Hossam Sarhan

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Hossam Sarhan is a senior product engineer in the Calibre Design Solutions division of Siemens Digital Industries Software, supporting the Calibre PERC reliability platform and Calibre parasitic extraction tools. His current work focuses on circuit reliability verification and inductance parasitics extraction. Prior to joining Siemens, he worked in modeling and design optimization for on-chip power management circuits. Sarhan received his B.Sc. from Alexandria University, Egypt, his M.Sc. degree from Nile University, Egypt, and his Ph.D. from CEA-LETI, Grenoble, France.

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How To Get Accurate Inductance Extraction For Superconductor ICs

By Hossam Sarhan - 11 Apr, 2024 - Comments: 0

By Hossam Sarhan and Dusan Petranovic Supporting the high performance and reliability needed for artificial intelligence (AI), data centers and cloud computing requires powerful and efficient integrated circuits (ICs). More semiconductor companies are considering superconductor ICs for their unique properties that allow ultrafast processing of digital information. These properties include fa... » read more

Easy-To-Use Reliability Checks Throughout The Design Cycle From IP To Full-Chip Tapeout

By Hossam Sarhan - 27 Apr, 2023 - Comments: 0

By Hossam Sarhan and Alexandre Arriordaz With the increasing complexity of design layouts and shorter tapeout cycles, waiting until signoff verification is no longer practical for design teams. There is a constant push to shift targeted verification activities “left” to earlier stages in the design flow. Finding and eliminating selected errors earlier during design and implementation, wh... » read more

Is Common Resistance Affecting Your Analog Design Reliability And Performance?

By Hossam Sarhan - 11 Jun, 2020 - Comments: 0

Integrated circuit (IC) design reliability has always been important and essential to market success. After all, if no one could count on your product to operate as designed, and for as long as intended, there wouldn’t be many buyers! However, given the increase in the types and complexity of design applications, coupled with the increasing technological challenge of manufacturing at advance... » read more

Automated Analog Design Constraint Checking

By Hossam Sarhan - 14 Feb, 2019 - Comments: 0

By Hossam Sarhan and Alexandre Arriordaz Overview Analog integrated circuits (ICs) are used to control and regulate conditions such as temperature, speed, sound, and electrical current. In analog ICs, voltage and current vary continuously at specified points in the circuit. One of the biggest challenges in analog integrated circuit (IC) design is to achieve and maintain accurate ratios: cap... » read more

A New Approach To Resistance Extraction For Unconventional Geometries

By Hossam Sarhan - 13 Dec, 2018 - Comments: 0

Unconventional metal structures have begun popping up in integrated circuits (ICs) with increasing regularity, for a number of reasons. The growing demand for integrated cameras and image recognition capabilities has fueled the need for components such as high-quality CMOS image sensors with low noise, high dynamic range, and low power. Technology scaling has also contributed to an increase in ... » read more