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• Applied, Fullvision System
• Uv Sensor, Oki Electric Industry
• Flexray, Avr 32
• Control Systems, Control Systems Award

  Dr. Hichem M'Saad, vice president and general manager of Applied Materials' Dielectric Systems and CMP Business Group was said CMP endpoint technology was pioneered by Applied Materials and is key to delivering benchmark CMP performance,"  CMP as films become thinner, CMP becomes increasingly difficult, requiring much more precise wafer-to-wafer process control to achieve acceptable yields. Using broadband spectral analysis, FullVision technology monitors individual polishing zones across the wafer to provide twice the accuracy and repeatability of competitive systems on a wide variety of process steps – without compromising throughput. These are vital requirements for advanced device manufacturing." Applied Materials, introduses its new Applied FullVision(TM) system that enables real-time control of dielectric CMP1 processes to the 45 nanometer (nm) device node and beyond. The FullVision system couples Applied's patented window-in-pad technology with multiple-wavelength spectroscopy to deliver advanced in situ endpoint capability for a variety of dielectric materials, including oxide, STI2, and poly CMP applications...

About Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. Founded in 1881, Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. is Japan's first telecommunications manufacturer, with its headquarters in Tokyo, Japan. OKI provides top-quality products, technologies and solutions to its customers through its info-telecom system business, semiconductor business and printer business. All three businesses function as a collective force to create exciting new products and technologies that satisfy a spectrum of customer needs in various markets. OKI Electric Industry Co., Ltd. introduces it has started volume shipment of its ultraviolet (UV) sensor ICs, ML8511, starting this month...

Atmel® Corporation introduses the availability of its AVR® 32-bit FlexRay® evaluation environment. In addition, Atmel demonstrate its new technology at the FlexRay day conference held in Stuttgart, Germany with a mockup car implementing advanced in-vehicle networking with X-by-wire drive, steer and brake functions. "With this environment, Atmel can now provide to its customer a complete FlexRay evaluation platform," commented Philippe Malecha, Atmel's Automotive Microcontroller Strategic Marketing Director. "This movement to FlexRay will significantly extend our existing microcontroller offering covering CAN and LIN control, providing to our customers a broad range of solutions for their future vehicle designs...

The IEEE,the world's leading professional association for the advancement of technology, has named Lennart Ljung as the recipient of its 2007 Control Systems Award, recognizing his seminal contributions to system identification and its impact on industrial practice. His development of the system identification toolbox is a set of high-tech mathematical tools that are used in industrial applications - such as automobiles, airplanes and medical systems for diabetes. Sponsored by the IEEE Control Systems Society, the award recognizes outstanding contributions to control systems engineering, science or technology. It will be presented to Ljung at the 2007 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) in New Orleans on 12 December...