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edfas.org 33 ELECTRONIC DEV ICE FA I LURE ANALYSIS | VOLUME 23 NO . 2 EDFAS USER GROUPS 2021 EDFAS USER GROUP SERIES 2021 HIGHLIGHTS Tejinder Gandhi,* Anita Madan,** and Ted Kolasa,*** EDFA User Group Co-Chairs *Maxim Integrated, San Jose, Calif. — tejinder.gandhi@maximintegrated.com **Independent Consultant — amadan16@gmail.com ***Northrop Grumman Space Systems, Chandler, Ariz. — ted.kolasa@gmail.com F our User Group sessions were planned for the 2021 EDFAS Virtual User Groups Workshop held the week of January 25. The FIB, Sample Prep, Contactless Probing and Nanoprobing, and System on Package User Group sessions were held consecutively from Monday through Thursday starting at 11:30 a.m. EST. Each two- hour session had excellent attendance of more than 140 participants, rivaling previous in person User Group events. Participants included analysts from Intel, AMD, GlobalFoundries, Maxim Integrated, Marvell, Thermo Fisher, Brucker, EAG, Northrop Grumman, NXP, ON Semiconductor, Infineon, and Jiaco Instruments, among others. The focus of the user groups was to promote audience participation, interactions among the attendees, networking, and provide a lasting way to communicate critical issues even after the workshop. The moderators, invited speakers, and attendees adapted to the virtual discussion setting very well. Feedback from attendees was very positive about the content, format, and level of participation. Following are summaries of the four EDFAS Virtual User Groups. Additional questions, ans- wers, and comments as well as recordings of each sessionmay be found on ASM connect at https://connect. asminternational.org/electronicdevicefailureanalysis society/home. The User Groups were held in January and featured a new virtual format this year. FOCUSED ION BEAM (FIB) VIRTUAL USER GROUP Moderators: Steven Herschbein, Michael Wong, and Valerie Brogden steven.herschbein@gmail.com , mike.wong@thermofisher.com, vbrogden@uoregon.edu The virtual FIB User Groupmeeting was the first of the four two-hour sessions, andwas held onMonday, January 25. Attendance at its peak was around 128. The format was a modified carryover from prior years, adjusted for an interactive web platform meeting. We began with a reintroduction to the EDFAS Online Communities and