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Seminar by Dr. Michael Fritze

Speaker: Dr. Michael Fritz, USC Information Sciences Institute

Talk Title: New Research Opportunities Enabled by Fabless Access to Foundry Technologies

Abstract: The tremendous progress in electronics we have experienced over the past several decades has been enabled to a large extent by fables access to advanced foundry CMOS technologies. By abstracting the details of the fabrication process into a set of “design rules” supported by accurate models, large sets of creative designers were able to access the powerful capabilities of an advanced CMOS fabrication technology. The USC-ISI “MOSIS” organization was one of the pioneers in this area through its introduction of cost-sharing access to CMOS using the “multi-project” fabrication service paradigm.
It is now time to extend this paradigm of fables access to chip fabrication technologies beyond conventional CMOS. Traditional scaling approaches that have enabled “Moores Law” progress in the past are beginning to run out of steam. Disruptive new technologies are emerging including 3DIC, photonics, compound semiconductors, non-volatile memories and carbon electronics to name just a few. This talk will discuss the unique challenges of implementing a fables access model for these novel technologies analogous to the one being used for standard CMOS today. Some of the unique challenges in achieving such a goal along with some potential new research directions enabled by such a new foundry access model will also be discussed.


Biography: Mike Fritze obtained a PhD from Brown University in 1992. After a postdoc in the Advanced Photonics Group at Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, he joined MIT Lincoln Laboratory where he conducted research associated with enhancements to optical lithography resolution, silicon on insulator transistors, and silicon on insulator integrated optics. From 2006 to 2010 he was a DARPA program manager with initiatives in low-power electronics, micro-fabrication, and RF-Electronics. In 2010 he became Director of the Disruptive Electronics Division of the Information Sciences Institute at USC.

Host: Dr. Levi

Location: Hedco Pertroleum and Chemical Engineering Building (HED) - 116

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Marilyn Poplawski