Silex Microsystems, a pure play MEMS foundry, offers a high density through silicon via technology that enables MEMS designs with significantly reduced form factor. The Through Silicon Via (TSV) process developed by Silex offers sub 50 μm pitch for through wafer connections in up to 600 μm thick substrates. Silex via process enables “all silicon” MEMS designs and true "Wafer Level Packaging" fe...

In this paper, we present a concrete proof point, achieved after roughly two years of collaborative effort, resulting in substantially decreased time-to-silicon and improved semiconductor customer success. We describe a foundry package containing a unique Cadence evaluation test chip, available today, and fabricated using the 0.18um CMOS Tower Semiconductor process design kit, Tower standard-ce...

Environmental concerns, stricter legislation and inflated energy costs together yield improved energy efficiency as an important pillar in every industrial sector. Mindful of this challenge, energy management and its related practices are deemed to be one of the major instruments to improve energy efficiency within manufacturing companies. Despite the importance of this issue, there is no preci...

Representing the kinetic state of a patient (posture, motion, and ac‐ tivity) during vital sign measurement is an important part of continu‐ ous monitoring applications, especially remote monitoring applica‐ tions. In contextualized vital sign representation, the measurement result is presented in conjunction with salient measurement context metadata. We present an automated annotation system f...

S. Rzadkosz, J. Zych, A. Garbacz-Klempka, J. Kozana, M. Piękoś, J. Kolczyk, Ł. Jamrozowicz, AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Foundry Engineering, Krakow, Poland M. Kranc, Foundry Research Institute, Krakow, Poland T. Stolarczyk, Copper Museum in Legnica, Poland This paper presents research results in the field of casting technology of copper and copper alloys using the inves...

The paper presents an Ontology of Schizophrenia (OS) that is designed to provide a formal representation of schizophrenia-related entities crucial to the treatment and study of schizophrenia. OS is developed in accordance with the OBO (Open Biomedical Ontology) Foundry principles and constructed in compliance with Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) as its upperlevel ontology. It uses mid-level and dom...

The increasing demand for electrical failure analysis (EFA) in yield enhancement [1] has created new challenges for foundries and their clients. Dynamic EFA techniques, more in demand with the smaller technology nodes, have largely been the domain of the design-house failure analysis (FA) lab. In 2010 on 40nm packaged parts, a new laserbased technology, laser voltage imaging (LVI) was applied t...

It is now generally accepted that wherever we need to address multiple different kinds of data deriving from multiple different kinds of sources, a strategy is required to ensure interoperability across the various systems involved. The United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) is developing an ontology for use in their knowledge management platform—the Sustainable Development Goals Interface...