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News (FY2014)
- 2015.3.23News
- 1st CIES Technology Forum was held from March 19 to 20 at Otemachi Sankei Plaza, Tokyo. Thank you for your participation. CIES has continued to conduct the international collaboration among industries, universities and government, and promote national projects for contributing to the field of next-generation integrated electronics systems and achieving low power beneficial to future energy-saving society. Your continuous support would be appreciated.
URL: http://www.cies.tohoku.ac.jp/1st_forum/
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- 2015.3.23News
- The seminar on advanced human resource development in the field of next generation electronics through the internship was held on March 18 at Otemachi Sankei Plaza, Tokyo. Thank you for your participation. CIES has continued the internship program. Your continuous support would be appreciated.
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- 2015.3.17News
- Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) today announced to develop STT-MRAM test solution based on collaboration with Tohoku University Center for Integrated Electronic Systems (CIES) STT-MRAM activities.
"As the result of strategic collaboration with Tohoku University, Center for Integrated Electronic Systems (CIES), Keysight Technologies will launch STT-MRAM test solution early 2016," said Masaki Yamamoto, Vice President and General Manager of Hachioji Semiconductor Test Division. "Our collaboration with CIES is a key for us to develop STT-MRAM test solution that addresses various challenges in industry."
"We are delighted that our research collaboration has brought a successful result with Keysight Technologies, as one of the evidence of hope beyond the disaster. We believe the result contributes to further advancement of STT-MRAM researches worldwide." said Prof. Tetsuo Endoh, Director of CIES. Additionally, he commented as a project leader, "As one of seven themes of the CIES research consortium, which aims to create innovative core technologies for substantial energy savings in integrated electronic devices, R&D project of STT-MRAM aimed at developing non-volatile working memory and its manufacturing technologies. This project is to contribute to super low-power electronic systems, which is crucial for low carbon society with low-power electronic appliances."
About Keysight Technologies
Keysight is a global electronic measurement technology and market leader helping to transform its customers' measurement experience through innovation in wireless, modular, and software solutions. Keysight provides electronic measurement instruments and systems and related software, software design tools and services used in the design, development, manufacture, installation, deployment and operation of electronic equipment. Information about Keysight is available at www.keysight.com.
About Tohoku University, Center for Integrated Electronic Systems (CIES)
Center for Integrated Electronic Systems (CIES) was established as the first research base of science park at Tohoku University's Aobayama new campus in October, 2012, to research the innovative integrated electronic systems with energy-saving technologies, utilizing the various basic research seeds of Tohoku University and the centripetal force of academic-industrial collaboration experiences. In Japanese universities, CIES has the first 300mm wafer process line and characterization tools that are compatible for industries R&D. It is supplying the collaboration base for open innovations between Tohoku University and companies of many materials, tools, devices, and systems, using leading-edge facilities.
- 2015.3.5News
- Director, Tetsuo ENDOH, Center for Innovative Integrated Electronic Systems, will give a invited presentation in 2015 International Symposium on VLSI Technology,Systems and Applications held at Ambassador Hotel Hsinchuin Hsinchu, Taiwan.
Date: Apr. 28th (Tue),2015 3:45 P.M-4:20 P.M
Venue: Ambassador Hotel Hsinchu (Hsinchu, Taiwan)
Title: STT-MRAM for Low Power Systems
Speaker: Tetsuo Endoh
Please refer to the following for more information.
URL: http://vlsitsa.itri.org.tw/2015/General/
- 2015.3.5News
- Director, Tetsuo ENDOH, Center for Innovative Integrated Electronic Systems, will give an invited presentation in The 62nd JSAP Spring Meeting, 2015 held at Shonan Campus, Tokai University in Kanagawa, Japan.
Date: March.12th (Thu), 2015 3:55 P.M-4:25 P.M
Venue: Shonan Campus, Tokai University (Kanagawa, Japan)
Title: The Current State of the Industry-Academia Cooperation in Integrated Electronics Technology/System and its Challenge
Speaker: Tetsuo Endoh
Please refer to the following for more information.
URL: http://meeting.jsap.or.jp/program.html
- 2015.2.5News
- Director, Tetsuo ENDOH will give an invited talk on a workshop in CREST “Research of Innovative Material and Process for Creation of Next-generation Electronics Devices”.
Time & date: 13:55-14:20, February 6, 2015
Venue: AKIBA PLAZA, Tokyo
Title: ACCEL project - New Industry-Academia Cooperation -
Speaker: Tetsuo Endoh
- 2015.2.5News
- Director, Tetsuo ENDOH delivered an invited talk on 1st Workshop in IEICE Technical Committee on System NanoTechnology.
Time & date: 17:00-17:40, February 5, 2015
Venue: Takeda Hall, Takeda Bldg., University of Tokyo
Title: Impact of 3D Structured LSI with Vertical MOSFET for Future Systems
Speaker: Tetsuo Endoh
- 2015.2.3News
- Director, Tetsuo ENDOH, Center for Innovative Integrated Electronic Systems, will gave a invited presentation
in 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems held at Cultural Center of Belem (CCB) in Lisbon, Portugal.
Date: May. 25th (Mon),2015 9:45 A.M-11:00 A.M
Venue: Cultural Center of Belem (CCB)
Title: Nonvolatile Logic and Memory Devices Based on spintronics
Speaker: Tetsuo Endoh
Please refer to the following for more information.
URL: http://www.iscas2015.org/
- 2015.1.13News
- Director, Tetsuo ENDOH, Center for Innovative Integrated Electronic Systems, will give a invited presentation in
COOL Chips XVIII held at Yokohama Joho Bunka Center (Yokohama Media & Communication Center) in Yokohama, Japan.
Date: April. 13th (Mon)-15(Wed), 2015
Venue: Yokohama Joho Bunka Center (Yokohama Media & Communication Center) 7F Main Conference Room
Title: Low Power and High Speed Working Memory with Spintronics and Vertical MOSFET Technology
Speaker: Tetsuo Endoh
Please refer to the following for more information.
URL: http://www.coolchips.org/2015/
- 2015.1.13News
- Director, Tetsuo ENDOH, Center for Innovative Integrated Electronic Systems, gave a invited presentation in
SEMATECH Beyond CMOS Workshop Materials & Technologies for Beyond CMOS held at San Francisco Marriott Union Square in San Francisco, USA.
Date: Dec. 14th (Sun) 6:40-7:40p.m
Venue: San Francisco Marriott Union Square
Title: STT-MRAM, NV-logic with MTJ and high density memory with Vertical MOSFET
Speaker: Tetsuo Endoh
- 2014.12.08News
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CIES made a presentation entitled “International collaboration among industries, universities and government for consortium of R&D in innovative devices and its integrated electronic systems” at Tohoku University Innovation Fair on December 4.
- 2014.12.3News
- Director, Tetsuo ENDOH, Center for Innovative Integrated Electronic Systems, will give a Plenary talk in KCS (Korean Conference on Semiconductors) 2015 held at Songdo ConvensiA in Incheon, Korea.
Date: Feb. 11th (Wed), 2015 4:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
Venue: Songdo ConvensiA（Incheon）
Title: Future Memory Technology with Vertical MOSFET and STT-MRAM for Ultra Low Power Systems
Speaker: Tetsuo Endoh
Please refer to the following for more information.
URL: http://kcs.cosar.or.kr/
- 2014.11.26News
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CIES had Imoni party on November 15 with Endoh Laboratory to strengthen our partnership and friendship for the first time. Imoni is a type of Japanese nabe which contains potato, meat and vegetables, and traditionally eaten in the autumn in Tohoku region of Japan.
- 2014.11.19News
- Professor S. Ikeda gives an invited talk on “Perpendicular-anisotropy CoFeB-MgO Based Magnetic Tunnel Junctions Scaling Down to 1X nm” at International Electron Device Meeting (IEDM) 2014.
- 2014.11.19News
- Professor T. Hanyu gives an invited talk on “Challenge of MOS/MTJ-Hybrid Nonvolatile Logic-in-Memory Architecture in Dark-Silicon Era” at International Electron Device Meeting (IEDM) 2014.
- 2014.11.19News
- Professor T. Shinada (co-author) gives a plenary talk on “Atomic scale devices: advancements and directions” at International Electron Device Meeting (IEDM) 2014.
- 2014.11.5News
- Professor Masaaki NIWA, CIES, gave an invited talk in the IEEE 12th International Conference on Solid State and Integrated Circuit Technology (2014 ICSICT) held at Guilin, China
Date: Oct. 30th (Thu.), 2014
Venue: Grand Link Hotel, Guilin, China
Title: High-k/Metal Gate System and Related Issues
Speaker: Masaaki NIWA
Please refer to the following for more information.
URL: http://www.icsict.com/
- 2014.10.15News
- Takaho TANIGAWA and Yasuo NOGUCHI were appointed Research Associate in CIES, respectively on October 15th.
Address from Takaho TANIGAWA, Research Associate
I come from Renesas Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.(RSMC) and am delighted to work at CIES. I will dedicate my effort to accelerate the realization of
STT-MRAM for contributing to the evolution of integrated electronics field. I look forward to working with you.
Address from Yasuo NOGUCHI, Research Associate
I came from Renesas Electronics Corporation.In CIES, as industry-academia-government collaboration researcher, I am willing to early establish the integrated technology of MRAM process and to make efforts toward productization.Thank you for your continued business.
- 2014.10.9News
- Professor Akihiro NITAYAMA, CIES, gave an invited talk in Short Course of S3S Conference 2014 held at San Francisco.
Date: Oct. 6th (Mon.), 2014
Venue: Westin San Francisco Airport, Millbrae, California
Title: 3D NAND Flash Memories
Speaker: Akihiro NITAYAMA
Please refer to the following for more information.
URL: http://s3sconference.org/
- 2014.10.1News
- Professors Takahiro SHINADA and Yoichi OSHIMA were appointed Deputy Director of CIES and Director of Strategic Planning Division in CIES, respectively on October 1st.
Address from Professor Takahiro SHINADA, Deputy Director of CIES
I come from National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) and am delighted to work at CIES. I am in charge of planning and operational management and will dedicate my effort to enhance cooperation between industry and academia for contributing to the evolution of integrated electronics field. I look forward to working with you.
Address from Professor Yoichi Oshima, Director of Strategic Planning Division in CIES
I left from Japan Patent Office for the assignment as Director of Strategic Planning Division. I will support the CIES activities through appropriate management of intellectual properties, prompt procedure for concluding the agreements, strengthening of human resources development, etc. It will be a great pleasure for me to serve.
- 2014.9.3News
- Director, Tetsuo ENDOH, Center for Innovative Integrated Electronic Systems, will give a invited presentation in The 75th JSAP Autumn Meeting, 2014 held at Sapporo Campus, Hokkaido University in Hokkaido, JAPAN.
Date: Sep. 18th (Thu),2014 2：30 P.M-3：00 P.M
Venue: Sapporo Campus, Hokkaido University
Title: Technology of STT-MRAM and Nonvolatile Logic, and its Potential
Speaker: Tetsuo Endoh
Please refer to the following for more information.
URL: https://confit.atlas.jp/guide/event/jsap2014a/static/sougou
- 2014.8.22News
- Professor, Akihiro NITAYAMA, Center for Innovative Integrated Electronic Systems, will give an invited talk in SSDM2014 held at Tsukuba in Japan.
Date: Sep. 11th (Thu.), 2014
Venue: Tsukuba International Congress Center in Tsukuba, Ibaraki
Title: Trends on Advanced Semiconductor Memories
Speaker: Akihiro NITAYAMA
Please refer to the following for more information.
URL: http://www.ssdm.jp/
- 2014.6.3News
- A program and a venue of the 2014 Spintronics Workshop on LSI as a satellite workshop of 2014 Symposia on VLSI Technology are now available.
Date: June 13 (Fri), 2014 19:00-
Venue: South Pacific in Mid-Pacific Conference Center, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu
- 2014.6.3News
- Director, Tetsuo ENDOH, Center for Innovative Integrated Electronic Systems, will give a invited presentation in 2014 Spintronics Workshop on LSI held at Hilton Hawaiian Village in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Date: June. 13th (Fri),2014 7:45 P.M-8:05 P.M
Venue: Hilton Hawaiian Village
Title: Spintronics-based Nonvolatile Computers
Speaker: Tetsuo Endoh
Please refer to the following for more information. URL: http://www.csis.tohoku.ac.jp/files/2014_Spintronics.pdf
- 2014.5.26News
- Director, Tetsuo ENDOH, Center for Innovative Integrated Electronic Systems, will give a invited presentation in CMOS Emerging Technologies Research held at MINATEC in Grenoble, France.
Date: July. 8th (Tue),2014
Venue: MINATEC
Title: STT-MRAM Technology and Its NV-Logic Applications for Ultimate Power Management
Speaker: Tetsuo Endoh
Please refer to the following for more information.
URL: http://cmosetr.com/
- 2014.5.9News
- 2014 Spintronics Workshop on LSI will be held as a Satellite Workshop of 2014 Symposium on VLSI Technology.
Date : June 13, 2014
Venue : Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu
- 2014.4.18News
- Director, Tetsuo ENDOH, Center for Innovative Integrated Electronic Systems, will give a invited presentation in 1st International Workshop on Data-Abundant System Technology held at Stanford University in California, USA.
Date: April. 22nd (Tue),2014
Venue:Stanford University Paul G. Allen Building Extension Auditorium
Title: Embedded STT-MRAM
Speaker: Tetsuo Endoh
Please refer to the following for more information.
URL: https://sites.stanford.edu/nanocomp3d/
