Advisory board to provide strategic guidance

Nanno Solutions has set up a technical advisory board to provide strategic guidance to the company's R and D efforts.

Nanno Solutions, a startup in the DFM (design for manufacturing) space, has set up a technical advisory board (TAB) to provide strategic guidance to the company's R and D efforts.

The TAB consists of three prominent experts in the field of yield analysis and verification: Professor Steve (Sung-Mo) Kang, Dean of Baskin School of Engineering and Professor of Electrical Engineering, UC Santa Cruz; Jae-Kyung Wee, Associate Professor, Soongsil University, Korea; Young-Uk Yu, President and CEO of Seloco (Seoul, Korea) and MyCAD (Sunnyvale, California).

"Members of our TAB come from the academia as well as our industry and are recognised leaders or pioneers in their fields of research".

"We are very pleased to have professionals of such high calibre, and with expertise in silicon design and process technology, become part of our team".

"The TAB is providing technology guidance and directions to our engineering team to improve the highly complex effort of making fab data meaningful to design engineers", remarked Won-Young Jung, CTO and Executive Vice President of Nanno Solutions.

Professor Steve (Sung-Mo) Kang obtained his PhD degree at UC Berkeley in 1975.

Currently Dean of Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz, Professor Kang is a recognised leader in reliability and VLSI research.

He was awarded a Technical Excellence Award from Semiconductor Research Corporation for his contributions to reliability and VLSI research.

In 2005 he received IEEE Circuits and Systems Society's Mac E Van Valkenburg Society Award.

His areas of research interest include VLSI reliability, design for manufacturability, lower power design and CAD.

Professor Kang's academic experience also includes a tenured professorship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).

At UIUC, he served as professor of electrical and computer engineering, associate director of the NSF Engineering Research centre for Compound Semiconductor Microelectronics and department head (1995-2000).

Dr Kang worked at AT and T Bell Labs from 1977 to 1985 for development of full 32bit CMOS microprocessor and peripheral chips and their production at Allentown Works.

Jae-Kyung Wee received his PhD degree in 1998 in electronics engineering in modelling and Characterisation of Interconnects for high-speed and high-density circuits at Seoul National University.

Currently Associate Professor of Soongsil University, Korea, Wee brings a wealth of industry experience to academia.

Prior to his university career, he worked for Hyundai Electronic Company on the process integration of 16MDRAM and logic devices and later in the development of the manufacturability 0.35um CMOS logic technology for high-performance logic products.

In August 1998, he served as a project leader of the Advanced Circuit Development Team.

From August 1999 to June 2000, he was a project leader of 1G DDR SDRAM using 0.13um technology.

From July 2000, he also worked on next generation DRAM and its related system.

His areas of research interest include power delivery design methods of SoC/SiP, high-speed and low-power digital bus design, and voltage regulator modules.

Young-Uk Yu, currently President and CEO of Seloco and MyCAD, is an EDA and IC design veteran with well over 30 years of experience in the industry.

His career in semiconductor design can be traced back to 1975 when he joined the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) as a member of Technical Staff in Korea.

In 1977, he became the head of the LSI Design Laboratory of the Korea Institute of Electronic Technologies (KIET, now ETRI).

In 1982, his career path took him to California, where as the Director of KIET's US Office in Sunnyvale he managed a couple of VLSI design projects with a total of 16 designers from Korea at the Design centre of VLSI Technology, San Jose until 1985.

After returning to ETRI, he managed their National R and D Project on VLSI CAD Technology Development until 1989.

Besides being an engineering professional, Yu is also an entrepreneur, having founded Seodu Logic, in 1990 and MyCAD, in 1994.

In 1997, he founded Seodu InChip in Seoul, specifically for WCDMA chip development.

The Company was so successful that 3-years later in 2000 it was listed on Kosdaq in Korea.

He has been very active in various semiconductor and high tech areas and served as the Vice Chairman of the Korea Venture Business Association, the Chairman of the ASIC Company Association (now, IT SOC Industry Association) and the Chairman of ETRI Venture Business Association.

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