SUITE SESSION Silicon photonics is using silicon for the fabrication of light-based devices—such as lasers, amplifiers, converters, filters and splitters. Current applications include ultra-fast chip-to-chip optical interconnects, optical routers and signal processors. Visionaries see SP as an enabling technology that will impact many facets of life through entertainment, medical discovery, communications, information storage, and manufacturing. This session discusses the impact photonics will have on today’s IC design and manufacturing processes, the tool requirements for SP, foundry options, new applications that will SP open up, and new challenges it will present to IC designers. Tue 2:00, Mentor booth.
If there is something Mentor is not doing in the area of functional verification, but you think we should be, Steve wants to know about it. Steve is bringing his extensive experience spanning development of HDL simulators, applications engineering, consulting, and technical and product marketing to direct Mentor into new market opportunities for verification and coordinate between Mentor's verification-related divisions.
Jon McDonald is Sr. Technical Marketing Engineer at Mentor Graphics. He received a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon and an MS in Computer Science from Polytechnic University. He has been active in digital design, language based design and architectural modeling for over 15 years. Prior to joining Mentor Graphics Mr. McDonald held senior technical engineering positions with Summit Design, Viewlogic Systems and HHB Systems.
Prashant Varshney has over 15 years of experience in Semiconductor and EDA industry with a successful track record of hardware and software product development, deployment and proliferation. Starting his career at the transistor level design at Duet Technologies, Prashant worked his way to a component design engineer at Intel Corporation in 1999, designing and implementing multiple networking ASIC products. Later in 2003, Prashant became a part of a then stealth startup, Sierra Design Automation, making significant contributions to design, deployment and marketing of their innovative product line, while managing their product engineering team. During the 10 years of association with the place and route product line of Mentor Graphics, Prashant has led multiple sales campaigns resulting in both technical and financial success. He has built from scratch and now leads multiple large cross-functional, cross-site teams, and is responsible for product engineering, flow and methodology development, product validation and configuration management functions for the Place and Route Division. Prashant holds a MSEE from Stanford University.
Stephen Pateras is product marketing director for Mentor Graphics Silicon Test products. His previous position was VP Marketing at LogicVision. While at LogicVision Stephen also held senior management positions in engineering, and was instrumental in defining and bringing to market several generations of LogicVision’s semiconductor test products. From 1991 to 1995, Stephen held various engineering lead and management positions within IBM’s mainframe test group. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from McGill University in Montreal, Canada
Michael Buehler-Garcia is the Director of Marketing for Calibre Design Solutions in the Design-to-Silicon Division of Mentor Graphics. He manages all aspects of marketing for Calibre design-side product offerings, including product and tactical marketing efforts, strategic positioning, and integration to other business units within Mentor's Design to Silicon organization. Mr. Buehler has experience in all facets of the semiconductor eco-system, including EDA companies, foundries, fabless companies, and their end customers. He has over 25 years of experience, including executive positions at companies such as iRoC Technologies and PDF Solutions, as well as Chartered Semiconductor, one of the largest foundries in the world, and Cadence Design Systems, one of the world's largest EDA companies. He brings a unique perspective for optimizing and leveraging supply chains, along with expertise of how both multinational and start-up companies can succeed in the new world of outsourcing all elements of a company. Coupled with this hands-on knowledge is the capability to create and drive overall company strategic direction from endgame strategies to the underlying product roadmap and definition.
John Ferguson is the Lead Technical Marketing Engineer for the Calibre product line at Mentor Graphics in Wilsonville, Oregon. He received a BS degree in Physics from McGill University in 1991, an MS in Applied Physics from the University of Massachusetts in 1993, and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology in 2000. He has worked extensively in the area of physical design verification.
Michael Hochberg is a co-founder of Luxtera, a photonics component firm, and also directs OpSIS, a foundry service for silicon photonics in which the community shares the cost of fabricating complex chip-scale systems across many projects. A longtime photonics reasearcher, Hochberg's work has been featured in Nature Materials, Nature, and other journals.
Frank Feng currently works at Mentor Graphics as a Circuit Verification Methodologist for the Calibre product line in the Design to Silicon division. Frank has over twelve years of experience in the EDA industry in the areas of layout and circuit verification and implementation, and four years of experience in semiconductor semi manufacturing. Frank holds a Ph.D. in Physics.
Hellen Cheng is senior manager of the IP Development Center at SMIC, where she is in charge of all in-house IO library development. She has nine years of experience in the semiconductor industry, having joined SMIC in 2003 to focus on library development and ESD design. Hellen also leads a company-wide ESD task force, which plays a key role in SMIC's ESD management strategy. Hellen graduated from Tsinghua University in 2003.
Matthew Hogan is a Product Marketing Manager for Calibre Design Solutions at Mentor Graphics, with over 15 years of design and field experience. He is an IEEE Senior member and ACM member and holds a Bachelor of Engineering from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and an MBA from Marylhurst University. He is actively working with customers who have an interest in Calibre PERC.
Ofer Tamir is the Director of design enablement and design support at TowerJazz. He has a Master’s Degree in computer science and has worked for 25 years as an EDA engineer at companies such as National Semiconductor (CAD engineer & CAD/ layout verification) and DSPG (CAD manager).
Arvind Narayanan is a Product Marketing Manager in the Place and Route division at Mentor Graphics. Prior to Mentor Arvind has held various design, application engineering and marketing positions at Hal Computers, Synopsys and Magma. He has been an active particiapnt in the Unified Power Format initiative. He holds a Masters Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Mississippi State University) and a Masters Degree in Business Administration (Duke University).
Dr. Yi-Kan Cheng is the Deputy Director of the Design Methodology & Kit Development Division at TSMC, where he manages TSMC’s design methodology, Reference Flow, DFM, physical verification, RC extraction, and process design kit (PDK) development. He was with IBM and Intel from 1997 to 2005, where he worked on timing optimization and analysis, power analysis, IC reliability, and signal integrity aware design for high-performance microprocessors. Dr. Cheng received the Ph.D. EE/CE at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.