Solid-State Circuits / Circuit
and System Joint Chapter
IEEE Central Texas Section
Spring Planning Meeting
January 26, 2013
San Marcos, TX
Chapter Leadership Team
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Chair: Zhuo Li (IBM, zhuoli@ieee.org)
Vice Chair: Nan Sun (UT Austin,
nansun@mail.utexas.edu)
Treasurer: Mikel Ash (TI, mikel.ash@ti.com)
Secretary: Seth Wilk (SJT Micropower,
swilk@sjtmicropower.com)
Advisor
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Matt Felder (matt_felder@yahoo.com)
IEEE Central Texas Section
Chapter Updates
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Meeting location: UT Campus ENS 306 or ACES
2.402.
Fifteen technical seminars in 2012.
One workshop (> 40% surplus, more than $2000).
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Data Parallelism for Multi-Core Chips and GPU
All day workshop held on 10/27/2012 and seven speakers
from IBM, AMD, Altera, ARM, Texas A&M, UT Austin. 74
number of attendees from industry and academia
The workshop story will be published in SSCS Magazine
Dr. Seth Wilk joined as Secretary, Mikel Ash
transitioned to Treasurer role
IEEE Central Texas Section
2012 Chapter Meetings
Date
Technical/Adm
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Topic
Speaker
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01/17/12
Technical
Integrated Systems for a Smarter Planet
Dr. Peter Hoftsee (IBM)
15
02/07/12
Technical
Ultra Low Power Electronics in the Next Decade
Ajith Amerasekera (TI)
44
03/27/12
Technical
Annual Review of ISSCC Processor and
Memory
Matt Felder, Josh Friedrich,
Dr. Ramin K. Poorfard and
Dr. Betty Prince
23
04/03/12
Technical
Annual Review of ISSCC Analog and RF
Matt Felder, Josh Friedrich,
Dr. Ramin K. Poorfard and
Dr. Betty Prince
29
05/29/12
Technical
What is ESD? Why is it important for Electrical
Engineers?
Ajay Kuma (TI)
13
06/26/12
Technical
SSCS Inaugural Webinar Event - "Dark Secrets
of RF Design"
Dr. Tom Lee (Stanford)
20
07/06/12
Technical
Bridging Design and Manufacture of
Analog/Mixed-Signal Circuits in Advanced
CMOS
Dr. Alvin Loke (AMD)
12
07/10/12
Technical
Memory and Memory Related Technology
Trends at the June 2012 VLSI Symposium
Dr. Betty Prince (Memory
Strategies International)
20
08/10/12
Technical
IEEE CASS Distinguished Lecture: Ultra Low
Power Analog Integrated Circuits for Implantable
Medical Devices
Dr. Fernando Silveira
(Universidad de la
República)
22
08/30/12
Technical
IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecture: Energy
Limits in Current A/D Converter Architectures
Dr. Boris Murmann
(Stanford)
45
IEEE Central Texas Section
2012 Chapter Meetings
Date
Technical/Adm
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Topic
Speaker
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10/03/12
Technical
IEEE CTS CAS/SSC/CEDA Joint Meeting with
UT ECE Department: Opportunities and
Challenges for High Performance
Microprocessor Designs and Design Automation
Ruchir Puri (Fellow, IBM
Watson Research Center)
61
10/11/12
Technical
IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecture: VCO-based
Quantizers: Has Their Time Arrived?
IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecture: A Low Noise
Temperature-to-Digital Converter for a High
Stability MEMS-Based Oscillator
Prof. Michael H. Perrott
(Masdar Institute in Abu
Dhabi)
38
10/24/12
Technical
IEEE CTS CTCN/CAS/SSC/CEDA/WIE/LM
Joint Meeting: "Legendary Engineering Success
Stories"
Gary Daniels (GIT Satellite
Communications)
144
10/27/12
Workshop
IEEE CTS CAS/SSC/CEDA Workshop– “Data
Parallelism for multi-core chips and GPU"
11/19/12
Technical
IEEE CTS I&M/CAS/SSC Joint Meeting -- "RF
Measurement Systems for Demanding RF
Applications of Today and Tomorrow"
Jaffar Shah, National
Instruments
17
12/13/12
Technical
IEEE CTS CEDA/CAS/SSC Joint Meeting –
“Placement for Next Decade”
Chuck Alpert, IBM
20
IEEE Central Texas Section
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SWOT Analysis
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Strengths
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Good technical talks, DL program.
Stable attendance rate.
So far one workshop per year in last three years and one
planned for this year.
Good leadership pipeline.
Stable funding resource from CAS and SSC Society.
Extra subsidy funding from CAS and SSC for workshop or
extra events to promote memberships.
Weaknesses
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Find more good technical talks and workshop topics.
Increase attendance rate.
IEEE Central Texas Section
SWOT Analysis
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Opportunities
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Local chip design and EDA companies
University of Texas, Austin
Threats
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Seminars inside companies and Universities
A less interesting workshop may get cancelled or need more
funding.
IEEE Central Texas Section
Chapter Plans / Issues
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Continue ISSCC annual review.
Invite Distinguished Lecture Program speakers.
Four Technical seminars on the Calendar so far and
two are pending.
March 8 Workshop: IEEE CTS CAS/SSC Workshop:
Texas Workshop on Integrated System Exploration
(TexasWISE)
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http://texaswise.tamu.edu
Speakers from Stanford, MIT, Rice, and UT Dallas
Free registration and food. Cap at 150 people.
Please take one CFP and Call-for-poster flyer (for students)
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QUESTIONS???
Thanks
IEEE Central Texas Section