Charalampos Bakolias, Helic, EL (CloudFlow)

Electromagnetic Modelling of Microchips on CloudProject: CLOUDFLOW

23rd and 24th of June – Amsterdam

END USER: MEMS manufacturer

I4MS 2016: FOSTERING DIGITAL INDUSTRIAL INNOVATION IN EUROPE · 23rd and 24th of June – Amsterdam

Pressure Sensors Accelerometers

Flow Sensors Signal Conditioning Electronics

European Sensor Systems SA

END USER


APPLICATION AREAS

Industrial(Monitoring systems)

Consumer Goods(e.g. Smartphones, wearables etc)

Aerospace(IMU Navigation, Fuel tank Pressure)

Medical(oxygen supply, infusion pumps, blood pressure,

spirometers)

$3bn

$5bn

PROBLEM for END USER


MEMs need to interface to 3rd party

Humidity Sensors~$200m global market

..so ESS..need to add on-chip interface devices …

BUT do not have on-chip space

AND cannot increase chip size!

SOLUTION: MAKE SPACE ON CHIPMODELING INTEGRATED CIRCUITS


Must cram on-chip components and free-up space …at the risk of electromagnetic crosstalk!

To remove the risk, ESS needs HELIC’s

Electromagnetic Modelling SW! Extremely compute resource-intensive Up to millions of interacting elements Annual Software License too expensive for SMEs!

Crosstalk

2mm

SOLUTION: CLOUDFLOW EXPERIMENT!EM MODELLING ON CLOUD (SaaS)


HELIC developed web version of modelling SW Experimental: Complexity Based Pricing

SOLUTION: CLOUDFLOW EXPERIMENTTARGET ACHIEVED!


ESS freed-up 5% of chip areaIntroduced interfacing electronics &

extended market scope

Collaboration: New things! Optimised (cloudified) critical aspects our

software ATHENA - Lab of Geometric & Algebraic Algorithms

Implemented & tested Gridworker (workload manager for simulation tasks)

Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS

Implementation Speed Ready to use infrastructure components Quick set-up of SaaS web-app

I4MS: how did it helpWOULD NOT HAVE ACHIEVED OTHERWISE:


Semiconductor chips:Omnipresent, small, complex,

and..very expensive

to design and make

Out of $8bn EDA revenue$400m spent on Design Services

offered mostly by SMEs and freelancers

MARKET: Electronic Design Automation


EDA

4 mm

IMPACT: HELIC


HELIC’s SaaS target market: SMEs and Freelancers from $400m in Design Services, 50%-60% spent on EDA tools 10% - 15% EDA tools concern Helic -> $20-$30m globally

Charging at $230/CPU Hour (not by complexity) -> ~$600k in 2-3 years from traction 3-4 new recruits

BUTSLOW PENETRATION

Sector paranoid on SECURITY

SMEs may be easier to attract to the Cloud

IMPACT: HELIC


ONGOING: Create awareness Academic Users: future customers

Confidentiality is not as critical Many collaborate with Large Enterprises

SMEs: security concerns Majority offer services to Large Enterprises

NEXT STEPS TO EXPLOITATION Need exceptionally strong security guarantees Automate configuration per design technology – relieve our support Verify our complexity pricing model Add more HELIC products

EXPLOITATION ACTIVITIES

A 2gr chip requires*: 1.6kg of fossil fuel 72g of chemicals 32kg of water

One ESS chip 1.6 x 1.64mm, ~4.7mg 5% area savings on 1million ESS chips ~235grORDER OF MAGNITUTE ESTIMATION

IMPACT: ENVIRONMENT


SMALLER CHIPS: OPTIMISED SPACE USAGE

188kg of fossil fuel 8.46 kg of chemicals 3.76 tonnes of water

*ED Williams: “The 1.7 kg microchip: energy and chemical use in the production of semiconductors”, 2002

THANK YOUBabis Bakolias, COO

Helic S.A.

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Charalampos Bakolias, Helic, EL (CloudFlow)