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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
I4MS 2016: FOSTERING DIGITAL INDUSTRIAL INNOVATION IN EUROPE · 23rd and 24th of June – Amsterdam
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
I4MS 2016: FOSTERING DIGITAL INDUSTRIAL INNOVATION IN EUROPE · 23rd and 24th of June – Amsterdam
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
I4MS 2016: FOSTERING DIGITAL INDUSTRIAL INNOVATION IN EUROPE · 23rd and 24th of June – Amsterdam
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)
I4MS 2016: FOSTERING DIGITAL INDUSTRIAL INNOVATION IN EUROPE · 23rd and 24th of June – Amsterdam
HELIC developed web version of modelling SW Experimental: Complexity Based Pricing
SOLUTION: CLOUDFLOW EXPERIMENTTARGET ACHIEVED!
I4MS 2016: FOSTERING DIGITAL INDUSTRIAL INNOVATION IN EUROPE · 23rd and 24th of June – Amsterdam
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:
I4MS 2016: FOSTERING DIGITAL INDUSTRIAL INNOVATION IN EUROPE · 23rd and 24th of June – Amsterdam
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
I4MS 2016: FOSTERING DIGITAL INDUSTRIAL INNOVATION IN EUROPE · 23rd and 24th of June – Amsterdam
EDA
4 mm
IMPACT: HELIC
I4MS 2016: FOSTERING DIGITAL INDUSTRIAL INNOVATION IN EUROPE · 23rd and 24th of June – Amsterdam
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
I4MS 2016: FOSTERING DIGITAL INDUSTRIAL INNOVATION IN EUROPE · 23rd and 24th of June – Amsterdam
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
I4MS 2016: FOSTERING DIGITAL INDUSTRIAL INNOVATION IN EUROPE · 23rd and 24th of June – Amsterdam
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.