SEMICON WEST 2000 Preview
06/01/2000
Technical Program
July 6-14, 2000
San Francisco and San Jose, CA
This year's Semicon West will offer more than 40 technical programs and courses, both old favorites and new entries.
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Just like last year, the programs are divided between San Francisco and San Jose, with front-end wafer processing programs in San Francisco and back-end test, assembly, and packaging programs in San Jose. Events begin Thursday, July 6, and continue through Friday, July 14.
 Exhibitors and guests check out the floor at the San Jose Convention Center during 1999's SemiWest exhibition. |
Programs in San Francisco will be held at the Argent Hotel, the Moscone Convention Center, the Palace Hotel, the San Francisco Hilton & Towers, and the San Francisco Marriott.
Programs in San Jose will be held at the San Jose Convention Center, San Jose Hilton and Towers, and the San Jose Fairmont Hotel. Standards workshops will be held at the San Francisco Marriott and the San Jose Convention Center.
The exhibition at San Francisco's Moscone Center runs from July 10-12, with show hours from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm on Monday and Tuesday, and from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm on Wednesday. The exhibition at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center runs from July 12-14, with show hours from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm on Wednesday and Thursday, and from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm on Friday.
To check for availability of courses or to register on-line, visit the Semi web site at http://www.semi.org. Early registration is encouraged for best selection.
 Inside San Francisco's Moscone Center. |
If you preregister for a program or an event, you will automatically receive a badge allowing you to enter the Semi West exhibition. For more information, contact Semi at ph 650/940-6903 or toll-free at 877/746-7788.
What follows below is a chronological list of 1) technical programs and their locations for separately, San Francisco and San Jose; 2) tutorials and education courses; 3) business technology courses; and 4) standards meetings information. Registration fees for the events are listed with each entry. All fees refer to registration after June 9; before June 9, fees are lower.
Technical Events
San Francisco
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Sunday, July 9
Gas Distribution Systems
Sunday, July 9, 1:00-5:00 pm
San Francisco Hilton & Towers
Exchange information and ideas on contamination control in gas distribution systems and identify the need for new or improved standards in this area.
Registration fee: $295
Monday, July 10
Copper Interconnect Status
Monday, July 10, 8:00 am-12:00 noon
San Francisco Hilton & Towers
Copper will lead to increasingly high performance and cost-effective applications, but many processing issues still abound.
Registration fee: $295
Silicon Wafer Symposium
Monday, July 10, 8:00 am-5:00 pm
San Francisco Hilton & Towers
130nm technology and price pressure has begun to strain industry resources. This symposium addresses the wafer requirements for current ULSI devices and next generation wafers, while identifying the technologies needed to meet these new standards.
Registration fee: $395
Symposium on CFM
Monday, July 10, 8:00 am-5:00 pm
San Francisco Hilton & Towers
This session focuses on how contamination free manufacturing (CFM) is extensively utilized to sustain and improve yields for emerging process technologies.
Registration fee: $395
Lithography Challenges and Opportunities
Monday, July 10, 8:30 am-5:30 pm
San Francisco Hilton & TowersOptical lithography is both a key enabling component and a critical bottleneck in the growth of the VLSI industry. Industry experts discuss optical lithography and emerging next generation lithography techniques.
Registration fee: $395
Chemical Vapor Depositon (CVD) for Integrated Circuits
Monday, July 10, 8:30 am-5:30 pm
Argent Hotel
In this course, the interrelation between the deposition process and deposition equipment will be discussed. The participants will learn the fundamentals of CVD, including practical applications and equipment requirements.
Registration fee: $395
New Program: Improving Environmental Performance
Monday, July 10, 8:30 am-5:00 pm
San Francisco Hilton & Towers
This full day program focuses on new data, cost of ownership and the challenges resulting from the technical activities necessary to achieve the emission reduction and resource conservation objectives of the semiconductor industry.
Registration fee: $395
Low-k Dielectric Materials Technology Conference
Monday, July 10, 1:00-5:00 pm
San Francisco Hilton & Towers
This conference brings together the leading material researchers and device technologists from this field who will answer questions relating to promising materials and the challenges in low-k and copper integration.
Registration fee: $295
Tuesday, July 11
CMP Technology for ULSI Interconnection
Tuesday, July 11, 8:00 am-5:00 pm
San Francisco Hilton & Towers
Current and future issues related to metal CMP as applied to on-chip ULSI multilevel interconnection applications will be discussed.
Registration fee: $395
New Program: Fundamentals of Thermal Processes
Tuesday, July 11, 9:00 am-5:00 pm
Argent Hotel
This course provides a solid foundation in the fundamentals of conventional and rapid thermal processing (RTP) in semiconductor manufacturing.
Registration fee: $695
New Program: Lithography Solutions for CD Control in the 0.13 Micron Era
Tuesday, July 11, 1:00-5:00 pm
San Francisco Hilton & Towers
The transition to very low-k1 lithography for 0.13mm production will impose increasingly tighter requirements in the area of CD control. This seminar will describe the challenges facing production fabs and describe the elements of a complete CD solution involving the reticle, metrology, and advanced process control.
Registration fee: $295
Wednesday, July 12
New Program: Plasma Processing 2000
Wednesday, July 12, 8:00 am-12:00 noon
San Francisco Hilton & Towers
This session opens with an introduction to plasma etching fundamentals, a look at historical driving forces behind the evolution of plasma etching equipment and processes.
Registration fee: $295
3rd Annual Semiconductor Packaging Symposium — 8 sessions
San Jose Hilton and Towers
Registration fee: $495. Registration includes admission to all sessions. Sessions are interchangeable.
Tuesday, July 11
Session 1: Lead-Free Manufacturing
9:45 am-12:30 pm
This focuses on packaging materials and processes affected by recent environmental regulations and customer requirements for lead-free interconnect materials.
Session 2: Wafer Level Packaging
9:45 am-12:30 pm
This session addresses the new developments and creative thinking that brought about this concept as well as the numerous issues and challenges that lie ahead.
Session 3: New Concepts in TAP Manufacturing
1:00-5:00 pm
This session outlines some innovative approaches and solutions in test, assembly and packaging (TAP) manufacturing processes.
Session 4: Reliability
1:00-5:00 pm
This session explores topics on thermal, electrical and mechanical reliability of various package types from surface mount plastic packages to BGAs and CSPs.
Wednesday, July 12
Session 5: Flip Chip vs Wire Bond
8:30 am-12:00 noon
This session covers the infrastructure, process capability, and performance tradeoffs of both technologies, giving packaging engineers and system designers valuable information.
Session 6: High Density Interconnect Technologies
8:30 am-12:00 noon
This session focuses on critical aspects of high density substrates, including design, processing and reliability issues in order to ensure a cost effective, high performance and manufacturable packaging process.
Session 7: Wafer Bumping Process
1:00-5:00 pm
This session complements and builds on the discussions in Session 6 by addressing key solutions and issues in wafer bumping including inspection, reflow characteristics, cleaning, and underfill requirements.
Session 8: Assembly with High-Density Packages
1:00-5:00 pm
This session focuses on assembly and reliability issues dealing with interactions between the package and the PC board for various package types, including CSPs and BGAs.
Thursday, July 13
International Packaging Strategy Symposium
Thursday, July 13, 8:30 am-5:00 pm
San Jose Hilton and Towers
This symposium presents information needed to create a framework for coordinated product and technology development based on the needs of the end users.
Registration fee: $395
9th Annual Manufacturing Test Conference
Thursday, July 13, 8:30 am-12:30 pm
San Jose Hilton and Towers
This conference is dedicated to test floor engineering and management to reduce costs, increase capacity, and accommodate more complex devices.
Registration fee: $295
Friday, July 14
New Program: Wafer Level Packaging Forum
8:30 am-12:30 pm
San Jose Convention Center
Panels of experts will critically examine the key issues and anticipate the technology gaps of chip-scale packaging.
Registration fee: $295
Tutorials and Education Programs
New Program: Semiconductor Processing Overview
Monday, July 10, 8:00 am-5:00 pm
Argent Hotel
This overview is a nontechnical presentation covering the industry's history and includes a discussion of trend implications, such as larger wafer size and smaller device features.
Registration fee: $695
Design Design Practices for Higher Equipment Reliability
Tuesday, July 11, 8:00 am-12:00 noon
Argent Hotel
This session will teach techniques that focus on how to design-in reliability at the earliest possible equipment development stage.
Registration fee: $395
Semiconductor Processing Technology
Thursday, July 6 — Saturday, July 8, 8:00 am- 5:00 pm
Palace Hotel, San Francisco
Tuesday, July 11 — Thursday, July 13, 8:00 am-5:00 pm
San Jose Fairmont Hotel
Familiarize yourself with the wafer fab and gain a working knowledge of the common industry buzzwords and products.
Registration fee: $1395
Advanced Packaging Technologies Tutorial
Tuesday, July 11 — Wednesday, July 12, 8:30 am-5:30 pm
San Jose Hilton and Towers
This two-day tutorial covers all aspects of modern semiconductor packaging.
Registration fee: $595
New Program: Chip Scale Packaging (CSP) Material Requirements Tutorial
Thursday, July 13, 1:00-5:00 pm
San Jose Hilton and Towers
Materials in electronic packaging play many diverse roles, thus, it is critical to understand the material requirements for emerging packaging technologies.
Registration fee: $395
New Program: Tutorial on Low-Cost, Technologies for Various Assemblies
Friday, July 14, 8:30 am-5:00 pm
San Jose Convention Center
This tutorial will provide information on the most important new developments in applying flip-chip technologies to direct chip attach (DCA), e.g., flip chip on board (FCOB), wafer-level, chip scale package (WLCSP) and plastic ball grid array (PBGA) package assemblies.
Registration fee: $495
Business Technology Programs
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How to Successfully Manage New Product Introductions
Fri., July 7 — Sat., July 8, 8:00 am-5:00 pm
Palace Hotel, San Francisco
This workshop looks at the success criteria for new market-driven products and at the strategic impact they have on a company.
Registration fee: $1450Practical Negotiating Skills for Semiconductor Professionals
Monday, July 10, 8:00 am-5:00 pm
Argent Hotel
Knowing how to negotiate provides a key advantage in problem solving, decision-making, and achieving your goals.
Registration fee: $695
Winning Customer Satisfaction without STRESS
Sunday, July 9, 8:30 am-5:30 pm, and Monday, July 10, 8:30 am-4:30 pm
Argent Hotel
Learn practical techniques for resolving difficult situations in stressful circumstances.
Registration fee: $1095
Equipment and Materials Market Briefing
Tuesday, July 11, 8:30 am-2:00 pm
Moscone Center
This briefing will provide busy professionals with information and analysis needed to keep up with the rapidly changing semiconductor industry, including up-to-date industry indicators for sales and orders, device supply and demand, trends in lithography, emerging markets and other industry news.
Registration fee: $275
Understanding and Using Cost of Ownership
Tuesday, July 11, 9:00 am-5:00 pm
Argent Hotel
This one-day workshop explores how the semiconductor industry employs cost of ownership and provides a theoretical foundation for the practical understanding of COO concepts and applications.
Registration fee: $695
New Program: Benchmarking as a Management Tool
Tuesday, July 11, 1:00-5:00 pm
Argent Hotel
Benchmarking has been used in a variety of areas and industries. This workshop will review the scope, flexibility, and capability of bench-marking.
Registration fee: $395
New Program: Semiconductor Supply Chain Management (SCM) Workshop
Tuesday, July 11, 1:00-5:00 pm
San Francisco Hilton & Towers
The main objective of this workshop is to provide a forum for the discussion of SCM issues, including how to assess opportunities in the supply chain, and strategies for maximizing the economic benefits.
Registration fee: $395
New Program: Forecasting Techniques for the SEM Industry
Tuesday, July 11, 1:00-5:00 pm
Moscone Center
This popular workshop reviews major forecasting techniques.
Registration fee: $375
EHS Interest Group Meeting
Tuesday, July 11, 3:00-6:00 pm
San Francisco Marriott
Equipment manufacturers have reduced exhaust flows in order to reduce cost of ownership and impact on the environment. However, the lack of clear guidelines and knowledge of resulting trade-offs, such as reduced flows, is slowing progress.
Registration fee: Free (Preregistration is required)
New Program: MES Workshop 2000: Case Studies in CIM
Wednesday, July 12, 8:00 am-12:00 noon
San Francisco Hilton & Towers
This session will cover customer and implementation stories demonstrating increases in productivity, performance, and responsiveness by integrating computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) products.
Registration fee: $295
MEMS Manufacturing Challenges
Wednesday, July 12, 8:00 am-12:00 noon
San Francisco Hilton & Towers
The growth rate of the multibillion-dollar MEMS business is outpacing that of the microelectronics industry. The manufacturing experts in this workshop highlight specific infrastructure issues confronting MEMS.
Registration fee: $295
Equipment and Materials Market Briefing
Thursday, July 13, 8:30-9:30 am
San Jose Convention Center
Semi Market Statistics provides attendees with accurate and timely industry bench-marks for market size and product sales trends. (An expanded version of this briefing will be held in San Francisco.)
Registration fee: $175
Understanding and Using Cost of Ownership — Assembly and Packaging Emphasis
Thursday, July 13, 9:00 am-5:00 pm
San Jose Fairmont
Leading IC manufacturers use cost of ownership to evaluate equipment purchases. This workshop explores how the semiconductor industry employs cost of ownership. This laboratory workshop, with computer workstations, allows the participants hands-on experience in measuring COO sensitivities.
Registration fee: $695
Standards Programs/Workshops
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New Program: Ergonomics Design Guidelines for the Semiconductor Industry: Semi S8 and SESC
Sunday, July 9, 8:00 am-5:00 pm and Monday, July 10, 8:00 am-12:00 noon
San Francisco Marriott Hotel
Registration fee: $795
STEP: The CIM Framework— From Standards to Practice
Tuesday, July 11, 8:00 am-12:00 noon
San Francisco Marriott Hotel
Registration fee: $250
STEP: Qualifying Equipment Productivity — the Semi E79 Standard
Tuesday, July 11, 1:00-5:00 pm
San Francisco Marriott
Registration fee: $295
STEP: Semi S2-0200, Safety Guidelines for Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment
Wednesday, July 12, 8:00 am-12:00 noon
San Francisco Marriott
Registration fee:$250
STEP: Semi 300mm Physical and Software Interfaces and Carriers Standards
Wednesday, July 12, 1:00-5:00 pm
San Francisco Marriott
Registration fee:$250
SEMI International Standards Meeting
Sunday, July 9 — Friday, July 14
San Francisco Marriott
and Wednesday, July 12 — Thursday, July 13
San Jose Convention Center
International Standards, one of the key services offered by Semi, operates as a neutral forum for the exchange of information among suppliers and users, resulting in the production of timely and technically accurate specifications and other standards of economic importance to the industry.
Over 80 committees, subcommittees, and task forces are planning to meet. For current information on Standards Meetings visit www.semi.org (International Stan-dards) or call Semifax at 650/938-9378 to have an up-to-date schedule faxed to you within one business day.