IISc, Samsung R&D wing partner for semiconductor tech research

BENGALURU: The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has partnered with Samsung Semiconductor India Research (SSIR), a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics, to promote research and development (R&D) in the field of on-chip Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) — sudden and momentary flow of electric current between two electrically charged objects— protection.

“The partnership seeks to build cutting-edge ESD device solutions to protect ultra-high-speed serial interfaces in advanced Integrated Circuits (ICs) and system-on-chip (SoC) products,” IISc said.

The related research will be carried out by Prof Mayank Shrivastava’s group at IISc’s department of electronic systems engineering (DESE) and solutions arising from this research will be deployed in Samsung’s advanced process nodes.