SiTime, Silicon MEMS Oscillators and Clock Generators

Chenming Hu received the B.S. degree from Taiwan University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1970 and 1973  respectively, all in electrical engineering.   Dr. Hu is the TSMC Distinguished Chair Professor of Microelectronics in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley.  He was an assistant professor at MIT before joining UC Berkeley in 1976.  From 2001 to 2004, he was the Chief Technology Officer of TSMC, world's largest dedicated integrated circuits manufacturing company.  He founded Celestry Design Technologies, an IC design software company that was acquired by Cadence Design Systems in 2003.  He was the board chairman of the non-profit East Bay Chinese School, Oakland, CA.  In 1997, Dr. Hu received the IEEE Jack A. Morton Award for contributions to MOSFET reliability physics.  In 1999, he received the DARPA Most Significant Technological Accomplishment Award for the FinFET that has set the record of the smallest transistor several times down to 5nm gate length.  In 2002, he received the IEEE Solid State Circuits Award for the BSIM transistor model.  He has also received UC Berkeley's highest honor for teaching, the Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award.  Dr. Hu is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and Academia Sinica; a fellow of the IEEE and the Institute of  Physics; and an Honorary Professor of the Chinese Academy of Science Microelectronics Institute, and National Chiao Tung University.  Professor Hu is the author or co-author of five books and 800 research papers.