Pyxis Forms Technical Advisory Board with Design for Manufacturing Expertise; Experts in Design, Lithography, and Yield Will Advise Company in Developing DFM Solutions.SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Pyxis Technology, an electronic design automation (EDA) company founded in 2004, today announced the formation of a Technical Advisory Board (TAB) with four industry notables as founding members. The TAB includes experts from industry and academia in the fields of semiconductor yield and lithography who will provide guidance in the Company's technology development and long-term roadmap. The 18-month-old EDA startup is developing new tools for chips being designed in sub-100 nanometer technology nodes. The TAB includes Warren Grobman, Ph.D., a consultant in manufacturability-driven design who was director of design-to-manufacturing solutions for Motorola until he retired last year; Mark McDermott, principal and general partner in the Silicon Web Group and an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Texas; David Z. Pan, assistant professor and director of the University of Texas Design Automation Laboratory in Austin; and Riko Radojcic, a consultant to semiconductor and EDA companies who specializes in the integration of semiconductor process and design considerations. "Sub-100 nanometer technologies require a new vision that merges design and manufacturing," said Naeem Zafar, Pyxis president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "Our new TAB draws upon manufacturing talent in lithography and yield, and merges it with the Company's own physical design expertise. The advice of these experts will supplement our internal expertise and the input of our Board of Directors to provide designers with a true DFM solution. We're thrilled to welcome such a distinguished group of industry experts to our founding technical advisory board." After receiving his Ph.D. from Princeton University, Warren Grobman served IBM as a research scientist, led the company's electron beam lithography Using electron beams to create the mask patterns directly on a chip. The wavelength of an electron beam is only a few picometers compared to the 248 to 365 nanometer wavelengths of light used to create the traditional photomasks. effort, started the synchrotron X-ray lithography program, was head of the Semiconductor Technology Development Laboratory and program director for the GaAs joint program with IBM Fishkill and Rockwell International, and was program director of technology modeling. After that he served in Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector where he led advanced technology modeling development activities and began the resolution enhancement technologies Resolution enhancement technologies are methods used to modify photomasks for integrated circuits (ICs) to compensate for limitations in the lithographic processes used to manufacture the chips. activities; he was director of Design to Manufacturing Solutions until he retired last year. He is a Fellow of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. . Mark McDermott received his MSEE MSEE Master of Science in Electrical Engineering MSEE Mean Square Estimation Error MSEE Major Source Enforcement Effort MSEE Materials Science and Electrical Engineering (Purdue University building) from the University of Texas and has since co-founded six companies, led engineering teams in the development of PowerPC processors and Intel x86 processors, and been granted 19 patents in microprocessor design and test. He has served as CEO of DynaFlow Computing, VP engineering and co-founder of Somerset Embedded Technologies, VP engineering and co-founder of VisionFlow, general manager and director of the Texas Development Center for Intel Corporation, director of the PowerPC Somerset Design Center, and director of the Austin Design Center for Cyrix. David Z. Pan received his Ph.D. in computer science from UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX . Before going to UT, he was a research staff member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. His research interests include nanometer physical CAD, design for manufacturability (DFM), variation-tolerant designs, novel circuitry and CAD for low power, and vertical integration of architecture, circuit and technology. He has served in the program committees of many major conferences, including ICCAD ICCAD International Conference on Computer-Aided Design , DATE, ASPDAC, ISPD ISPD International Society for Prenatal Diagnosis (Charlottesville, VA) ISPD International Society for Peritoneal Dyalisis ISPD Information Systems, Production and Distribution , ISQED ISQED International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (IEEE) , and ISCAS ISCAS International Symposium on Circuits and Systems ISCAS International Society for Computer-Aided Surgery ISCAS Integrated Submarine Communication Antenna System . He has received numerous awards, including the SRC (SouRCe) Contrast with DST, which is an abbreviation of "destination." Inventor Recognition Award in 2000 and the IBM Faculty Award in 2004 and 2005. Riko Radojcic received his Ph.D. from University of Salford The University of Salford is a university situated in the city of Salford in Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom. It was founded in 1896 as the Royal Salford Technical Institute, and gained its Royal Charter and full university status in 1967. , UK, and has more than 20 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. He served in management roles for PDF Solutions, Tality and Cadence, specializing in design technology integration and process characterization and modeling. He has also held management and engineering positions with Unisys, Burroughs, and Ferranti Electronics. About Pyxis Pyxis Technology is developing software that addresses the problems that chip designers and foundries face in the physical design, layout, and routing of nanometer-scale integrated circuits (ICs) and systems on a chip (SoCs). Pyxis was founded in 2004 by three industry veterans with extensive experience in semiconductor IC design and EDA software development. The company has raised Series A funding from Austin Ventures and CMEA Ventures. For more information, see www.pyxistech.com |
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