American Society of Quality Dinner Forum

Speaker Topic: "IP Quality Considerations for Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs)"

Description:

Application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) accounted for a significant portion of the $USD336B worldwide semiconductor market sales in 2015. ASICs are generally built using standard cells and embedded memories for the digital functions (the "secret sauce"), plus third-party circuit blocks (known as "intellectual property", or IP) for processor cores, interface, power management, and analog functions. IP can easily cost up to $10M for a single ASIC, and IP quality is a major risk for ASIC development. This presentation describes common IP quality metrics, plus a typical IP QA process for ASICs.

Mr. Michael Fliesler

Speakers Biography:

Mr. Michael Fliesler has over 30 years' experience in semiconductor product design, manufacturing, IP, and quality assurance, at both Fortune 500 companies and start-ups. He is a member of IEEE and ASQ, and holds ISO9001 QMS Internal Auditor and Lead Auditor certification. Mr. Fliesler received the BSEE and MSEE degrees from Stanford University. He holds 12 US patents and has published and presented 10 papers. He is a Past Chair of the IEEE Nonvolatile Semiconductor Memory Workshop (NVSMW).

Meeting agenda:

5:00 - 5:30 - Check In & Registration
5:30 - 6:10 - Networking
6:15 - 6:55 - Dinner
6:55 - 7:10 - Section Business: John Latimer, Section Chair,
7:10 - 8:25 - Mr. Michael Fliesler: IP Quality Considerations for Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs)
8:25 - 8:30 - Door Prize drawing

Registration- a three part process:1) having a meal? and 2) select meal if you are having one 3) pay for the meal via PayPal

Advance $35
Late/Walk-in $40
Unemployed $20
Presentation only and special guests $0

Note: Advance registration ends at midnight Monday, July 18th.

Cancellation Policy: no refunds will be available unless you notify us before Monday night at midnight.

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Douglas has many years of experience as a consultant, manager, and engineer in the computer and software industries . In addition to teaching, he provides organizational assessments, strategic quality planning, and test planning services. His recent technical work has focused on equivalence class analysis, test oracles, and advanced test automation architectures. He is a regular speaker at conferences worldwide, holds credentials for teaching Computer Science at the college level, and has taught management, technical, and quality assurance related university classes for several Universities on both coasts. He has been very active in the Section's activities; teaching classes, leading the Software TAG (SSQA), and he holds the distinction of being ASQ's SV Section Chair twice. He is also a founder, Lead instructor, and Past President of the Association for Software Testing (AST), an international professional society.