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Faculty: [J. F. McDonald] [R. P. Kraft] [H. J. Greub]

Students:

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[J.-W. Kim (graduated 7/09)] [P. Belemjian (graduated 7/08)] [P. Jin (graduated 12/07)]

[O. Erdogan (graduated 12/06)] [J. Diao (graduated 12/06)] [Y. Yim (graduated 12/06)]

[J.-R. Guo (graduated 11/05)] [P. Curran (graduated 8/05)] [Y. Chao (graduated 5/05)]

[K. Zhou (graduated 8/04)] [R. Heikaus (graduated 8/04)] [J. Mayega (graduated 12/02)]

[M. Ernest (graduated 5/03)] [S. Steidl (graduated 5/01)] [B. Goda (graduated 5/01)]

[T. Krawczyk (graduated 12/00)] [S. Carlough (graduated 5/00)] [X. Ma (graduated 5/99)]

[A. Garg (graduated 8/97)] [P. M. Campbell (graduated 5/97)] [C. Maier (graduated 8/96)]

[K.-S. Nah (graduated 8/94)] [R. Philhower (graduated 12/93)] [J. Loy (graduated 8/93)]


  • H. J. Greub is now with Intel, OR.
  • J. Loy is with now Morgan Stanley Dean Wittier Securities, NY.
  • R. Philhower is now with IBM, Yorktown Heights, NY.
  • K.-S. Nah is now with Samasung, S. Korea.
  • C. Maier is now with AMD, CA.
  • P. M. Campbell is now with IBM, NY.
  • A. Garg is now with AMD, CA.
  • X. Ma is now with Intel, Hudson, MA.
  • S. Carlough is now with IBM, NY.
  • T. Krawczyk is now with Sierra Monolithics, CA.
  • B. Goda is now with the United States Military Academy, West Point, NY.
  • S. Steidl is now with Sierra Monolithics, CA.
  • M. Ernest is now with Intel, OR.
  • K. Zhou is now with Intel, OR.
  • Y. Chao is now with the University of South Dakota.
  • P. Curran is now with Sierra Monolithics, CA.
  • J.-R. Guo is now with IBM, NY.
  • J. Diao is now with Bear Stearns & Co. Inc.
  • P. Belemjian is now with Navel Research Laboratories.
  • J.-W. Kim is now with Samsung.
  • M. Chu is now on a post doc with Rensselaer.
  • A. Zia is now with Intel, OR.
  • P. Jacob is now with IBM, NY.
  • T. Neogi is now with Global Foundries, NY.


Cadence Design Systems Driven Layouts

Since 1998 all SiGe designs, simulations, layouts, and verifications have been done using Cadence tools. Starting with the fall 1999 semester, the Cadence packages have been the primary IC design tools utilized in the Introduction to VLSI Design and the VLSI Design Automation classes offered by the Electrical, Computer, & Systems Engineering Dept. at Rensselaer. (More Cadence tools are used in other ECSE classes.)

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AlGaAs/GaAs HBT chips designed so far

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  • SiGe HBT chips designed using IBM's process


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