Campaigns | CATN2

CAMPAIGNS

The CATN2 will support your participation in strategic campaigns that burden-share capital and operating cost, provide operational structures to protect and share intellectual property, and, align the industry supply chain to deliver integrated solutions.

POWER ELECTRONICS

INTEGRATED PHOTONICS

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

ADVANCED MANUFACTURING

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POWER ELECTRONICS

The CATN2 has pursued a comprehensive strategy for development of a power electronics cluster in the Erie Canal (I-90) corridor initiated by the formation of the New York-Power Electronics Manufacturing Consortium (NY-PEMC).

NY-PEMC has focused on strategic attraction and eco-system growth targeting four synergistic areas that include:

POWER ACCELERATOR

Incubation, supply chain enablement, & workforce training

Accelerator aims to grow cluster of power semiconductor companies in Capital Region

Clean Energy Test-beds

Open Your Mind to Open Innovation

Matching Investment Program (MIP) awards in Power Electronics

POWER CONVERSION

WBG devices-silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN)

Grand Opening of Wolfspeed's $1 Billon State of the Art Silicon Carbide Fabrication Facility

$1.5M Award by U.S. Department of Energy’s Vehicle Technology Office for Highly Efficient and Reliable Power Electronics Devices

Matching Investment Program (MIP) awards in Power Conversion

POWER CONTROL

MEMS switching

Why this California startup has kept its tech team at Albany NanoTech

Matching Investment Program (MIP) awards in Power Control

POWER PACKAGING

Silicon, SiC & GaN

Danfoss begins shipping power modules

Danfoss to launch production this year

Growth in SiC Power Modules a Boon to Upstate New York

NoMIS to provide SiC power semiconductor devices and modules

Matching Investment Program (MIP) awards in Power Packaging

INTEGRATED PHOTONICS

As part of the CATN2’s efforts to create RD&D Industry Alignment Frameworks, which have established manufacturing institutes and centers, AIM Photonics was launched in 2015. AIM Photonics offers companies of all sizes, designers and developers, and academic researchers access to a supporting infrastructure of services across the entire silicon photonics development cycle: design, simulation, fabrication, packaging, validation, and a path to volume manufacturing.

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

The CATN2’s efforts in AI focus on AI hardware and specifically synaptic devices for neuromorphic and autonomous hardware implementation, or resistive memory (ReRAM). ReRAM devices used in AI are needed for a variety of applications that require online learning and neuromorphic computing capabilities.

ADVANCED MANUFACTURING PERFORMANCE

With access to an advanced semiconductor RD&D environment that includes a 300mm wafer industry-compliant silicon wafer process line, the U.S. Department of Commerce and New York State established the Advanced Manufacturing Performance (AMP) Center at UAlbany's CNSE to provide access to project-ready test-beds.

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AMP

OUR MISSION is to drive systematic progression in advanced manufacturing solutions by addressing the challenges confronting the semiconductor industry supply chain partners with a focus on

Root Cause Analysis with "lab-to-fab” testing of industry-supplier components and sub-systems using Equipment-level Test-beds;
Data Utilization with “digital twin” analysis of industry-compliant facility management systems using Facility-level Test-beds;
Output Control with “career pathways” training on industry-relevant hands-on experiential learning using Process-level Test-beds;
Manufacturing Best-Known-Method (BKM) documentation, including subject-matter-expert video generated training videos. One documentation method is using DeepHow AI, which AMP demonstrates and teaches for in-house and external customers.

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DRIVE Root-Cause-Analysis methodology

DRIVE (Detect, Diagnose, Review, Implement, Verify, Evaluate) Flow Chart gives a structured methodology to trouble-shoot, or Root-Cause analyze, a “fault” in any system.

This specific Flow Chart is for trouble-shooting a Building Air Conditioning system, but this methodology can be retrofitted to any institution system.

DeepHow BKM video

AMP shows manufacturers how to create DeepHow Best-Known-Method (BKM) videos for training content. Manufacturers can have their subject matter experts create these BKM videos, enabling new employees to start training by watching them and use them as ongoing references.

DeepHow AI generates text and audio, translates videos into over 40 languages for global use, and stores them in complete-process BKM libraries to document manufacturing workflows and ensure efficient training for all employees.

CAREER ALIGNMENT PLATFORM (CAP)

The Career Alignment Platform (CAP) is a web “application” seeking to drive a systematic progression in three career pathway disciplines (Equipment, Facility, & Process) for the advanced manufacture of computer chips by focusing on:

Engaging new and traditionally under-represented communities to explore the broad array of Advanced Manufacturing (AM) career opportunities.
Attracting workers currently employed in adjacent sectors who may seek to apply their foundational skills to the dynamic challenges of AM systems; and,
Advancing experienced AM workers through the cross-training necessary for performance management within the AM enterprise.
Career Content Development (CCD) that is industry-compliant;
Training Test-bed Stands (TBS) for hands-on learning;
Employee Skills Delivery (ESD) using the Partner Aligned Training Hub (PATH) model.

ZEN ENERGY DIGITAL TWIN

Digital Twins(DTs) combine real world assets and sensor data with virtual, model-based simulations.
DTs allow performance analysis for actual conditions as well as “what if” scenarios.
Building Energy DTs allow advanced monitoring and optimization techniques to achieve energy savings and reduced greenhouse gas emissions.
With over 7,000 sensor-based signals reporting real-time performance, the ZEN building provides an ideal example case for digital twin deployment.
In cooperation with industry partners, we have created a flexible, Python based, building energy digital twin framework that may be easily deployed for other buildings.
The ZEN DT has the potential to serve as an exemplar for implementation and as an immersive laboratory for education.
The ZEN DT is built upon the Department of Energy’s EnergyPlus simulation, with a model provided by Page architecture and uses Seeq software for data access and analysis.

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Gas Isolation Box trainer and Floor

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TEL Telius Reactive Ion Etcher

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SMC Process Equipment Chiller

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Edwards iXL 1000 pump and Atlas Abatement furnace

AMP TRAINING BAY TEST-BEDS

AMP TRAINING BAY semiconductor process equipment is a wrench-ready test bed for Engineers, Technicians and Operators to learn the many aspects of complex process equipment, and their operation, in a non-cleanroom environment.

Semiconductor process equipment test-beds include a TEL Telius Etcher, an Edwards Pump and an Abatement furnace, SMC equipment Chiller and Swagelok Gas Isolation Box trainer.