Showing posts with label LSI. Show all posts
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Jan 5, 2024

ISHI-kai January 2024 event

2024年1月イベント「オープンソースPDK団体」勉強会国内外のオ
ープンソースPDKやEDAの状況について、キーマンに語っていただきます
With the recent rise in the semiconductor industry, the movement of open source PDK and EDA in Japan and overseas has become active. Therefore, in this study session, key people will talk about the status of open source PDK and EDA in Japan and overseas.

Schedule
Friday, January 26, 2024, 18:00-21:00 (Reception: 18:30)

Venue (onsite)
Google Shibuya Office
3-21-3 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Shibuya Stream Google reception meeting

Online Broadcast: 
Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/ksa-tjaw-ges

Participation Fee
free
Timetable
TimeSpeakerTitleLecture Outline
Until 18:30ISHI-kaireceptionThe entrance to the facility closes at this time, so if you are participating locally, please come by this time as much as possible.
18:00 ~ 18:30ISHI-kaiChat time-
18:30 ~ 19:15 (Lecture: 30min, Q&A: 15min)Takeshi Hamamoto
Minimal Fab Propulsion Organization Device Engineer 
minimal Fab open PDK1) What is a minimal fab
2) openPDK
3) Design Contest at Semicon 2023

19:15 ~ 20:00 (Lecture: 30min., Q&A: 15min.)Junichi Okamura
IEEE Senior Member 
OpenPDK and the World-
20:00 ~ 20:45 (Lecture: 30min., Q&A: 15min.)@noritsunaAbout the upcoming open source PDK shuttle(To be released at a later date)
21:00ISHI-kaiclosing

What is ISHI-kai?
The association was named ISHI-kai (Inter-linked Society on Homemade IC Kai). The name was conceived from the Society Community (Association) that handles open (democratized) ISHI = stone = Silicon = semiconductors (ASIC/LSI/IC) and connects various fields.

OpenMPW (Open Multi Project Wafer), which appeared as a forerunner, is a shuttle program created by Google investing in Efabless, and includes the tools necessary for making semiconductors (ASIC/LSI/IC) (EDA/PDK) to ISHI manufacturing in IC fabs). This is exactly the "openness of semiconductors (ASIC/LSI/IC) and EDA/PDK" of the open source movement (democratization of software) that started with GNU!

Therefore, this association was established as a user society community (association) that focuses not only on experts in semiconductors (ASIC/LSI/IC) in the past, but also on those who see the potential of the open source movement of semiconductors (ASIC/LSI/IC) in the future and those who want to create new semiconductors (ASIC/LSI/IC).

We/ISHI-kai will continue to work toward a world where semiconductors (ASIC/LSI/IC) and EDA/PDK can be used by everyone, just as OSs, compilers, libraries, apps, electronic boards, 3D CAD and 3D printers that we/ISHI-kaire only available to experts can now be used by everyone as open source software, open hardware, open modeling, etc.

As for the future activity plan, we/ISHI-kai have a policy of revolutionizing the semiconductor (ASIC/LSI/IC) field by involving people from other fields, and we/ISHI-kai will hold events such as hands-on seminars for ultra-beginners for other fields and in-depth study sessions for experts, form a team to challenge the OpenMPW shuttle and Chipathon from around the world, and Maker we/ISHI-kai would like to participate in events such as Faire, so thank you.

Precautions
As events move online, we/ISHI-kai ask participants to act in accordance with the spirit of the Code of Conduct. If you have any problems, please contact the organizer. If it is judged that there is no improvement in the request even if there is no abuse such as vandalism or malicious intent, we/ISHI-kai may respond on a case-by-case basis. 
https://www.contributor-covenant.org/ja/version/2/0/code_of_conduct/

Acknowledgements
Thanks to the kindness of Google for providing a real/onsite venue.

Mar 9, 2021

[RIP] prof. dr hab. inż. Andrzej Jakubowski

Professor Andrzej Jakubowski was born in 1940 in Kraków; died on March 9, 2021 in Warsaw. He was a graduate of the TU Warsaw. He obtained his PhD in 1974, and his habilitation (DSc) in 1983. Six years later, he was awarded the academic professor title. During his scientific and research carrier, he was the author or co-author of about 650 scientific papers, conference contributions and books (including [1]), 9 patents and patent applications, as well as promoting popular science. Professor Jakubowski was one of the most outstanding TU Warsaw professors, co-founder of the Polish microelectronics industry. He was also a pioneer of diamond-like and graphene layers application in microelectronics. For more than 50 years associated with the Institute of Microelectronics and Optoelectronics as its Director; founder of an outstanding scientific school of the micro and nanoelectronics, higly recognized in Poland as well as by many foreign R&D centers; a teacher and tutor of next generations of engineers; personally devoted to young people; with deep passion for half a century educating students and scientific staff at the highest international level with immense dedication of all his heart and scientific knowledge. Professor Jakubowski promoted 23 PhD students and may of them are working for international semiconductor companies and R&D organizations, now.

In the years 2004-2008 at the Warsaw University of Technology he was the director of the Institute of Microelectronics and Optoelectronics. Previously, he headed the Department of Microelectronics and the Department of Microelectronics and Nanoelectronics at this Institute. Between 1989 and 1992, he was the director of the Institute of Electron Technology (ITE, Warsaw; now Lukasiewicz IMiF). He was a member of the Electronics and Telecommunications Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 2014, Professor Jakubowski was awarded the honorary title of doctor honoris causa of TU Lodz. For his achievements in scientific and didactic work, he has received, among many others, the award of the Faculty of Technical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) and the Awards of the Minister of Science and Higher Education.

REF:
[1] Andrzej Jakubowski, Wieslaw Marciniak, Henryk M. Przewlocki; Diagnostic Measurements in LSI/VLSI Integrated Circuits Production; World Scientific, 30 Apr 1991; Technology & Engineering; 372pp