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ACME Director at SWAP Hub Members Meeting, June 2024
Growing the semiconductor ecosystem
In June 2024, 95 individuals from 45 member companies and universities joined SWAP Hub at Arizona State University’s Mountain View Stadium for a day of presentations, panel discussions, and networking around microelectronics prototyping and lab-to-fab technology innovations. Kyle Squires, SWAP Hub Founding CEO and Senior Vice Provost of Engineering, Computing, and Technology at ASU’s Fulton Schools of Engineering, opened the day stating Phoenix is ground zero for semiconductors, and outlined SWAP Hub’s critical role in connecting the growing ecosystem in Arizona to a national network of partners.
Jason Conrad, SWAP Hub COO, outlined our membership base and how the hub carries out its mission operationally, while Krishnendu Chakrabarty, CTO, introduced faculty members leading capability areas. Squires, Conrad, and Chakrabarty’s message that solving the United States’ complex microelectronics situation will take a collective group of ideas, individuals and organizations was heard – and the networking began. Speakers from both large and small corporations and businesses made technology push and pull elevator pitches.
Speakers included Boeing, Infineon, MAC Southwest, Northrop Grumman, NXP, and RTX as well as Atomera, Idaho Scientific, Lawrence Semiconductor, Mojo. A workforce development panel discussed new initiatives for developing and digitizing training infrastructure, along with raising awareness among K-12 students and under-served communities.
During the poster session, organizations had the opportunity to showcase their unique role in the semiconductor industry while meeting and identifying companies to collaborate with on future projects. Lunch and the evening’s reception also allowed hub members to get to know one another and brainstorm how SWAP Hub’s unique capabilities can address issues facing the industry.
Vidya Chhabria will be a presenter at the MEPTEC Virtual Event – AI for Semiconductors on Thursday, June 13.
Register here: Webinar Registration – Zoom
Call for Papers
| IEEE Journal on Exploratory Solid-State Computational Devices and Circuits Call for Papers: Special Topic on 3D Logic and Memory for Energy-Efficient Computing Important Dates Open for Submission: 15 February 2024 Submission Deadline: 31 May 2024 First Notification: 30 June 2024 Revision Submission: 15 July 2024 Final Decision: 31 July 2024 Publication Online: 15 August 2024 |
Symposium
The ACME Center sponsored and participated in the IEEE VLSI Test Symposium (VTS) on April 22-24, 2024.
The IEEE VLSI Test Symposium (VTS) explored emerging trends and novel concepts in test, validation, yield, reliability, and security of microelectronic circuits and systems. https://tttc-vts.org/public_html/new/2024/
Seminar Speakers
Dr. Kanad Basu, Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Dallas – October 17, 2024, 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM in GWC 487. Seminar title, Anti-virus hardware: Exploring the new domain in system security.”
Dr. Jun Zeng, Distinguished Technologist, HP Inc. – September 13, 2024, 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM in ERC 490. Seminar title, “Digital Twin – how AI accelerates the integration of bits and atoms to tackle manufacturing challenges.”
Dr. JV Rajendran Associate Professor, Texas A&M University – April 25, 2024 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM in Goldwater Center room 487. Seminar title, “Hardware Fuzzing: What? Why? How?”
Dr. Mehdi B. Tahoori, Professor and the Chair at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) – April 25, 2024 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM in Goldwater Center room 487. Seminar title, “Chip Ecosystem in Europe, Germany, and Baden-Württemberg: Opportunities for Cooperation.”
Dr. Asad M. Madni Distinguished Seminar and Reception – “KEY ELEMENTS OF A BUSINESS PLAN FOR A START-UP COMPANY”
April 3, 2024, Seminar 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM- Reception 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Marston Exploration Theater. ISTB 4
RSVP on eventbrite
Onur Mutlu, ETH Zurich Distinguished Seminar – March 28, 2024, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM in Goldwater Center room 487. Seminar title, ” Memory-Centric Computing.”
Sanmitra Banerjee, NVIDIA Corporation presents March 20, 2024, 3:30 PM- 4:30 PM in Goldwater Center room 487. Seminar title, “Reliability of Carbon-Nanotube FET Circuits – Today’s Challenges and the Road Ahead in the Age of AI”
Andrew Dove, NI presents February 21, 2024, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM in Goldwater Center room 487. Seminar title, “Uses of AI in the test and measurement industry.”
Presentation by Yibo Lin on October 27, 2023
Accelerating Timing Closure of Integrated Circuits with Heterogeneous Computing and Machine Intelligence
Student News
Eduardo Ortega receives Outstanding Research Award in the Spring 2024
ACME Center PhD. Student, Eduardo Ortega has been selected as a recipient of the Outstanding Research Award in the Spring 2024 Cycle of GPSA Awards. About the Award: The Outstanding Research Award recognizes graduate and professional students who exemplify excellence in research on all ASU campuses. The award aims to foster the development of innovative projects or research of interdisciplinary character that demonstrates a positive impact on the academic/local community, with a notable contribution to their field.
Faculty News
Professor Christopher Bailey receives the IEEE EPS Award
Professor Christopher Bailey represented ASU on an Heterogeneous Integration Roadmap panel with European Packaging leaders from Fraunhofer, CEA, Infineon, TNO, etc. To discuss Packaging research in USA, EU; Prototype Lines (Note Fraunhofer is the Packaging Pilot Line in EU); and Workforce Development activities related to packaging.
He also received the IEEE EPS Award for Region 8 for contributions to packaging in Europe. Mainly acknowledging his work over last 25 years before joining ASU.
This was a major packaging conference in Berlin Germany with 400+ attendees from industry and academia. NIST also provided a presentation on NAPMP.
Open Compute Project Foundation supporting ASU researcher’s work to improve microchip quality assessments
Krishnendu Chakrabarty, the Fulton Professor of Microelectronics, has been given the Driving Innovation in SDC Mitigation Award from the Open Compute Project Foundation to develop quality assurance testing that will improve the reliability and function of data servers
https://fullcircle.asu.edu/faculty/diagnosing-data-corruption/
ACME Center and collaborators are selected for IEEE Cloud Summit Best Paper
Congratulations to Krish Chakrabarty and team for being selected for best paper for, Inference Serving System for Stable Diffusion as a Service. Krish Chakrabarty and Farshad Firouzi are co-authors from ASU, the rest of the team are from Duke University, and they are PhD student, Arita Ray, Lukas Dannull, and Kyle Lafata.
Alumna Vidya Chhabria receives best dissertation award
Congratulations to Vidya Chhabria who was recently recognized as the winner of the University of Minnesota Graduate School’s Best Dissertation Award in physical sciences, mathematics, and engineering category for 2024.
https://cse.umn.edu/ece/feature-stories/alumna-vidya-chhabria-receives-best-dissertation-award
Sule Ozev and team win Best Paper Award
Congratulations to Sule Ozev and team for their 2023 European Test Symposium Best Paper Award!
Authors: Ferhat Can Ataman, Mohammed Al-Adsani, Georgios Trichopoulos, Chethan Kumar, Y.B., Sule Ozev
Title: Mismatch Measurement for MIMO mm-Wave Radars Via Simple Power Monitors
Strengthening semiconductor skills at the SWAP Hub Mar 2024: https://fullcircle.asu.edu/fulton-schools/strengthening-semiconductor-skills-at-the-swap-hub/
Aviral Shrivastava Jan 2024: Waymo’s plans for self-driving cars to take to the freeways. Both are accessible from this page: https://fullcircle.asu.edu/external/waymos-driverless-cars-aim-to-revolutionize-freeway-travel/.
Krish Chakrabarty: DOD visit to the SWAP Hub on Jan 2024: https://news.asu.edu/20240205-science-and-technology-dod-officials-convene-asu-learn-about-universityled
Jeff Zhang’s Top Picks in Test and Reliability IEEE award Dec 2023 : https://ecee.engineering.asu.edu/2023/12/jeff-zhangs-work-chosen-as-one-of-2023-ieee-top-picks-in-test-and-reliability/
Hongbin Yu Dec 2023: doctoral student’s efforts to make a streamlined open-source semiconductor design software suite: https://fullcircle.asu.edu/students/democratizing-semiconductor-design/
Sule Olev won the Palais award for outstanding faculty in ECEE Nov 2023: https://fullcircle.asu.edu/faculty/celebrating-an-excellent-microelectronics-professor/
Vidya Chhabria Nov 2023: The research is to create a carbon footprint calculator. Ultimately, the hope is that electronics manufacturers will take carbon footprint into account when designing chips, just as any other traditional metric considered.https://fullcircle.asu.edu/research/making-eco-friendly-microelectronics/
Chaitali Chakrabarti Oct 2023: co-PI of the FutureG Center of Excellence’s research efforts. https://fullcircle.asu.edu/fulton-schools/asu-awarded-10m-to-advance-future-generation-wireless-networks/
Sule Ozev’s Best Paper award Oct 2023: https://ecee.engineering.asu.edu/2023/10/sule-ozev-wins-ieee-vlsi-test-symposium-2022-best-paper-award/
Krish Chakrabarty Sep 2023: research to develop watermarks for lab-on-a-chip medical tests: https://fullcircle.asu.edu/research/putting-medical-tests-to-the-test/
Ying-Chen “Daphne” Chen Sep 2023: Working with NASA on methods to manufacture microelectronics in space: https://fullcircle.asu.edu/research/taking-semiconductor-manufacturing-to-new-heights/.
Aviral Shrivastava student’s research to make a part of AI called black box explorations explainable Aug 2023: Traditionally, black box explorations don’t reveal AI’s reasoning for its decisions. By adding explainability, humans can then understand how to improve the AI: https://fullcircle.asu.edu/research/opening-the-black-box/
Sule Olev test engineering course with Advantest and NXP June 2023: https://fullcircle.asu.edu/fulton-schools/putting-microelectronics-to-the-test/