Planning Grant: I/UCRC for Integrated Design-for-Reliability for Electronics

1 /UCRC电子产品可靠性集成设计（iDRE）；Albert Wang 1160870 Vanderbilt University；加州大学河滨分校（UC-R）和范德比尔特大学（VU）正在合作建立拟议中的中心，加州大学河滨分校是牵头机构。电子产品可靠性集成设计中心（iDRE）将对集成电路（IC）、多芯片模块（MCM）和系统级封装（SiP）以及微电子系统的辐射和瞬态静电放电（ESD）引起的故障进行研究；以及通过集成设计为工业电子产品开发可靠性解决方案。规划拨款提案的另一个目标是与潜在的工业合作伙伴举行会议，讨论综合可靠性设计（DfR）和中心运行机制的研究需求。如果成功，iDRE中心的研究活动将揭示ESD和软错误故障的基本原理和机制，并为先进的集成电路和系统提供ESD保护和软错误缓解解决方案。研究成果将对现代微电子和系统产品产生巨大影响，对电子工业和国民经济产生重大效益。提出的集成DfR可靠性解决方案将影响人类生活的方方面面，从通信和娱乐，到信息处理和存储，再到危及生命的设备和关键任务，等等。pi还提出了一项多元化计划，以促进女性和代表性不足的少数民族学生参与工程教育和研究。

I/UCRC for Integrated Design-for-Reliability for Electronics (iDRE) 1160865 University of California-Riverside; Albert Wang 1160870 Vanderbilt University; Bharat Bhuva The University of California-Riverside (UC-R) and Vanderbilt University (VU) are collaborating to establish the proposed center, with UC-R as the lead institution. The Center for Integrated Design-for-Reliability for Electronics (iDRE) will conduct research on investigating radiation and transient electrostatic discharge (ESD) induced failures to integrated circuits (IC), multi-chip nodules (MCM) and system-in-package (SiP), and microelectronics systems; as well as developing reliability solutions by integrated designs for industrial electronics. An additional objective of the planning grant proposal is to hold a meeting with potential industrial partners to discuss the research needs for integrated design-for-reliability (DfR) and center operation mechanisms. If successful, research activities at the iDRE Center will reveal fundamentals and mechanisms of ESD and soft error failures, as well as deliver ESD protection and soft error mitigation solutions to advanced ICs and systems. The research outcomes will cast huge impacts on modern microelectronics and system products, and will have significant benefits to the electronic industry and the nation's economy. The proposed integrated DfR reliability solutions will affect all aspects of human lives, from communications and entertainment, to information processing and storage, to life-threatening devices and mission-critical tasks, and so on. The PIs also propose a diversity plan to promote involvement of female and underrepresented minority students in engineering education and research.