2022 NEPP Electronics Technology Workshop

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Microelectronics can enable amazing capabilities to sense, decide, communicate, and actuate. The process of bringing ideas to capabilities through microelectronics is uniquely enabled by the foundry ecosystem. System capability requirements drive algorithms and logic descriptions that are translated into hardware design data and photolithographic masks.

These masks are then used to transform blank wafers into active semiconductor circuits with up to billions of transistors and passive elements using the most complicated manufacturing tools man has ever made in over 1000 manufacturing steps.

This transformation process is constantly monitored and controlled to ensure the battle with entropy and rules of physics results in very high yield of high-performance and complicated circuitry with nanometer-scale geometry. Without high volume manufacturing, this transformation will not yield useful devices necessary to deliver the needs for modern sensing, computation, processing, and actuation.

Foundry ecosystems are the way that standard processes are built to meet market needs of many customers to bring their products to the marketplace. This talk will overview the basics of the foundry ecosystems and life of a microelectronics part while providing several deep dives into semiconductor fabrication and technology.

Dr. Jeremy Muldavin is currently Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff for Aerospace and Defense at GlobalFoundries beginning in 2020. Prior to joining GlobalFoundries, Dr. Muldavin spent 19 years with MIT Lincoln Laboratory as a staff, and group leader researching microelectronics, imagers, embedded computing, open architecture, and autonomy, and was awarded the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Outstanding Young Engineer award for his work.

He received his BSE in engineering Physics, MSE and PhD in Electromagnetics from the University of Michigan. From 2016-2019, Dr. Muldavin was an IPA assignee as Director, Defense Software & Microelectronics Assurance and Microelectronics Assistant Director at the Department of Defense Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research & Engineering, where he established the Microelectronics Innovation for National Security and Economic Competitiveness (MINSEC) program and served as a representative to the DoD on the NSC sub-PCC for semiconductors.