Date: Thursday 17 March 2016
Time: 14:00 - 17:30
Location / Room: Exhibition Theatre

Organiser:
Anton Klotz, Cadence Design Systems, DE

The presentations at DATE Exhibition Theatre sessions 11.8 and 12.8 on 17th March from 14:00-17:30 are dedicated to the worldwide MEMS Design Contest, which is organized by Cadence Design Systems, Coventor, X-FAB and Reutlingen University. The aim of the contest is to motivate design teams to start designing chips with MEMS and mixed-signal blocks using X-FAB PDK and tools from Coventor and Cadence, to spread the knowledge about the co-design of MEMS and mixed-signal and to get new ideas how MEMS can be used and what kind of MEMS can be designed using the X-FAB PDK. The winning team gets the possibility to manufacture a demonstrator in silicon in order to prove the functionality of the flow.

The session will start with a motivational talk about MEMS research in academia provided by Prof. Ibrahim Elfadel from MASDAR Institute. Then Anton Klotz, University Program Manager EMEA from Cadence Design Systems, explains the rules of the contest. Jörg Doblaski, Director Design Support from X-FAB, will present the mixed-signal and MEMS PDKs, which will be used in the contest. After that, Christopher Welham, Director Applications Engineering from Coventor, will explain front-end modeling of MEMS using Coventor tools. Finally, Ahmed Osman, Principal Application Engineerfrom Cadence Design Systems, will explain the design flow, which was developed based on the research work done in the BMBF-funded MEMS2015 project and will be used for the creation of mixed-signal logic and MEMS design at the contest.

Time	Label	Presentation Title Authors
14:00	11.8.1	ACADEMIC MEMS GOES FABLESS: THE MASDAR INSTITUTE PERSPECTIVE Speaker: Ibrahim Elfadel, MASDAR Institute of Science and Technology, AE
14:20	11.8.2	MEMS DESIGN CONTEST RULES Speaker: Anton Klotz, Cadence Design Systems, DE
15:00	11.8.3	PDK-BASED DESIGN AUTOMATION ENABLEMENT FOR MEMS- AND CMOS PROCESSES Speaker: Joerg Doblaski, X-FAB, DE
16:00	11.8.4	COVENTOR TOOLS FOR MODELLING AND SIMULATION OF MEMS Speaker: Christopher Welham, Coventor, FR
16:45	11.8.5	A MEMS-ASIC CO-DESIGN FLOW: AN EDA PERSPECTIVE Speaker: Ahmed Hussein Osman, Cadence Design Systems, DE
17:30		End of session