Issue



Conference Program


10/01/1998







TECHNICAL PROGRAM

October 18-24

Austin, TX

SEMICON Southwest `98 programs and events begin Sunday, October 18, and continue through Saturday, October 24. The exposition will have more than 800 booths from more than 630 companies and will be held at the Austin Convention Center on October 20 from 10 am-6 pm, and on October 21, from 10 am- 5 pm. The technical program runs from October 18 to October 24 at various locations. All technical program fees listed in this article refer to registration after September 18.

Since many programs and events sell out quickly, SEMI recommends that you check the availability of programs before registering by visiting the SEMI web site at http://www.semi.org, by calling SEMI at ph 650/940-6905, or by calling Semifax at 512/447-9378 for instant information via fax.

Sunday

Semiconductor Processing Technology

Sunday, October 18-Tuesday, October 20

8:00 am-5:00 pm

Sheraton Austin Hotel

This seminar covers semiconductor processing technology in detail, presenting the basics of wafer manufacturing for integrated circuit technology. Topics include testing and packaging technology, device physics, principles of transistor operation (both bipolar and MOS), factory management, microcontamination, yield and much more.

Registration fee: $1350. Registration fee includes: SEMI`s Semiconductor Processing Technology workbook and Modern Semiconductor Fabrication Technology by Peter Gise and Richard Blanchard.

New Product IntroductionsSunday, October 18-Monday, October 19

8:00 am-5:00 pm

Sheraton Austin Hotel

This two-day interactive course looks not only at the success criteria for market driven products, but also takes a close look at the strategic impact a new product has on the company itself. The course emphasizes a professional review of the processes and techniques of managing a successful product introduction.

Registration fee: $1450. Registration fee includes: How to Successfully Manage New Product Introductions workbook. Continental breakfast and lunch are provided each day.

Making Major Sales (Spin Selling)

Sunday, October 18-Monday, October 19

8:00 am-5:00 pm

Sheraton Austin Hotel

"Making Major Sales" is a practical, selling skills program, which incorporates a sales methodology that helps develop profitable relationships with buyers in a difficult market. The program is designed to change participants` sales behavior so that they perform more successfully.

Registration fee: $1095. Registration fee includes: Spin Selling workbook. Continental breakfast and lunch are provided each day.

Fab Automation

8:00 am-5:00 pm

Austin Convention Center

This one-day course is an introduction to fab automation in semiconductor manufacturing. Interbay and intrabay automation of the front-end processes and automation and integration of back-end assembly are covered, along with the design, acquisition and operation of advanced material handling systems. Analysis and layout techniques are overviewed without delving deeply into the mathematical theory.

Registration fee: $595

Low Cost Solder Bumped Flip Chip Technologies for Direct Chip Attach (DCA) and Chip Scale Packaging (CSP)

8:30 am-4:30 pm

Austin Convention Center

This one-day tutorial will discuss vital issues relating specifically to this growing industry and address key aspects and questions on CSP, DCA, and flip chip packaging and assembly techniques. After completing this tutorial, you will be able to choose a cost-effective packaging design and high-yield manufacturing process.

Registration fee: $495. Each participant will receive a complimentary copy of Electronic Packaging: Design, Materials, Process, and Reliability, authored by the instructor.

Lithography Science

9:00 am-5:00 pm

Austin Convention Center

This course begins with an inclusive discussion of the basic principles of optical lithography and progresses to topics that represent today`s state-of-the-art.

Presentations focus on the fundamentals of optics, focus, thin film interference effects, resist chemistry and characterization, wafer steppers, overlay, reticles, yield and metrology.

Also included is an introduction to lithography modeling, for both imaging and overlay. Advanced topics include optical proximity corrections, off-axis illumination and phase-shift masks, as well as a look at possible alternatives to optical lithography, such as x-ray, e-beam, and ion-beam technologies.

Registration fee: $550

Monday

Winning Customer Satisfaction

Monday, October 19, 8:30 am-5:30 pm, and

Tuesday, October 20, 8:30 am-4:30 pm

Sheraton Austin Hotel

Many professionals in semiconductor equipment and materials sales, service and marketing are drawn from technical fields. This workshop will help ease the transition by teaching the interpersonal skills needed for these new positions. In this 2-day workshop you will learn practical techniques for resolving difficult situations, learning how to maintain a calm, rational presence in stressful circumstances, while also learning about ways to defuse anger and upset.

Registration fee: $1095. Registration fee includes: Customer Satisfaction workbook, related reading materials, memory aids and a customer interface checklist.

A Partnership for PFC Emissions Reductions

9:00 am-4:30 pm

Austin Convention Center

Co-sponsored with SIA, SSA, and SEMATECH, this workshop is designed to provide information on new and very recent developments in the area of PFC emissions reduction activities. Results of recent developments in equipment optimization, capture
eclaim, alternative chemistries and abatement will be shared. US PFC emissions estimating methods will be compared to international methods. Communication of industry PFC emissions reduction efforts will be discussed. Finally, a status report on the PFC Emissions Reduction Partnership Program and coordinated international industry PFC programs will be given.

Registration fee: $295

Plasma Etching Technology Course

Monday, October 19, 9:00 am-5:00 pm

Tuesday, October 20, 9:00 am-12:00 pm

Austin Convention Center

This one-and-a-half-day course is directed toward the design and application of plasma processing techniques in integrated circuit manufacture. The physics and chemistry of electric discharges are explained and related to processing requirements for selectivity, line width control, yield, and throughput.

The instructor introduces basic strategies for designing new processes and illustrates the fundamental principles with numerous examples of process chemistry, equipment technology, and diagnostic techniques. Important trends in new equipment, plasma sources, process control and damage monitoring and reduction will also be surveyed.

Registration fee: $850

Software Inspections

9:00 am-5:00 pm

Austin Convention Center

Software inspection is one of the most efficient ways to remove defects in software work products. It provides a mechanism for process control when adopted as part of a defined, repeatable software development methodology. This intensive workshop provides in-depth training for inspection of various software artifacts.

Registration fee: $595

The Second SEMI All-Industry Forum: "Setting New Goals for Global Cooperation"

1:00-5:30 pm

Location: TBD

This special event will bring together leaders of the global semiconductor manufacturing industry to identify the most critical challenges facing the industry and to explore opportunities for global cooperative programs to address the challenges.

This year`s program features an outstanding advisory committee who, with input generated from a global survey of semiconductor equipment and materials and device manufacturers, will address current issues, explore recommendations for cooperative programs to deal with them and formulate specific objectives for new initiatives to be facilitated by SEMI.

Registration fee: $295

Tuesday

SEMI Enabling Products and Services Section Meeting

8:00-9:30 am

Four Seasons Hotel

The SEMI Enabling Products and Special Services Section (EPSS) is a SEMI-sponsored special interest group for SEMI members who supply products and services to the semiconductor industry that enable the development and manufacturing of semiconductor devices. A very broad spectrum of products and services utilized in front-end applications are provided by members of this group. EPSS holds regularly scheduled meetings in conjunction with US SEMICON shows.

Registration fee: Free. Pre-registration is not required. To guarantee your seat, please arrive 15 minutes prior to the meeting.

Equipment and Materials Market Briefing

8:30-9:30 am

Austin Convention Center

Responding to the need for worldwide market information in a rapidly changing industry, SEMI Market Statistics provides attendees with accurate, timely industry benchmarks for market size and product sales trends. This one-hour briefing by SEMI Market Analyst, John Schuler, offers a look at the worldwide semiconductor equipment and materials markets.

Registration fee: $150. Registration fee includes program materials.

Software Testing

9:00 am-5:00 pm

Austin Convention Center

This tutorial emphasizes the application of testing techniques throughout the software development life cycle. It combines a discussion of productive testing concepts and techniques into a framework of activities and work items that will increase quality by detecting a higher percentage of defects before delivery.

Registration fee: $595

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE): Improving Equipment Productivity

9:00 am-5:00 pm

Sheraton Austin Hotel

As wafer fabrication technologies become better characterized and more stable, the competitive focus is shifting to equipment efficiency. Cost of ownership, total productive manufacturing (TPM), total productive maintenance, OEE, multi-observational study and theory of constraints are techniques aimed at defining, measuring, and improving equipment performance. These calculations have recently become important tools for IC producers contemplating equipment purchases.

Registration fee: $650. Registration fee includes: Improving Equipment Productivity workbook, continental breakfast and lunch.

The Global 300-mm Transition: Status, Update and Key Issues

1:00-5:00 pm

Austin Convention Center

This program will address relevant key issues and some new concepts that might possibly be integrated into the 300-mm fabs of the future. Key industry players will address tool availability, silicon quality progress, new fab architecture, industry status and forecasts. Other key issues surrounding the 300-mm transition will also be discussed.

Registration fee: $295

Chemical and Gas Manufacturers Group

2:00-3:30 pm

Four Seasons Hotel

The SEMI Chemical and Gas Manufacturers Group (CGMG) is a SEMI sponsored special interest group for SEMI members who supply chemicals, gases and related products to the semiconductor industry. Registration fee: Free. Pre-registration is not required. To guarantee your seat, please arrive 15 minutes prior to the meeting.

Wednesday

Practical Negotiating/Influencing Skills for Semiconductor Professionals

8:00 am-5:00 pm

Sheraton Austin Hotel

Knowing how to negotiate provides a key advantage in problem solving and decision making. Participants in this concentrated, fast-moving program can expect immediate and tangible results in professional and personal situations. Breakthrough developments concerning influence - nine behavior-controlling devices that ultimately determine tactical success or failure - will be discussed in detail during this presentation.

Registration fee: $695. Registration fee includes: Negotiating Skills for Semiconductor Professionals workbook, continental breakfast and lunch.

Surface Cleaning (With Emphasis on Post-CMP Cleaning)

8:00 am-5:00 pm

Austin Convention Center

This tutorial introduces the basic and advanced particle adhesion and cleaning technology in the semiconductor, FPD and disk drive industries. All current (Megasonic, brush, hydrodynamic, ultrasonic, etc.) and new (Laser, Argon snow, etc.) cleaning techniques are discussed in sufficient detail.

Registration fee: $595

STEP: SEMI Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) Framework - Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Standards

8:00 am-12:00 noon

Austin Convention Center

The SEMI CIM Framework is a collection of draft standards specifying the components of a next-generation MES. These specifications are in the process of balloting and review through the SEMI Standards process, with the first Letter Ballots for Provisional Standards targeted for late 1998.

This STEP program will present an overview of the SEMI CIM Framework MES components and show how they fit into the larger scope of CIM. The presentation will include overviews of selected key areas of the CIM Framework.

Registration fee: $295

Competitive Marketing Strategy: The Lanchester Equation

9:00 am-5:00 pmSheraton Austin Hotel

Gain new insights into marketing tactics by attending this one-day class covering of the "Lanchester" sales and marketing strategy. Based on the theory of mechanized warfare first published by F.W. Lanchester in 1916 and modified for marketing by Japanese researchers, this powerful strategy has been applied by large and small companies alike to gain market share.

This program is based on recently translated material and the first books published in the US on this subject. Lanchester`s strategy relies on military equations, which produces the hard data to determine your market strategy. Apply this strategy to help increase your market share.

Registration fee: $650. Registration fee includes: Three volume series: The Lanchester Strategy Shinichi Yano, course book, The Friction Free Economy by T.G. Lewis; and continental breakfast and lunch.

Understanding and Using Cost of Ownership (COO)9:00 am-5:00 pmSheraton Austin Hotel

This one-day workshop explores how the semiconductor industry employs COO. It provides a theoretical foundation and practical understanding of COO concepts and applications. In the morning session, course instructors present the concepts and assumptions behind COO and the various applications of this powerful tool. They`ll show you how to use it to benchmark your equipment or materials and determine the cost impact on the process. In the afternoon session, you`ll gain actual hands-on experience at computers loaded with the latest generation of SEMATECH-developed COO software*. You will measure the sensitivity of COO to the various parameters discussed during the course.

Registration fee: $695. Registration fee includes: Understanding and Using Cost of Ownership workbook, continental breakfast and lunch. *Software not included.

Workshop on the Year 2000: Legal and Practical Perspectives

1:00-5:00 pm

Austin Convention Center

This workshop presents an excellent opportunity to test your company`s Y2K compliance plans against some recently emerging legal and practical issues of the semiconductor equipment and materials industry.

Registration fee: $295

Power Quality Workshop

1:00-5:00 pm

Austin Convention Center

Power disturbances are causing the semiconductor fabrication industry millions of dollars each year in damaged wafers and lost production time. With a shift to 300-mm technology, there is a concern that a power disturbance will be even more costly to the semiconductor fabrication industry.

Registration fee: $295

Thursday

Semiconductor Processing Technology

Thursday, October 22-Saturday, October 24

8:00 am-5:00 pm

Sheraton Austin Hotel

This seminar covers semiconductor processing technology in detail, presenting the basics of wafer manufacturing for integrated circuit technology. To round out the picture, this seminar briefly ties in testing and packaging technology, device physics, principles of transistor operation (both bipolar and MOS), factory management, microcontamination, yield and much more. In-class team assignments enable you to discuss real issues in process design and factory management.

This is an introductory course. The instructor, with two decades of hands-on engineering experience, enjoys taking the time to answer questions.

Registration fee: $1350. Registration fee includes: SEMI`s Semiconductor Processing Technology workbook, and Modern Semiconductor Fabrication Technology by Peter Gise and Richard Blanchard. Continental breakfast and lunch are provided each day.