A-SSCC2017 Plenary Speakers

"Silicon Systems Connecting Human and Machine"

Tuesday, November 7

Plenary Speech 1, 8:45-9:30, Convention Hall A (Convention Center 4F)

Biography

Joseph Yoon is Senior Vice President at LG Electronics and currently heading Vehicle Component Technology Center, CTO. Joseph is responsible for Advanced Research and development activities for all automotive related technologies.
Joseph joined LG Electronics in 2015 after working in automotive industry in the United States for over 25 years and during his professional career, he has demonstrated a track record of success with increasing responsibilities in product development, manufacturing, technical sales, program management and Joint Venture. Joseph also has diverse experience in vehicle safety systems, Infotainment system, HVAC systems and Li-Ion battery manufacturing. Joseph is actively involved in community services including Soup Kitchen Charity organization. He also served as 30th President of KPAI (The Association of Korean Professionals in Automotive Industry), a non-profit organization (www.kpai.org) and founded a scholarship program in 2009 for the first time in KPAI's 30 year history in order to support students in financial needs and to help develop future leaders.
Joseph earned his master's degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Cincinnati and Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Seoul National University in Korea.

Abstract

With the success of electric cars, automotive system is considered the next generation platform for SoCs. And the market is moving rapidly to the next step, autonomous vehicle systems. In this talk, the history of SoCs and components in automotive systems and the requirements of SoCs for the next generation vehicles will be discussed with LG's experiences and foresight.

Plenary Speech 2, 9:30-10:15, Convention Hall A (Convention Center 4F)

Biography

Prof. WEI received Master degree in Engineering from the Department of Radio and Electronics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 1984 and Doctor degree in Applied Science in 1991 from the faculté Polytechnique de Mons (FPMs), Belgium and then became the assistant professor in FPMs. Dr. WEI returned to China in 1995. From 1998 to 2005, he worked for Datang Telecom Technology Co., Ltd. successively as Vice-President, President & CEO. He was the founder, President & CEO and Chairman of the Board of Datang Microelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. from 1996 to 2005. He was the CTO of Datang Telecom Industry Group from 2005 to 2006. Prof. WEI is the member of National IC Industry Advisory Committee, the Vice President of CSIA and President of VLSI fabless chapter. He is the fellow of CIE and senior member of IEEE. The research interests of Dr. WEI include VLSI design methodology and mobile computing and reconfigurable computing. He has published more than 190 papers in above area.

Prof. WEI has won many awards during last years, including the National 2nd Prize for Advanced Technology in 2002; the National 2nd Prize for Technology Invention in 2015; Beijing 1st and 2nd Prize for Advanced Technology in 2001 and 2004; the Award for Outstanding Chinese Patented Invention, State Intellectual Property Office of China & World Intellectual Property Organization in 2004 and 2015; the Outstanding Founder in Zhongguancun Science Park in 2001 and the Outstanding Leading Person in Semiconductor Industry, CSIA in 2003, etc.

Abstract

With the fast growing of its economy, China has become the largest IC market in the world since 2013. The huge number of IC imported each year makes both suppliers and buyers be fear. From the suppliers' point of view, if China stopped to purchase IC that would be a catastrophe and from the buyers' side, if the suppliers stopped to sell IC to China, that would lead to a disaster. That is the background for China to announce its national plan to promote its native IC industry. Inevitably, this raised many questions. For example, what is the real state of the China's IC industry today, what implications does such a promotion have to the global IC, EDA and other related industries, and what goals are China's IC industry working to achieve? Obviously, with its rapid growth, China's IC industry is becoming an emerging force globally, increasing the importance of understanding the answers to these questions. Unfortunately, few people really understand China's IC industry. This presentation will give an overview of the Chinese IC market, followed by an introduction of China's IC industry. China's native products, design technologies, and talents will be described in detail to provide an objective and comprehensive picture of China's IC industry. As China is a unique country with huge population, vast territory, rapidly growing but unbalanced economy, and many diverse cultures, life-styles and traditions, its native product demands are also diverse. How to meet these drastically different requirements with a reasonable time to market while keeping costs low presents a big challenge. A rapidly growing IC industry in China will force engineers, both inside and outside China, to explore, to innovate as well as to collaborate. With a large talent pool addressing unique challenges, who can say there will not be new technologies, methodologies and products emerging to change the rules of the global information technology landscape?

Wednesday, November 8

Plenary Speech 3, 8:30-9:15, Convention Hall A (Convention Center 4F)

Biography

Dr. Shinsuke Sakakibara, received BE from Applied Physics Department, the University of Tokyo, in 1972, and joined FANUC. He has been serving as a manager of research and development group of intelligent robot at FANUC since 1985 and initiating the research and development of intelligent robot with vision and force sensors for assembly use. He received his doctoral degree in engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1995.

He has been serving as Honorary General Manager of Robot Laboratory at FANUC since 1999. He was appointed to President of RSJ, the Robotics Society of Japan, from 2009 to 2010. He was appointed to President of IFR, International Federation of Robotics, from 2012 to 2013.He has been serving as Executive Officer of FANUC since 2013. He has been serving as Executive Director & Chief Technical Advisor of FANUC since 2016.

Abstract

Robots are key for factory automation, such like Smart Manufacturing, and Industry 4.0.
This Plenary talk covers introduction of the latest robot technologies and how they are being used for factory automation. The Plenary talk will cover "Collaborative Robots, " which are attracting much attention in recent years for their ability to collaborate with humans, allowing both robots and humans to focus on the abilities that they excel at. Also, the Plenary Talk introduces examples of the use of the IoT and AI in factories that has been automated through the introduction of robots and outline recent trends involving an open platform that facilitates such applications.

Plenary Speech 4, 9:15-10:00, Convention Hall A (Convention Center 4F)

Biography

Dr. Kou-Hung Lawrence Loh is a Corporate Senior Vice President of MediaTek Inc. He oversees the company's Central Engineering Group, responsible for engineering the company's SOCs and chipsets design, development and implementation activities for all MediaTek's product lines including mobile communication, application processors, wireless connectivity, IOT, automotive, home entertainment, optical storage and broadband/networking business. He is also serving as President of MediaTek USA, Inc., responsible for the company's global operations in Europe and America.

Dr. Loh started his first circuit design position at IMP and later he joined Cirrus Logic, where his last position was Director of Analog IC Engineering. In 1998, he founded Silicon Bridge Inc., where he successfully led a number of analog/mixed-signal IC development projects with major semiconductor companies including MediaTek and Altera Corporation. Before joining MediaTek in 2004, he contributed to IC design industry in areas of read/write channels for magnetic and optical storage, high-performance analog filters, solid-state fingerprint sensors, highspeed SERDES and wireline transceivers for various business applications. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. He has authored/co-authored dozens of technical papers/patents in areas of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits/systems design and has contributed many panel talks and invited keynote speeches at numerous international conferences and professional communities. He served on ISSCC International Technical Program Committee for 5 consecutive years since 2005. He is currently serving on Steering Committee of A-SSCC and also on Board of Directors for Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA).

Abstract

For the past decade, mobile consumer devices have predominantly driven CMOS technologies to continue to follow the path of Moore's Law. Today we are ready to enter the era of "Intelligent Device" which creates even more business opportunities for semiconductor companies. End products may contain essential sensory or control components such as for medical, automotive or other internet of things (IoT) applications. The resulting massive data flows have created strong demands of local 'intelligence' which requires end devices to perform respective computing and connecting functions at the lowest possible energy levels. In this plenary talk, technology trends of IC designs to bring up modern and future intelligent devices are presented from a SOC company's perspective. Innovations in development of underlying technologies including systems, algorithms, circuits, packaging and fabricating process technologies, become increasingly challenging yet essential to ride the wave into ubiquitous intelligent devices.