Saturday, September 14
ESD Compliance Verification Technician to TR53 - Day 1
Chuck McClain
Andrew Nold
Andy Nold is a Quality Engineer and Commodity Engineer at Teradyne near Chicago, IL. He is the Factory ESD subject matter expert and performs the company’s internal ESD audits. He has worked for Teradyne since 2011.
Prior to Teradyne, Andy worked for the FAA, a small aerospace company, and the US Navy. Andy graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a bachelor’s degree in Applied Math, Engineering, and Physics and a master’s degree in Engineering Mechanics.
Outside of work, Andy likes to spend time with his wife and kids.
ESD Compliance Verification Technician to TR53 - Day 1
FC100: ESD Basics for the Program Manager
Jay Skolnik
Jay Skolnik is a licensed professional electrical engineer and is the co-founder and lead engineer/consultant of Skolnik Technical Training in Albuquerque, NM. With over thirty years of experience in the electronics industry, Jay has developed a multitude of products utilized in different industries, including military, defense, avionics, aerospace, commercial, industrial, medical, automotive, and sports entertainment.
As an ESDA certified program manager, Jay teaches ESD mitigation and control for the electronics and energetics specialties. He performs ESD audits to ensure factories and laboratories are following safe ESD control guidelines and procedures. He is also certified by iNARTE and is a certified professional instructor of national instruments (NI). He received his electrical engineering degree from the University of Missouri-Rolla.
FC100: ESD Basics for the Program Manager
FC340: ESD Program Development and Assessment (ANSI/ESD S20.20 Seminar) - Day 1
David Swenson
David E. Swenson retired in 2003 after 35 years of service from 3M. While at 3M he had responsibility for new packaging material development and application, training of 3M personnel worldwide and providing application assistance to users of static control products globally with particular emphasis on Asia Pacific and Japan. Dave and his wife Geri established a new company, Affinity Static Control Consulting, LLC. in 2003.
Dave has been a member of the ESD Association since 1984 and has served in many capacities including 1997 Symposium General Chair and president of the Association in 1998 and 1999 and again in 2008 and 2009. He was re-elected to the Board of Directors for a 5th term from 2014 to 2016 and is currently appointed to the Board to assist with technical inquiries.
Dave was presented with the highest award of the ESD Association, the “Outstanding Contributions Award” in 2002, the Standards Committee “Joel P. Weidendorf Memorial Award” in 2004, the Association “Edward G. Weggeland” Memorial Award in 2014 and the Symposium Committee’s, David Barber, Sr. Memorial award in 2018.
He is a member of the Standards Committee serving several Working Groups and the ANSI/ESD S20.20 Standard Task Team. Dave also serves as Treasurer and Information Liaison of the Texas Chapter of the ESD Association; he is a member of the Electrostatic Society of America, IMAPS, the UK Institute of Physics and is a US Expert to IEC TC101, Electrostatics.
FC340: ESD Program Development and Assessment (ANSI/ESD S20.20 Seminar) - Day 1
Introduction to On-Chip ESD Protection
Oliver Marichal
Olivier Marichal graduated from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven with a degree in Electrical Engineering in 2003 and has since dedicated his career to the field of Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) protection design, currently serving as Chief Engineering at Sofics. His journey with the company began shortly after graduation as an ESD engineer, and over the years, Olivier has worked on many projects, covering a broad range of technologies from High Voltage BCD to the latest nanometer Finfet processes. His professional focus is on continuously adding value to customers through his work, delivering state-of-the-art ESD solutions for the ever-evolving landscape of semiconductor applications.
Olivier has (co-)authored several papers on ESD and contributed as an inventor on many patents. In addition to his technical contributions, Olivier is dedicated to sharing his knowledge and insights. He has conducted several tutorials on on-chip ESD protection design for industry professionals around the world.
Introduction to On-Chip ESD Protection
Sunday, September 15
ESD Compliance Verification Technician to TR53 - Day 2
Chuck McClain
Andrew Nold
Andy Nold is a Quality Engineer and Commodity Engineer at Teradyne near Chicago, IL. He is the Factory ESD subject matter expert and performs the company’s internal ESD audits. He has worked for Teradyne since 2011.
Prior to Teradyne, Andy worked for the FAA, a small aerospace company, and the US Navy. Andy graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a bachelor’s degree in Applied Math, Engineering, and Physics and a master’s degree in Engineering Mechanics.
Outside of work, Andy likes to spend time with his wife and kids.
ESD Compliance Verification Technician to TR53 - Day 2
FC340: ESD Program Development and Assessment (ANSI/ESD S20.20 Seminar) - Day 2
David Swenson
David E. Swenson retired in 2003 after 35 years of service from 3M. While at 3M he had responsibility for new packaging material development and application, training of 3M personnel worldwide and providing application assistance to users of static control products globally with particular emphasis on Asia Pacific and Japan. Dave and his wife Geri established a new company, Affinity Static Control Consulting, LLC. in 2003.
Dave has been a member of the ESD Association since 1984 and has served in many capacities including 1997 Symposium General Chair and president of the Association in 1998 and 1999 and again in 2008 and 2009. He was re-elected to the Board of Directors for a 5th term from 2014 to 2016 and is currently appointed to the Board to assist with technical inquiries.
Dave was presented with the highest award of the ESD Association, the “Outstanding Contributions Award” in 2002, the Standards Committee “Joel P. Weidendorf Memorial Award” in 2004, the Association “Edward G. Weggeland” Memorial Award in 2014 and the Symposium Committee’s, David Barber, Sr. Memorial award in 2018.
He is a member of the Standards Committee serving several Working Groups and the ANSI/ESD S20.20 Standard Task Team. Dave also serves as Treasurer and Information Liaison of the Texas Chapter of the ESD Association; he is a member of the Electrostatic Society of America, IMAPS, the UK Institute of Physics and is a US Expert to IEC TC101, Electrostatics.
FC340: ESD Program Development and Assessment (ANSI/ESD S20.20 Seminar) - Day 2
FC101: How To’s of In-Plant ESD Auditing and Evaluation Measurements
Jay Skolnik
Jay Skolnik is a licensed professional electrical engineer and is the co-founder and lead engineer/consultant of Skolnik Technical Training in Albuquerque, NM. With over thirty years of experience in the electronics industry, Jay has developed a multitude of products utilized in different industries, including military, defense, avionics, aerospace, commercial, industrial, medical, automotive, and sports entertainment.
As an ESDA certified program manager, Jay teaches ESD mitigation and control for the electronics and energetics specialties. He performs ESD audits to ensure factories and laboratories are following safe ESD control guidelines and procedures. He is also certified by iNARTE and is a certified professional instructor of national instruments (NI). He received his electrical engineering degree from the University of Missouri-Rolla.
FC101: How To’s of In-Plant ESD Auditing and Evaluation Measurements
Introduction to Characterization of On-Chip ESD Protection
Wim Vanhouteghem
Wim Vanhouteghem is a Senior ESD Design Engineer and the head of the measurement lab at Sofics. A 2007 graduate of KHBO (now part of the Catholic University of Leuven), Wim joined Sofics immediately after completing his studies. His work primarily focuses on ESD protection in semiconductor technologies, ranging from high-voltage BCD to FinFETs.
Wim has plenty of experience in implementing ESD protection and conducting ESD measurements. He contributed to the SEED concept and has worked on system-level ESD measurements on bare dies.
Introduction to Characterization of On-Chip ESD Protection
Overview on ESD and Latch-up Challenges in 2.5D and 3D-Stacked ICs
Mirko Scholz
Dr. Mirko Scholz received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Vrije Universiteit in Brussels (VUB) in 2013. From 2005 until 2017, he was working as an ESD researcher at imec in Leuven/Belgium. From March 2017 until June 2019, he was a program manager at the imec academy and in imec’s process technology transfer activities. Since July 2019, he has been with Infineon Technologies in Munich/Germany, where he is a Principal Engineer in ESD Development. His daily work focuses on component- and system-level ESD protection design for several RF and sensor product lines at Infineon.
Since 2007 he has been an active member of different working groups in the ESDA standards committee, currently co-chairing WG 5.6 (Human Metal Model). He was the management chair of the IEW 2018 in Belgium. Since 2019 he has been a member of the steering committee of the EOS/ESD Symposium. In this function, he is the Technical Program Committee (TPC) chair of the EOS/ESD Symposium 2023. For the 2017-2019 term and again for the 2022-2024 term, he has been an elected member of the ESDA Board of Directors. Since 2017, he has been heading the business unit of the Advanced Topics Committee of the ESDA.
He has authored/co-authored more than 100 publications, tutorials, and patents in the field of ESD design and testing. He is co-author of the 2014 Springer book “System-level ESD Protection”. He is a regular reviewer for several IEEE journals and a current member of the IRPS sub-committee on ESD and Latchup.
Overview on ESD and Latch-up Challenges in 2.5D and 3D-Stacked ICs
ESD Design Challenges of RF and High Speed I/Os
Dolphin Abessolo-Bidzo
Dr. Ir. Dolphin Abessolo-Bidzo received his M.Sc. (2004) and his Ph.D. (2007) in Electrical Engineering from ENSICAEN and from the University of Basse-Normandie, France. He is currently working as Senior Principal RF ESD & Latch-Up Design Engineer for advanced RFCMOS and BiCMOS technologies of RF and Millimeter wave applications at NXP Semiconductors.
Dolphin has published numerous articles and papers in IEEE scientific journals, symposia, and conferences on ESD, RF, and time domain analysis and holds several patents in the field of ESD protection of integrated circuits (ICs).
He is an active member of the ESDA Workgroup-18 on Electronic Design Automation (EDA) for ESD. For more than 15 years, he has regularly served in the management and the technical program committees of the International Electrostatic Discharge Workshops (IEW’s) and the EOS/ESD Symposia. Dolphin was the Management Committee General Chair of the IEW2023 in Germany and is a 2024 member of the Board of Directors.
ESD Design Challenges of RF and High Speed I/Os
Monday, September 16
ESD Compliance Verification Technician to TR53 - Exam
Chuck McClain
Andrew Nold
Andy Nold is a Quality Engineer and Commodity Engineer at Teradyne near Chicago, IL. He is the Factory ESD subject matter expert and performs the company’s internal ESD audits. He has worked for Teradyne since 2011.
Prior to Teradyne, Andy worked for the FAA, a small aerospace company, and the US Navy. Andy graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a bachelor’s degree in Applied Math, Engineering, and Physics and a master’s degree in Engineering Mechanics.
Outside of work, Andy likes to spend time with his wife and kids.