Certified Professionals

Mike Chaine works at Micron Technology, Inc., in Boise, Idaho, as a Section Manager in the R&D Reliability Group. He has a B.S.E.E. degree from Arizona State University and has worked at Micron since 1998. Today, he is leading the R&D Reliability Group in the area of ESD/LUP design and development, and has two engineers reporting to him. He is working in the area of On-Chip ESD protection design for all advanced DRAM and FLASH technologies. These responsibilities include ESD wafer and device level characterization analysis, ESD circuit failure analysis, and ESD design and layout rule development.

Mike has authored several papers on a variety of ESD areas ranging from ESD device test issues, ESD protection circuit analysis, and unique ESD circuit interaction phenomena. He holds more than 10 ESD patents and has several patents pending.

Mike chairs two different IC device work groups; Human Body Model (HBM) WG5.1 and Socketed Device Model (SDM) WG5.3.2.

Michael Schumacher received his BSEE in 1986 from California State University Long Beach. He has worked in the USA for NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Southern California Edison, and Purvis Systems. In Europe he has worked for ABB, Elcoteq, and Enics, all in Turgi, Switzerland. Over the years he has held positions in semiconductor research, systems engineering, test engineering, microprocessor technique instruction, technology management, life cycle project management, supply chain management, and ESD coordination. Currently, he is the strategic buyer/supply quality manager for PCBs, and ESD coordinator for Enics Switzerland.

Michael has been active with ESD topics since 1994 and a member of the ESDA since 2010. He received his iNARTE ESD Technician certification in 2012. He is active in many IEEE societies (CPMT, ED and the Reliability Society) and is one of the authors of the IEEE standard on PHM (Prognostics and Health Management). His hobbies include skiing, running and family research.