ARM Cortex-M4), which further analyzes the events to determine when to activate even larger computing resources. The key to low power performance lies in the specialized pre-processors that use hardware acceleration techniques, but instead of delivering more performance at the same power, they are used to deliver lower power at the same performance. Additionally, one of the pre-processors rethinks the standard RISC paradigm to deliver fairly general computing at lower power for the same performance.


Bio: Timothy Saxe (Ph.D) joined QuickLogic in May 2001 and has served as our Sr. Vice President and Chief Technology Officer since November 2008. Prior to this role, Dr. Saxe served as our Chief Technology Officer and Sr. Vice President, Engineering from August 2006 to November 2008 and as Vice President, Software Engineering from May 2001 to August 2006. From November 2000 to February 2001, Dr. Saxe was Vice President of FLASH Engineering at Actel Corporation, a semiconductor manufacturing company. Dr. Saxe joined GateField Corporation, a design verification tools and services company formerly known as Zycad, in June 1983 and was a founder of their semiconductor manufacturing division in 1993. Dr. Saxe became GateField's Chief Executive Officer in February 1999 and served in that capacity until GateField was acquired by Actel in November 2000. Mr. Saxe holds a B.S.E.E. degree from North Carolina State University, and an M.S.E.E. degree and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University.

Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technologies

Keynote

Professor Tian Tong, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technologies.

"Challenges to Technical Issues of SiCMOS mmWave SoC Implementation." 

Abstract:

Integrating an entire system on a single chip has been a dream since the earliest days when CMOS IC technologies invented. However, limited by practical technologies, during the most of the past years SoC referred to a fully digital system chip. Therefore most SOC researches were focused on how to implement a huge scale digital system, such as the rule for high density layout, heat sunk, testable design, clock delay control and so on. However, with the feature length of SiCMOS process achieving 90nm and below, it becomes possible for an RF system, and even an mmWave system, to be integrated into an SOC to construct ‘really’ full-function communication systems or  other electronic systems.  This raises many new problems to SOC research, since the design concerns on analog/RF/mmWave partition are sensitivity, noise, attenuation and etc which are much different from the design concerns on digital partition.  Moreover, implemented on the same chip, the two partitions (digital partition and mmWave partition) will interfere with each other due to the characteristics of the CMOS process.  In the presentation , four sections are to be presented, which are:

1. mmWave SOC, possibility and feasibility. In this section, the technologies supporting mmWave SOCs are discussed to demonstrate the possibility of mmWave system implementation. Meanwhile, the advantages of CMOS SOC solutions for mmWave systems are discussed from technical and market points of view.

2. Interference between each other: Substrate coupling issue and an engineering solution. Due to the special PN junction isolation, there is in fact a path with which all components are connected together. The path presents a good noise ( or harmonics) channel from the digital partition to the mmWave partition as well as between noise sources in components. In most cases, a guardring and/or an isolation gap are chosen as the solution. To avoid wasting wafer area, and to keep the noise or substrate harmonic level under control dynamically, an active method is presented. To validate the method, the harmonic characteristics of digital partitions will be analyzed and summarized.

3. Low resistance substrate issues for SiCMOS mmWave SOC and a possible solution.  Undoubtedly, SiCMOS low resistance substrate induces the most issues into SiCMOS mmWave SOC implementation. Compared to III-V or SOI technologies, CMOS substrates will present a higher noise floor, noise coupling, devices performance degradation and propagation attenuation. This presentation will try to analyze the issues and presents amounts of measurements to systematically discuss the method to improve the performance of devices and mmWave systems on chip.

4. A brief introduction of our mmWave SOC design of a single chip CMOS Radar.  Based on fundamental SOC researches, a single chip 35 GHz FMCW radar was designed and implemented in standard CMOS 65nm, which presents a 1.4GHz FMCW bandwidth, 120mW power consumption, and more than 30dB receiving gain. The principle integrated on-chip blocks include 35GHz VCO, FMCW generator, Mixer, LNA, on-chip PA, online calibration, SPI control port, power distribution and management, and IF amplifier and filters,  as well as chip protection.  The SOC chip presents users IQ- IF outputs, and a control port. Users do not need to handle any mmWave signal.   

The 35 GHz signal generated on chip.

The FMCW signal generated on Chip with 1.4GHz Bandwidth

The microphoto of the SOC Die.

Bio:

Professor Tian Tong,  obtained his bachelor’ s degree from microelectronics division of Huazhong University of science and technology in 1990, master’s degree from circuit and system division of  Xi’an University of electronic science in 1995 and Ph.D degree with the best honor of TCL from microelectronics division of Xi’an Jiaotong University in 1998 , respectively. He took positions of post doc at National key lab of Radar signal processing in 1998-2000 and Nanyang technological University, Singapore in 2000-2001. Since 2001 he was with the Institute of Microeletronics, Singapore as a senior engineer and a senior research scientist, and was elected as the member of technical council and the member of invention council. He won the best research Prize of the Institute of Microeletronics, Singapore for 2003-2004.  From August 2004 he held a position of Associate Professor in Aalborg University, Danmark. And since March, 2010 he is with Shanghai institute of Microsystems and information technology as a Professor，and holds positions of adjunct professor in a few Chinese famous Universities in the meanwhile. He is associate editor of IEEE transaction on Circuit and system II. His research area covers analog/RF IC and system; Millimeter wave IC and system; RF system for Human body implant and human body assistance

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Microsemi Corporation

Dr. Richard RAO, Microsemi Technical Fellow and a senior member of IEEE.

“CMOS Backend Integration Reliability Challenges and Solutions.“

Abstract: The backend integration of advanced CMOS process induces new reliability failure modes due to the adoption of new materials used for interconnects like extreme low k (ELK) dielectric, Pb free solder and Cu pillar bumping and the advanced packaging technologies such as high performance flip chip BGA and 2.5D/3D packages. Failures are primarily either inside the Si die with the typical failure modes such as ELK fracture; crack initiation and propagation at the Cu/ELK interface or the bump interconnect fracture, etc.
The reliability failure mechanisms are very complex and many factors may contribute to the failures. In this talk, the following major issues will be reviewed: Major failure modes – Si backend interconnect cracking; bump cracking due to thermal fatigue; Die and underfill cracking and delamination, etc. Chip to Package Interaction (CPI) landscape – Discuss major factors that contribute to CPI failure such as design layout, fabrication, wafer singulation, package design, assembly process and material properties, etc. Stress factors – Backend integration; assembly induced stresses and end user use conditions such as thermal cycling, power cycling, moisture loading, vibration and shock/drop.Packaging technology effects – Cu wirebonding, flip chip BGA, 2.5D/3D TSV, etc. Electrical CPI - failure modes and modeling Design for backend reliability solutions – general approach and comprehensive DfR modeling Backend Reliability measurement – test structures and reliability qualification testing.

Bio: Dr. Richard RAO is currently a Technical Fellow of Microsemi Corp, a lead supplier of high reliability integrate circuit, located in southern California, USA and a Senior Member of IEEE. He manages the design for reliability program and the main focus is to develop design for reliability flows for advanced circuits, packaging and chip to package interaction. He has a Ph.D. degree in solid mechanics of materials from the University of Science and Technology of China. Prior to joining Microsemi in 2004, Dr. Rao held various academic and technical positions in reliability physics and engineering. He was an associate professor at University of Science and Technology of China, a research fellow at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA and National Science and Technology Board of Singapore. He also held senior and principal engineering positions in Motorola Electronics and Ericsson Inc. He has published over 30 papers on reliability physics and applications and also a main contributor of several JEDEC standards. He is a speaker to IRPS (International Reliability and Physics Symposium), ECTC (Electronics Component and Technology Conference), ISQED (International Symposium on Quality Electronics Design), ASME Symposiums and a keynote speaker to ICEPT and International Conf on System on Chip, etc. Dr. Rao has over 20 years hands on experience and knowledge in the advanced wafer processes such as 28nm HKMG and 16nm FF, advanced IC and optical packaging, chip to package interaction, board and system level reliability physics and applications. He has conducted professional development courses on advanced IC reliability to both industrial and academic worlds.
 

Intrinsic ID

Dr. Pim Tuyls, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Intrinsic ID.

"Authentication: the Key to the success of the Smart World"
 

Abstract:
The digital revolution has made the world a completely different place. Not only humans are connected all the time, but also systems and devices such as sensors, wearables, mobile and medical devices and even cars and homes. They are continuously sensing, processing, transferring and gathering information. Based on the analysis of all this generated data, smart decisions are being taken that influence the situation of the world around us. Often this happens autonomously, without the intervention of human beings. As such we have become fully dependent on those smart systems, and need to be able to fully rely on them to make sure that no disasters or accidents happen. Therefore, these systems should have the ability to detect whether non-genuine counterfeit components are present and whether the information they receive and process is trustworthy and has not been tampered with. Since these systems consist of millions of devices, the provisioning of the keys and identities that form the basis of the authentication process, is highly non-trivial. In this talk we will sketch an efficient solution for the above mentioned problems based on the fingerprint of a chip or Physical Unclonable Function.
 

Bio: Dr. Pim Tuyls is CEO and co-founder of Intrinsic-ID, the world leading Authentication company based on Physical Unclonable Functions. He got his Ph.D at the Katholieke University of Leuven in 1997. He is a pioneer and leading authority in the field of Physical Unclonable Functions, holder of 30+ patents, has published more than 50 papers and is a regular speaker at international conferences. Currently, he is running Intrinsic-ID from its Silicon Valley offices in San Jose.

Infineon Technologies AG

Author: Pankaj Singh, Sr. Manager SoC Verification, Infineon Technologies Singapore.

“Holistic Verification Methodology for ISO 26262 Automotive SoC.“

Author: Martin Ruhwandl, Principal Engineers Functional Verification, Infineon Technologies AG.

Abstract: SoC especially Automotive design in general continues to grow in complexity. Advanced SoC verification methodologies can take care of systematic errors but are not sufficient to signoff Automotive designs. In Automotive SoC adherence to functional safety standards such as ISO 26262 has become an important consideration when defining the verification methodology. Fault tolerant hardware can be implemented in multiple ways. One approach taken to meet the safety requirements is to add redundancy; however this comes at additional cost and is not a practical solution. ISO26262 recommends fault injection as a verification technique to verify the safety mechanisms at various levels of the development flow. Fault injection aids in the discovery of new failure modes and ensuring the correctness and completeness of safety mechanisms implementation. While the tools and design flow are rapidly maturing to support safety compliant verification, there are still several gaps in meeting the overall functional verification requirements for Automotive SoC. In this presentation we share the safety verification methodology and flow overcoming some of these existing limitations with EDA tools and methodology without adding redundancy overhead.  The comprehensive safety verification approach encompasses fault injection at IP, subsystem and SoC. Besides statistical fault injection we also look at direct fault injection to give useful insight on specific safety mechanism. Careful examination is done to plan the strobing points and the time to maximize the effectiveness of direct fault injection in uncovering issues. The Safety Hardware itself is verified with high quality Safety library after the boot-up sequence. Novel approach on Bridging fault is implemented to overcome limitations of commercial EDA tools that use N-detect approach. Besides pre-silicon verification at IP, Subsystem and SoC this presentation also highlights the value of post silicon validation for safety. The completeness and correctness of the safety mechanisms implementation with respect to the hardware ‘Technical Safety Requirements’ is also done in post silicon validation. These Technical Safety Requirements are derived in accordance with Table 10 of ISO 26262. The complete verification methodology for Safety is requirement driven which uses exhaustive verification approach to find any systematic errors. It is fully automated to minimize run time or manual errors. The verification methodologies at pre-post silicon is successfully proven on multiple designs and has enabled adherence with the safety requirements as defined in ISO 26262 specification.
 

Bios:

Pankaj completed his Bachelors in Electronics from NIT Bhopal in 1993; Master's in Electrical Engineering from USF, Florida and an MBA from SMU, Dallas. He has 20 years of industry experience which includes various leadership management roles. Currently he is leading Infineon’s Automotive SoC verification division in Singapore. He has published 26 technical papers in various international conferences on design implementation-verification topics such as Synthesis, DFT, Analog IP integration and functional Verification.

Ranga Kadambi, currently working as a Manager, Functional Safety verification in the Automotive, Microcontroller division in Infineon. Vast experience of greater than 18 years in semiconductor industry focusing on the RTL design, Verification and expertise in Automotive functional safety related verification aspects of the microcontroller development. Key interests include the definition of holistic methodologies to ensure the product is safe from systematic and random hardware faults.”

Kirankumar has done his Masters in device physics from IIT Madras, India and Master of Science in IC design from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Broad experience of 15 years that covers product engineering, Test engineering, Design for Test and verification. Key interests includes fault models, fault simulations, fault tolerant architectures.

Martin Ruhwandl studied in electronic design and information technologies at the Technical University in Munich where he also did his PhD. After joining Infineon Technologies AG (Communication) in 1998 he moved to Lantiq (Wireline Communication), and went back to Infineon (Automotive) in 2013. He is working for close to 15 years in digital functional verification methodology and implementation, meanwhile as Principal engineer. Besides bottom up and system verification his main area are of work is the random based, metric driven verification. For high quality verification with strong focus on reuse he developed and rolled out methodologies using ‘e’ as HDL on lower level and C/SystemC on higher level within Infineon teams. With this background he is now working on automotive IPs and SoC platforms where these methodologies have to be further improved and automated to hit the required safety standards (e.g. ISO 26262). The verification methodologies has been presented in several international conferences.

The Dow Chemical Company

Dr. Matthew Grandbois, Corporate Account Market Manager, Dow Electronic Materials.

"What ‘Moore’ is there? – Challenges from chemistry side of semiconductor fabrication."

Abstract: Over the past 50 years, the manufacturing of integrated circuits and electronic components has primarily followed the powerful observation popularly known as Moore’s law. This has drove semiconductor manufacturers to push aggressively in order to increase the number of transistors on computer chips by utilizing lithography and other technologies to make smaller, cheaper, and denser transistors. As this has become more difficult to achieve at architectures below 28nm, innovations like the development of System-on-Chip devices have emerged to enable the continued evolution of electronic performance in order to meet the needs of society. The Dow Chemical Company has been at the forefront of developing chemical and process solutions for the manufacturing of semiconductors and electronics during this period which has enabled us to develop an unparalleled expertise and unmatched breadth of technologies to address the entire semiconductor fabrication process. Advanced architectures and innovative packaging has created unique challenges to FEOL and BEOL processes that Dow is tackling face-on. This talk will describe some of these challenges and how Dow has addressed them to enable the continued evolution of electronics through harnessing the power of the Human Element.

Bio: Matt Grandbois is the Corporate Account Market Manager for Dow Electronic Materials where he focuses on developing strategic technology and products for major customers within the electronics industry by leveraging the broad technical portfolio of the Dow Chemical Company. Prior to this role, Matt was a scientist within Dow’s Core R&D organization where he developed numerous technologies and products for the automotive, agricultural, and electronics industries. He is a named inventor on 9 granted patents, an author on 10 peer reviewed publications, and is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt. He was a 2008 Fulbright Scholar to the Norwegian Institute of Science & Technology. Matt received his B.A. degrees in Chemistry (ACS) and Music Performance from Augustana University and his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the University of Minnesota.

IEEE Solid-State Circuits Distinguished Lecturer, Qualcomm Technologies Inc.

Dr. Alvin Loke, IEEE Solid-State Circuits Distinguished Lecturer, Qualcomm Technologies Inc.   
 

"Migrating Analog/Mixed-Signal Designs to FinFET"

Abstract: The introduction of finFET in 22-nm CMOS has accelerated foundry finFET offering with fabless 16/14-nm designs already in production after a short-lived 20-nm planar node. With continued consumer demand for mobile SoCs, the readiness of finFETs could not be timelier because the superior short-channel control realized in a finFET extends device area scaling while offering substantial reduction in digital power. As SoC technology development remains dictated by logic and SRAM, designers of analog/mixed-signal subsystems must adapt to new design constraints. We attempt to summarize the fundamental challenges and considerations when porting common analog/mixed-signal building blocks to finFET. At 16/14 nm, designers deal not only with finFET implications but continue to be impacted by recent technology elements such as mechanical strain, high-permittivity gate dielectrics and metal gate, multiple patterning, and an increasingly complex middle-of-line.

Bio: Alvin Loke received a B.A.Sc. in engineering physics from the University of B.C., and M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford. He worked on CMOS process integration for several years at HP Labs and on assignment at Chartered Semiconductor. Since 2001, he has been designing circuits for a variety of wireline links in 130nm to 7nm CMOS and addressing next-generation CMOS analog/mixed-signal concerns at Agilent and Advanced Micro Devices in Fort Collins, CO, and most recently at Qualcomm in San Diego, CA. He has authored several dozen publications and holds 19 US patents. Alvin has served as Technical Program Committee member of CICC, IEEE Chapter Chair, Guest Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, and IEEE Distinguished Lecturer.

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“Security Issues and Challenges in The Next Generation of SoC Designs for Emerging Applications. Can You Make Cents of It?"

Moderator:  Farhad Mafie, SoC Conference Chairman, IEEE OC SSCS & OCEN Chairs.

Panelists:

1. Dr. Pim Tuyls, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Intrinsic ID.
2. Marc Canel, Vice President, Security Technologies, ARM.
3. Bob Doud, Sr. Director of Marketing, Security Technology, Mellanox Technologies.
4. Perry Oldham, Partner, Knobbe Martens.
5. Wilbur Catabay, SVP TDCS & Corporate Strategy, TSI Semiconductors. 
6. Dr. Jerry Jiang, Senior Manager, Broadcom, IEEE Fellow.

 

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Farhad Mafie, SoC Conference Chairman, IEEE OC SSCS & OCEN Chairs.

Moderator
 

Bio: Farhad Mafie is SoC Conference Chairman. He has over 20 years of experience in semiconductor and computer businesses and more than 10 years of university-level teaching experience. He is the former Vice President of Marketing and Engineering at Toshiba Semiconductor. He has also worked in strategic marketing, project and design engineering at Lucent Technologies, Unisys, and MSI Data. Farhad has a Master of Science and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronic Engineering from California State University, Fullerton. He is an author and a translator, and his articles have been published in a variety of journals and Web-based magazines on technology and political affairs. In 2003, he published the biography of Iranian poet and Nobel nominee who lived in exile, Nader Naderpour (1929-2000), Iranian Poet, Thinker, Patriot. Farhad is also Editor-in-Chief for the CRC Press SoC Design and Technologies Book Series, which includes (1) Low-Power NoC for High-Performance SoC Design and (2) Design of Cost-Efficient Interconnect Processing Units. Farhad is an active member of IEEE, and he is the chair of IEEE Orange County Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS), as well as IEEE Orange County Entrepreneurs' Network (OCEN). He is also a member of two UCI Advisory Committees: Communication System Engineering and Embedded System Engineering Certificate Programs. 

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ARM

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Marc Canel, VP security systems in ARM’s SW and Systems group.

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Bio: Marc Canel has extensive experience in the mobile devices industry, driving software projects for the past 25 years, focusing on how mobile devices work with the Enterprise world. He is Vice President of Security Systems at ARM Inc for the past 2.5 years, leading the next generation of security architectures to become the foundation for Enterprise applications in a connected world. He promoted the definition of Trust systems and standards for devices in the Internet. He defined the architecture for the next generation Root of Trust for applications in devices. Prior to ARM Inc, he was Vice President of Software & Security Systems at Qualcomm where he spent 18 years, focusing on the features that make the products of Qualcomm more attractive to Enterprises. He led Qualcomm to become a leader in the area of content protection and privacy management. He also worked on the software ecosystem management of Qualcomm, supporting the OEMs customers looking for complete solutions. Prior to Qualcomm, he was at IBM for 12 years where he had various roles in product development and management roles in data networking products.

TSI Semiconductors.

Panelist

Wilbur Catabay, SVP TDCS & Corporate Strategy, TSI Semiconductors.

Panelist

Bio: Wilbur Catabay is a veteran of the semiconductor industry with more than 25 years of experience. Recently, Mr. Catabay was VP of Technology at SVTC Technologies and prior President of Silicon Integrated Solutions, Inc., providing Engineering Services for Device and Process Integration. He also was Senior Director for LSI Logic’s Foundry Engineering & Integration organization and Director of the Advanced Process Module Development in the R&D organization. He was responsible for evaluating and developing advanced material research for CMOS transistors and advanced metal interconnect technology.  Mr. Catabay also worked with design and manufacturing organizations as the focal point for implementation of new process module technology from 130nm to 45nm CMOS technology nodes. In 1991, he was an assignee of the technical staff at SEMATECH. Mr. Catabay has submitted more than 100 invention disclosures and has been awarded more than 65 patents with patents pending during his tenure with LSI Logic and SVTC Technologies. He has published more than 50 technical articles in professional journals and presented at various technical conferences. In addition, he was the Patent Liaison and Inventor of the year at LSI Logic and currently serves as a board member/technical advisor for several technology firms. He attended San Jose State University in Industrial Technology with Business Management. During his spare time, Wilbur enjoys spending time with his family, including fishing and photographing nature.

Mellanox Technologies

Panelist

Bob Doud – Sr. Director of Marketing – Security Technology, Mellanox

Panelist

Bio: Bob brings more than 25 years experience in the networking, silicon and security industries to Mellanox. He has previously worked at a number of networking and security silicon companies including EZchip, Tilera, Hifn, NetOctave and SafeNet in roles ranging from Sr. System Architect to Product Line Director. Bob also spent a number of years in the security appliance industry in both engineering and lead technologist roles, giving him a strong background in the design requirements and challenges in bringing hardware & software systems to market. Bob received a Bachelor's degree, cum laude, in Physics and Math from Ohio Wesleyan University and holds a number of patents in the field of communications and cryptography.
 

Knobbe Martens

Panelist

Perry D. Oldham, Partner, Knobbe Martens.

Panelist
 

Bio: Mr. Oldham represents clients in all types of intellectual-property disputes, including those involving patents, trademarks, trade secrets, and copyrights. His practice is primarily focused on handling patent infringement cases. Mr. Oldham is also registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and has advised clients and prepared patent applications regarding a variety of technologies. Prior to joining Knobbe Martens, Mr. Oldham designed and supported microprocessor cores and peripherals for American Microsystems, Inc. Mr. Oldham was awarded the Best Advocate at the Giles Rich Northeastern Regional Moot Court held in Boston in 2001.  Mr. Oldham joined the firm in 2001 and became partner in 2007.
 

Intrinsic ID

Panelist

Dr. Pim Tuyls, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Intrinsic ID.

Panelist
 

Bio:   Dr. Pim Tuyls initiated work on Hardware Intrinsic Security™ within Philips Research in 2002. As a principal scientist, he managed the cryptography cluster in Philips Research in which the initial research was carried out. Later he transferred this work to Intrinsic-ID and headed the technology development.  Since 2004, Pim is a visiting professor at the COSIC institute of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. His inventions have resulted in numerous patents. He is widely accepted for his work in the security field and Hardware Intrinsic Security in particular.  Several of Pim’s papers relating to secure implementations of Physical Unclonable Functions (PUF) technology have been published at leading security conferences. He co-authored the book Security with Noisy Data, which was published by Springer in 2007.

Broadcom

Dr. Jerry Jiang, Senior Manager, Broadcom, IEEE Fellow.

Panelist  

Bio: Dr. Xicheng Jiang received the B.S. degree from University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, P. R. China and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from University of California, Los Angeles, CA. Since 1997, he has been with Analog and RF microelectronics group at Broadcom, where he is a Director of Engineering and a Broadcom Distinguished Engineer. His research interest includes data converters, high-speed serial transceivers, cellular baseband, Hi-Fi audio drivers, microphone interfaces and precision sensor interfaces. Dr. Jiang is a Fellow of IEEE. He currently serves on the Technical Program Committee of ISSCC and CICC. He is a named inventor on more than 30 issued and pending U.S. patents and has authored or coauthored over 30 conference and journal papers. He is the co-recipient of the CICC 2009 Best Paper Award and the CICC 2013 Best Poster Paper Award.

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