The Foundations and Advancement of Logic IC and Nonvolatile Memory Technologies
There are two major mainstream semiconductor technologies, i.e., logic IC technology based on MOSFET which made the low power IC possible and nonvolatile memories such as Flash, the core of a USB, originating from the invention of floating gate concept to the end-product of solid-state disk. In the past 6 decades, many efforts have then been made to create their wide applications in CPU, PC, cellphone, solid-state storage, mobile electronics, IoT, AI, and hardware security etc. These rely on various innovations and the advancement of semiconductor Technology in various generations.
In this talk, we will introduce from the inception of MOSFET and the concept of floating gate to the current status of modern IC industries. The foundations of these early ideas of semiconductor devices will be discussed. Then, we will share with you several important researches in both transistors and memories, especially why ultra-low power is important to a logic IC and why high density memory needs to be developed, and how to achieve them. Finally, some of the major developments in 3D architecture, the applications to IoT, AI, network security will be demonstrated with examples.
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- Date: 01 Dec 2021
- Time: 04:00 PM to 05:30 PM
- All times are (UTC+08:00) Taipei
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Steve Chung
Prof. Steve Chung received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA. His Ph. D. advisor is the world famous CMOS co-inventor, Prof. C. T. Sah.
Currently, he is NYCU and UMC Chair Professor at the National Yang-Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU). He has been the Dean of International Affairs Office and Executive Director of school level research center, (2007-2008). He was a visiting professor with Stanford University, University of California-Merced, giving course lectures between 2001-2009 successively. He has been the consultant of two world largest IC foundries, TSMC and UMC. His recent current research areas include- FinFET, flash memory, resistance Memory Technologies, from storage to AI application. He was the first speaker (from Taiwan) to present the paper at VLSI Technology symposium in 1995, ranked top-3 in the academia for papers in VLSI Symposium as corresponding author. He also holds more than 40 patents.
He is an IEEE Life Fellow, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, Senior Editor of Applied Physics-A (Springer), EDS Taipei chapter chair, and with past involvements as IEEE EDS Board of Governor for more than 12 years, EDS Regions/Chapters Chair, and Editor of J-EDS, EDL(2002-2008). Among numerous awards, he has been a recipient of 3-times Outstanding Research Award, Pan Wen Yuan award (2013), Lifetime achievement award as National Inventors (2019) etc