James Ban

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Welcome to my Webpage.  I am James Ban (korean name: Yong-Chan Ban).  I am pursuing my PhD Degree (since August 2007) at the UT VLSI Design Automation Laboratory in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.  My advisor is  Professor David Z Pan.  My reseach at UT is focussed on Lithography Driven Physical Design and  Design for Manufacturability (DFM).  Take a look at my Research page to know more about my research work.

From May 2002 to May 2007, I worked for Samsung Electronics as a Senior Engineer in the Semiconductor R&D Center on VLSI CAD development. In particular, I've developed in-house lithography simulator which is pursuing lithographic DFM and is based on the Cadence Virtuoso layout editor for real Litho Friendly Layout (LFL). From February 2000 to April 2002, I worked as a Research Assistant with Silicon Tech Ltd. on the development of application S/W for Photoresist coater/developer. From 1997 to January 2000, I've worked as a Research Assistant on the development of TCAD simulator; those are the low-energy ion-implantation, the plasma sheath modeling for a dry etching process and the sputtering deposition modeling.

In this summer 2008, I'm going to work for Freescale semiconductor (formerly Motorola semiconductor) at Austin for my internship job. My work maybe a process aware standard cell library design and optimization for robust DFM. As well as my third company working, it can be a good turning point from the semiconductor process & device modeling to the circuit & layout design. 

To summarize my career,
Semiconductor Process & Devices Modeling:TCAD (3 years) → Appl. S/W for Semiconductor equipment (2 years) → PhotoLithography, OPC & RDR (5 years) → Layout Automation, Circuit design & DFM (Current work).

Now I'm living in Austin with my wife (You-Kyoung) and my daughter (Ye-Eun) she is 2 years old.

My Favorite

- Photography

Whenever I have some time, I usually enjoy taking pictures. Although I well know it is more important to enhance know-how taking a picture, I often attribute bad pictures to low-graded camera. : )