IEEE BANGALORE SECTION NEWSLETTER

VOL 9, NUMBER 2, JUNE 2005

 

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NEWS FROM THE SOCIETIES AND CHAPTERS

CPMT (Component, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology) Chapter

 

The CPMT society held 3 meetings in the last quarter. CS Premchandra of IME, Singapore delivered a talk on Merging MEMS and Wafer level packaging at IISc on March 29th. The talk highlighted the benefits of Wafer level packaging for MEMS application; he also briefly mentioned about Bio MEMS activity at the Institute of Micro Electronics. Number IISc students along with faculty and people from the industry attended the event. DR. Radhakrishnan of NanoRel presented at the CPMT meeting on May 6th at the Texas Instruments facility. He highlighted the need to build failure analysis capability while developing new processes. In the CPMT meeting at General Electric, Mr. Kunal Goray and Mr. Amit Shah pointed out the importance of lead free transition and its challenges. We all agreed the higher temperature for lead free solder needs to be addressed and a break through in under-fill technology is required. Mr. Somakumar provided a brief over view of GE activities in India that includes material research.

The chapter launched its own web site and Mr. SLN Murthy of ECAD Technologies coordinated the web development. The web site is https://ewh.ieee.org/r10/bangalore/cpmt. CPMT and IISC worked diligently to launch a course on Micro Electronics Systems Packaging course for the benefit of the engineers. The introductory course covers rudimentary aspects of electrical, thermal and mechanical aspects along with reliability. The course is taught by both the academia and the Industry and provides enough knowledge to select a proper package. Prof. Khincha, IISc inaugurated the course along with Dr. Surendra Pal, Chairman, IEEE Bangalore section and Prof. Subbarayan of Purdue University and editor of IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging. This course is well received with nearly 25 participants from 10 companies.

Activities planned for Q3 & Q4, 2005

1.     Continue with the Microsystems packaging course at IISc

2.     Hold 4 more meetings in 2005

3.     Continue with the 4th EDAPS (Electrical Design of Advanced Packages and Systems) in Bangalore (Dec 13 & 14, 2005)

4.     Plan on increasing the IEEE/CPMT membership

Report prepared by

K. Raghunathan

CPMT Chapter, Bangalore

 

IEEE Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits Society, Bangalore Chapter

The IEEE EDS/SSCS joint chapter organized several technical events during the second quarter of 2005 that received excellent response from the technical community.

Mr. Dick McCartney, Principal Display Technologist National Semiconductor, U.S.A gave a talk on  “Fundamentals of Liquid Crystal Display and its application in TV” on June 20. About 50 people attended this talk. This talk gave an overview of the electronics and theory of operation required for an LCD TV panel.  Dick also emphasized on the key electronic blocks associated with LCD TV and discussed the special demands placed on LCDs in TV applications.

Mr. Atiq Raza, Chairman and CEO Raza Microelectronics Inc. "New Waves in Technology Markets and the nature of Next Generation Silicon Architectures", on 28 June. About 70 people attended this talk.

 The chapter co-sponsored a one week “VLSI Education Workshop” along with VLSI Society of India, conducted at SJCE, Mysore from May 8th to May 13th. The workshop was specifically targeted towards the faculty members of engineering colleges engaged in postgraduate courses in VLSI.  The attendance was limited to about 50 so that a better interaction was possible. The workshop also had lab sessions to enable the attendees to get hands on exposure to various design tools. The lectures were presented by several leading experts from academia and industry. Some of the topics covered were Analog CMOS design, CAD tools for VLSI circuits, testing and verification, VLSI system architecture, filter design, and reliability of IC’s.

The Chapter continued mentoring the newly formed EDS-student chapter at SJCE, Mysore and helped them in conducting a one-day workshop on “Recent Trends in Semiconductor Technology” on May 7.  In this workshop, several members from the Bangalore chapter gave technical talks on topics such as DSM design analysis, MEMS varactors, and History of semiconductor devices. We are also helping this chapter to get exposure to research institutions and semiconductor industries in Bangalore.

The chapter proposes to conduct a few more technical talks and workshops in the coming months. Details will be communicated to the section members when these events are finalized.

Report prepared by,

P.R. Suresh

EDS/SSCS Joint Chapter, Bangalore.