Mr. Gordon Harling

Gordon Harling received a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Science from the University of Toronto and a Maitrise en Ingenierie Physique from the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal. He has worked in Research and Development at large companies such as Mitel, NovAtel, and DALSA. He has been a founder and CEO of several start-up companies including Goal Semiconductor, Elliptic Technologies, and Innotime Technologies.

Since 2018 he is CEO of CMC Microsystems, a not-for-profit which provides software, fabrication access, and technical services to over 10 000 academic researchers and students in Canada, the USA, and Mexico and to over 30 small and medium enterprises. CMC’s focus is to enable the design and manufacture of hardware for microelectronics, photonics, mechanical sensors (MEMS), quantum devices, and AIoT.

Theme: A Global Supply Chain for Advanced Technologies

CMC Microsystems was established in 1983 to facilitate design and manufacture of devices in advanced technologies, to provide cost-effective support for design software, and cost-shared access to prototyping. Today CMC provides design software from over 20 vendors and fabrication at more than 16 factories world-wide. In Canada these services are subsidized by funding programs such as FABrIC (www.fabricinnovation.ca) but the same cost-effective service is available to customers, both academic and commercial, in 21 countries outside Canada.

Annually, CMC serves over 12,000 unique users of CAD software and creates over 400 unique prototypes in microelectronics down to 12nm, complex silicon photonics processes, and a unique offering in superconducting devices. CMC also provides supply chain support for customers requiring higher volumes, including packaging and test, and can create research networks with its partner organizations and universities.

Key Technologies Covered

• Microelectronics
• Silicon Photonics
• MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS)
• Superconductors
• Quantum Technologies
• Cloud-based computer-aided design (CAD) tools and Process Design Kits (PDKs)
• Multi-Project Wafers (MPW)