A working group on thermo-mechanical simulation was initiated in the first year of COMPETE (1998), with a simple work programme. But it quickly turned out that no large-scale transnational research programme existed in this domain, because of its very emerging and fragmented nature. Many academic organisations were involved in various research activities, which remain poorly coordinated at the European or national levels.
The need for exchanging on local programmes, for commenting on directions to be taken was strong enough so that a small European conference was organised by COMPETE under the impulsion of Philips in spring 2000. The success was immediately there, with 125 participants from 15 countries, including countries from the Far East. After 2 other sessions in Paris, France, in 2001 and 2002, the conference has now reached maturity and is recognised as the main, if not the unique event of this specialised field.
The last edition brought together 100 specialists with a strong participation from USA and Far East countries, addressing many topics, from pure research to practical current problems (e.g. reliability of lead-free solders), through 60 papers of high quality. The conference has a dedicated web site at: http://www.eurosime.com
-The conference is organised by the following organisations:
- MTA (FR), Philips CFT Eindhoven (NL), Philips Semiconductors Nijmegen (NL)
- Siemens Berlin (DE)
- University of Hull (GB),University of Delft (NL)
- National Microelectronics Research Centre (GB)
- University of Barcelona (ES),TNO (NL), IVF (SE)
- IMEC (BE)
- University of Wroclaw (PL)