ELECTRONICS ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

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1 Integrated Circuits and Systems ELECTRONICS ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT Dr. John Brunhaver

2 OUTLINE What are the focus areas in the circuits specialization and who are the faculty? What are the applications for circuits and the research that we do at ASU? How do you engage as an undergraduate in research at ASU? Where do circuits designers find jobs?

3 AREAS Analog Circuit Design Digital & VLSI Circuits MicroElectroMechanical System (MEMS) Emerging Devices and Circuits RF and Microwave IC s

4 FACULTY VSLI & Digital: John Brunhaver, Kevin Cao, Larry Clark, Umit Ogras, Jae-Sun Seo Analog: Bertan Bakkaloglu, Sayfe Kiaei, Sule Ozev Emerging Devices and Circuits: David Allee, Hugh Barnaby, Shimeng Yu MEMS & BioEngineering: Junseok Chae, Jennifer Blain Christen RF & Microwave ICs: Sayfe Kiaei, Jennifer Kitchen, Georgios Trichopoulos

5 NEW FACULTY PAST 2 YEARS Shimeng Yu John Brunhaver Georgios Trichopoulos

6 APPLICATIONS Integrated Power Management ICs Wireless Security MEMS Aerospace & Automotive Si-CMOS front-end Bio-Technologies

7 COURSES Analog Courses EEE 333 VHDL EEE 334 Circuits I EE E335 Circuits II Digital Courses EEE 433 Analog Circuits EEE 523 Analog CMOS These are your core classes for circuits. EEE 425 Digital Circuits EEE 525 VLSI EEE 527 A/D EEE 524 RFIC EEE 538 MEMS CSE/EEE 518 Synthesis EEE 625 Adv. VLSI EEE 598 Σ Converters EEE 598 Switch Cap EEE 598 Adv. MEMS EEE 598 Modeling EEE 526 VLSI Architecture EEE 598 Bioelectronics

8 Flexible Display Center at ASU Design Flow: Thin Film Transistor Characterization - Semiconductor Parameter Analyzer - Automatic and Manual Probing Circuit Design & Simulation - Professional CAD Suite - Tanner Tools 'v(8)' 'v(4)' 'v(10)' 40.0 Y Axis Title [V] m 10.0m 20.0m 30.0m time [sec] Thin Film Transistor Model Parameter Extraction - Transistor Model Parameters Extracted from Device Data Designs in Collaboration with 2.5 Measured Modeled Modeled data 2.0 UDC, Honeywell, Kent Displays, Measurement data 1.5 and E ink. Drain current [ua] Circuit Layout & Verification - FDC Developing Design Rules for High Manufacturing Yield Drain-source voltage [V] Improved Thin Film Transistor Models - Better Modeling of Parasitics - Incorporation of Threshold Voltage Shift - Advanced Models Enable Accurate Prediction of Circuit Performance Before Fabrication Fabrication & Test

9 RADIATION - RESEARCH Space Electronics and Radiation Effects Space Electronics Testbed NASA Carrier V1 5 V R2 1.0M D1 R4 200k U2 R1 10M 1N4371A U1 R3 100k COMPARATOR_VIRTUAL U5A 74LS04D R6 620 Q1 2N2222A 0 C1 1.0uF S1 OPAMP_3T_VIRTUAL RadHARD PCB U4A 74LS08J U9A R LS04D Design U6 VCC R10 VCC 5V R17 110k R8 100k 1.2 R9 100k R7 100k COMPARATOR_VIRTUAL Q2 2N2222A S2 CR R11 1.0k Reliability and Radiation Effects Modeling Radiation Sensors Extreme Environment Effects in Devices and ICs Combined Temperature and Radiation for Moon/Mars Low Dose Rate Effects

10 EMERGING DEVICES AND CIRCUITS: 3D Memory Array Artificial Synapse Research Highlights: Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM) Technology 3D integration of RRAM, RRAM array and architecture design, radiation effects on RRAM, etc Brain-inspired Neuromorphic Computing with Synaptic Devices Hardware Security with Physical Unclonable Functions

11 VLSI RESEARCH Radiation hardened VLSI circuits Low power/high performance microprocessor circuits and architectures Ultra low power and harsh environment VLSI systems High Security Digital Systems Research Opportunities: Radiation hardened, high performance, low power, microprocessor design Security circuits (smart cards, ultrasecure ICs) Low power cache, MMU design Multicore microprocessor circuits and programming Students hired by: AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, Microchip, FreeScale, MRDC, TI

12 Self-Learning Adaptive Circuits & Systems Original Image Image Patch X Dictionary D Extracted Feature Z RRAM/SRAM as synaptic devices V i R ij I j Real-time Sparse Coding Custom ASIC chip achieving real-time data collection, learning, and recognition Brain-inspired machine learning algorithms to manage device fluctuations, and to realize efficient on-line feature extraction (training) Hardware demonstration with >5000X speedup in information processing compared to CPU/GPU On-chip Voltage Regulation voltage regulators Core 1 Core i+1 voltage regulators on-chip links voltage regulators Core i Core N voltage regulators On-chip voltage conversion / regulation is necessary to support multiple on-chip voltages with fast response On-chip voltage regulators based on switched-capacitor converters, low dropout regulators Achieve high-efficiency, high current density and minimal droop/noise

13 ENERGY EFFICIENT ARCHITECTURE PRODUCTIVE VLSI DESIGN Benchmark Applications Custom Compiler Simulator Architecture Generation Design Constraints Hardware Optimizer Hardware Generator Quality of Result Physical Design

14 BIOENGINEERING RESEARCH Incubator Culture Flask Waste Life Sciences Cellular Molecular Physiological Engineering Circuits Control Systems MEMS

15 Sensor and Sensor Systems Micro system on soft substrate (Parylene, PDMS, Polyimide): Flexible, stretchable and networked 3D surface manufacture Biomedical and geology applications Fluidic parameters measurement: Sensors: thermal anemometer, electrodes Functions: shear stress, temperature, conductivity, dissolved oxygen.. Networked sensor meshes Geochemistry and astrobiology applications Miniature seismometers for harsh environments Goal: provide light and robust seismometer for space exploration. Testing current devices for harsh environments: high/low temperature, temperature cycles, vacuum and radiation (NASA). Based on Molecular Electric Transducer with liquid electrolyte, using microfabrication improve size and performance. Applications: space exploration, gas or oil detection

16 UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH ENGAGEMENT Fulton Undergraduate Research Initiative (FURI) NASA Undergraduate Space Grants Senior Design Projects

17 WHERE DO WE FIND JOBS? (1/2) COMPANY RANKING EMPLOYEES CATEGORY Intel Corp. 7 11,000 Semiconductors Raytheon Co Missiles Honeywell International Inc Aerospace General Dynamics Corp Boeing Aircraft IBM Corp Defense, communications Technology services Freescale Semiconductor Ltd Semiconductors Microchip Technology Inc Semiconductors Orbital Sciences Corp Aerospace Arizona Republic 2015 top [largest employer] 100 companies in AZ. 17

18 WHERE DO WE FIND JOBS? (2/2) Top 50 companies to work for: [Fortune Magazine 2014] - Google - Intel - Microsoft - Qualcomm - Burns & McDonnell - National Instruments (no longer NI) 18

19 WHERE HAVE OUR UNDERGRADUATES GONE? Intel Qualcomm Broadcom Microchip FreeScale On Semiconductor MRDC AMD Texas Instruments RFMD/TriQuint now Qorvo Medtronic Google Apple Government Labs Startup Companies

20 WHAT ARE OUR UNDERGRADUATES DOING? Applications Engineer In field technical customer support of electronics Verification and Test Engineer performance testing on electronics, volume production testing, testing of product prototypes Electronic Design Engineer integrated circuit (IC) designers, boardlevel circuits designers, circuit/board layout Marketing marketing, company representation, customer support Talent (Employee) Recruiting college recruiting, recruit employees at career fairs and through outreach Other graduate school, teaching, community service, HR

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