Fringe Meeting

 

STC University Meeting

Hilton Hotel, Southampton, UK

Room: The Garden Suite

Thursday, May 25, 2006; 8:30am – 12:30pm

Followed by Lunch

The meeting is open to professors and engineers working in semiconductor test and is free of charge.

 

The Semiconductor Test Consortium (STC) invites you to a half day meeting the day after the 11th IEEE European Test Symposium.

 

The focus of this meeting will be to introduce the UTWG (University Technical Working Group) to the European test community. One of the UTWG goals is to drive alignment and closer working relationship between the semiconductor industry and academia.

 

Please also refer to ETS vendor session 10 C on May 23rd, “Involving Academia in Leading Edge Semiconductor Test Technology.”

 

Agenda

 

·              Overview of the STC Consortium - Paul Roddy

·              Results of STC Survey on the Industry's Test Research Needs - Hosam Haggag

·              Feedback Session: What Professors Want to get From the STC - Dr. Abhijit Chatterjee

·              Opportunities for International Collaboration - Klaus Lutz

·              Presentations on Current Research Projects - invited speakers

 

Please R.S.V.P. by May 12th, 2006 to stceurope@semitest.org or

Ms. Caroline Ebneth +49 – 89 99 312 190 if you plan on attending.

 

About the speakers

 

Paul Roddy is OAI Technical Manager for Advantest America, responsible for driving Advantest's Open Architecture Initiative, as well as interfacing with the STC, where he is co-chair of the University Technical Working Group.

 

Dr. Hosam Haggag is Senior Engineering Manager in the Corporate Technology Infrastructure Group at National Semiconductor, and is also co-chair of the University Technical Working Group.

 

Dr. Abhijit Chatterjee is Assistant Professor of The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Georgia Institute of Technology, and is also co-chair of the University Technical Working Group.

 

Klaus Lutz is Engineering Director of Advantest Europe, also responsible for New Business Development. His assignment in STC is driving the European activities.

 

About the Semiconductor Test Consortium

The Semiconductor Test Consortium was founded in 2003 to develop a common test architecture that is completely open, documented and supported via solutions available from all ATE vendors.  Open to all companies throughout the semiconductor supply chain with a vested interest in the test sector, the consortium is focused on the following goals: driving the direction of OPENSTAR; publishing the architecture and providing training programs and workshops to ensure it is truly open; and defining and managing validation procedures to ensure full vendor interoperability.  Today, 47 semiconductor, equipment and instrumentation companies worldwide and 24 universities in Europe, Japan, China and the United States support the STC.  More information can be found at www.semitest.org