RF Microelectronics in Southern California

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In this talk, we introduce the California DREAMS hub that is providing prototyping services for RF microelectronics under the DOD’s Microelectronics Commons program. We will provide a history of academic and industrial work in microelectronics in Southern California that includes history of the original MOSIS service and discuss how it led to the formation of California DREAMS. We will describe the hub and its MOSIS 2.0 service, and the progress we have made in our first year and plans for the future.

SPEAKER BIO
Peter Asbeck, UCSD

Peter Asbeck is an Emeritus Professor and member of the Center for Wireless Communications at UCSD.  He began work at Rockwell Science Center (now Teledyne Scientific) in 1979, and subsequently joined UCSD in 1992.  His work has covered GaAs HBT, GaAs FET, GaN FET, and CMOS-SOI devices and circuits, including contributions at some of their early stages of technology development.  He is an IEEE Fellow and member of the NAE.

Steve Crago, USC/ISI
Steve Crago is the Director of California DREAMS, a hub in the DOD’s Microelectronics Commons program and the home of MOSIS 2.0. He is an Associate Director of the USC Information Sciences Institute and is based at the Arlington site of ISI, where he has been since 1997. He holds a joint appointment as a Research Associate Professor in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests include microelectronics lab-to-fab transition, heterogeneous architectures, high-performance and embedded cloud computing, introspective systems, and parallel software.


Aaron Oki, Northrop Grumman
Aaron Oki is the General Manager of the electronics and sensors technologies operating unit and an NG Fellow at Northrop Grumman. Aaron is responsible for developing next generation advanced technology solutions for the nation’s highest priority missions and has 38 years of experience at Northrop Grumman focused on microelectronics, RF and digital electronics.  He has over 300 technical publications and 18 U.S. patents. Additionally, Oki has been inducted into the Space Technology Hall of Fame and is a Fellow of the IEEE.