New! Accelerate Impact- Become a member of CMC As a member, your organization will join others and accelerate discovery and innovation in Canada. Read more Publications – CMC Microsystems CMC is excited to share some recent publications we have been working on with the community. These papers cover research topics in Quantum, Photonics, and Embedded Systems. […]
Semiconductor Leaders Meet in Nation’s Capital to Plot Industry Growth Women of Quantum Technology: Dr. Bruna Shinohara de Mendonça of CMC Microsystems – Inside Quantum Technology Publications – CMC Microsystems CMC is excited to share some recent publications we have been working on with the community. These papers cover research topics in Quantum, Photonics, and
Ottawa, November 24, 2023: Startups, academics, industry veterans, and government policy analysts met in Ottawa November 23 and 24 at the 2023 Canadian Semiconductor Symposium. The highly interactive sessions identified significant growth opportunities for the industry, some concerns, and sage advice from players across the Canadian semiconductor ecosystem including founder and Chairman of Wesley Clover International, Sir Terrence Matthews.
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Eric Flaim, May Siksik and Jeff F. Young bring extensive experience to CMC Microsystems’ Board of Directors
MONTREAL, QC – Oct. 15, 2023: CMC Microsystems, a leading organization accelerating research and innovation in Canada, is pleased to welcome Dr. Eric Flaim, Dr. May Siksik, and Dr. Jeff F. Young to our Board of Directors. They bring a wealth of experience from in academic research, as well as valuable governance and administrative experience. They will play a vital role in setting CMC’s strategic direction over the course of their three-year mandates.
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Quantum computing has the potential to solve problems beyond the capabilities of conventional supercomputers, and could revolutionize the advancement of several fields, including materials science, biochemistry, finance, logistics, and artificial intelligence. It is thus essential to develop concrete expertise to take advantage of the new possibilities that will arise from quantum computing. To take advantage
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Meet the speakers of CSS 2023 who are helping creating a vibrant and sustainable semiconductor ecosystem to benefit Canada
SILICAN Releases “First Steps For Canada” Policy Report “First Steps for Canada” identifies key policy objectives to reinforce existing Canadian strengths in important niches — compound semiconductors, advanced assembly, packaging and testing and sensor technologies. Publications – CMC Microsystems CMC is excited to share some recent publications we have been working on with the community. These
Professor Ebrahim Ghafar-Zadeh will share with the audience the recent progress of his team in developing novel Open-Gate Junction FET (OG-JFET) devices for chemical and biological applications, such as DNA mass quantification and oral cell monitoring. The outcomes of their research have resulted in several highly prestigious papers and a patent, showcasing the potential of
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September 29, 2023: CMC Microsystems is proud to announce the winners of TEXPO 2023. Established by CMC Microsystems, TEXPO offers graduate students in Canada’s National Design Network® (CNDN) a unique opportunity to demonstrate their novel applications of micro-nano technologies to industry representatives and academic peers. TEXPO 2023 was held virtually. Students competed for a total
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W. Li, L. Xu, Z. Wei, J. Zhang, D. Mao, Y. D’Mello, and D. V. Plant
Optics Letters, Vol. 48, No. 17, pp.4661-4664
W. Li, L. Xu, Z. Wei, D. Mao, J. Zhang, Y. D’Mello, and D. V. Plant
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) 2023, paper STu3J.5
2×2 broadband thermos-optic polarization-insensitive switch on the SOI platform Read More »
L. Xu, S. Chandran, Y. Bian, N. Liu, A. Abumazwed, W. Suk Lee, J. Zhang, D. Deptuck, M. Rakowski, S. Krishnamoorthy, A. Stricker, J. Gon Lee, and T. Letavic
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) 2023, paper JW2A.86
Low-loss SiN 2×2 MMI 50/50 couplers for monolithically integrated silicon photonics Read More »
L. Xu, W. Li, J. Zhang, D. Mao, M. S. Alam, Y. D’Mello, S. Bernal, Z. Wei, and D. V. Plant
Optical Fiber Communications (OFC) Conference 2023, paper Th2A.5
Daniel Honciuc Menendez, Annie Ray, Michael Vasmer
September 2023
Implementing fault-tolerant non-Clifford gates using the [[8,3,2]] color code Read More »
Mohammad Hassan Khatami, Udson C. Mendes, Nathan Wiebe, Philip M. Kim
Gate-based quantum computing for protein design Read More »
CMC and its SiEPIC partner professors are offering this legendary Silicon Photonics Fabrication Workshop online. This workshop trains students in the design, fabrication, and test of photonic integrated circuits (PICs) targeting the ANT NanoSOI Technology. Siemens, Lumerical (now part of the ANSYS family), Luceda, and Applied NanoTools are supporting this course by providing access arrangements to their tools. Important Notes
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Startup Canada Tour 2023 The final two stops of Startup Canada Tour will take place in Calgary on September 28 and Brampton on October 26! Connect with the Canadian entrepreneurship ecosystem at Startup Canada Tour to build out your network, learn from industry experts, and apply that knowledge back into your early-stage business. Registration is
TEXPO 2023 Applications are now closed for the 2023 TEXPO Graduate Student Research Competition. The competition team will work with applicants to confirm entries and then we will post the competition schedule. The competition will be online this year and links to watch the presentations will be available shortly. NSERC Competitions The Natural Sciences and
CADpass client secure connection (will be referred to as CADpass client or CADpass in this document) is a utility provided by CMC Microsystems that creates a secure connection between client PC’s, workstations, and computer sessions, and the CMC managed infrastructure. This quick start guide provides instructions for installing Synopsys Code V and Light Tools software
Synopsys Optical Solutions software includes the following tools: Code V: Optical Design software for lens and optical system design LightTools Illumination software: Design, Optimization and analysis solution for illumination optics Licensing Requirements or Restrictions Technical Details What You Get Licensing Requirements or Restrictions Use of this software is restricted by legal agreements requiring a signature
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TEXPO 2023 Graduate Student Research Competition is an annual competition that offers graduate students a unique opportunity to demonstrate their novel applications of microsystems and nanotechnologies to industry and academic representatives while competing for a total of $12,500 in prize money. Apply before August 4. Details online. Now accepting nominations for The Douglas R. Colton Medal
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July 27, 2023: The Government of Canada placed a big bet on green technologies and clean power in Budget 2023. “Green technology” is a broad definition. We all know what being green and clean looks like, but which innovations get us there. The backbone of any technology that will get us to net zero is not what you might think.
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This process allows for fabrication of coplanar structures on a high-resistivity silicon substrate, like resonators with quality factors of about one million. Aluminum junctions patterned by electron beam lithography can be added on top to make complete qubits CMC offers this process as part of a multi-project wafer (MPW) service. Al-ALOx-Al junctions in a range
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Features 502 INT8 TOPs 204MB on-chip SRAM 75W TDP 40W typical 8 TOPs/W At-Memory Architecture Scalable voltage and frequency Low latency, native batch = 1 PCIe Gen4 x16 Applications The runAI200 devices are designed to accelerate a multiplicity of AI inference and HPC workloads, such as vision-based convolutional networks, transformer networks for natural language processing,
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July 4, 2023: CMC Microsystems, Canada’s leading hardware technology facilitator, received an investment of $171,292 to fund a training initiative that is unique in the world: Build Your Own Superconducting Quantum Device workshop. This financial support is from the NovaScience program, an initiative of the Ministère de l’Économie, de l’Innovation et de l’Énergie (MEIE). NovaScience financially supports the development of the next generation of scientists in Québec by emphasizing and promoting scientific culture, as well as research and development (R&D) as well as business. It also allows new graduates to gain professional experience in research and development.
Description Join us for an insightful webinar as we delve into the world of accelerated AI inference with tsunAImi. Untether AI was established with a vision to revolutionize the field of machine learning computation. Traditional architectures often suffer from significant energy consumption due to data movement during AI workloads. Addressing this challenge, Untether AI offers
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SILICAN is the Semiconductor Industry Leadership and Innovation Canada Action Network – CMC Microsystems SILICAN will bring together the Council of Canadian Innovators, CMC Microsystems, Optonique, ISEQ, the Alliance for Semiconductor Innovation, Canada’s Semiconductor Council, the U15 Group of Canadian Research Universities, and the Canadian Innovation Network. SILICAN will work with federal and provincial governments,
June 19, 2023 : CMC is proud to be a founding member of SILICAN, a new coalition of industry advocates and organizations who want to build a stronger Canadian semiconductor economy.
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To create shell scripts, job scheduler instructions and other text files, subscribers will have to edit and save files in our VCAD Cloud, our CAD Compute Cluster, and local Linux accounts if using our Sustainable Technology Configuration (STC) disk. To learn more about our STC network, please see our webpage here: STC Server Network Sustainable
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Vendor Support Each CAD vendor from whom we buy licences and receive technical support provides its customers with a list of supported operating systems (OS). Here are lists of supported operating systems from five of our CAD vendors and two OS vendors: Ansys: https://www.ansys.com/it-solutions/platform-support Cadence: https://www.cadence.com/en_US/home/support/computing-platform-support.html Keysight: https://www.keysight.com/us/en/lib/resources/miscellaneous/software-versions-computer-platforms-and-operating-systems-1486421.html Siemens (Mentor Graphics) Calibre: https://calibre.mentorcloudservices.com/docs/Calibre_OS_Roadmap.htm Synopsys: https://www.synopsys.com/support/licensing-installation-computeplatforms/compute-platforms/compute-platforms-roadmap.html
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News Amidst Ongoing Semiconductor Shortage, CMC Continues to Grow Chip Designers of Tomorrow | full article “THERE’S A REVOLUTION IN THE WINGS”: WHY CANADA’S SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY NEEDS AN OVERHAUL | Betakit, May 2023 TEXPO 2023 Graduate Student Research Competition is an annual competition that offers graduate students a unique opportunity to demonstrate their novel applications
Dr. Taleana Huff – University of Alberta Dr. Taleana Huff was awarded the 2021 Douglas R. Colton Medal for Research Excellence. For her Master’s degree and her PhD, Huff focused on “Atomic White-Out,” an error correction method for fabricating and patterning quantum dots. The technique gave Huff and the team the ability to successfully build
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CMC’s foundry partners fabricate over 480 designs
May 10, 2023: In a global environment of ongoing tumultuous shortage of semiconductor chips and significant government investments in advanced technology initiatives, CMC logged another stellar year of prototyping, with over 480 chip designs manufactured. That number is expected to grow by at least ten percent in 2023.
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The training is for non-technical professionals in supporting roles such as lawyer, marketing, HR, finance, procurement, and IT, who may not be involved in chip design or manufacturing but still need to understand the basic concepts and technical jargon used in the industry to work more efficiently. Our goal is to equip participants with the
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April 28, 2023: CMC Microsystems, Canada’s leading hardware technology facilitator, and Untether AI®, the leader in energy-centric AI inference for acceleration, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to collaborate on providing Untether AI’s acceleration solutions to CMC customers and partners.
These videos illustrate the steps of the exercises in the tutorial Primer for Digital and Mixed Signal Microsystem Verification. Exercise 331 https://www.cmc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Primerexerc331.mp4 Exercise 332 https://www.cmc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Primerexerc332.mp4 Exercise 414 https://www.cmc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Primerexerc414.mp4 Exercise 432 https://www.cmc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Primerexerc432.mp4 Exercise 513 https://www.cmc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Primerexerc513.mp4 Exercise 514 https://www.cmc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Primerexerc514.mp4 Exercise 521 https://www.cmc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Primerexerc521.mp4 Author: Marc-André Tétrault Date published: 7/28/2017 12:22:00 PM Feedback? If you need any help or
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This video examines the S-Edit tool, bundled with the MEMS Pro CAD tool. It includes two parts: Part 1 – demonstrates accessing the schematic library and setting the parameters of the design. Part 2 – covers setting parameters and connections. Designing a MEMS Device Using the S-Edit Tool – Part 1 https://www.cmc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/MEMSProS-EditPart1.mp4 Designing a MEMS
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National supply chain strategy with strategic trade corridor investments announced in Budget 2023 are encouraging
The following opinion piece was published in The Hill Times and EP&T.
President Biden’s visit to Ottawa was important for Canada, and our semiconductor industry in particular. This is part of a larger semiconductor manufacturing trade agreement, or “corridor” which is great news for Canadian innovation and our national interests.
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L. Xu, D. Mao, J. Zhang, Y. Wang, Z. Xing, M. S. Alam, M. Jacques, Y. D’Mello, S. Bernal, D. V. Plant
Optical Fiber Communications (OFC) Conference 2021, paper W6A.46
Luhua Xu
IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC) 2021, paper MC4.3
Luhua Xu
IEEE Group IV Photonics Conference (GFP) 2021, paper ThB2.7
J. Zhang, L. Xu, D. Mao, Y. D’Mello, W. Li, S. Lessard, and D. V. Plant
Optics Express, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 326-335, 2022
J. Zhang, L. Xu, D. Mao, Z. Xing, Y. D’Mello, M. Jacques, Y. Wang, S. Lessard, and D. V. Plant
IEEE Photonics Journal, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 6615306, 2022
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