[video] Interviews from FSiC, Paris, 2023

Interviews from the Free Silicon Conference, Paris, 2023

The 2023 Free Silicon Conference (FSiC) took place in Paris (Sorbonne Université, 4 Place Jussieu, Paris) on July 10 - 12 2023 (Monday to Wednesday). The conference brought together experts and enthusiasts who want to build a complete Free and Open Source CAD ecosystem for designing analog and digital integrated circuits. The conference covered the full spectrum of the design process, from system architecture, to layout and verification.

Interviews with selected Free Silicon Conference Participation by Matt Venn are available online:

00:00 FSiC 2023 Intro, Matt Venn

00:23 Luca Alloatti, FSiC Organizing Committee

01:59 Thomas Benz, ETH Zurich

06:05 Jørgen Kragh Jakobsen, IC Works - Open Source Chip Design

08:57 Thomas Parry, SPHERICAL

11:05 Rene Scholz, IHP Microelectronics

14:06 Dan Fritchman, UC Berkeley
18:41 Harald Pretl, Johannes Kepler University Linz

All the conference proceedings (slide presentations and prerecorded talks) are also available at the FSiC website.

IFETC 2023

IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) and SCV/SF EDS chapter present:

5th IEEE International Flexible Electronics Technology Conference (IFETC) 2023

Date: August 13–16, 2023
Venue: DoubleTree by Hilton San Jose, 2050 Gateway Pl, San Jose, CA 95110

The IFETC 2023 prepared an excellent technical program including Tutorials, Short Courses, Plenary Talks, and Luncheon Talk by internationally recognized experts as well as invited and contributed technical presentations by researchers from academia, industry, and national and international research institutes.

For detailed IFETC 2023 Technical Program, please visit: https://2023.ifetc.org/, and register today to attend.

Featured Speakers and Talks:

1) Plenary

John Rogers, "Soft, Wireless Skin-Interfaced Devices for Health Monitoring and Haptic Interactions;"

Takao Someya, "Electronic Skins for Robotics and Healthcare Applications"

Zhenan Bao, "Skin-Inspired Sensors, Integrated Circuits and Bioelectronics"

Jeffrey King, "Flexible Substrates for Fabrication of Electronic Devices"

Dennis Nordlund, "Plasma Jet Printing for Printed Electronics"

2) Tutorials

Meyya Meyyappan, "Printed and Flexible Electronics and Devices: An Overview"

Min Zhang, "Nanocarbon-Based Flexible and Stretchable Electronics"

Niels Benson, "Flexible RFID-Tags for smart label applications in retail and logistics"

3) Short Courses

Sungjune Jung, "Inkjet-Printing Technology: From a Droplet to Flexible Electronics and 3D Artificial Tissues"

Gregory Whiting, "Distributed Printed Electronics for Sustainable Environmental Practices"

Mark Poliks, "Flexible and Hybrid Electronics"

4) Luncheon
Sri Peruvemba, "Marketing the Unknown"

5) Evening Panel: How and Why Investment Would Accelerate Growth in Flexible/Printable Electronics Industry

6) Special Event: Women in EDS / Young Professionals

Semiconductor Industry Update Webinar

Semiconductor Industry Update Webinar

Registration Now Open

Our 2023 forecast has again transpired both accurate and prescient, with most forecasters now aligned with our double-digit decline. With the downturn now bottoming, all eyes are on the speed and shape of the recovery. Will it be a sharp V-shaped rebound or a more gradual U, or will it instead be a protracted drawn out- hockey-stick recovery? And if the latter, how slow will that be? Find out the answer to these and other key questions at Future Horizons' IFS2023 September industry update outlook webinar, Sep 12, 2023, 3pm UK BST (GMT+1): https://www.futurehorizons.com/page/136/Industry-Update-Webinar

What
This one-hour broadcast will focus on the chip industry outlook, including:

• Has the market bust finally reached the bottom?

• What is the market outlook for 2H-2023?

• What are the likely ramifications for 2024?

• How to build resilient business strategies, plus

• Opportunity to ask specific questions in advance, during and after the webinar.

Who

• All companies, small and large, from startups to established market leaders

• Key decision-makers engaged in the design, manufacture, or supply of semiconductors

• Government organisations involved in trade and investment

• Those involved in investing or banking within the electronics industry

• Senior marketing executives planning future marketing strategy

Why
Founded in 1989, Future Horizons' track record and industry experience makes this a must-attend event for key decision makers in semiconductors, electronics, and all related industries. We always present accurate and insightful analysis at these events backed up by sound data based on our 55 plus years of direct industry experience, dating back to the first commercial IC, longer than any other analyst and most industry execs. We have been in the business of forecasting and analyzing the semiconductor market for over 40 years and have been a trusted advisor to governments, investors, startups and most of the top global semiconductor firms. Time and again we have saved our clients time and money with our insightful and accurate analysis of the industry.

Fee
For a small investment of UK £150 plus £30 UK VAT you will gain accurate industry insight to make good strategic decisions in these uncertain times

• Discount available for 3 or more attendees from the same company/organisation

• Can't attend? No need to miss out, order the webinar video recording and slides instead

• Please pass to a colleague if already registered or not suitable for you

• This event can also be held in-house for your added convenience and flexibility

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlhrqO5sgc

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[book] Negative Capacitance Field Effect Transistors

Negative Capacitance Field Effect Transistors

Physics, Design, Modeling and Applications

Edited By Young Suh Song, Shubham Tayal, Shiromani Balmukund Rahi, Abhishek Kumar Upadhyay

Pages 63 Color & 7 B/W Illustrations

ISBN 9781032445311 176 Sept. 29, 2023 by CRC Press

Description

This book aims to provide information in the ever-growing field of low-power electronic devices and their applications in portable device, wireless communication, sensor, and circuit domains. Negative Capacitance Field Effect Transistor: Physics, Design, Modeling and Applications, discusses low-power semiconductor technology and addresses state-of-art techniques such as negative-capacitance field-effect transistors and tunnel field-effect transistors. The book is broken up into four parts. Part one discusses foundations of low-power electronics including the challenges and demands and concepts like subthreshold swing. Part two discusses the basic operations of negative-capacitance field-effect transistor (NC-FET) and Tunnel Field-effect Transistor (TFET). Part three covers industrial applications including cryogenics and biosensors with NC-FET. This book is designed to be one-stop guidebook for students and academic researchers, to understand recent trends in the IT industry and semiconductor industry. It will also be of interest to researchers in the field of nanodevices like NC-FET, FinFET, Tunnel FET, and device-circuit codesign.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Recent Challenges in IT and Semiconductor Industry: From Von Neumann Architecture to the Future

Young Suh Song, Shiromani Balmukund Rahi, Navjeet Bagga, Sunil Rathore, Rajeewa Kumar Jaisawal, P. Vimala, Neha Paras, K. Srinivasa Rao

Chapter 2 Technical Demands of Low-Power Electronics

Soha Maqbool Bhat, Pooran Singh, Ramakant Yadav, Shiromani Balmukund Rahi, Billel Smaani, Abhishek Kumar Upadhyay, Young Suh Song

Chapter 3 Negative capacitance Field Effect Transistors: Concept and Technology

Ball Mukund Mani Tripathi

Chapter 4 Basic Operation Principle of Negative Capacitance Field Effect Transistor

Malvika, Bijit Choudhuri, Kavicharan Mummaneni

Chapter 5 Basic Operational Principle of Anti-ferroelectric Materials and Ferroelectric Materials

Umesh Chandra Bind, Shiromani Balmukund Rahi

Chapter 6 Basic Operation Principle of Optimized NCFET: Amplification Perspective

S. Yadav, P.N Kondekar, B. Awadhiya

Chapter 7 Spin Based Magnetic Devices With Spintronics

Asif Rasool, Shahnaz kossar, R.Amiruddin

Chapter 8 Mathematical Approach for Future Semiconductor Roadmap

Shiromani Balmukund Rahi,Abhishek Kumar Upadhyay, Young Suh Song, Nidhi Sahni, Ramakant Yadav, Umesh Chandra Bind,Guenifi Naima,Billel Smaani,Chandan Kumar Pandey,Samir Labiod, T.S. Arun Samul,Hanumanl Lal, H. Bijo Josheph

Chapter 9 Mathematical Approach for Foundation of Negative Capacitance Technology

Shiromani Balmukund Rahi,Abhishek Kumar Upadhyay, Young Suh Song, Nidhi Sahni, Ramakant Yadav, Umesh Chandra Bind,Guenifi Naima,Billel Smaani,Chandan Kumar Pandey,Samir Labiod, T.S. Arun Samul,Hanumanl Lal, H. Bijo Josheph

FOSS Circuit Simulators

AN OPEN-SOURCE, FREE CIRCUIT SIMULATOR

by: Bryan Cockfield on July 30, 2023

The original circuit simulation software, called the Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis, or SPICE as it is more commonly known, was originally developed at the University of Califorina Berkeley in the 1970s with an open-source license. That’s the reason for the vast versions of SPICE available now decades after the original was released, not all of which are as open or free as we might like [1].

Fig: The Quite Universal Circuit Simulator includes a GUI based on the Qt toolkit and handles ad and ac analysis, S-parameters, harmonic balance analysis, noise analysis, and so forth. 

We’ve [2] listed all the simulators we found - the good, the bad, and the ugly - that actually did perform circuit simulation in some fashion. They are provided alphabetically, along with the most notable benefits and drawbacks we uncovered.

REF:
[1] An Open-Source, Free Circuit Simulator by Bryan Cockfield on July 30, 2023
[2] Best free analog circuit simulators by Lee Teschler on January 26, 2022