Banghyun Sung of SK hynix has joined the Si2 Board of Directors. Banghyun is a Distinguished Engineer in SK Hynix where he is responsible for various technical tasks to further develop the design automation environment for SK hynix’s HBM, DRAM, NAND and CIS products. He majored in VLSI/CAD and joined SK hynix in 2007 as a Computer Aided Engineering group. He mainly developed in-house tools for verification of full-custom designs such as Static/Dynamic ERC, Cross-talk analysis, and Aging simulation tools. He also developed various design automation environments such as Design modeling, Design Optimization, and PKG analysis. Before that, he was in charge of Circuit simulators including FineSim and IR-drop simulation environments in SK hynix. In order to introduce the Open-Access API to SK hynix, he promoted the Si2 membership in 2011 and developed various design automation tools using the Open-Access API. In addition, since 2020, he has been working as the SK hynix representative for the Open-Access Coalition and is in charge of disseminating information on various W/Gs under Si2 within SK Hynix.
