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David Manners
Tuesday 27 April 2010 18:49
MEMS is one of the fastest growing industry segments in the world, set to almost double in revenues from $2.7bn last year to $4.8bn this year, the MEMS panel at the Globalpress Summit Conference in Santa Cruz was told today by Gartner’s research director, Stephan Ohr.
"MEMS is a terrific growth opportunity particularly in medical applications and in industrial and process control", Mark Martin, vp and general manager at Analog Devices, told the conference.
"We are entering a new wave of MEMS adoption driven by the heightened awareness of MEMS motion sensor capabilities", added Martin, "the first wave was driven by auto safety systems in the 1990s; the second wave by consumer products in the 2000s. During the next decade, a third wave will see the adoption of MEMS motion sensors in many medical, industrial instrumentation, defense applications, robotics, machine health monitoring and portable medical devices."
Martin said that ADI shipped the first accelerometer in an airbag to Saab in 1992, but the volumes weren’t sufficient to make it a successful business.
"Then in 2005/6 we could put a 3-axis sensor in a single device, with low enough power, and low enough cost, and you get a whole new market that takes off."
Mike Jamiolkowski, CEO of MEMS software developer Coventor, reckons the time is right for the democratisation of MEMS.
"There’s been a lot of success out there", he said instancing, TI, ST, ADI and Bosch, "but we won’t bring MEMS to success unless more people get access to MEMS."
Jamiolkowski said there were hundreds of graduates being taught MEMS design. "We have to make it easier for IC engineers to understand MEMS devices, and MEMS engineers to understand ICs", he said.
ADI’s Mark Martin, thought it wasn’t a shortage of talent that was the barrier to wider accessibility to MEMS, but a shortage of experience.
"Numerous US universities are putting out talented people who understand MEMS, but getting them down that experience curve takes time," said Martin.
A surge in the numbers of MEMS engineers is one sign we’re getting there, another sign is the growing and evolving foundry industry, but Jamiolkowski also thought a full ecosystem needs to be developed to make MEMS more accessible.
"The one-product model is changing", he said, "IDMs have developed very successful products, and now they’re developing derivative products, and I think there will be many different processes."
Jamiolkowski added that, according to Yole Development, it costs $45m and takes 4 to 10 years to develop a new MEMS product.
"We need products which can be designed on old processes with a turnaround time that can be cut to a year", said Jamiolkowski.
However Jack Blaha of Applied Materials, said it was impossible at the moment, to have a foundry which could make all MEMS products – so varied are the process requirements of different MEMS product types.
"Standardising a MEMS process is one of the biggest challenges facing the MEMS industry", said Blaha, "there are 20 to 30 product groups each with their specific manufacturing requirements."
"So foundries will look to see where is the greatest volume coming from", added Blaha, "and the foundries will go for the areas with the biggest volumes, and focus on specific products. "
Eric Eisenhutt, vp sales and marketing at Kionix, a subsidiary of Rohm, is another executive who expects strong growth in the healthcare and industrial markets, as well as further expansion in the consumer electronics market, as application development tools make MEMS sensors key components for mobile devices that rely on context awareness for effective user interaction.
"MEMS suppliers are expected to incorporate algorithms into ASIC blocks of silicon, integrate multiple-sensor systems with available processing and power requirements, and create application development tools that accommodate market requirements for third-party developers in embedded, mobile environments", said Eisenhut.
Applied’s Jack Blaha told the panel that the MEMS industry is now so big that the market for manufacturing equipment for MEMS devices will be worth $500m in 2012.
FROM HERE
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2010/04/27/48509/mems-needs-to-be-more-accessible.htm
Tuesday 27 April 2010 18:49
MEMS is one of the fastest growing industry segments in the world, set to almost double in revenues from $2.7bn last year to $4.8bn this year, the MEMS panel at the Globalpress Summit Conference in Santa Cruz was told today by Gartner’s research director, Stephan Ohr.
"MEMS is a terrific growth opportunity particularly in medical applications and in industrial and process control", Mark Martin, vp and general manager at Analog Devices, told the conference.
"We are entering a new wave of MEMS adoption driven by the heightened awareness of MEMS motion sensor capabilities", added Martin, "the first wave was driven by auto safety systems in the 1990s; the second wave by consumer products in the 2000s. During the next decade, a third wave will see the adoption of MEMS motion sensors in many medical, industrial instrumentation, defense applications, robotics, machine health monitoring and portable medical devices."
Martin said that ADI shipped the first accelerometer in an airbag to Saab in 1992, but the volumes weren’t sufficient to make it a successful business.
"Then in 2005/6 we could put a 3-axis sensor in a single device, with low enough power, and low enough cost, and you get a whole new market that takes off."
Mike Jamiolkowski, CEO of MEMS software developer Coventor, reckons the time is right for the democratisation of MEMS.
"There’s been a lot of success out there", he said instancing, TI, ST, ADI and Bosch, "but we won’t bring MEMS to success unless more people get access to MEMS."
Jamiolkowski said there were hundreds of graduates being taught MEMS design. "We have to make it easier for IC engineers to understand MEMS devices, and MEMS engineers to understand ICs", he said.
ADI’s Mark Martin, thought it wasn’t a shortage of talent that was the barrier to wider accessibility to MEMS, but a shortage of experience.
"Numerous US universities are putting out talented people who understand MEMS, but getting them down that experience curve takes time," said Martin.
A surge in the numbers of MEMS engineers is one sign we’re getting there, another sign is the growing and evolving foundry industry, but Jamiolkowski also thought a full ecosystem needs to be developed to make MEMS more accessible.
"The one-product model is changing", he said, "IDMs have developed very successful products, and now they’re developing derivative products, and I think there will be many different processes."
Jamiolkowski added that, according to Yole Development, it costs $45m and takes 4 to 10 years to develop a new MEMS product.
"We need products which can be designed on old processes with a turnaround time that can be cut to a year", said Jamiolkowski.
However Jack Blaha of Applied Materials, said it was impossible at the moment, to have a foundry which could make all MEMS products – so varied are the process requirements of different MEMS product types.
"Standardising a MEMS process is one of the biggest challenges facing the MEMS industry", said Blaha, "there are 20 to 30 product groups each with their specific manufacturing requirements."
"So foundries will look to see where is the greatest volume coming from", added Blaha, "and the foundries will go for the areas with the biggest volumes, and focus on specific products. "
Eric Eisenhutt, vp sales and marketing at Kionix, a subsidiary of Rohm, is another executive who expects strong growth in the healthcare and industrial markets, as well as further expansion in the consumer electronics market, as application development tools make MEMS sensors key components for mobile devices that rely on context awareness for effective user interaction.
"MEMS suppliers are expected to incorporate algorithms into ASIC blocks of silicon, integrate multiple-sensor systems with available processing and power requirements, and create application development tools that accommodate market requirements for third-party developers in embedded, mobile environments", said Eisenhut.
Applied’s Jack Blaha told the panel that the MEMS industry is now so big that the market for manufacturing equipment for MEMS devices will be worth $500m in 2012.
FROM HERE
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2010/04/27/48509/mems-needs-to-be-more-accessible.htm
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