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TUCSON, AZ – The ESD Association members elected to its board of directors Gianluca Boselli, Texas Instruments; Tom Larson, Trek Inc.; Michelle McSwain, TW Clean and consultant Steven H. Voldman.
The new board will serve for a three-year term beginning Jan. 1.
The board also elected its officers for a one-year term, including David E. Swenson, Affinity Static Control Consulting, president; Donn Bellmore, Universal Instruments, senior vice president; and Leo G. Henry, ESD-TLP Consulting, vice president.
The ESDA is an organization dedicated to furthering the technology and understanding of electrostatic discharge.
The new board will serve for a three-year term beginning Jan. 1.
The board also elected its officers for a one-year term, including David E. Swenson, Affinity Static Control Consulting, president; Donn Bellmore, Universal Instruments, senior vice president; and Leo G. Henry, ESD-TLP Consulting, vice president.
The ESDA is an organization dedicated to furthering the technology and understanding of electrostatic discharge.
LAKE TAHOE, CA – The ESD Association requests abstracts for the 3d annual International Electrostatic Discharge Workshop.
The workshop will be held May 18 - 21 at the Stanford Sierra Conference Center in Lake Tahoe, CA.
The event invites focus on the increasing importance of system level ESD design and test, as well as the relationship between system and component level ESD. Presentations should address at least one of the following: novel design concepts, special custom design approaches, technology integration issues, failure analysis, test structures, simulation tools, component-level ESD testing, characterization, system-level issues, and unresolved ESD issues.
Abstracts should be two pages and emailed in PDF format to iew@esda.org no later than Nov. 14.
The technical program committee will announce the selections on or before Dec. 5.
The call for presentations may be downloaded from www.esda.org.
The workshop will be held May 18 - 21 at the Stanford Sierra Conference Center in Lake Tahoe, CA.
The event invites focus on the increasing importance of system level ESD design and test, as well as the relationship between system and component level ESD. Presentations should address at least one of the following: novel design concepts, special custom design approaches, technology integration issues, failure analysis, test structures, simulation tools, component-level ESD testing, characterization, system-level issues, and unresolved ESD issues.
Abstracts should be two pages and emailed in PDF format to iew@esda.org no later than Nov. 14.
The technical program committee will announce the selections on or before Dec. 5.
The call for presentations may be downloaded from www.esda.org.
ANAHEIM, CA – The ESD Association requests abstracts for papers on the effects of electrostatic discharge, electrical overstress, and static electricity for presentation at its 31st Annual EOS/ESD Symposium.
The event will take place Aug. 30 – Sept. 4 in Anaheim, CA.
Papers should deal with component level EOS/ESD, system level EOS/ESD issues, EOS/ESD factory level and materials technology, electrostatic considerations, magnetic recording heads, ultra sensitive devices, and ESD standards-components, systems and factory.
Submissions must include a 50-word abstract and a four-page (max.) summary.
The deadline for abstracts is Jan. 9.
The submission deadline for the finished paper is June 5. Final papers will be limited to a maximum of 10 pages.
The call for papers may be downloaded from www.esda.org.
SAN JOSE – Rumors abound that Flextronics may be eyeing Sanmina-SCI for a possible acquisition, although neither company is talking.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congress has proposed legislation that would end the US Customs' and Homeland Security's right to seize laptops, phones, cameras and other electronics when US nationals enter the country.
Bills introduced last week by Sen. Russell Feingold (D-WI) and Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) provide traditional legal citizen protections to residents crossing borders back into the US, including standards of probable cause before electronics equipment can be searched, and require warrants for search and seizure.
Customs currently does not need suspicion of wrongdoing to search or seize electronics. Many victims of searches claim racial profiling.
In its defense, Customs asserts only 40 laptops were searched out of 17 million travelers over a two-week period, and not all of those were prevented from entering the country. However, the situation has been troubling enough warrant attention from Congress.
Bills introduced last week by Sen. Russell Feingold (D-WI) and Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) provide traditional legal citizen protections to residents crossing borders back into the US, including standards of probable cause before electronics equipment can be searched, and require warrants for search and seizure.
Customs currently does not need suspicion of wrongdoing to search or seize electronics. Many victims of searches claim racial profiling.
In its defense, Customs asserts only 40 laptops were searched out of 17 million travelers over a two-week period, and not all of those were prevented from entering the country. However, the situation has been troubling enough warrant attention from Congress.
STAMFORD, CT – Gartner lowered its 2008 forecast for Asia/Pacific semiconductor growth from 6.4% to 5.2% on an annual basis, as a result of the global economic environment and poor consumer confidence.
However, the firm says emerging markets in India and Vietnam are experiencing higher growth compared to the slowing China/Hong Kong region.
However, the firm says emerging markets in India and Vietnam are experiencing higher growth compared to the slowing China/Hong Kong region.
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