12th International System-on-Chip (SoC) Conference - October 22 & 23, 2014

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	Microsemi Keynote	Mathieu Sureau, Director of Engineering for Analog Mixed Signal, Microsemi Corporation. Keynote: "Down the Technology Curve? Not so Fast" Abstract: Semiconductor companies building SoCs face the same challenge when designing their next generation device. How to meet the increasing performance requirements of the diverse market segments they target, achieve further cost efficiencies and increase value for themselves and their customers? In most cases, this translates into running down the technology curve. However, recent studies have shown that these cost savings are not necessarily realized when going from one technology node to the next. Even then, heavy and long development cycles, higher voltage requirements for analog, reliability of technology as well as IP availability constitute barriers to the latest technology adoption for some applications. Leveraging one or more established technologies with process extensions in an SoC or in a Multi-Chip-Module optimizing system partitioning are effective ways to mitigate these concerns. Bio: Mathieu Sureau is the Director of Engineering for Analog Mixed Signal at Microsemi Corporation. Mathieu has more than 15 years semiconductor experience and oversees the design and development of Analog and Analog Mixed Signal Semiconductors serving several markets. These products range from pure analog to mixed-signal integrated circuits to complete system solutions in a package on technologies ranging from low voltage CMOS to high voltage, high power, high integration BCD/CMOS, SOI and DI processes. Mathieu manages the design and development of High-Reliability Semiconductors used in Defense, Aerospace, and extreme environment industrial applications including down-hole drilling. He also oversees the development of microcontroller-based sensor interface ICs for a variety of industrial/commercial/automotive applications. More recently, Mathieu’s management responsibilities have expanded to the development of power management solutions for commercial storage applications, along with integrated solutions for light-emitting backlit panels. Mathieu holds a Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering from ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, France. He also holds an MBA with concentration in Finance from Santa Clara University. Jim Aralis, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), and Vice President of R&D. Abstract: This presentation will outline the new process, processor, and packaging technologies that are enabling the expansion of mixed-signal SoC product development efforts. Subjects that will be covered include the optimization of design methodologies, mode partitioning, and process selection to maximize cost-savings, performance, and time-to-market. The presenter will also discuss how expertise in analog processing, signal conditioning, precision timing, and high speed wired and wireless communications design remain critical for designing differentiated products in an expanding and evolving digital environment. 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.
	Skyworks Solutions, Inc. Keynote	James P. Young Vice President, Advanced Development, Skyworks Solutions, Inc. Keynote: "Mobile Front End Module The Battle Between SIP & SoC." Bio: James P. Young is vice president of advanced development at Skyworks Solutions, Inc. where he is responsible for mobile handset power amplifier and front end module design. His expertise includes power amplifier and RFIC circuit and system design in CMOS, SOI, BiCMOS, bipolar, and GaAs technologies. James holds 18 patents, has authored or co-authored over 22 papers, and taught several short courses mainly on RFIC design. He holds a bachelor’s of science in electrical engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terra Haute, Indiana. Dr. Peter L. Gammel, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Skyworks Solutions, Inc. Abstract: Ubiquitous demand for mobile platforms with extended talk times and high-speed data is creating an unprecedented level of analog and RF complexity. As the wireless market transitions from 3G to 4G standards such as LTE and LTE-A, front-end architectural challenges are being compounded by demanding coexistence, shielding and harmonic requirements above and beyond the traditional constraints of power efficiency, size and cost. Front-end solutions will soon have to support up to 50 frequency bands and 100 carrier aggregation combinations. Next-generation products will also support LTE in WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth®, Mobile TV, NFC and other non-cellular services. While higher peak to average modulations are driving significant innovation in power added efficiency in the basic transistor characteristics, and system level approaches including DPD, APT and envelope tracking when combined can reduce power consumption by up to 30 percent, GaAs HBT technology and roadmap maintains a 10 percent efficiency advantage over SOI and CMOS. Another critical technology for system level efficiency is antenna tuning, where switches can be applied for both on-antenna aperture tuning as well as the antenna-feed impedance tuning. Both system-in-package and system-on-chip approaches are being pursued to integrate all of the RF and analog content between the transceiver and antenna, including multiband power amplifiers, high throw switches, filtering, duplexing and controls. System-in-package solutions such as Skyworks’ SkyOne™ family of products use multiple technologies to optimize the performance, size and cost of each functional block and provide a fully shielded and packaged solution to address co-existence and interference as the size of the RF board continues to shrink. Bio: Peter L. Gammel, 53, is chief technology officer for Skyworks Solutions, Inc. He joined the company in June 2011 as part of Skyworks' acquisition of SiGe Semiconductor. At SiGe, he served as chief technology officer and vice president of engineering. Prior to this, he was vice president of engineering at Renaissance Wireless and chief technology officer at AdvanceNanotech and for Agere Systems' Analog Products Business. He was also a distinguished member of technical staff at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs. Gammel received a bachelor's of science in physics and mathematics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in physics from Cornell University.
	Tohoku University Japan Keynote	Dr. Takahiro Hanyu, New Paradigm VLSI System Research Group, Laboratory for Brainware Systems, Research Institute of Electrical Communication- Tohoku University. Keynote: "MTJ/MOS-Hybrid Nonvolatile Logic-in-Memory Architecture Towards Ultra-Low-Power LSIs" Abstract: In the Internet of Everything (IoE) era, it is strongly necessary to achieve ultra-low-power computer architecture, while still keeping high-performance computer power, because computer terminals distributed into everything must be operated under the limitation of energy harvested from natural resources. However, in the present CMOS-only-based VLSI, communication bottleneck between memory and logic modules inside a VLSI chip, as well as increasing standby power dissipation and device-characteristic variation effect, has increasingly become a serious problem. One approach to solving the above problem is to use "nonvolatile logic-in-memory" architecture, where nonvolatile storage elements are distributed over a logic-circuit plane. One of the nonvolatile storage devices, magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ), has a good compatibility to the present CMOS-based VLSI chips, so that it is expected to realize both ultra-low-power and reduced interconnection delay because of great reduction of global interconnection counts and volatile storage-element counts. In this sense, nonvolatile logic-in-memory architecture is implemented using magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) devices in combination with MOS transistors. In this presentation, new logic-VLSI architecture called “nonvolatile logic-in-memory architecture (NV-LIM)” is introduced as a promising candidate to solve the above emerging problems. As concrete design examples of the proposed nonvolatile logic-in-memory circuitry, I demonstrate a nonvolatile Ternary Content-Addressable Memory [1-2], an instant power-ON/OFF nonvolatile Field Programmable Gate Array [3-5], and so on [6]. I am also focusing on a post-process variation-resilient logic-circuit design using MTJ devices [7-8]. Bio: Takahiro Hanyu received the B.E., M.E. and D.E. degrees in Electronic Engineering from Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, in 1984, 1986 and 1989, respectively. He is currently a Professor in the Research Institute of Electrical Communication (RIEC), Tohoku University. His general research interests include nonvolatile logic circuits and their applications to ultra-low-power and/or PVT-variation-free VLSI processors, and multiple-valued current-mode circuit and its application to power-aware asynchronous Network-on-Chip systems. He received the Sakai Memorial Award from the Information Processing Society of Japan in 2000, the Judge's Special Award at the 9th LSI Design of the Year from the Semiconductor Industry News of Japan in 2002, the Special Feature Award at the University LSI Design Contest from ASP-DAC in 2007, the APEX Paper Award of Japan Society of Applied Physics in 2009, the Excellent Paper Award of IEICE, Japan, in 2010, Ichikawa Academic Award in 2010, the Best Paper Award of IEEE ISVLSI 2010, and the Paper Award of SSDM 2012. Dr. Hanyu is a Senior Member of the IEEE.
	CEA-LETI, France Keynote	Hughes Metras, VP, Strategic Partnerships., CEA-LETI, France. Keynote: "3D VLSI a disruptive approach for further scaling." Abstract: COOLCUBE™, a semiconductor process concept developed by CEA-LETI, aims at stacking transistors on top of each other sequentially in the same process flow for 3D-VLSI purpose. It has been introduced as an alternative to the traditional scaling paradigm where technology challenges and costs of new node development become difficult to justify economically. COOLCUBE™ will enable an increased density of transistors without requiring the downscaling of their individual features. It could also provide a gain in performance by reducing the metal wiring delay, thanks to direct contact between transistor levels. The concept consists in sequentially processing a Low-Temperature-Budget MOS transistor (“COOL”) layer on top (“CUBE”) of a first bottom MOS transistor layer with a lithographic alignment precision between the layers. Metal lines are positioned between both layers to allow design of connections between both transistor levels. Inter-metal levels are encapsulated by an oxide layer, to add the substrate for the top transistor layer by molecular bonding, while using a planarization process. The presentation will detail the principles of this new approach with a highlight on the key technological challenges that have to be tackled in the coming years to enable large scale manufacturability. These mainly include the development of a low temperature process flow for the top layer transistors to avoid any impact on the performances and stability of the bottom layer transistors while providing enough performance to the top layer devices themselves. The presentation will also mention what has to be develop to implement an adequate design flow including a predictive Design kit based on SPICE model and relevant Model Cards based on data coming from real device measurements. An evaluation of potential advantages for COOLCUBE™ devices such as FPGAs and other SOC will be described and future applications will be proposed including 3D-VLSI Gate Option to gain IC performance through reduced wire length and 3D- VLSI TR option performance at the transistor level via independent transistor optimization (3-5 based NFET with Ge base pFET for instance). Bio: Hughes Metras is VP in charge of Strategic Partnerships in North America for CEA-LETI, a major European R&D lab with 200 and 300 mm facilities in Grenoble France. He is also a visiting staff member at Caltech in the framework of the Alliance for Nanosystems VLSI. Previously, Hughes was VP Marketing and Sales, in charge of business development and strategic planning. He coordinated Leti's sales and marketing teams in the field of semiconductors (advanced CMOS, Heterogenous Integration), imaging and photonics, biomedical technologies as well as telecommunications. He was involved in major French initiatives with key industrial players for the emergence of new programs in microelectronics addressing new societal challenges such as power conversion for industrial, automotive and PV applications and low power electronics. He has also been involved in the European technology platform EPOSS (smart system integration) where he coordinated the working group on key technologies and was a member of the executive committee. Mr. Metras is based in Pasadena, California.