Ehrenfried Seebacher received the M.Sc. degree in physics at Graz University of Technology, Austria, in 1993. From 1994 to 1998 he worked in the R&D department of austriamicrosystems, on compact modeling of CMOS, BiCMOS, and HV CMOS processes. Since 1999 he is the Section Manager of a group responsible for compact modeling, process characterization, physical verification, and DFM. His scientific interests are compact modeling of MOS, bipolar transistors and passive elements mixed-mode circuits and specialized electro-optical system-onchip solutions. He now is a senior manager of the EDA department at ams AG, Austria, and a project leader of technology and PDK development projects. He authored or coauthored more than 30 papers.