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Graham Bell
Graham is Sr. Director of Marketing at Silvaco Inc. An experienced semiconductor-design marketing strategist and avid blogger before joining Silvaco, Graham previously was VP of marketing at Uniquify, a fabless SoC product and IP company, and at Real Intent, a verification software company. In his … More » On-Chip Variation and the Sign-off Timing Flow at “Chip in Sampa”, Aug. 26-30August 15th, 2019 by Graham Bell
When we think of research and development in the Microelectronics industry, we typically think of East Asia, the United States and Europe. However there is a long time conference held in South America called “Chip in [location].” The “Chip in” is a series of events that started in 2000 with the “Chip in the Jungle”, in the state of Amazon, Brazil. It is the largest conference in Microelectronics in South America, annually held in Brazil. The conference goal is to bring together managers, leading researchers from academia and industry, and students to present and discuss relevant issues related do the major Microelectronics research and development areas. This years event takes place in São Paulo, SP, Brazil, August 26 to 30, 2019. Sampa is a nickname for São Paulo, so this year's conference is called “Chip in Sampa.” The conference consists of three symposiums, a workshop and student forum. They are listed here
His talk will be on the topic: On-Chip Variation and the Sign-off Timing Flow: An Industry Perspective Abstract: As semiconductor technology advances, the impact of on-chip variation increases and, thus, requires more sophisticated solutions. Although these challenges need to be handled while considering a variety of issues, such as feasible run times in production usage, the over-riding consideration is how to reduce pessimism. Each new approach by the industry is intended to reduce over-pessimism from a previous one (whereas run time is a driving factor), but all come with trade-offs. In this talk, we will present the industry perspective of these major challenges, showing the progress up to the current accepted solutions and what is next. Finally, we will also discuss how Silvaco’s R&D team in Brazil has been addressing these leading-edge challenges. His Bio: Bernardo Culau is Director of Characterization at Silvaco. He joined Silvaco in 2018 as part of the acquisition of Nangate where he had worked for 9 years. At Nangate he developed EDA tools for library characterization and delivered standard cell library IP for multiple foundries and technology nodes. Bernardo holds Computer Engineering degrees from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil and from Grenoble INP, France. Bernardo will also take part in a panel about challenges and opportunities for microelectronics in Brazil on Thu. Aug. 29. To get more information on the event, keynote speakers and venue go to the web-site: http://www.psi.poli.usp.br/chipinsampa/ Category: Silvaco |
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One of the invited talks for the Symposium on Circuits and Systems Design is by Bernardo Culau, Director of Characterization, Silvaco, Brazil and takes place on Friday, Aug. 30.
