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Complex Integrated Systems

  • Applications Enabled By CIS
    • Massive Wireless Broadband with 5G mmWave Systems
    • High-Performance Computing Applications in Edge Devices and Data Centers
    • AR/VR/MR Devices
    • Advanced Driver Assistance Systems for Passenger Vehicles
    • Integrated Photonics
  • CIS Impacts on the Complete Product Lifecycle
    • Design for CIS
    • Smart Manufacturing for CIS
    • Testability/In-Field Reliability for CIS
    • Sustainability for CIS
  • CIS Acronyms

Sustainable Electronics

  • Circularity
  • Materials
  • Sustainable Electronics Acronyms
  • Sustainability in Electronics Materials: Tables

mmWave Materials and Test

  • Application Segments for mmWave Materials and Test
    • 5G and 6G Cellular Communications
      • Lower loss materials for improved system link budgets
    • Automotive Drivers Specific to mmWave Materials and Test
      • Low cost radar sensor solutions for autonomous driving
  • Materials Development
    • Low cost and ease of manufacturability with new materials
    • Tailorable and stable relative permittivity εr or dielectric constant Dk
    • Low dielectric loss (tanδ)
    • Stable material properties with moisture absorption
  • Low-Loss Dielectric Materials Characterization
    • Higher frequencies for 5G result in requirements for lower dimensional variation and measurement errors
    • Minimal variation between measured and operational characteristics
    • Lack of Standard Reference Material (SRM)
    • Accurately characterize anisotropic behavior
  • Electrical Test
    • Over the Air (OTA) vs contact testing
    • Scaling up mmWave testing from lab environments to mass production environments

Printed Circuit Board (PCB)

  • High Speed PCB
  • High Speed Substrates
  • Test, Inspection and Measurement
  • Environmental
  • Laminates
  • Microwave RF and mmWave PCB
    • Skin Depth at mmWave Frequencies
  • PCB Acronyms

Board Assembly

  • Assembly Materials
    • Solder Pastes
    • Thermal Interface Materials
    • Conformal Coatings
    • Underfills
    • Encapsulant/Potting Materials
    • Wave Solder Materials
    • Rework Solder Materials
  • Surface Mount Technology Printing and Reflow
    • SMT Printing
    • SMT Reflow
  • Rework and Repair
    • Component-level
    • Board-level + Workforce Issues
  • Press Fit
    • Press Fit: 2019 Roadmap
  • Central Process Unit (CPU) Socket Interconnect
  • Board Assembly Acronyms

Packaging & Heterogeneous Integration

Smart Manufacturing

  • Application Domain Perspectives: Electronics Manufacturing
    • Responding to rapidly changing, complex business requirements
    • Supporting sustainability and safety in the manufacturing facility environment
    • Achieving financial growth targets while margins are declining
    • Meeting manufacturing facility and equipment reliability, capability, productivity, quality, and cost requirements
    • Leveraging manufacturing facility integration technologies across industry segment boundaries
    • Meeting the flexibility, extendibility, and scalability needs of a leading-edge manufacturing facility
  • Security for Smart Manufacturing
  • Data Flow Architecture
    • Robust and flexible connectivity architecture across electronics vertical segments to enable smart manufacturing functionality

Roadmap Drivers

  • Application Drivers
    • Automotive
      • Improve efficiency of fossil-fuel power-trains
      • Transition from fossil fuel to electric vehicles
      • Improve vehicular safety
      • Enhance driver and passenger comfort and convenience
    • Computing and Communications
      • Cloud and Data Centers
        • Cloud & High-Performance Computing Application Requirements for Advanced Packaging
        • Reduce TCO with commodity hardware
        • Reduce energy costs and carbon footprint
        • Increase storage capacity
        • Efficiently support new application loads with hardware specialization
      • 5G and 6G Cellular
    • Consumer Electronics
      • Improve power efficiency
      • Reduce form factor (weight and volume)
    • IoT
      • Minimize cost of ownership with autonomous powering of IoT devices
    • Lighting
      • Minimise LED luminaire cost
      • Decrease luminaire power consumption
      • Long-life solutions for minimal maintenance and new fixture designs
      • Maintain backward compatability for retrofit residential and commerical installations
      • Improve lighting ambience
      • How to differentiate LED solutions with declining sale prices in the retrofit residential market?
      • Backward compatible T-lamp replacement
      • Reducing flicker and acoustic noise
    • Medical Devices
      • Advanced therapies require new and more extensive use of medical devices.
      • Decrease load on primary heathcare and hospital systems by supporting home healthcare solutions
      • Development of artificial intelligence, deep learning and machine learning for healthcare applications
      • 3D Medical Printing
      • Growing popularity in surgical robotics
    • Motor Control for HVAC and Residential Appliances
      • Improve power efficiency of motors by moving to variable speed solutions
      • Add low-cost digital control to create integrated motor drives
      • Reduced maintenance costs using remote real time diagnostics with IoT
      • Better extraction of instantaneous motor performance information to simplify sensing and improve reliability
    • Wireless Devices and Infrastructure
      • 5G and 6G Cellular Devices and Infrastructure
        • 5G wireless local