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MEMS CAD workshop
Short Courses on MEMS Design and Systems using MEMS+ and MEMSPro
Coventor Short Course:
This hands-on workshop is intended to support the education community, such as professors and graduate students, to increase their working knowledge of MEMS CAD and tools for MEMS design.
From traditional applications (automotive, military...), the MEMS market is now expanding to high volume applications such as consumer electronics (gaming, mobile phones...). The MEMS ecosystem is evolving at the same time: fabless design houses and pure MEMS foundries are emerging. The design cycles are also shortened to be competitive in these emerging applications. In this changing environment MEMS+IC co-design via System Level Simulation and data exchange between engineering designers is becoming highly critical. This ensures better design and shortened time to market.
Coventor, the leading provider of MEMS design-automation software, is organizing a workshop at COMS 2010 to give the attendees a hands-on experience of creating a MEMS transducer and characterizing it using a new design platform called MEMS+. MEMS+ provides MEMS and IC designers with a common platform for MEMS+IC design and Co-Simulation within industry-standard simulation environments.
MEMS+ Description: In MEMS+, a design is assembled in a 3D CAD environment by selecting and combining MEMS model components (building blocks) from the generic MEMS Model Library. Each library component has a 3D view as well as a sophisticated, accurate behavioral model. When the design is complete, MEMS+ can automatically generate a parametric layout cell (PCell) a schematic symbol and a simulation model. The MEMS or IC engineer places the schematic symbol of the MEMS device in an IC schematic and runs simulations in an Analog Mixed Signal (AMS) simulator such as Cadence Spectre. The MEMS engineer can then visualize and animate the simulated 3D device behavior in the MEMS+ Visualizer. http://www.coventor.com/mems-ic/mems-presentation.html Instructors:
President, CEO, and Founder
Joe Johnson
Prerequisites:
Participants should possess basic working knowledge of the following:
• Finite element methods (FEM).
• Boundary element methods (BEM).
• General Knowledge of MEMS (Microsystems Technology)
• Other numerical approaches such as finite differences, newton methods, etc.
at a more general level. Date: Sunday August 29, 2010
Time: 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM Contact: Benjamin.blackwell@coventor.com
Register at http://www.mancef.org/Registration (Select Delegate Registration)
Location: Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort & Spa
SoftMEMS Short Course
MEMS Pro and MEMS Xplorer Objective: To familiarize students with design tools and techniques for designing Systems including MEMS devices.
The SoftMEMS CAD Design Environment Is a customizable set of CAD tools for the development and test of MEMS-based products. SoftMEMS CAD tools are open-platform products that support leading electronic design automation environments used for integrated circuit development. SoftMEMS tools allow data sharing between system designers, IC designers, process engineers and MEMS experts, permitting earlier and consistent design checks between multidisciplinary teams. Our tool suites enable designers to develop new MEMS designs, integrate existing designs (intellectual property) into systems, and couple them with electronics.
SoftMEMS has developed two main MEMS design tools to address designer’s needs:
MEMS Xplorer (for UNIX and HP platforms) MEMS Pro (for the PC platform) are CAD tool suites that cover the entire MEMS design process.
1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Instructor:
Dr. Mary Ann Maher
Contact: maryann@softmems.com Location: Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort & Spa
Cost: $100.00 for both courses
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