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Circuit Regions In Circuit Boards - high impulse currents ...
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SCV-ComSoc+NATEA - 3/12 | Panel: Next-Generation Wireless
Broadband - panelists from Treyspan, Wichorus, Atheros ...
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SCV-Ed - 3/12 | Introduction to BlackBoard CE6: A Web-Based
Learning Management System for Higher Education ...
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algorithms, scattering parameter, memory effects ...
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Control Industry - vulnerabilities, actual cyber events ...
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SCV-CAS - 3/17 | Using Thermal Analysis as a Tool to Aid Analog
Floorplanning - effects on circuit performance, speed ...
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SCV Microwave Theory and Techniques Chapter
WiMAX Opportunities, Tech Challenges, Design Concepts
Saturday, April 19, 2008
8 AM - 4 PM (includes breakfast, lunch)
SLAC Auditorium, Stanford
Mobile Broadband Internet is a transport system as
important as waterways, railroads and interstate highways.
Affordable broadband for all citizens is essential to a
knowledge based economy and society. WiMAX has the
potential to transform worldwide mobile & broadband
markets. Engineers must understand the complexities
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while optimizing WiMAX solutions in a final, portable and
energy-efficient form that can coexist with other wireless
access services on the same portable device.
This Short Course gives an overview of WiMAX
technology, industry trends, the business case, optimization
for end users, GaN technology, and an overview of
WiMAX testing.
Introduction Dr. Mohamed Sayed, Chair, IEEE MTT-SCV
WiMAX Technology and Infrastructure Overview
Dr. Siavash Alamouti, Fellow and CTO, Mobility Intel
WiMAX Industry Trends
Dr. Mo Shakouri, VP Marketing, WiMAX Forum, & Vice
President, Alvarion
WiMAX Business Case
Doug Gray, Consultant
Panel Discussion: WiMAX in 2013
Lunch
GaN Technology for Both Fixed and Mobile WiMAX
Dr. Raymond Pengelly, Cree
WiMAX Optimization for End Users
Tom Tofigh, AT&T
WiMAX Wave 2 Testing
David Huynh, Application Engineer, Agilent
Wrap up, raffle and giveaways
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Learning language constructs in a progressively more complex
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March 2008
April 2: Device & Interconnect Reliability in
Advanced CMOS
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Santa Clara University School of Engineering Graduate Programs
SCU Information Sessions
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SCU's School of Engineering offers masters and
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SCV and SF Industry Applications Chapters
NEC 2005 Code Changes, Seismic Requirements, Selective Coordination
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
8:00 AM - 4:40 PM (with breakfast, lunch)
Marriott Hotel, Pleasanton
Free BART shuttle
There are big changes to the 2005 NEC Code.
Emergency and Legally Required Standby power
systems, as well as the essential electrical system in
health care facilities, must now selectively coordinate.
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March 2008
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- 2008 Seismic Code Changes for Electrical Equipment
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- 2005 Code Changes Update (selected changes for
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- The Other side of Selective Coordination (balancing
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VLSI and ASIC Design, Introduction
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Dr. Robert Gray received his B.S.& M.S. degrees
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professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering
at Stanford.
He served for some years as Director of the
Information Systems Laboratory at Stanford, and
since June 1993 he has been Vice Chair of the
Department. of Electrical Engineering. He served
terms as EIC and an Associate Editor for IEEE’s
Transactions on Information Theory. He was
awarded both the IEEE Centennial Medal (1984) and
the IEEE Third Millenium Medal.
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The Intellectual Property Symposium brings together
a unique combination of thought leaders in electronic
systems, software, and semiconductors across the
engineering, business and legal professions. This
event is co-chaired by Rick Merritt, Editor-at-Large of
EE Times and Mike McLean, Vice-President of
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our Advisory Board that includes senior executives
from ARM, Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard,
Microsoft and TSMC, they have created an in-depth
program that will resonate with those in the
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The conference is open to anyone who wants to
understand what is going on in the rapidly changing
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electronics industry. The program has sessions
geared towards:
• Senior Engineers and Engineering Managers
• Line of Business Managers
• Legal Professionals
Sessions:
● The Evolution of the IP Marketplace ● Surveying the
Patent Landscape ● Practical Implications of Recent Court
Decisions ● Silicon Subsystems: How to Develop SoCs
Faster and With Lower Risk ● How To Read Your
Competitors' Patents ● IP Rights You Really Need to
Understand ● Key Ingredients of an Effective Patent
Application ● Pitfalls of Patents ● IP Risks in Open
Source Software ● Managing 3rd Party IP in Software
Development Life Cycle ● Building an Effective Patent
Defense Strategy
● Finding Evidence of Patent
Infringement ● Enhance Your Firm's Value Through IP
Communication ● Managing IP Portfolios in Mergers and
Acquisitions ● China Panel ● Silicon IP Panel &
Discussion … and more!
March 2008
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Plenary panel discussions on topics including:
• Issues in silicon IP with top technologists from
Intel and Texas Instruments
• IP practices in China from companies with handson experience including TSMC, UTS Starcom
• Open source software with executives from
Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, MontaVista
Keynote addresses on the state of intellectual
property in electronics, from:
• Peter Detkin, co-founder of Intellectual Ventures
and former head of IP at Intel
• Mike Meurer, a noted author on the problems of
the patent system and Professor of Law, Boston
University School of Law
• Jon Dudas, Director of the US Patent and
Trademark Office
The Intellectual Property Symposium is co-located
with the Embedded Systems Conference and the
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McEnery Convention Center
San Jose
CONFERENCE: APRIL 14-18
EXPO: APRIL 15–17
ESC Silicon Valley delivers a comprehensive
technical program focusing on 15+ critical topics that
affect your designs. One day at ESC can change
how you design for a year! Over 200 sessions!
Topics include:
● Architectures and Low Power ● Analog Design/Data
Conversion ● Digital Signal Processing & Multimedia
● Hardware Design ● Linux and Open Source Software
● Multi-Core
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● Project
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ESC 90-Minute Sessions
Learn engineering solutions that you can apply to your real
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Full-Day Tutorials
In addition to standard sessions, the ESC program offers a
series of full-day tutorials in which attendees have the
opportunity to become completely immersed in a particular
subject.
New this year!
Build Your Own Embedded System
Every paid conference attendee will receive a fully loaded
development kit that they will use to create their own
unique embedded system.
MSP430 Day
Free training with Texas Instruments and Arrow on the
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demonstrations and receive a FREE eZ430-RF-2500
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Career Fair
Check out who is hiring embedded engineers! Talk with
companies like Renasas, General Dynamics, Cisco, NVidia
and Broadcom about their employment opportunities. Open
to all registered ESC attendees.
Free Solar Powered Backpack
All registered conference attendees receive a free solar
powered backpack that can charge mobile devices!
March 2008
LEARN TODAY, DESIGN TOMORROW
Keynote & Industry Addresses
2008 marks the 20th anniversary of ESC Silicon Valley.
To celebrate this momentous occasion, we’re planning a
multimedia extravaganza Keynote Address. We’ve invited
a host of industry experts/authorities/inventors/creators, as
well as some of the faces you’ve come to know and love
over the past 20 years of ESCs. That’s in addition to the
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back and ahead in time throughout the presentation, which
will be hosted by embedded industry luminary, Jack
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Comprehensive Technology Exhibition
With over 350 leading vendors, only ESC has the size and
scope to offer you answers to your questions, a look at new
product applications, and the technical information you
need. Zero in on technologies in special areas of the show
floor. You may request a free exhibits pass.
Product Teardowns
We will tear apart and look at the electronics in a
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pushing the boundaries of system design.
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See us at Booth 3047!
The Consultants’ Network of
Silicon Valley (CNSV) will be joining
IEEE Media at the IEEE Spectrum
booth at the Embedded Systems
Conference (see previous page).
CNSV will set up our newly
developed web search engine and
walk any potential client through a search.
It
searches by key words, i.e consultant names or
technical fields/terms. For example, a search on
“embedded” brings up about one third of our group.
Please tell your HR people that IEEE CNSV will
be at ESC 2008. For HR, we are a resource in a
search to hire consultants for specific tasks. All who
are or hope to become a consultant, come to the
booth and talk with us. We will have CNSV people at
the booth at all times during the show.
Please stop by whether you want a consultant, are
interested in publications or --- you don’t need a
reason to visit – just come and say hello.
IEEE-CNSV
is
organized
under the auspices of the
Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers, the
world's
largest
technical
professional society.
The
Institute's US Activities Board,
with its focus on issues
surrounding
the
career
engineer, began the groundwork for the Network in 1991.
Since then, it has grown into a nation-wide representation
named the Alliance of IEEE Consultants' Networks (AICN),
of which our Consultants' Network of Silicon Valley is part.
The IEEE Consultants' Network of Silicon Valley is a
Prime Source of Engineering Talent in the Valley and helps
companies and brokers meet qualified consultants with
technical credentials. Our goals include promoting innovation and job growth and adherence to the IEEE values.
Our mission:
• Attract the best engineering consultants in Silicon Valley
• Present Network members effectively to clients
• Serve as a platform for networking
• Accomplish all of above synergistically
Visit our website: www.CaliforniaConsultants.org
33rd IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference
Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel, San Diego
May 11–16, 2008
The Photovoltaic Specialists Conference presents
groundbreaking research papers on all aspects of
PV-relevant materials, devices, systems and
applications. We once again have a very strong
Technical Program that will encompass seven
programmatic areas covering topics from novel
materials and devices, thin-film cells made from CIGS
and CdTe and emerging semiconductors, crystalline
and amorphous silicon, III-V cells, concentrator
devices and systems, and module and system
experience including reliability studies.
Sessions: (partial listing)
● Space Photovoltaic Devices ● Materials and Theory
● TCOs and Contacts ● Inorganic Nanostructures
● III-V Cells and Characterization ● Silicon Solar
Cells ● CPV Technology ● Concentrator Technology
● CdTe and CIGS Deposition ● Contacts and Novel
Concepts ● Innovations in PV ● Modules and
Manufacturing ● Optical Enhancement in Amorphous
and Thin Film Si ● Standards and Codes ● PV
Modules ● Devices and Defects
Tutorials:
● Nanostructures in Photovoltaics ● Silicon Solar
Cell Technology ● Polycrystalline Thin Film Solar
Cells ● High-Concentration Photovoltaics: Cells,
Optics, and Systems ● Productive Buildings - the
integration of architecture and solar electric systems
● Materials, Defects, and Characterization Methods
for Photovoltaics
Earlybird discount through April 11th.
More information and registration:
www.33pvsc.org
For more information on booths and sponsorships,
contact Jamie Price, jamie@spltrak.com
Exhibits: visit GT Solar, EMCORE, Spectrolab, Trina Solar,
SunPower, HelioVolt, Despatch, Motech, SDG&E and many
others
March 2008
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IEEE TWENTY–FOURTH ANNUAL
Semiconductor Thermal Measurement, Modeling
and Management Symposium and Exposition
March 16-20, 2008 Fairmont Hotel San Jose
The twenty-fourth annual SEMI-THERM Symposium SESSIONS
is an international forum dedicated to the thermal
● Two Phase Cooling ● Air Cooling ● Die-Level
design and characterization of electronic components
Cooling ● Package Level Cooling ● System Level
and systems. The symposium fosters the exchange of
Cooling ● Liquid Cooling ● Data Center Cooling ●
Test Methods ● plus poster session
knowledge between practitioners and leading experts
from industry and academia from around the world.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
“Computer Architecture Implications of
SHORT COURSES:
Multi-Core Processors”
Unlearning the Myths of Cooling Electronics
Mike Vildibill, Sun Microsystems
– Tony Kordyban
Ultrahigh-Thermal-Conductivity Packaging Materials
EXHIBITS AND VENDOR WORKSHOPS
-- Dr. Carl Zweben
Afternoons, Tuesday and Wednesday, March 18, 19
Complimentary Exhibits Admission and Wednesday reception
Thermal Characterization of Electronic Packages
– Bruce Guenin, Sun Microsystems
Register On-line:
Integrated Design Approach for Thermal and EMI
– Mark Heerema, HP, and Herman Chu, Cisco
www.semi-therm.org
Embedded Tutorial: “Thermal Interface Materials”
This year’s embedded tutorial features an in-depth
look at thermal interface material, presented by Dr
Ravi Prasher of Intel and Arizona State University.
IEEE Professional Skills Courses
Influential Communication
–
–
Date/Time: Tues. March 4, 8:30AM – 4:30PM
Location: – Carl Zeiss Meditec, Dublin
Fee: $400 for IEEE Members; $500 non-members
Breakthrough Project Management
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–
Date/Time: Wed/Th March 5-6, 8:30AM – 4:30PM
Location: – VeriSign, Mountain View
Fee: $625 for IEEE Members; $700 non-members
Management Essentials
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–
Date/Time: Wed/Th March 5-6, 8:30AM – 4:30PM
Location: – TIBCO Software, Palo Alto
Fee: $625 for IEEE Members; $700 non-members
Influential Communication
–
–
Date/Time: Tues, March 11, 8:30AM – 4:30PM
Location: – TIBCO Software, Palo Alto
Fee: $400 for IEEE Members; $500 non-members
Improve your skills – register for one of these classes, or for
others coming up this spring. Bring a team!
March 2008
For further information about exhibiting:
C/S Communications, Inc.
480-839-8988
cscomm@earthlink.net
SCV Chapters, Engineering Management & Components,
Packaging and Manufacturing Technology Societies
Preparing Technical Content for
Presentations
–
–
Date/Time: Thurs, March 20, 8:30AM – 4:30PM
Location: – LSI Corporation, Milpitas
Fee: $400 for IEEE Members; $500 non-members
Transitioning from Individual
Contributor to Manager
–
–
Date/Time: Thurs, April 10, 8:30AM – 4:30PM
Location: – LSI Logic, Milpitas
Fee: $400 for IEEE Members; $500 non-members
Breakthrough Project Management
–
–
Date/Time: Th/Fri, April 17-18, 8:30AM – 4:30PM
Location: – TIBCO Software, Palo Alto
Fee: $625 for IEEE Members; $700 non-members
For complete course information, schedule, and
registration form, see our website:
www.EffectiveTraining.com
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Call for Participation
ISQED 2008, 9th International Symposium on
QUALITY ELECTRONIC DESIGN
March 17-19, 2008. San Jose, CA, USA
www.isqed.org
The International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED) is a leading Electronic Design & Design Automation conference, aimed at
bridging the gap among electronic design tools and processes, integrated circuit technologies, processes & manufacturing, to achieve
design quality. ISQED is the pioneer and leading international conference dealing with design for manufacturability and quality issues frontto-back. ISQED emphasizes a holistic approach toward electronic design and intends to highlight and accelerate cooperation among the IC
Design, EDA, Semiconductor Process Technology and Manufacturing communities. ISQED spans three days, Monday through Wednesday, in
three parallel tracks, hosting over 150 technical presentations, six keynote speakers, panel discussions, workshops/tutorials and other
informal meetings.
CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS
TUTORIALS/WORKSHOPS
ISQED2008 is pleased to offer a single full-day tutorial track, as well as three embedded tutorials. These tutorials explore critical areas in electronic design and
are presented by several experts in their respective fields. List of topics covered is as follows:
Advanced Technology & Design Solutions in Design for Manufacturing Era
The promise of high-k/metal gates – From electronic transport
phenomena to emerging device/circuit applications
K. Maitra, AMD
Low Voltage Circuit Design Techniques for Sub-32nm Technologies
Chris Kim, University of Minnesota
Robust System Design in Scaled CMOS
Subhasis Mitra, Stanford University
Mil/Aero/Vehicle High Reliability Design - Issues/challenges/solutions
(Embedded Tutorial), Chris Nicklaw, L3 Communications
Modifications and Tradeoffs in the Creation and Characterization of
High Reliability IP (Embedded Tutorial), Jens C. Michelsen, Nangate
Caches in the Many-Core Era: What Purpose Might eDRAM Serve?
Hillary Hunter, IBM
Enhancing Yield through Design for Manufacturability (DFM)
Praveen Elakkumanan, IBM
Managing early design feasibility issues through system physical
prototyping (Embedded Tutorial)
Matthew Raggett, Javelin Design Automation
How to Determine Best DFM Practices (Embedded Tutorial)
Tom Jackson, Cadence, Milind Weling, Cadence
PANEL DISCUSSIONS
ISQED is pleased to offer three high-power panel discussion sessions, where many
leading experts, highlight and address the important issue surrounding the electronic design and quality. These panels focus on the following topics:
KEYNOTES
Plenary sessions will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings. Several industry leaders will discuss the issues surrounding electronic design, design for yield 1. DFM: Is it Helping or Hurting?
and manufacturability and other critical topics from various point of views. PreModerator: Ron Wilson - EDN
liminary list of keynote speakers includes:
2. ESL 2.0- Is Anybody Using It 2.0?
Rich Goldman, Vice-President, Strategic Alliances, Synopsys
Moderator: John Blyler - Chip Desgin Magazine
Drew Gude, Director, Microsoft
3. Statistical Design - Solutions Searching for Problems?
Robert Hum, Vice President & General Manager, Mentor Graphics
Moderator: Michael Santarini, EDN
Sanjiv Taneja, Vice President & General Manager, Cadence Design Systems
Chandu Visweswariah, Research Staff Member, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center VENDOR EXHIBITION
ISQED08 Exhibition floor will be open on Tuesday afternoon, March 18, and
features vendors offering design tools, methodologies, and services in the
LUNCHEON KEYNOTE
areas of design for manufacturing, yield, reliability, and quality. Exhibition inEDA Is Truly Where Electronics Quality Begins!
cludes embedded tutorials, panel discussions, and over 50 technical presenAntun Domic, GM and VP, Synopsys
tations. Exhibition floor attendance is free but needs advance on-line registration.
TECHNICAL SESSIONS
ISQED Technical sessions start on Tuesday March 18, and continue until the afternoon of Wednesday, March 19. Beside the above plenary sessions, panel discussions,
and workshops, the program consists of twenty technical sessions featuring over 150 papers on various challenging topics related to design for manufacturability
and quality. A partial list of topics is shown below. Detail program would be available on the web at www.isqed.org.
™ EDA Methodologies, Tools, Flows & IP Cores; Interoperability
and Reuse (EDA)
™ Design for Manufacturability & Quality (DFMQ)
™ Design Verification and Design for Testability (DVFT)
™ Package - IC Design Interactions & Co-Design (PDI)
™ Design of Reliable Circuits and Systems (DFR)
™ Power-conscious Devices, Interconnects, and Circuits (PCC)
™ Physical Design, Methodologies & Tools (PDM)
™ Emerging/Innovative Process & Device Technologies and Design
Issues (EDT)
™ System Level Design, Methodologies and Tools (SDM)
REGISTRATION
Please refer to ISQED web site at www.isqed.org for information regarding the tutorials, conference, and hotel registration. Direct all conference inquiries to
isqed@isqed.org. Early registration is recommended to take advantage of the discounted registration fee.
ISQED08 corporate sponsors are Synopsys, Microsoft, Cadence, Magma, Mentor Graphics, Ponte, and Silicon Valley Technical Institute. Media Sponsors are Chip Design Magazine, and EDACafe
SF Power Engineering
MONDAY March 3
Holistic Transmission and
Resource Planning
Speaker: Stephen T. Lee, senior technical executive,
Electric Power Research Institute
Time:
Noon
Cost:
none for IEEE members, $5 for nonmembers (includes lunch)
Place:
CPUC Building, Courtyard Training Room,
505 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco
RSVP:
required by Feb. 29th, by phone or email to
Chuck Magee, pesnews@yahoo.com, 415703-4683 (for lunch count)
Web:
www.e-grid.net/docs/0803-sf-pes.pdf
Stephen T. Lee is senior technical executive,
power delivery and utilization, at the Electric Power
Research Institute, Palo Alto. He recently authored
an article in the October/November edition of the
IEEE Power and Energy Magazine titled, “For the
Good of the Whole” on the subject of holistic
transmission and resource planning. Dr. Lee has
over 40 years of electric power industry experience.
He received his B.S., M.S., E.E. and Ph.D. from
M.I.T. in electrical engineering, majoring in power
system engineering, in 1969, 1970, 1971, and 1972,
respectively. He worked for Stone &
Webster Engineering Corporation in
Boston,
Massachusetts;
Systems
Control Inc. in California; and was vice
president of consulting for Energy
Management Associates.
Before
joining EPRI in 1998, Dr. Lee was an
independent consultant in utility
planning and operation. At EPRI, he
manages technical research programs
for power system planning and
operations.
Holistic planning is a new concept that recognizes
the reality of today's fragmented organizational
structures of the power industry and is a philosophy
and methodology that attempts to reap the benefits of
optimal resource allocation without reverting to a fully
integrated and highly regulated environment. Two
aspects of holistic planning will be discussed:
transmission planning and resource planning.
Transmission planning has become a difficult
challenge. With so many uncertainties affecting it
and so many players involved, a new technical
approach is needed to design a future power grid that
is robust and that can handle all reasonable ways in
which it will be used. Transmission planning cannot
be done holistically without considering resource
planning, demand options, and global climate
concerns. Where new generation resources will be
built will greatly affect transmission planning. To
handle holistic resource planning, we will discuss the
idea of using a CO2 charge and a public benefit fund
(PBF) to facilitate the market's optimal adoption of
different alternatives, implementing the concept of
Unity in Diversity as a way to steer individual's
choices into decisions that also benefit society as a
whole.
Dr. Lee will also demonstrate the EPRI CAR
(Community Activity Room) computer program which
is used for grid operations and
planning.
The
program
graphically plots the many
constraints on the system
enabling an operator or planner
to visually determine if he/she is
safely operating within the
limitations of the system at any
given time or planning correctly.
EPRI Car Program
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SCV Lasers and Electro Optics
TUESDAY March 4
CW Visible Lasers Based on
Telecom Technology
Speaker: Len Marabella, PhD, Director of Product
Marketing, JDS Uniphase
Time:
Networking and pizza at 6:00 PM,
Presentation at 6:45 PM
Cost:
none
Place: National Semiconductor Building E
Auditorium, 2900 Semiconductor Drive,
Santa Clara
RSVP: by email to ieeescvleosrsvp2007@yahoo.com (for pizza count)
Web:
ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/leos/
In "standard" diode pumped solid state lasers
designs, a large number of optical components like a
pump laser diode, a laser crystal, mirrors, lenses,
wavelength selective elements and a non-linear
crystal have to be mounted to an optical base plate,
which has to be mounted to a relatively large TEC to
guaranty long term stability and proper operation.
Combining JDSU's industry unique telecom and
optics expertise in single-mode laser diodes,
packaging and fiber coupling of single-mode
structures and optical coatings together with
periodically-poled non-linear crystals enables a new
design for visible CWSS lasers based on JDSU's
Frequency Converted Diode (FCD) technology.
Dr. Leonard Marabella is a Director of Product
Marketing for JDSU, and is responsible for
Q-switched ultraviolet lasers, CW visible lasers, fiber
lasers, and gas lasers. Dr. Marabella received his
Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from Indiana University in
1972. After being a postdoctoral research associate
at MIT for two years, he was an Assistant Professor
of Chemistry at Boston College for a year. He then
worked at Hughes Aircraft from 1974-1981, primarily
focusing on the development of chemical lasers.
From 1981-2002, he worked at TRW, and his work
included development of tunable semiconductor and
ultraviolet lasers, as well as a wide range of R&D
projects on electro optic and photonic devices. Since
2002, he has worked for JDSU, primarily working on
industrial lasers including diode-pumped solid state
and fiber lasers. Dr. Marabella has been a board
member
of
the
Laser
and
Electro-optics
Manufacturers' Association for the last 10 years, and
was a board member of the Laser Institute of America
from 1996-1998. He also was president of the South
Bay Chamber Music Society from 1997-2002.
Patent Agent
Jay Chesavage, PE
MSEE Stanford
3833 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto 94303
info@file-ee-patents.com
www.File-EE-Patents.com
TEL: 650-619-5270 FAX: 650-494-3835
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SF+SCV Industry Applications
WEDNESDAY March 5
Application Conference
for Electrical Specifiers
and Consultants
Speakers: 4 sessions on code requirements,
selective coordination
Time:
8:00 AM - 4:40 PM
Cost:
$250, includes breakfast and lunch
Place:
Marriott Pleasanton, 11950 Dublin Canyon
Rd., Pleasanton
RSVP:
required, by phone or email to Finn
Schenck, finn.schenck@us.schneider
-electric.com, 925-463-7112
Web:
www.e-grid.net/docs/0803-sf-ias.pdf
Topics & Speakers:
Update on California 2005 Code Requirements for
Electrical Equipment
The new California Electrical Code is based on the
2005 NEC. This presentation will review selected
changes adopted for the 2005 code with focus made
on changes related to system protection, equipment
installation and application. You will receive insights
on why the Code Panel adopted these changes and
gain a better understanding of the intent of these
changes.
Speaker: Gary Fox, PE, Specification Engineer for
GE Consumer & Industrial
Gary H. Fox, PE, received his BSEE from California
Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo in 1978.
He has been employed by General Electric Company
for 29 years. In his current assignment he provides
application and technical support for power
distribution/control equipment and lighting. Previous
assignments included experience in field testing and
maintenance of power equipment, project management,
and power system analysis. Mr. Fox is a Senior
Member of the IEEE Industry Applications (IAS) and
IEEE Power Engineering Societies and has been an
active participant since 1989. He has authored several
papers on protective relay application and surge
protection. Officer positions he has held include Chair
for the San Francisco Chapter, IAS; Chair, San
Francisco Section; and Chair, San Francisco Bay Area
Council. He was a recipient of the IEEE Third
Millennium Medal. He has been a licensed Professional
Engineer since 1982.
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Short Circuit Selective Coordination with LV
Circuit Breakers
The 2005 NEC requires emergency and legally
required power systems and the essential electrical
system in health care facilities to be selectively
coordinated, and the requirement has been expanded
to include critical operations power systems in the
2008 NEC. This course will review these new NEC
requirements and will explain how to meet them with
low voltage circuit breakers.
System design
guidelines and challenges meeting the NEC
requirements will be addressed.
Speaker:
Ed Larsen, Manager of Industry
Standards for Circuit Protection with Square D
Company
Mr. Larsen is responsible for managing company
activities relating to product standards for overcurrent
protective devices, including circuit breakers. He holds a
Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering
Technology and a Master of Science degree in
Engineering Management from Milwaukee School of
Engineering. Mr. Larsen has served in various positions
over the past 33 years at Square D. His responsibilities
as an application engineer and marketing manager for
control products involved contactors and starters,
combination motor controllers, overload relays, pilot
devices, relays and timers. As a product planning
manager, product line manager and engineering
manager for low voltage circuit breakers, Mr. Larsen
participated in the development of circuit breakers,
electronic trip units and ground fault relays.
He
possesses an understanding of customer needs such
as series ratings and selective coordination for
overcurrent protection. Mr. Larsen also served as the
director of engineering at Heinemann Electric Company,
where he was responsible for the design of circuit
protection products. As a senior member of the IEEE,
Mr. Larsen authored a chapter in the Blue Book, the
IEEE Recommended Practice for Applying Low Voltage
Circuit Breakers Used in Industrial and Commercial
Power Systems. He has also authored an article on low
voltage circuit breaker short circuit selective
coordination in Electrical Contracting Products
magazine and an article on circuit breaker markings for
IAEI News. He is a member of several CANENA, CSA,
IEEE, NEMA and UL technical committees. Mr. Larsen
is also a member of the IAEI, NFPA and the Standards
Engineering Society.
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2008 Seismic Code Changes for Electrical
Equipment
With the basis of the California Building Code
changing this year from the 1997 UBC to the 2006
International Building Code, the design professional
is faced with landmark changes on how to establish
and verify seismic specification requirements for
electrical and mechanical equipment for critical
facilities. As signaled by the obsolescence of seismic
zones, this shift is revolutionary and introduces
sweeping changes in the basis of seismic design for
critical facilities especially in areas of moderate and
higher seismicity. Presented will be an overview on
the basics, from the design professional’s
perspective, of how to establish site specific project
specification requirements for electrical and
mechanical equipment in a critical facility and also
verify manufacturer’s compliance by the use of a
number of examples.
Speaker: Philip Caldwell, Electrical Engineer for
Square D Company
Since graduating in Electrical Engineering from
Virginia Tech Phil has thirty years of experience in the
commercial nuclear and electrical industry including
design assurance qualification testing to North
American and European standards.
He is the
company’s external representative to all activities and
government agencies in North America that are involved
in earthquake engineering research and code
development including IEEE 693. Phil is a member of
Earthquake Engineering Research Institute and the
Seismological Society of America as well as IEEE and
ASCE.
The Other side of Selective Coordination
Designing the optimal electrical system is now
more challenging than ever.
Balancing the
requirements of arc fault, selective coordination and
series ratings can be confusing and require tradeoffs.
This presentation discusses the characteristics of
molded case circuit breakers as well as power
breakers in light of these tradeoffs to help you
optimize the application of these products.
Speaker: Chris Lovin, District Application Engineer
Mr. Lovin holds a BSEE from the University of Illinois
and is a registered PE in the state of Illinois. With over
20 years at Cutler Hammer (Westinghouse) he has held
positions in sales marketing, operations as well as
engineering.
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SCV Technical Management Council
THURSDAY March 6
Facilitated Networking, plus
'Offshore' Panel Discussion
Panelists: Richard Danielson, President of PlanV
Software; Rakesh Gowda, Director of
Software Development at QuinStreet;
Steve Mezak, CEO of Accelerance; Dmytry
Mykhaylov, software engineer
Time:
Facilitated Networking at 6:30 PM, Dinner
at 7:00 PM, Panel Discussion at 7:45 PM
Cost:
$25 for IEEE members, $30 for nonmembers ($5 extra if not preregistered)
Place:
Ramada, 1217 Wildwood Ave (Fwy 101
frontage road, between Lawrence
Expressway and Great America Parkway),
Sunnyvale
RSVP:
requested, on the website
Web:
www.ieee-scv-ems.org
Chris Sims, Founder of the Technical
Management Institute and TMC chair, will moderate
the panel.
Networking Exercise
From 6:30 - 7:00, Chris Sims will facilitate a
networking and collaboration exercise for our
management club.
At last month's meeting, we answered the question
"What makes an engineering manager great?" We
created a list of the most important skills, traits, and
practices for an engineering manger.
Our list
included:
• Integrity
• Enthusiastic & inspiring
• Listens well
• Communicates clearly
• Have a vision
• Interpersonal skills
• Respects staff input
• Appreciates the service of others
• Team builder
• Know each staff member's strengths and
weaknesses
This month we will begin to answer the allimportant question "How do you actually do these
things?" Participants will collaborate in small teams,
to generate suggestions for putting last month's ideas
into actual practice. The results will be shared with
all in attendance as well as posted online.
March 2008
Today's engineering managers need to be able to
manage projects where some, or even all, of the
engineers are located offshore. While the situation is
becoming more common, the challenges and
opportunities are still not widely understood. We are
bringing together 4 panelists, with diverse
backgrounds and experience, to answer your
questions about managing with offshore engineers.
Richard Danielson is Founder and President of
PlanV Software. He has been a consumer and a
provider of outsourced software development
services since the mid-80s, working with offshore
engineers from India, Russia, Israel, Taiwan, Korea,
and Vietnam. One of Rich's projects was helping
Honeywell set up their Bangalore development
center. In early 2007 Rich founded PlanV Software
which provides Vietnam-based web and mobile
device application development services to small and
young companies.
Rakesh Gowda is the Director of Software
Development at QuinStreet, a provider of online
marketing and media services for nearly 600 clients,
headquartered in Foster City. In 2005, Rakesh
traveled back to his home country of India to set up
QuinStreet's development center in Pune, outside of
Mumbai. He is pleased to report that the Pune team
no longer requires his direct supervision for day-today operations. Rakesh holds a MS in Computer
Science from Stanford and BE from the University of
Mysore in India.
Accelerance CEO Steve Mezak has more than 25
years of software development experience and is a
veteran of six Silicon Valley startups. He has served
in a variety of management and technical roles,
including CTO and CEO.
Steve is also an
internationally acclaimed speaker and author. His
most recent book is Software Without Borders: A
Step-By-Step Guide to Outsourcing Your Software
Development. Steve holds a BS Degree in Computer
Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where
he now serves as an advisor to the Electrical and
Computer Engineering Department.
Dmytry Mykhaylov is a software engineer and
project manager who has been working on
geographically distributed projects for over 6 years.
As a project manager he specializes in helping small
to mid-sized projects in the Bay Area effectively
incorporate offshore engineering talent. Dmytry firmly
believes that an agile approach to project
organization on all sides of a distributed team is key
to a project's success and profitability.
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SCV Signal Processing
MONDAY March 10
Digital Fingerprinting for
Multimedia Forensics
Speaker: Prof. Min Wu, ECE Dept, Institute of
Advanced Computer Studies, University of
Maryland
Time:
Presentation at 7:00 PM
Cost:
none
Place:
National Semiconductor (north end of
Building E), 2900 Semiconductor Drive,
Santa Clara
RSVP:
not required
Web:
ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/sps
Prof. Min Wu received the B.E. degree in
electrical engineering and the B.A. degree in
economics in 1996 from Tsinghua University in
Beijing, China (both with the highest honors), and the
Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Princeton
University in 2001. Since 2001, she has been on the
faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering and the Institute of Advanced Computing
Studies at University of Maryland, College Park,
where she is currently an Associate Professor. Dr.
Wu leads the Media and Security Team (MAST) at
University of Maryland, with main research interests
on information security and forensics and multimedia
signal processing. She has authored or co-authored
two books and about 100 publications in international
journals and conferences, and holds five U.S. patents
on multimedia security and communications. She is
a co-recipient of two Best Paper Awards from the
IEEE Signal Processing Society and EURASIP,
respectively. She also received a U.S. National
Science Foundation CAREER award in 2002, a
TR100 Young Innovator Award from the MIT
Technology Review Magazine in 2004, a U.S. ONR
Young Investigator Award in 2005, and a Computer
World "40 Under 40" IT Innovator Award in 2007.
She is current serving as Area Editor of the IEEE
Signal Processing Magazine for its "Inside Signal
Processing E-Newsletter" and on three IEEE
Technical Committees on image and multimedia
processing and systems.
March 2008
Technology advancement has made multimedia
content widely available and easy to process. These
benefits also make it easy to make unauthorized
duplication, manipulation, and redistribution of
multimedia content, prompting the need of multimedia
forensics research to facilitate evidence gathering in
digital world. Embedded digital fingerprinting is one
of the emerging forensics technologies. A unique ID
that serves as a digital fingerprint to represent a
receiving user is inserted into the content, and the
fingerprinted content is then delivered to the user.
When some copies are leaked or misused, the
authority will be able to use these embedded
fingerprints to trace back to the culprits.
For
multimedia data, digital fingerprints can be put into
the content using conventional robust embedding
techniques, which are typically concerned with
surviving attacks mounted by an individual.
Advances in communications and networking have
made it easy for adversaries to work together to
generate a new version based on their individual
copies. These so-called collusion attacks provide
adversaries with a cost-effective way to remove the
fingerprints and circumvent the traitor-tracing
mechanism.
In this talk, I will present our recent research on
anti-collusion fingerprinting for multimedia data.
Through jointly considering the encoding, embedding,
and detection of fingerprints, our techniques can help
collect digital-domain evidence and pinpoint to the
sources of leak among millions of users. Applications
of such multimedia forensic tools range from military
and government operations to piracy deterrence in
Hollywood and other entertainment industry.
If time permits, I will also give a brief introduction
on non-intrusive forensic analysis that explores
intrinsic traces to complement the embedded
fingerprints in determining the origin and processing
history of digital multimedia data.
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SCV Electromagnetic Compatibility
TUESDAY March 11
Minimizing EMI & Noise:
Coupling Among Circuit Regions
In Circuit Boards
Speaker: W. Michael King, Systems Design Advisor
Time:
Social 5:30 PM, Presentation at 6:30 PM
Cost:
none
Place: Applied Materials Bowers Cafeteria, 3090
Bowers Ave., Santa Clara
RSVP: not required
Web:
www.scvemc.org
W. Michael King is a systems design advisor with
a career spanning over four decades. He has been:
engaged in the definition, design, evaluation,
implementation, management and execution of well
over one thousand projects and systems. He has
held positions that have spanned the range from
Systems Engineer to Director of Systems
Engineering, and Chief Electronics Engineer. He has
served as an advisor to Executive Management
(Government
Agencies
and
Commercial
corporations). His initial period in engineering was in
programs allocated broadly to approximately 400
government communications, surveillance, counterops (ELINT), and military projects (both AD and
Deployment phases).
These projects spanned
“sensitive” applications and technologies across the
frequency range from sub-hertz to tens of gigahertz
with system amplitudes ranging from minus 140 dbm
to energy in megajoules. Many terms used for PC
Board Layout, such as the “3-W Rule”, the “V-plane
Undercut Rule”, and “ground stitching nulls”, were all
originated by Mr. King. He is generally recognized for
his work in Systems Integration, EMC Emission and
Susceptibility Control for all forms of systems, and
occasionally serves as a manager or systems
integrator. He has collaborated on the formations of
many networks and standard practices, including the
study group for 10/100BASEt.
He serves an
international client base as an independent design
advisor.
Mr. King’s published original research changed the
state the art on the subjects of the ESD dynamic
waveform continuum and responses of cardiac
pacemakers to electromagnetic fields. He has
authored contributing feature articles to EDN
Magazine, Design News Magazine, University of
Oxford (England) CPD Newsletter, and Elliott
Laboratories
Compliance
Advisory
Service
Newsletters as well as other publications.
March 2008
Increasingly, circuit boards have a diversity of
circuit “block” regions that are not necessarily
functionally compatible for noise from region to region
in terms of performance margins. High speed “digital
circuit regions” will demand high impulse currents
from power planes that produce EMI and potentially
high “noise” when compared to the sensitivities of
“analog regions.” Some of this coupling can transfer
back and forth due to electromagnetic field currents
transferred across chassis! This presentation will
cover layout topology concepts in not just the X & Y
axes, but the Z-axis as well where coupling “through”
chassis is one consideration of the Z-Axis!
The presentation includes information on the
formation of layout topology concepts, separations of
planes in the Z-Axis, and the role of copper weight to
separate coupling from one circuit board region to
another.
W. Michael King (continued)
Significantly, he is the author of EMCT: High Speed
Design Tutorial (ISBN 0-7381-3340-X), which is the source
of some of the graphics used in his IPC presentation.
EMCT provides over 1,200 screens of instruction and is
available through Elliott Laboratories, co-branded with the
IEEE Standards Information Network.
Services currently provided by Mr. King include: a)
performing as a member or lead of project teams to
conceptualize the packaging, design, layout, integration
and interface schemes of products and systems for
appropriate EMC control; b) performing as a member or
lead of the program development team to conceptualize or
develop the product or system; c) functioning as an advisor
to company/product management in order to establish
appropriate systems integration policies; d) working with
corporate/product management to form organizational
efficiency; and, e) acting as an intermediary to coordinate
efforts among corporations or groups associated in joint
efforts.
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SCV Communications
WEDNESDAY March 12
Panel: Next-Generation
Wireless Broadband
Speakers: Dr. William C.Y. Lee, Treyspan; Rehan
Jalil, Wichorus; Bruce Himebauch, Atheros
Time:
Presentation at 6:00 PM
Cost:
none
Place:
National Semiconductor, Building E,
Conference Room, 2900 Semiconductor
Dr, Santa Clara
RSVP:
by email to Lu Chang, luchang@ieee.org
Web:
www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/comsoc
HSPA and LTE
Dr. William Lee, Chairman, Treyspan, Inc.
Dr. Lee is Chairman of GoAnywhere, Inc.; previously
he was Chairman of LinkAir Communications. From
1985-2000, he was Vice President and Chief Scientist of
Global Technology for Vodafone AirTouch; from 19791985, he was manager of the Advanced Development
Department at ITT Defense Communications Division;
and from 1964 to 1979, he was with Bell Laboratories
where he was a pioneer in mobile radio communications
studies.
Lee served as a member of the California Council on
Science and Technology from 1996-2002. He was
recognized with the Bell Labs Dedicated Service Award,
the ITTDCD Technical Contribution Award and the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
VTS Avant Garde Award. In 1998, he was awarded the
CDMA Industry Achievement award for his technical
achievements; the IEEE Third Millennium Medal Award
for his outstanding achievement and contributions; and
the Stuart Meyer Memorial Award from the IEEE
Vehicular Technology Society. In 2001, he received the
Telecommunication Achievement award from the
Chinese Historical Society of America.
March 2008
WiMAX
Rehan Jalil, CEO of Wichorus
Rehan has over 15 years of technical management
and sales experience in telecommunications,
networking, and multi-core processors.
Prior to
WiChorus, he was the chief architect for Aperto
Networks and played diverse leadership roles in
technology and sales. Aperto was a key contributor
of technology that became part of IEEE802.16 and
was a founding member of the WiMAX Forum. He
developed multiple generations of broadband
wireless silicon, carrier-grade base stations and
terminals, and also brought in multi-million dollar
orders. These systems are used to deploy networks
globally, in over 75 countries, by more than 400
operators. At Sun Microsystems, he helped develop
one of the industry’s earliest advanced multi-core
multithreaded processors for throughput computing
and graphics applications. Part of the technology is
now used in Sun’s 32-threaded Niagara and Rock
processors.
At Siemens, he managed projects
related to system-level design and implementation.
He also contributes to social entrepreneurship
projects and is a charter member of OPEN Silicon
Valley.
He has over 18 patents pending and
graduated with an MSEE from Purdue University.
Wifi 11n
Bruce Himebauch, Director of Solution Product
Engineering, Atheros Communications
Bruce Himebauch is Director of Solution Product
Engineering in the Software Research and
Development Group of Atheros Communications. His
25 years of network industry experience at
companies such as Symbol Technologies and Proxim
Corporation has focused on LAN communications.
Bruce has worked on a variety of communication
technologies
including
Binary
Synchronous
Communications
Protocols,
System
Network
Architecture/Synchronous
Data
Link
Control
protocols, and 802.11x.
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SCV Education
WEDNESDAY March 12
Introduction to BlackBoard CE6:
A Web-Based Learning
Management System
for Higher Education
Speaker: Corey Gin, instructional developer for
eCampus, a unit of International and
Extended Studies at San Jose State
University
Time:
Dinner (no cost) at 6:30 PM, Presentation
at 7:00 PM
Cost:
none
Place:
Silicon Valley Technical Institute, 1762
Technology Drive, Suite 227, San Jose
RSVP:
not required
Web:
www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/es
Corey Gin will provide an overview of how
BlackBoard CE6 is used in a higher education
environment. He will begin by describing the need for
web-based tools/resources to support instruction,
how CE6 serves his institution, and why access is
important for a variety of learners. He will then give
an orientation to the BlackBoard CE6 learning
environment, sharing commonly used tools/
resources, and discuss further how they may relate to
common teaching and learning issues. If time and
access permit, Corey will allow participants to explore
a CE6 course shell.
Corey Gin is the senior lead instructional
developer for eCampus, a unit of International and
Extended Studies at San Jose State University. He is
responsible for leading the department in providing
tools, resources, and support to faculty who are using
technology for learning. As an academic technology
leader for eCampus, Corey seeks to ensure that
students and faculty have access to powerful
e-learning environments.
Currently, eCampus
administers BlackBoard CE6, a learning management
system that includes web-based tools like threaded
discussions, blogs, email, digital drop-boxes,
quizzes/surveys, and content creation.
March 2008
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SCV Microwave Theory and Techniques
THURSDAY March 13
Nonlinear Network Analysis
Speaker: Loren Betts, Agilent Technologies
Time:
Refreshments at 6:00 PM, Presentation at
6:30 PM
Cost:
none
Place:
National Semiconductor, Building 9,
Classroom 4, 2900 Semiconductor Dr,
Santa Clara
RSVP:
not required
Web:
www.mtt-scv.org
Recent advances in VNA HW and measurement
algorithms provide the means to accurately measure
and model the RF and Microwave nonlinear
characteristics of devices. This presentation will
discuss the error correction algorithms used to
accurately measure nonlinear device characteristics,
introduce a new nonlinear measurement scattering
parameter (X-parameter), new measurements of
memory effects in nonlinear devices, and recent
algorithm advancements RF and DC pulse detection.
Loren Betts received a B. Sc. degree in computer
engineering from the University of Alberta, Edmonton,
Alberta, Canada in 1997. He received a M. Sc.
degree in electrical engineering from Stanford in
2003. Currently he is working on his Ph. D. degree in
electrical engineering from The University of Leeds,
Leeds, UK. He is currently a senior engineer at
Agilent
Technologies
focusing
on
complex
stimulus/response measurements and modeling of
nonlinear devices utilizing vector network analyzers.
He originated and co-developed recent developments
in pulse measurement detection algorithms utilized in
current Agilent VNA's. He was also instrumental in
driving the current multiport measurement and control
schemes used in current Agilent VNA's. He has also
authored or coauthored numerous articles in
magazines, trade journals, conferences, and
customer presentations.
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info@ozeninc.com www.ozeninc.com
March 2008
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OEB Communications and Computer
THURSDAY March 13
Cyber Security in the Electric
Power Control Industry
Speaker: Joe Weiss PE, CISM, Applied Control
Solutions, LLC
Time:
Pizza and drinks at 7:00 PM; Presentation
following
Cost:
none
Place: eastern doors, 6101 Bollinger Canyon Road,
San Ramon
RSVP: by email by March 12 to oeb@comsoc.org
(for food order)
Web:
www.comsoc.org/oeb
Joseph Weiss is an industry expert on control
systems and electronic security of control systems,
with more than 30 years of experience in the energy
industry. Mr. Weiss spent more than 14 years at the
Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) where he
led a variety of programs. Mr. Weiss serves as a
member of numerous organizations related to control
system security. These include the North American
Electric
Reliability
Council
(NERC)
Critical
Infrastructure Protection Committee (CIPC), the
International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)
Technical Committee (TC) 57 Working Group 15 Data and Communication Security, the Process
Controls Security Requirements Forum, CIGRÉ Joint
Working Group D2/B3/C2 01- Security for Information
Systems and Intranets in Electric Power Systems,
and other industry working groups.
He also
established and chairs the annual Control System
Cyber Security Workshop and established the
International Standards Coordination Meeting on
Control System Cyber Security. Mr. Weiss has
received numerous industry awards, including EPRI
Presidents Award (2002) and is an ISA Fellow and a
member of the ISA Engineering, Science, and
Technology Policy Committee. He has two patents
on instrumentation and control systems and is a
registered professional engineer in the State of
California and a Certified Information Security
Manager.
Industrial control systems such as SCADA, plant
control systems, and even meters and programmable
thermostats have been designed to be efficient and
reliable.
Cyber security considerations have
generally been an afterthought.
From a cyber
security perspective, these systems are different than
traditional business systems. The presentation will
focus on the vulnerabilities of these systems, some
actual cyber events that have occurred, and the
difficulties in securing these critical systems.
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SCV Circuits and Systems
MONDAY March 17
Using Thermal Analysis as a Tool
to Aid Analog Floorplanning
Speaker: David Schwan, CAD and Layout Manager,
RFMD
Time:
Fast Food & drinks at 6:30 PM,
Presentation at 7:00 PM
Cost:
none
Place:
Cadence Design Systems, Building 5, 655
Seely Avenue, San Jose
RSVP:
not required
Web:
www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/cas
David Schwan is a CAD and Layout Manager for
RFMD and works in the Multi-Market Product group
(formerly Sirenza Microdevices). He is responsible
for all tool support for the MPG division; which
includes Analog, Digital, and RF tools; System level
design, front end design, and back end design. He is
the author of numerous papers in CAD methodology
and IP. He has two patents pending. He is a member
of the GSA (formerly FSA) mixed-signal subcommitte,
and is an active participant in the GSA IP ecosystem.
Todays' IC designers are being driven to reduce
area and increase performance and power-efficiency.
Local circuit temperature can affect circuit
performance, speed and current consumption, as well
create reliability problems like electro-migration and
thermal-runaway.
Temperature can be an
engineered parameter, like voltage current, or
resistance; instead of the traditional "seat of the
pants" guess-temics. Design can be done without
impacting reliability or performance, by looking at
thermal maps of the circuit, thus aiding the floorplanning process to reduce temperatures, allowing
transistors to operate in potentially more usable
regions or to reduce temperature deltas in sensitive
areas of the design; this can translate to lower
operating currents, meaning greater efficiency. Since
electro-migration is a function of temperature, current
densities in metal traces are typically derated at
higher temperatures. Lowering the operating
temperature can mean narrower power traces,
potentially reducing interconnect parasitics, or
improved reliability.
The presentation will show
results from using Gradient Design Automation's
CircuitFire to iterate placement of the transistors in a
1.9GHz 24dBM power amplifier, and the resulting
effect on (predicted) operating temperature, and PA
power efficiency.
Device Thermal Characterization
Package Thermal Characterization
Thermal Test Boards
Thermal Test Equipment & Fixtures
Bernie Siegal
650-961-5900
info@thermengr.com www.thermengr.com
March 2008
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SCV Nanotechnology
TUESDAY March 18
Atomic Scale Modeling of
Electron Transport in MRAM
Speaker: Dr. Dimitri Novikov, CTO, Atomistix, Inc.
Time:
Registration & light lunch 11:30 AM,
Presentation at Noon
Cost:
IEEE Members and Students $5, NonMembers $10
Place: National Semiconductor, Bldg E-1 CMA
Room, 2900 Semiconductor Drive,
Santa Clara
RSVP: from the website
Web:
www.ieee.org/nano
Dmitri Novikov is a Computational Materials
Scientist, who is the Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of
Atomistix Inc. Atomistix, founded in 2001, is a
leading provider of modeling tools, based in part on
Dr. Novikov’s work, for nanoelectronic applications.
Prior to joining Atomistix, Dr. Novikov worked as a
lead scientist at TIAX, LLC, where he did
development work on electron transport in phosphate
cathode materials for LCD displays. Prior to TIAX,
Dr. Novikov worked as a lead technical consultant
with Arthur D. Little, Inc., where one of his successful
projects was, in collaboration with the U.S.
Department of Energy, to create a higher efficiency
filament for incandescent lamps. Prior to Arthur D.
Little, Dmitri spent 15 years of as an academic
researcher, focused on modeling of solid-state and
molecular properties of numerous materials, including
semiconductors. In addition to his duties as CTO at
Atomistix, Dr. Novikov is also the co-founder of
scientific software company QMD Inc., which
develops a commercial version of a density-functional
package for the modeling of electronic and optical
properties of solids from first-principles.
Dr. Novikov holds Ph.D. degree from Russian
Academy of Sciences, and has published 79 scientific
journal articles.
March 2008
Atomic-scale modeling is becoming an important
step in the process of designing novel advanced
electronic devices, especially at the nanoscale size.
Modeling R&D efforts are growing much faster than
experimental research. One of the most prominent
areas
is
the
modeling
of
Tunneling
Magnetoresistance, which is important to the
production of magnetoresistive random-access
memory (MRAM) and read sensors for hard drives.
We will present results on atomic-scale modeling,
using Atomistix’s atomic scale modeling platform, of
transport properties of Fe/Mg/Fe, Co/MgO/Co and
FeCo/MgO/FeCo tunnel junctions at zero bias. We
will show how these properties depend on the
thickness of the MgO layer as well as the chemical
composition of the interface layer in the case of
FeCo, and compare these to published experimental
results.
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SCV Magnetics
TUESDAY March 18
Home Digital Storage Hierarchy
and Consumer Storage Demand
Speaker: Thomas M. Coughlin, Coughlin Associates
Time:
Cookies & Conversation at 7:30 PM,
Presentation at 8:00 PM
Cost:
none
Place: Western Digital, 1710 Automation Parkway,
San Jose
RSVP: not required
Web:
www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/mag
Dr. Thomas Coughlin is the Founder and
President of Coughlin Associates. Tom has over 30
years of experience in the data storage industry as a
working engineer and high level technical manager.
In addition to regular technical and management
consulting projects he is the publisher of reports on
digital storage in consumer electronics as as content
creation and distribution. He is the author of the
recently published Digital Storage in Consumer
Electronics: The Essential Guide from Newnes (a
division of Elsevier). Tom has many published
reports and articles on digital storage and its
applications.
He has 6 patents on magnetic
recording and related technologies. Tom is the
founder and organizer of the annual Storage Visions
Conference, a partner to the International CES. Tom
is a senior member and was 2007 chairman of the
Santa Clara Valley IEEE Section and San Francisco
Bay Area Council and was chairman of the Santa
Clara Valley IEEE Consumer Electronics Society in
2006 and past chairman of the SCV IEEE Magnetics
Society more than once.
Tom is a member of the IEEE CE Society Adcom.
He is also a member of APS, AVS, IDEMA, SNIA,
AAAS, TCG and SMPTE. Tom received a B.S. in
Physics and an M.S.E.E. from the University of
Minnesota (Minneapolis) and a PhD in Electrical
Engineering from Shinshu University in Nagano,
Japan.
This presentation discusses different mobile and
static usage models for digital storage in consumer
devices. These models define storage hierarchies
that are useful for analyzing the proper digital storage
technology for a consumer electronics application.
Important characteristics of consumer storage
devices are shown and guidelines are given for how
digital storage should be designed in consumer
devices. Demand for higher resolution content and
for capturing ever greater details of the life of family
members will drive increases in commercial as well
as personal content storage demand. Sharing of
content within a home or over the Internet creates
much greater demand for storage since a shared file
can be multiplied many times through network
sharing.
.
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SCV Consultants' Network of Silicon Valley
TUESDAY March 18
Research Techniques
for the Consultant: Using
the IEEE's Xplore Database
Speaker: Paul Wesling, VP-Publications, IEEE CPMT
Society; Advisory Design Engineer, Hewlett
Packard Corp (retired)
Time:
Networking at 7:00 PM, followed by
Presentation
Cost:
none
Place: KeyPoint Credit Union, 2805 Bowers
Avenue, Santa Clara
RSVP: not required
Web:
www.CaliforniaConsultants.org
Paul Wesling received
his
BS
in
electrical
engineering and his MS in
materials science from
Stanford. Following assignments at GTE/Lenkurt
Electric (component engineeering),
ISS/Sperry
Univac (bubble memory
development,
reliability,
manufacturing
engineering), Datapoint Peripheral
Products (VP - Product
Integrity), and Amdahl (design analysis, mainframe
testing, console peripherals), he joined Tandem
Computers (now HP's NonStop Enterprise Division) in
1985. As a member of the development team for
advanced IC packaging, he designed several multichip module prototypes, supervised their fabrication,
and tested them. In Tandem's Education Group from
1993-2002, he developed courses on reliability,
managed Tandem's Distinguished Lectures series,
and was on education's Technology Initiative team.
He organized a number of advanced technology and
professional skills development courses for his
Division and also for the IEEE. He managed a grant
from the National Science Foundation for the
development of multimedia educational modules in
the field of IC packaging.
Now retired, he is
communications director and editor for the IEEE’s SF
Bay Area Council.
(continued)
March 2008
Consultants need to quickly understand previous
technical developments and current difficulties
associated with a proposed client project. While
some of this information can be obtained from
specialists working for the client, and you may have
considerable first-hand knowledge in the field, a full
literature search can usually reveal details unknown
to the client and lead to better recommendations and
solutions.
Such facts may include which
companies/labs are working on similar products, what
techniques are proving suitable for production, which
methods have been abandoned for reasons of cost or
implementation difficulties, what IP is available for
licensing, and which conferences and forums are
covering details of the selected technology.
After a brief overview of IEEE's journals in
computing, communications, packaging and other
technical areas, the presentation will demonstrate
methods for using the IEEE's on-line database of
journal and conference papers for analysis of
published results that can affect and influence the
direction of development activities. This includes how
to access the 1.6 million items using XPLORE, some
search and selection strategies, full-text versus
abstracts searches, storing searches for re-use, and
using Google Scholar. and Scitopia.
Specific
recommendations for accessing the full papers will be
made.
Sharing a portfolio of relevant citations can support
your work proposal and provide authority for your
recommendations. Maintaining access to IEEE’s
literature can be a key differentiating factor for your
consulting business.
Wesling (continued)
Mr. Wesling has published a number of technical
and education papers and authored a book chapter.
As CPMT's vice president of publications, he
supervised four archival journals and a newsletter,
and oversaw authors for IEEE Press books. He is a
Fellow of the IEEE, and received the IEEE Centennial
Medal, the CPMT Board's Distinguished Service
award, the Society Contribution Award, and the
IEEE's Third Millennium Medal. He has organized
over 500 courses for the local IEEE CPMT chapter in
the Santa Clara Valley, many of them held at
Stanford University (and, more recently, at industrial
facilities). He served as scoutmaster of his local Boy
Scout Troop for 15 years, is currently Advisor of a
High-Adventure Crew, and enjoys backpacking, fly
fishing, and amateur radio.
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SCV Engineering in Medicine and Biology
WEDNESDAY March 19
Robotically Assisted Surgery:
How daVinci Works Now and
How It Could Evolve
Speaker: William C. Nowlin, Ph.D, Intuitive Surgical
Time:
No-host dinner at 6:15 PM, Presentation at
7:30 PM
Cost:
none, for presentation
Place:
Optional Dinner, Stanford Hospital
Cafeteria, 6:15 PM (no reservations); talk at
Clark Center Auditorium, Stanford Univ.
RSVP:
not required
Web:
ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/embs
Dr. William Nowlin joined Intuitive Surgical in
1996 from SRI International, where he was involved
in developing SRI's prototype surgical system. Dr.
Nowlin became part of Intuitive Surgical’s system
software leadership team in 1999, then was promoted
to Director in 2001 and Senior Director in 2006. Dr.
Nowlin received his B.A. in Mathematics and Physics
from the University of Virginia, where he was honored
by each department as its outstanding graduate; he
then received a Masters Degree and Ph.D. in Applied
Mathematics from Harvard University, with an
application in robotics. Dr. Nowlin is co-author of
more than a dozen U.S. and international patents, as
well as several technical conference and journal
publications.
March 2008
Intuitive Surgical makes the daVinci™ Surgical
System, which is variously described as a "robot", a
"telesurgical system", and a "mechanism for
minimally invasive surgery". In this presentation, I'll
give a general introduction to the device and how
surgery is accomplished using it. I'll talk a little about
the business of robotic surgery. I'll try to give some
historical background to credit those on whose
shoulders we stand, and describe the fundamental
technological elements (what's neat about it). Next I'll
discuss the technical and business challenges, and I'll
do my best to describe where I see the technology
going in the next few years. I promise plenty of
pictures and videos, and I hope to bring some
hardware to let you explore. The talk can be very
interactive, and I am happy to veer off in a direction
determined by the group.
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SCV Solid State Circuits
THURSDAY March 20
1.8 Gpulses/s UWB Transmitter
in 90nm CMOS
Speaker: Murat Demirkan, University of California,
Davis
Time:
Refreshments at 6:00 PM; Presentation at
6:30 PM
Cost:
small donation for food
Place:
National Semiconductor Building E,
Auditorium, 2900 Semiconductor Dr., Santa
Clara
RSVP:
not required
Web:
www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/ssc
Murat Demirkan received the B.S. degree in
electrical and electronics engineering from METU
University, Ankara, Turkey in 2001 and in 2004 he
received the M.S. degree in electrical and computer
engineering from the University of California, Davis
where he is expected to receive the Ph.D. degree in
March 2008.
His research interests are in the areas of analog,
mixed-signal and RF integrated-circuit design. During
his time at the University of California, Davis, he has
worked on projects involving ultra-wideband
transceiver circuit design, RF frequency synthesizers
and the modeling of ultra-wideband antennas. In
January 2008, he joined Agilent Technologies, Santa
Clara, where he is engaged in the design of mixedsignal circuits for high-speed serial links.
Mr. Demirkan received the Analog Devices
Outstanding Student Designer Award in 2007. He
was a co-recipient of the 2nd-place Best Student
Paper Award at the 2007 IEEE Radio Frequency
Integrated Circuits Symposium. He also received the
Beatrice Winner Award for Editorial Excellence at the
2008 International Solid-State Circuits Conference.
March 2008
This presentation is based on the speaker’s Ph.D.
dissertation which focuses on the design of a pulsebased ultra-wideband (UWB) transmitter. The
transmitter consists of a pulse generator, a phaselocked loop (PLL) and modulation circuitry. The novel
pulse generator employs FIR filtering so that the
transmitted signal is compliant with the indoor FCC
spectral mask. The frequency-multiplying PLL is
designed to provide an accurate timing reference.
Implemented in a 90 nm standard digital CMOS
process, the prototype transmitter achieves a
maximum pulse rate of 1.8 Gpulses/s. The 2.83 mm2
chip consumes 227 mW from a 1 V supply and
includes everything but the antenna.
Because the antenna is a critical part of the system
that produces the final transmitted signal, a general
method is presented for the modeling of arbitrary
ultra-wideband antennas directly in RF circuit
simulators in order to enable simulations of circuit
performance with the antennas included.
The
antenna modeling approach is based on S-parameter
measurements, which are conducted in an anechoic
chamber. Since the FCC uses the EIRP to assess
compliance with their regulations, being able to
accurately simulate its value is important. In addition,
a procedure to model multipath channels in the circuit
domain is presented.
Since a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) is
required for this project, the design of high-frequency,
tunable VCOs was investigated. As a part of this
investigation, VCOs with mutually coupled and
switched inductors were implemented in a 90 nm
digital CMOS process to demonstrate that the tuning
range of an LC VCO can be improved with only a
small increase in phase noise and die area. This
work was done in collaboration with Stephen Bruss.
One of the VCOs implemented has two extra coupled
inductors and achieves a 61.9% tuning range with an
11.75 GHz center frequency while dissipating 7.7 mW
from a 1.2 V supply. This VCO has a measured
phase noise of -106 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset from the
center frequency and its area is only 30% more than
a conventional LC VCO with a single inductor.
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SCV Product Safety Engineering
TUESDAY March 25
The Future of Product Safety:
Developing IEC 62368
Speaker: Rich Pescatore, Global Product Safety
Standards Development and Certification
Manager, Hewlett-Packard
Time:
No-host dinner at 5.45 PM at El Torito;
Presentation at 7:00 PM at Bowers Café
Cost:
none, for presentation
Place:
Optional dinner, El Torito Mexican
Restaurant, 2950 Lakeside Drive, Santa
Clara (no reservations); talk at Applied
Materials, Bowers Café, 3090 Bowers
Ave, Santa Clara
RSVP:
not required
Web:
www.e-grid.net/docs/0803-scv-pses.pdf
Rich Pescatore has over 35 years of experience
in the fields of Product Safety and Regulations and
presently serves as Hewlett-Packard's Global Product
Safety Standards Development and Certification
Manager. He is
* A Member of the Board of Directors of the IEEE
Product Safety Engineering Society,
* Vice Chairman (and past Chairman) of the
Information Technology Industry Council (ITI)
Technical Regulations Committee,
* Head of the US Delegation to the IECEE
Certification Management Committee, and
* Head of the US Delegation to IEC TC 108 and
Convener of the corresponding Working Group
developing IEC 62368.
Mr. Pescatore was the recipient of the Edward
Lohse Information Technology Medal for his
demonstrated leadership in the development and
promotion of national and international standards. He
has been awarded the "IEC 1906 Award" for "his
major contribution in the promotion of the IECEE CB
Scheme." Mr. Pescatore has a BSEE from California
Polytechnic State University and an MBA from the
University of Santa Clara. He is a Registered
Electrical Engineer in the State of California.
They said it couldn't be done - a safety standard
built on the foundation of Hazard-Based Safety
Engineering. But Rich Pescatore now is leading the
international effort to create just such a hazard-based
safety standard. It will be known as IEC 62368, and
its scope will be the Safety of Information and
Communication Technology Equipment and Audio/
Video Equipment. Mr. Pescatore will review the
basis, the scope and the goals of this new standard.
He will share his insight into the challenges being
overcome to make this standard both accurate and
useful, and he will describe the work being done to
ensure it will be functional within the IECEE CB
Scheme.
There is a REVOLUTION taking place in Safety
Standards, and here is a report from the front lines!
The biggest hazard would be to miss this
presentation!
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March 2008
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SCV Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology
THURSDAY March 27
Flip-Chip Substrates For
Advanced Applications
Speaker: Bernd Appelt, Director, Worldwide Business
Development, ASE (U.S.) Inc.
Time:
Lunch at 11:45 AM, Presentation at Noon
Cost:
$15 if reserved by March 24; $20 at door
Place: Ramada, 1217 Wildwood Ave (Fwy 101
frontage road, between Lawrence
Expressway and Great America Parkway),
Sunnyvale
RSVP: by email with Ed Aoki, aoki.ed@gmail.com
Web:
www.cpmt.org/scv
Bernd Appelt obtained his PhD in Polymer
Chemistry at the University of Mainz, Germany. He
started his career in the US as a post-doc at the
University of Massachusetts and IBM Research.
Subsequently, he worked for many years at IBM in
Materials & Process Development of PCBs. There,
he held management positions in Manufacturing
Engineering, Business Development and Technology
Licensing of packaging technologies. In February
2003, he joined ASE US as Director of Substrate
Marketing. In 2004, Bernd moved to ASE Europe as
Director of Engineering and Substrate Business
Development. Starting in 2006, he moved to ASE
Shanghai to lead a team of professionals in World
Wide Business Development and to direct the
Substrate Technology consultation efforts within ASE
Materials Shanghai. At the end of 2007, Bernd
returned to the US and is promoting ASE Materials
substrates as Director of World Wide Business
Development in Santa Clara.
The continuing advancements in silicon technology
are driving further innovation in flip-chip substrate
technology. Market dynamics have lead to a de facto
standardization of build-up technology for flip chip
substrates for CPUs, graphics and gaming
processors and ASICs. More advanced substrates
like coreless and high density core substrates have
been developed but their market penetration has yet
to happen.
The most aggressive substrate
development is now driven by mobile applications
seeking to embed components directly into the
substrate. Discretes as well as active die can be
embedded successfully but market penetration is
pending the development of new business models
because the supply chain will be changed by these
new substrates. Likewise the development of flipchip chip-scale substrates is also driven by mobile
applications to become a low cost and high volume
technology.
In this presentation, the different substrate
technologies will be reviewed. The market dynamics
of the substrate evolution will be described and
opened up for discussion.
.
March 2008
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SF Power Engineering
WEDNESDAY April 2
The CPUC Renewable
Portfolio Standard
Speaker: Sara Kamins, Energy Division policy
analyst, California Public Utilities
Commission
Time:
Lunch and Presentation at Noon
Cost:
none for members, $5 for non-members (to
cover food)
Place: Public Utilities Commission, Courtyard
Room, 505 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco
RSVP: by email by March 31st to Julian Ajello,
j.ajello@ieee.org
Web:
www.e-grid.net/docs/0803-sf-pes.pdf
Sara Kamins is a policy analyst
in the California Public Utilities
Commission’s Energy Division. Her
main
responsibilities
include
developing and implementing the
Renewables Portfolio Standard
(RPS) policy framework, evaluating
renewable energy power purchase
agreements and coordinating RPS
policy design with the Greenhouse
Gas policy design. Sara received
her Masters of Science from the
Energy and Resources Group (ERG) at UC-Berkeley
in May 2006, where she developed an optimization
model of California’s electricity sector to analyze the
costs and effectiveness of several global warming
policies. Before attending ERG, Sara worked at the
Global Energy Network Institute, a non-profit in San
Diego, where she helped develop and market the
KLD Global Climate 100SM Index, an index fund
designed to promote investment in public companies
whose activities help mitigate the causes of climate
change. Her experience also includes work for other
Bay Area non-profits, political offices in Washington
D.C. and the United Nations Environmental
Programme in Paris.
March 2008
The California Renewables Portfolio Standard
(RPS) Program was established by Senate Bill (SB)
1078 (2002) and amended by SB 107 (2006). The
law requires that each retail seller of electricity
increase its procurement of eligible renewable energy
resources by at least one percent of annual retail
sales per year so that 20 percent of its retail sales are
supplied by eligible renewable energy resources by
2010. The CPUC is responsible for determining
annual procurement targets, approving utility
procurement plans, overseeing the IOUs’ annual
renewables solicitations, reviewing RPS power
purchase agreements and assessing compliance with
annual targets. The CEC establishes the renewable
resources eligibility guidelines and certifies RPS
facilities. Thus far, the CPUC has approved 80 RPS
contracts with the IOUs for nearly 4,000 MW. While
the RPS procurement and contracting process has
been successful, only about 340 MW of the approved
projects have come online – project development
(e.g. permitting, transmission upgrades) continues to
delay project online dates. While now working with
other agencies to implement solutions to these
project development hurdles, the CPUC continues to
refine the RPS procurement processes, track
progress with the RPS goals and consider additional
ways to comply with the RPS program.
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SCV Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology
and Reliability
WEDNESDAY April 9
A New Perspective on Electronic
Product Reliability: Prognostics
and Health Management
Speaker: Prof. Michael Pecht, Center for Advanced
Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE), University
of Maryland
Time:
Dinner at 6:30 PM, Presentation (no cost)
at 7:30 PM
Cost:
$25 for dinner (if reserved by April 6)
Place:
Ramada Inn, 1217 Wildwood Ave (Fwy 101
frontage road, between Lawrence
Expressway and Great America Parkway),
Sunnyvale
RSVP:
by email with Janis Karklins,
Karklins@ieee.org
Web:
www.cpmt.org/scv
Michael Pecht has a BS in Acoustics, an MS in
Electrical Engineering and an MS and PhD in
Engineering Mechanics from the University of
Wisconsin at Madison.
He is a Professional
Engineer, an IEEE Fellow and an ASME Fellow. He
has received the IEEE Reliability Lifetime
Achievement Award, the IEEE Undergraduate
Teaching Award, the IMAPS William D. Ashman
Memorial Achievement Award for his contributions in
electronics reliability analysis, and the 3M Research
Award for electronics packaging. He has written over
20 books on electronic products development,
reliability, use and supply chain management. He
served as chief editor of the IEEE Transactions on
Reliability for eight years and on the advisory board of
IEEE Spectrum.
He is chief editor for
Microelectronics Reliability and an associate editor for
the IEEE Transactions on Components and
Packaging Technology. He is the founder of CALCE
(Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering) and the
Electronic Products and Systems Consortium at the
University of Maryland. He is also a Chair Professor.
He has been leading a research team in the area
of prognostics for the past six years, and has now
formed a new Electronics Prognostics and Health
Management Consortium at the University of
Maryland. He has consulted for over 100 major
international electronics companies, providing
expertise in strategic planning, design, test,
prognostics, IP and risk assessment of electronic
products and systems.
March 2008
Reliability is the ability of a product or system to
perform as intended (i.e., without failure and within
specified performance limits) for a specified time, in
its life-cycle environment. It is now well known that
the handbook electronics reliability prediction
methods
(Mil-Hdbk-217,
217-Plus,
Bellcore/
Telcordia, PRISM, FIDES, SAE) are misleading and
provide erroneous life predictions, a fact that led the
U.S. military and many commercial companies to
abandon these electronics reliability prediction
methods. Although the use of stress and damage
models permits a more accurate result, their
application to long-term reliability predictions based
on extrapolated short-term life testing data or field
data, is typically constrained by insufficient
knowledge of the actual operating and environmental
application conditions of the product. This also
affects the cost-effective and efficient application of
accelerated test methods.
Prognostics and health management is a method
that permits the assessment of the reliability of a
system under its actual application conditions. It
integrates sensor data with models that enable in-situ
assessment of the deviation or degradation of a
product from an expected normal operating condition
(i.e., the system’s “health”) and also predicts the
future state of reliability based on current and historic
conditions.
The Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering
(CALCE) at the University Of Maryland has an
established Prognostics and Health Management
(PHM) Consortium to provide basic research and
technology to members.
Different prognostics
approaches that have been assessed by CALCE
PHM include: the use of expendable devices, such as
‘canaries’ and fuses that fail earlier than the host
product to provide advance warning of failure; the
monitoring and reasoning of parameters that are
precursors to impending failure, such as shifts in
performance parameters; and the modeling of stress
and damage utilizing life cycle loads (e.g., usage,
temperature, vibration, radiation).
Examples of
implementation methods and results are given.
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SCV Communications
WEDNESDAY April 9
Fourth Generation (4G) Mobile
Smartphone Architecture
Targeted for Chinese and
US Markets
Speaker: Prof. Willie W. Lu, U.S. Center for Wireless
Communications (USCWC)
Time:
6:00 PM
Cost:
none
Place: National Semiconductor, Building E,
Conference Room, 2900 Semiconductor Dr,
Santa Clara
RSVP: not required
Web:
www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/comsoc
Dr. Willie W. Lu, a former Stanford University
Professor, is now executive director of U.S. Center for
Wireless Communications (USCWC) in Palo Alto, and
a special advisor on emerging technologies and
strategies in several China information and
communications authorities as well as a technology
expert committee member and examiner for
European Commission's FP6 and FP7 programs.
Prof. Lu was a member of the Technological Advisory
Council of the U.S. Federal Communications
Commission (US FCC-TAC), and a chief wireless
architect and vice president of Siemens and Infineon
Technologies.
He is also an internationally
recognized and accredited senior expert in emerging
wireless technologies and has been a senior
technical advisor for 22 wireless communication
authorities in more than 10 countries. He is an
independent technical examiner for many high-tech
venture capitals in the United States, Europe and
Asia, and is listed in major Who's Whos in the world.
He has guest-edited around 50 special issues on
emerging wireless communications in IEEE, IEICE,
ACM and other major publications, and has had over
180 papers published in major professional
publications as well as about 80 papers in SCI index.
Prof. Lu was member of the editorial board of IEEE
Spectrum, the flagship of the IEEE. He has been
technical program chairman of numerous IEEE
conferences including GLOBECOM'03, WCNC'02,
VTC'03, and WWC'00-07, and wireless feature editor
of
IEEE
Communications
Magazine,
IEEE
Transactions on Wireless Communications (former JSAC Wireless), and others.
(continued …)
March 2008
The future wireless and mobile communications
terminal device will be shifted from the traditional
transmission-specific technology to an interfacebased technology to be able to converge with the
computer system architecture.
This talk will present an open architecture platform
for the fourth generation (4G) mobile smartphone
device supporting multi-bands, multi-standards
wireless and mobile communications and enabling
extensibility and upgradeability of the system
modules including radio frequency transceiver, data
converter and base-band processing core where the
open system platforms are based on the open
wireless architecture (OWA) BIOS and frameworks.
This OWA system platform is an optimal integration of
the computer’s architecture with the next generation
wireless and mobile communications technology to
deliver truly open and simple 4G smartphone
products.
The presented system architecture can be utilized
for the next generation iPhone product, the Google
phone product, the Blackberry product, the iPAQ
product as well as other advanced smartphone
product definitions. The architecture development is
focused on the Chinese and US markets where
openness and simplicity become the driving forces in
designing the next-generation smartphones.
… continued
He is a frequent keynote and featured speaker at
global technical fora, and a prominent wireless
pioneer on a worldwide basis. He is a member of
IEEE, ACM, IEICE, CIC and Sigma Xi, and an adjunct
professor at many world-class universities. Willie is
also the founding chairman of the prestigious World
Wireless Congress, Global Mobile Congress and
Fourth Generation Mobile Forum (4GMF), and has
been a distinguished and notable Chinese wireless
expert overseas by Chinese central government since
1996.
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SCV Magnetics
TUESDAY April 15
Magnetism and Polarized Soft
X-rays – Towards Fundamental
Magnetic Length and Time Scales
Speaker: Peter Fischer, Center for X-ray Optics,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Time:
Cookies & Conversation at 7:30 PM,
Presentation at 8:00 PM
Cost:
none
Place:
Western Digital, 1710 Automation Parkway,
San Jose
RSVP:
not required
Web:
www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/mag
Peter Fischer studied physics
at the Technical University of
Munich and received his PhD
from the Technical University of
Munich/Germany
in
1993,
followed by the habilitation thesis
from
the
Universiy
of
Wuerzburg/Germany in 2000.
After being a scientific group
leader at the Max-Planck-Insitute
for Metal Research in Stuttgart/Germany, he joined
the Center for X-ray Optics at Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory in 2004 where he is staff scientist
within the Materials Science Division. He is in charge
of the scientific program and the user support at the
high resolution soft X-ray microscope beamline at the
Advanced Light Source, a world leading instrument
serving a wide community in X-ray optics,
nanomagnetism research, materials science and
biology.
His research interests are dedicated to the use of
polarized X-rays to study magnetism at short length
and time scales based on X-ray dichroism effects,
and he pioneered soft X-ray microscopy for magnetic
imaging. His recent focus is on spin dynamics in
nanoscale magnetic systems.
He has (co-)authored more than 90 refereed
publications and he is serving the synchrotron
community as a member of the proposal panels at the
Swiss Light Source and the ALS and as a member of
the international program committee for X-ray
microscopy conferences. He is chair of the 7th
International Symposium on Metallic Multilayers
(MML2010) to be held in 2010 in Berkeley. He is a
member of the Magnetics Society of IEEE and APS.
March 2008
The challenge to modern magnetic microscopes is
to provide both spatial resolution in the nanometer
regime, a time resolution on a ps to fs scale and
elemental specificity which allows us to study novel
multicomponent
and
multifunctional
magnetic
nanostructures and their ultrafast spin dynamics
which are of both fundamental and technological
interest.
The magnetic soft X-ray microscopy combines
X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (X-MCD) as
element specific magnetic contrast mechanism with
high spatial and temporal resolution. Fresnel zone
plates used as X-ray optical elements provide a
spatial resolution down to currently <15nm, which
approaches fundamental magnetic length scales such
as the grain size and magnetic exchange lengths.
Images can be recorded in external magnetic fields
giving access to study magnetization reversal
phenomena on the nanoscale. Utilizing the inherent
time structure of current synchrotron sources, fast
magnetization dynamics with 70ps time resolution,
limited by the lengths of the electron bunches, can be
performed with a stroboscopic pump-probe scheme.
I will give an overview of the current status of high
resolution magnetic soft X-ray microscopy. The data
presented were obtained with the full-field soft X-ray
microscope XM-1 at the Advanced Light Source in
Berkeley.
Selected examples on magnetic
multilayers and nanostructured systems, where both
classical Oersted fields as well as spin torque
phenomena
are
used
to
manipulate
the
magnetization, demonstrate the potential of this novel
diagnostic tool.
Future perspectives of magnetic soft X-ray
microscopy aiming for <10nm spatial and fs time
resolution will be discussed.
This work is supported by the DOE, Office of
Science, Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials
Sciences and Engineering.
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SCV Circuits and Systems
MONDAY May 19
Highly Integrated Re-configurable
RF Front-ends in Deep
Sub-micron CMOS
Speaker: Naveen Yanduru, Design Manager, Texas
Instruments Inc. and IEEE/CAS
Distinguished Lecturer
Time:
Fast food and drinks at 6:30 PM,
Presentation at 7:00 PM
Cost:
none
Place:
Cadence Design Systems, Building 5,
655 Seely Avenue, San Jose
RSVP:
not required
Web:
ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/cas
Naveen Yanduru is currently a Design Manager at
Texas Instruments Inc., and a Member Grade
Technical Staff. While at Texas Instruments he has
led design teams in the design of various RF
receivers
including
GSM/EDGE,
WCDMA,
TDSCDMA, GPS and multi-mode receivers. He is
currently involved in the design of DRP™ chips,
which are highly integrated ICs in deep sub-micron
CMOS processes for mobile phones.
March 2008
Various RF bands, standards, modulation
schemes, duplex mechanisms and signal bandwidths
needed for the mobile terminal call for a highly
adaptable and reconfigurable RF receiver.
The
biggest bottleneck in achieving this goal lies with the
RF pre-select filter at the antenna, which is band
specific and creates a bottleneck in being able to
share the hardware.
Solving this multi band programmability is the
biggest challenge in achieving aN RF receiver for
software defined radio.
A few of the possible
architectures and their limitations are presented.
However, designing a multi mode RF receiver for a
given RF band with highly reconfigurable
performance is an achievable goal.
A WCDMA/EDGE receiver without inter-stage
SAW filter in 90nm digital CMOS is used as an
example in illustrating the architecture, circuit and
system considerations for such a receiver.
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SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA COUNCIL
DIRECTORY OF OFFICERS
Oakland East Bay Section (below)
2008
Santa Clara Valley Section
SF BAY AREA COUNCIL
OFFICERS FOR 2008
OEB Delegate and Chair
Victor Stepanians
J and M Consultants
P.O. Box 1513
San Ramon, CA 94583
Tel: 925 968-0979
Fax: 925 244-4782
Email: vicstepanians@ieee.org
SF Delegate and Secretary
Dan Sparks, PE
P.O. Box 191681
San Francisco, CA 94119
Tel: 415 260-4613
Email: dan.sparks@ieee.org
SCV Delegate and Treasurer
Ram Sivaraman
KLA-Tencor, Mail Stop: J1229
145 Rio Robles
San Jose, CA 95134
Tel: 512 296-8734 (c)
Email: ramsivaraman@ieee.org
SCV Delegate
Thomas M. Coughlin
Coughlin Associates
Tel/Fax: 408 978-8184
408 202-5098 (c)
Email: tom@tomcoughlin.com
OEB Delegate
Rosanna Lerma
Salas O’Brien Engineers
408 282-1500 x268
rosanna.lerma@salasobrien.com
SF Delegate
Sandra Ellis, PE
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
P.O. Box 770000
San Francisco, CA 94177
Tel: 415 973-1665
Email: vicechair.sf@ieee.org
San Francisco Section
OAKLAND/EAST BAY
SECTION OFFICERS
FOR 2008
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Chair
Rosanna Lerma
436 14th Street, Suite 150
Oakland, CA 94612
Tel: 408 282-1500 x268
rosanna.lerma@salasobrien.com
Vice Chair
Alan Meyer
Lawrence Livermore Natl Labs L-151
PO Box 808
Livermore, CA 94551
Tel: 925 422-8695
Email: meyer21@llnl.gov
Secretary/ Treasurer
James Hungerford
5870 Stoneridge Mall Rd., Suite 205
Pleasanton, CA 94588
Tel: 925 218-1822
Email: j.hungerford@a2ti.com
PACE
Katherine Wade
Lawrence Livermore Nat’l Lab L-153
PO Box 808
Livermore, CA 94551
Tel:925-422-1567
wade15@llnl.gov
Communications Director/Webmaster
William J. “Bill” DeHope
Lawrence Livermore Nat’l Lab
Tel: 925 424-6413
Email: dehope1@llnl.gov
Region 6 Student Representative
Kelly Smith
CSU Fresno
2320 East San Ramon Ave. M/S EE94
Fresno, CA 93740
Tel: 559-278-4163
Email: kellysmith@ieee.org
GOLD (Grads of the
Last Decade)
GOLD Chair
Brent McHale
Lawrence Livermore National Lab
7000 East Ave, L-229
Livermore, CA 94550
Tel: 925-422-8730
Email: brent.mchale@ieee.org
GOLD Vice Chair
Laura Tully
Email: tully2@llnl.gov
GOLD Treasurer
Adam White
Email: white210@llnl.gov
GOLD Secretary
Eric Crull
Email: crull2@llnl.gov
COMMUNICATIONS
SOCIETY
Chair
Bill Kaminsky
2635 Comistas Dr.
Walnut Creek, CA 94598
Tel: 925-639-7192
Email: bill_kaminsky@yahoo.com
Vice Chair
Malik Audeh
Tel: 510 305-6022
Email: audeh@ieee.org
Secretary
Subhasis Saha, Ph.D.
3788 Mohr Ave.
Pleasanton, CA 94588
sahas@comcast.net
Treasurer
Dr. Avtar Singh
4008 Ordaz Ct.
Dublin, CA 94568
Tel: 925 361-7209
Email: avtar@ieee.org
Webmaster
Randy Roberts
Tel: 925 423-9255
Email: roberts38@llnl.gov
March 2008
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ENGINEERING
MANAGEMENT
Chair/Treasurer
Annie Kong
ChevronTexaco
841 Chevron Way
Richmond CA 94802
Tel: 510 242-1130
Email: atko@chevrontexaco.com
INDUSTRY
APPLICATIONS
SOCIETY
Chair
Gregg A. Boltz, PE
Brown & Caldwell
201 N. Civic Drive, Suite 115
Walnut Creek, CA 94596-3864
Tel: 925 210-2571
Email: gboltz@brwncald.com
Vice Chair
Richard Romero
Stanley Electric Motor Company
Tel: 209-464-7321
Secretary
Michael Nakamura
East Bay Municipal Utility District
375 Eleventh Street, MS 702
Oakland, CA 94607
Tel: 510 287-2066
Email: mnakamur@ebmud.com
NUCLEAR & PLASMA
SCIENCES SOCIETY
Chair
Joe Mauger
Lawrence Livermore Nat’l Laboratory
P.O. Box 808, L-353
Livermore, CA 94550
Tel: 925 423-7682
Email: mauger1@llnl.gov
Vice Chair
G. Patrick Roberson
University of California
Lawrence Livermore Nat’l Laboratory
7000 East Avenue, M/S L-333
Livermore, CA 94550
Tel: 925 422-8693
Email: roberson1@llnl.gov
Paul G. Banchero
6232 Auburn Avenue
Oakland, CA 94618-1322
Tel: 510 627-1165
Email: pbanchero@portoakland.com
Treasurer
Edward J. Lampo
University of California
Lawrence Livermore Nat’l Laboratory
1 Cyclotron Road, M/S 80-101
Berkeley, CA 94720
Tel: 510 486-6779
Email: e.lampo@ieee.org
POWER
ENGINEERING
SOCIETY
Chair
Stephen Howarter
436 14th Street, Suite 150
Oakland, CA 94612
Tel: 408 282-1500 x236
stephen.howarter@salasobrien.com
Vice Chair
Marvin Hamon
1535 Buena Vista Avenue
Alameda, CA 94501
Tel: 510 387-6843
Email: chamon@ieee.org
Secretary
Rosanna Lerma
436 14th Street, Suite 150
Oakland, CA 94612
Tel: 408 282-1500 x210
rosanna.lerma@salasobrien.com
Treasurer
Jeffry Gosal
305 So. 11th Street
San Jose, CA 95112
Tel: 408 282-1500 x252
Email: jeffry.gosal@salasobrien.com
Program Chair
Carole Pharr
Salas O'Brien Engineers
305 South 11th Street
San Jose, CA 95112
Tel: 408 282-1500 x 213
Email: carole@salasobrien.com
Chair
Vojin Oklobdzija
Integration Corp.
1285 Grizzly Peak Blvd.
Berkeley, CA 94708
Tel: 510 486-8171
Email: vojin@integration-corp.com
UC Berkeley Student
Chapter
Branch Chair
John Torous
jtorous@berkeley.edu
Faculty Advisor
Prof. Ali Niknejad
EECS Department, UC Berkeley
572 Cory Hall #1770
Berkeley, CA 94720
Email: niknejad@eecs.berkeley.edu
Cal State Fresno
Student Chapter
Chair
Tom Pittenger
CSU Fresno
2320 East San Ramon Ave. M/S EE94
Fresno, CA 93740
Email: ieeesb@engr.csufresno.edu
Advisor
Ramakrishna Nunna
Dept of Electrical & Computer Eng
CSU Fresno MS94
Fresno, CA 93740
Tel: 559 278-8111
Email: r.nunna@ieee.org
DeVry Fremont
Student Chapter
Secretary/Webmaster
Joshua Quintero
Email: josh.quintero@gmail.com
Advisor
Mostafa Mortezaie
Tel: (510) 574-1132
Email: mmorteza@fre.devry.edu
Branch Chair
Gary Sarbacher
Email: g.sarbacher@gmail.com
Secretary
March 2008
SOLID STATE
CIRCUITS SOCIETY
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SAN FRANCISCO
SECTION
OFFICERS FOR 2008
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Chair
Sandra Ellis, PE
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Mail code B15A, P.O. Box 770000
San Francisco, CA 94177
chair.sf@ieee.org
Vice Chair
Dan Sparks, PE
P.O. Box 191681
San Francisco, CA 94119
Tel: 415 260-4613
Email: dan.sparks@ieee.org
Secretary
Julian Ajello, PE
Calif Public Utilities Commission
550 Van Ness Avenue, 2D
San Francisco, CA 94102
Tel: 415 703-1327
Email: j.ajello@ieee.org
Treasurer
Ray Holstead, PE
818 Rivera St.
San Francisco, CA 94116
Tel: (415) 564-0810
Email: treasurer.sf@ieee.org
Member at Large
James Lekas
Email: j.lekas@ieee.org
PACE
Pauline B. Tapia
Pacific Gas & Electric Co
1919 Webster Street, Room 452
Oakland, CA 94612
Tel: 510 874-2656
Email: PBT1@ieee.org
GOLD
Alex Goldhammer
Email: ahammer@ieee.org
Section Director
George Puffett, PE
Cammisa Wipf Consulting Engineers
32 Page Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
Tel: 415 863-5740
Email: gpuffett@cammisawipf.com
Education Activities
Emery Fabri
7650 Falkirk Drive
San Jose, Ca. 95135
Tel: 408-238-5166
Email: defab@sbcglobal.net
COMMUNICATIONS
SOCIETY
Chair
Michael Butler
8 Almond Court
Novato, California
Tel: (415) 209-6630 (8)
Email: mjbsf@verizon.net
Vice Chair
Tim Ryan
Network Manager,
City College of SF
Phone: 415-452-5352
Email: tryan@ccsf.edu
Secretary
James Jones
Photisis Consulting
931 Modoc Street
Berkeley, CA 94707
(415) 867-6616
Email: james@photisis.com
Treasurer
Past Chair
George Mattathil
PO Box 249
San Bruno, CA 94066
Email: george.mattathil@Ieee.org
Engineering in
Medicine and Biology
(Chapter in formation)
Chair
Bob Giebeler
Email: bgif251@yahoo.com
March 2008
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INDUSTRY
APPLICATIONS
SOCIETY
Chair
Sonny K. Siu, P.E.
EYP Mission Critical Facilities, Inc.
49 Stevenson Street #800
San Francisco, CA 94105
415-901-4318 office
ssiu@eypmcf.com
Vice Chair
Jamie Fox
The Engineering Enterprise
1305 Marina Village Parkway
Alameda, CA 94501
Tel: 510-769-7600
jamie@engent.com
Secretary/
Jack Lin
SFPUC-EMB
1155 Market Street, 7th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94103
Email: jlin@sfwater.org
Tel: (415) 551-4894
Fax: (415) 551-4828Email:
jlin@sfwater.org
Treasurer
Finn Schenck
Square D Company
6160 Stoneridge Mall Rd., #200
Pleasanton, CA 94588
Office - 925-463-7112
Finn.schenck@us.schneider
-electric.com
Membership
Gary Fox
General Electric
2120 Diamond Blvd. #230
Concord, CA 94520-5733
Tel: 925-969-3608
Email: g.fox@ieee.org
POWER
ENGINEERING
SOCIETY
Chair
Shirin Tabatabai, PE
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Mail Code B15A, P.O. Box 770000
San Francisco, CA 94177
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Tel: (415) 973-1474
Email: sxth@pge.com
Ben Williams
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Mail Code B15A
P.O. Box 770000
San Francisco, CA 94177
Tel: 415 973-9473
Email: bew5@pge.com
Vice Chair
Jon Eric Thalman
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
PO BOX 770000
San Francisco, CA 94177
Email: JETg@pge.com
Treasurer
Davis Erwin, PE
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Mail Code B15A, P.O. Box 770000
San Francisco, CA 94177
Email: dpe4@pge.com
Secretary
Anupama Pandey
Nexant, Inc.
101 2nd St. 10th Floor
San Francisco, Ca. 94105
Tel: (415) 369-1096
Email: apandey@nexant.com
Webmaster
Chuck Magee
California Public Utilities Commiss.
Email: cm1@cpuc.ca.gov
San Francisco State
University Student
Chapter
Advisor
Dr. Todor Cooklev
San Francisco State University
School of Engineering
1600 Holloway Avenue
San Francisco CA 94132
Tel: 415 338-3946
Email: tcooklev@sfsu.edu
Chair
Henry Quiñonez
IEEE SFSU Student Branch
1600 Holloway SCI Bldg Rm 152
San Francisco, CA 94132
Email: henrygq@sfsu.edu
March 2008
SANTA CLARA
VALLEY SECTION
OFFICERS FOR 2008
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Chair
Ram Sivaraman
KLA-Tencor, Mail Stop: J1229
145 Rio Robles
San Jose, CA 95134
Tel: 512 296-8734 (c)
Email: ramsivaraman@ieee.org
Vice Chair
Roxsana Hadjizadeh
Tesla Motors Inc.
1050 Bing Street
San Carlos, CA 94070
Tel: 408-891-7297 (c)
Email: roxsana@ieee.org
Treasurer & Finance Chair
Allen Earman
Novalux, Inc.
1220 Midas Way
Sunnyvale CA 94085
Tel: 408-730-3833
Email: aearman@ieee.org
Secretary
Jayasimha Prasad
jprasad@ieee.org
Junior Past Chair & CLCPE rep
Tom Coughlin
Coughlin Associates
Tel: 408 978-8184
Email: tom@tomcoughlin.com
Senior Past Chair
Fred Jones, P.E.
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
2575 Sand Hill Rd.
M/S 22 (Bldg. 035, Rm. 006)
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Off:
650-926-2036
Email: f.jones@ieee.org
Chair Emeritus
Lee Colby
Lee Colby & Associates
860 Mangrove Avenue
Sunnyvale CA 94086
Tel: (408) 730-8528
Email: lee.colby@ieee.org
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PACE Chair Will Lumpkins
Anthology Solutions
2457 Augustine Drive
Santa Clara CA 95054
Tel 408-454-6772
wlumpkins@pragmaticstech.com
Program Committee
Ram Sivaraman
KLA-Tencor, Mail Stop: J1229
145 Rio Robles
San Jose, CA 95134
Tel: 512 296-8734 (c)
Email: ramsivaraman@ieee.org
Student Activities Coordinator
David Craven
Lam Research Corporation
P.O. Box 730
Los Altos, Ca 94023
Tel: 510-572-2141
Email: david.craven@lamrc.com
K-12 Education Coordinator
Lee Colby
Lee Colby & Associates
860 Mangrove Avenue
Sunnyvale CA 94086-8640
Tel: (408) 730-8528
Email: lee.colby@ieee.org
Educational Activities Chair
(open)
Webmaster
Min Hua
Tel: 408-230-6257
Email: minhua@ieee.org
Senior Member Advancement
Mark Hooper
211 Stockbridge Ave.
Atherton, CA 94027
Tel: 650-368-0831
Email: mh5@ieee.org
Nominations and Awards
Dan Oprica
P. O. Box 62288
Sunnyvale CA 94088-2288
Tel: (408) 985-9166
Email: opricad@ieee.org
Membership Chair
Slava Mach
Email: s.mach@ieee.org
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SVEC Representative
Dan Oprica
P. O. Box 62288
Sunnyvale CA 94088-2288
Tel: (408) 985-9166
Email: opricad@ieee.org
IEEE Engineering Milestone
Coordinator
Dick Ahrons
DACON Associates
983 Garrity Way
Santa Clara CA 95054
Tel: (408) 970-8892
Email: ahrons@alum.mit.edu
Audit Committee Chair
Slava Mach
Email: s.mach@ieee.org
GOLD (Grads of the
Last Decade)
GOLD Chapter Chair
Tokunbo Ogunfunmi
Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Santa Clara University
Santa Clara, CA 95053
Tel: 408-554-4481
tokunbo@ieee.org
GOLD Chapter Vice Chair
Jonathan David
Scintera
4340 Stevens Creek Blvd #260
San Jose CA 95129
Tel: 408-636-2618
j.david@ieee.org
MONTEREY BAY
SUBSECTION
Chair
Marcelo Siero
Tel: 831-335-2165
Cell: 831-335-5600
Email: siero@ee.com
Secretary
Todd Weatherford
Code EC/Wt, Dept of ECE
Naval Postgraduate School
Monterey, CA 93943
Tel: 831 656-3044
trweathe@nps.edu
Treasurer
David Jenn
Code EC/Jn
March 2008
Dept. of ECE
Naval Postgraduate School
Monterey, CA 93943
Tel: 831 656-2254
Email: jenn@nps.edu
Santa Clara Univ
Student Chapter
Faculty Advisor
Shoba Krishnan
Tel: 408-554-4666
Email: skrishnan@scu.edu
Co-Chair
Sarah Hanna
Email: sara.hanna1@gmail.com
Co-Chair
Matt Lanham
Email: Mlanham@scu.edu
Vice Chair
Zefram Marks
Email: ZMarks@scu.edu
Treasurer/Secretary
Curtis Wong
Email: Cawong@scu.edu
Student Activities
Juliana Khan
Email: jakhan@scu.edu
Student Activities
Laya Yadgar
Email: LYadgar@scu.edu
Micromouse Director
Zefram Marks
Email: ZMarks@scu.edu
UC-Santa Cruz
Student Chapter
Faculty Advisor
Gabriel Elkaim
elkaim@soe.ucsc.edu
Chair
John Splawn
Email: jsplawn@gmail.com
Vice Chair
Tom Ituarte
Email: tituarte@ucsc.edu
Secretary
Yuna Dung
Email: ydung@ucsc.edu
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Treasurer
Kevin Nelson
Email: rknelson@ucsc.edu
San Jose State
Student Chapter
Faculty Advisor
President
Gregory McKernan
Email: gpmckernan@ieee.org
Vice President
Sharl (Charles) Pakbaz
Email: sharl@ieee.org
Treasurer
Madu Amajor
Email: madu.amajor@ieee.org
Public Relations
Srinivas Muddagowni
Email: srinivas_m@ieee.org
Secretary
Allen Yousefi
Email: allen_youssefi@ieee.org
Webmaster
Ozhen Minashy
Email: ozhenm@ieee.org
CPMT Chapter Faculty Advisor
Fred Barez
Tel: 408-924-4298
Email: Fred.Barez@sjsu.edu
Stanford University
Student Chapter
Faculty Advisor
Prof. Antony C. Fraser-Smith
STAR Laboratory
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305Email:
acfs@alpha.stanford.edu
President
Ian Wong
Email: ihm.wong@gmail.com
Publicity
Nicki Lui
Email: nicklui@stanford.edu
VP, Membership
Gary Chang
Email: gwchang@stanford.edu
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Awards
Vincent Mei
Email: vjmei@stanford.edu
Treasurer
Karthik Subramanian
Email: karthiks@stanford.edu
Vice Chair
Mark Hooper
211 Stockbridge Ave.
Atherton, CA 94027
Tel: 650-368-0831
Email: mh5@ieee.org
Webmaster
Tracy Chou
Email: tychou@stanford.edu
Treasurer
Weikai Sun
Ph: 408-857-7098
Email: swka@hotmail.com
ANTENNAS &
PROPAGATION
SOCIETY
Secretary
Ping Chen
Tel: 40-829-5278
Email: pingc@cadence.com
Chair
Charles Brown Jr.
Lawrence Livermore Nat’l Laboratory
P.O. Box 808, L-153
Livermore, CA 94551
Ph: 925-423-4435
Email: cgbrown@ieee.org
Program Chair
Jonathan David
Scintera, Inc.
1154 Sonora Ct.
Sunnyvale, CA 94086
Tel: 408-636-2618
408-390 2425 (c)
Email: j.david@ieee.org
Vice Chair
Farshid Aryanfar
Email: aryanfar@ieee.org
Secretary
Adam White
Lawrence Livermore Nat’l Laboratory
PO Box 808, L-153
Livermore, CA 94551
Ph: 925-424-5935
Email: adam.d.white@ieee.org
Treasurer
Mike Perkins
Lawrence Livermore Nat’l Laboratory
PO Box 808, L-153
Livermore, CA 94551
Ph: 925-337-4272
Email: mike_perkins@ieee.org
CIRCUITS AND
SYSTEMS SOCIETY
Chair
Navneet Jain
Transmeta Corporation
2073 Mesa Verde Dr.
Milpitas, CA 95035
Tel: 408-919-5939
Email: navneet@ieee.org
March 2008
Publicity and Seminar
Marduke Yousefpor
Email: mardukeyo@yahoo.com
COMMUNICATIONS
SOCIETY
Chair
Lu Chang
Tel: 408-888-8093
Email: luchang@ieee.org
Co-Chair
Bin Hu
Motorola Inc.
459 Casita Way
Los Altos, CA 94022
Tel: 408-541-6511
Email: hubenjamin@ieee.org
Treasurer
Mukul Chauhan
Email: makulchauhan@hotmail.com
Secretary/Program Chair
Alan Weissberger
Email: aweissberger@sbcglobal.net
Webmaster
Lu Chang
Email: luchang@ieee.org
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COMPONENTS,
PACKAGING &
MANUFACTURING
TECHNOLOGY
SOCIETY
Chair
Dan Donahoe, P.E.
Exponent Inc.
149 Commonwealth Drive
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Ph: 650-688-7129
Email: ddonahoe@exponent.com
Vice Chair
Allen M. Earman
Novalux, Inc.
4327 Lake Santa Clara Drive
Santa Clara, CA 95054-1331
Tel: (408) 691-5550
Email: aearman@ieee.org
Treasurer
Valerie Pilloud
Novellus
Email: valprofess@yahoo.com
Deputy Treasurer
Elizabeth Logan
P.O.Box 1042
Danville, California 94526
Tel: (510) 386-1745
Email: e.logan@ieee.org
Secretary
Mudasir Ahmad
Cisco Systems, Inc
170 West Tasman Drive
San Jose CA 95134
Email: mudasir.ahmad@cisco.com
Membership Development
Janis Karklins
Tel: 408 374-0960
Email: karlins@ieee.org
Program Chair Dinner Meetings
Harvey Miller
InfraFocus
255 Town & Country Village
Palo Alto, CA 94301
Tel: 650 327-2029
Email: h.miller@ieee.org
Program Co-Chair Lunch Meetings
Ed Aoki
Email: aoki.ed@gmail.com
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Program Co-Chair Lunch Meetings
Sandra Winkler
slwinkler@electronictrendpubs.com
Webmaster/Training/Communi’ns
Paul Wesling
12250 Saraglen Dr.
Saratoga, CA 95070
Tel: 408-331-0114
Email: p.wesling@ieee.org
Student Activities Chair
John Jackson
Analog Devices
1519 Blackhawk Dr
Sunnyvale, CA 94087
Tel: 408 732 2833
Email: john.jackson@analog.com
K-12 Education
Joseph Fjelstad
Silicon Pipe
992 De Anza Blvd #201
San Jose CA 95129
Tel: (408) 973-1744 x203
Email: j.fjelstad@ieee.org
Email: berenji@sonic.net
Vice Chair
Maryam Naghibzadeh
Secretary
Dr. Edward Katz
CMU-West
NASA Research Park,
Bldg 23 M/S 23-11
Moffett Field, CA 94035
Email: Edward.Katz@cmu.edu
Treasurer
Dr. Hamid Berenji
mail: berenji@sonic.net
COMPUTER SOCIETY
Chair
Howard (Ching T.) Ho
IBM – Almaden Research Center
K55/B1, 650 Harry Road
San Jose CA 95120
Tel: 408-927-1814
Email: ho@almaden.ibm.com
San Jose State University
San Jose, California 95192
Tel: 408-924-5121
e-mail: tylin@cs.sjsu.edu
CONSUMER
ELECTRONICS
SOCIETY
Chair
Gary Sasaki
DIGDIA
11234 Mt. Crest Pl
Cupertino, CA 95014
Tel: 408.981.2288
Email: gary.sasaki@digdia.com
Secretary/Webmaster
Bill Orner
Transmeta Corporation
3990 Freedom Circle
Santa Clara, CA 95054
Tel: 408.919.5975
Email: bill.orner@ieee.org
Awards and Advancement
Luu Nguyen
National Semiconductor
3707 Tahoe Way, Mail Stop 19-100
Santa Clara CA 95051
Tel: (408) 721-4786
Email: luu.nguyen@nsc.com
Vice Chair
Eric Louie
650 Harry Road
San Jose CA 95120
Tel: 408-927-2662
Email: ewlouie@almaden.ibm.com
Treasurer
Rich Elder
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
1501 Page Mill Rd.
Palo Alto CA 94306
Mobile: 650 269-3052
Office: 650 857-5247
Email: rich.elder@ieee.org
Financial Advisory
Bernie Siegal
Thermal Engineering Associates, Inc.
1780 Holly Ave
Menlo Park, CA 94025-5726
Email: B.siegal@ieee.org
Treasurer
Yoo Hsiu Yeh
Carnegie Mellon West
NASA Ames Research Park
Building 23 (MS 23-11)
Moffett Field CA 94035
Email: yoohsiu.yeh@gmail.com
Program Chair
Winston Chen
Qpixel Technologies
Tel: 408.572.6293
Cell: 408-621-1932
Email: wchen@qpixeltech.com
Newsletter
OPEN
Symposia Chair
OPEN
COMPUTATIONAL
INTELLIGENCE
SOCIETY
Chair
Dr. Hamid Berenji
Intelligent Inference Systems Corp
MS: 566-109
NASA Research Park
Moffett Field, CA 94035
Tel: 650 965-9365
March 2008
Secretary
Tom Qi Zhang
Google Inc.
1550 Plymouth Street
Mountain View CA 94043
Tel: 650-253-1376
Email: tomzhang@google.com
Publicity
Dale James Gutierrez
P.O. Box 320096
San Francisco CA 94132
Email: dalegut@ieee.org
Past Chair
T.Y. Lin
Department of Computer Science,
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Vice-Program Chair
Will Lumpkins
Director of Engineering
Pragmatics Technologies
1275 Lincoln Ave
San Jose, CA 95125
Tel: 408.289.8202
Mobile: 972-639-6393,
wlumpkins@pragmaticstech.com
Event Planning
Chris Pedersen
DIGDIA
Email: chris.pedersen@digdia.com
Michael Wang
Macronix International
Email: michaelawang@macronix.com
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Victor Ramamoorthy
Infinite Algorithms
Email: victor@infinitealgorithms.com
Past Chair:
Thomas M. Coughlin
Coughlin Associates
408 202-5098 (c)
Email: tom@tomcoughlin.com
Past Chair:
Abhi Dugar
ESS Technology, Inc
P.O.Box 2868
Saratoga, CA 95070
Tel:408.805.0268
Email: abhidugar@yahoo.com
CONSULTANTS’
NETWORK OF
SILICON VALLEY
Chair
T. Kim Parnell, Ph.D., P.E.
1150 Kelsey Drive
Sunnyvale, CA 94087
Tel: 408 732-4525
kim.parnell@stanfordalumni.org
Vice Chair
Duane Strong
Strong Engineering, LLC
4414 Ranchero Dr.
Soquel, CA 95073
Tel: 831-247 -0201
Email: duanes@ieee.org
Treasurer
Jeffrey Safire
2267 Oakland Avenue
Pleasanton, CA 94588
925.462.5454
jsafire@microdisk.com
Secretary
Joel Williams
1240 McKendrie St.
San Jose, CA 95126
Tel: 408-249-5574
Email: joel@emlinux.com
Advisor Director
Richard Ahrons
983 Garrity Way
Santa Clara, CA 95054
Tel: 408 970-8892
Email: ahrons@alum.MIT.edu
March 2008
Past Chair
Brian Berg
14500 Big Basin Way, Suite F
Saratoga, CA 95070-1488
Tel: 408 741-5010
Email: bberg@bswd.com
CONTROL SYSTEMS
SOCIETY
Chair/Treasurer
Tejesh Makanawala
107 Serenity Place
Milpitas, CA 95035
Email: t.c.makanawala@ieee.org
Secretary
Giuseppe Prisco
Tel: 408 523-2418
Email: gmprisco@ieee.org
EDUCATION SOCIETY
Chair
Ali Iranmanesh
Silicon Valley Technical Institute
1762 Technology Drive, Suite 227
San Jose, CA 95110
Tel: 408-573-0100
Email: alii@isqed.org
Vice Chair
Kevin Khosrow Lashkari
Silicon Valley Technical Institute
1762 Technology Drive, Suite 227
San Jose, CA 95110
Tel: 408-573-0100
Email: kevin@svtii.com
Secretary/Treasurer
David Craven
Lam Research Corp
P.O. Box 730
Los Altos, Ca 94023
Tel: 510-572-2141
Email: david.craven@lamrc.com
Program Chair
Lili He
San Jose State University
Dept. of Electrical Engineering
San Jose, CA 95192-0084
Tel: 408-924-4073
Email: lhe@email.sjsu.edu
Webmaster
Steven Swinkels
Email: s.swinkels@ieee.org
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ELECTROMAGNETIC
COMPATIBILITY
SOCIETY
Chair
Ken Renda
Lockheed Martin
Phone 408 742-7042
Email: ken.w.renda@lmco.com
Vice Chair
Oscar Mahinfallah
Cisco Systems, Inc.
170 West Tasman Drive
San Jose, CA 95134
Phone: 408 525-5068
Email: afallah@cisco.com
Treasurer
Tony Permsombut
Met Labs
215 Kiely Blvd., Unit B
Santa Clara, CA 95051
Phone: 510 378-1962
Email: TPermsombut@metlabs.com
Secretary
Len Goldschmidt
Cisco Systems
170 West Tasman Drive
San Jose, CA 95134
Tel: 408 902-8252
Email: lgoldsch@cisco.com
Institutions
Hans Mellberg
BACL Corp
Phone: 408 732-9162 x3601
Email: hans.mellberg@ieee.org
Membership
Peter Krebill
Email: pete.krebill@cetecomusa.com
Nominations: (pro-tem)
Shirley Cui Tarantino
BACL Corp
Phone: 408 732-9162 x3205
Email: ShirleyCuiUS@yahoo.com
Activities/Awards
Len Goldschmidt
Cisco Systems, M/S SJ-18-1
170 West Tasman Drive
San Jose, CA 95134
Tel: 408 902-8252
Email: lgoldsch@cisco.com
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Webmaster:
Mike Walker
CS Design
Email: mwalker23@gmail.com
ELECTRON DEVICES
SOCIETY
Chair
Samar Saha
DSM Solutions Inc.
130B Knowles Drive
Los Gatos, CA 95032
Tel: 408-866-4125
Email: samar@ieee.org
Vice Chair
Jaysimha Prasad
Maxim Integrated Products
3725 North First Street
San Jose, CA 95134
Tel: (408) 965-8178
Email: jprasad@ieee.org
Secretary/Webmaster
Manuj Rathor
AMD
One AMD Place
Sunnyvale, CA 94088
Tel: 408-390-2732
Email: mrathor@ieee.org
Assistant Secretary
Toshishige Yamada
Santa Clara University
500 El Camino Real
Santa Clara, CA 95053
Tel: 408 554-6983
Email: t.yamada@ieee.org
Treasurer
Chaparala Prasad
National Semiconductor
2900 Semiconductor Dr #D2-555
Santa Clara, CA 95052
Tel: 408-721-8985
Email: Prasad.chaparala@nsc.com
Past Chair
Jeffrey T. Watt
Altera
101 Innovation Drive MS 4204
San Jose, CA 95134
Tel: 408 544-8270
Fax: 408 544-7594
Email: jwatt@altera.com
March 2008
Past Chair
Philippe Jansen
National Semiconductor
M/S E-155
2900 Semiconductor Drive
Santa Clara, CA 95052
Tel: (408) 551-4500
Email philippe.jansen@ieee.org
ENGINEERING
MANAGEMENT
SOCIETY
See the new Technology
Management Council, below
ENGINEERING IN
MEDICINE &
BIOLOGY SOCIETY
Chair
Jim McIntosh
6149 Royal Acorn Place
San Jose, CA 95120
Tel: 408 626-9360
Email: smeci@earthlink.net
Secretary
Fred Rasmussen
1432 Thunderbird Ave.
Sunnyvale, CA 94087
Tel: 408 249-2478
email: fredemail@comcast.net
Treasurer
Steve Brugler
2041 Webster St.
Palo Alto, CA 94301
Tel: 650 322-3323
email: brugler@ieee.org
E-mail and Web Site
Jim Stoneburner
2071 Rockhurst Ct.
Santa Clara, CA 95051
Tel: 408 243-2232
email: jds@netwizards.net
SCV ExCom Contact
Ken Doniger
Email: k.doniger@ieee.org
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INSTRUMENTATION &
MEASUREMENT
SOCIETY
Chair
David Rivkin, PhD
1390 Curtiss Ave
San Jose, CA 95125-2321
Email: david.rivkin@ieee.org
Secretary
(Vacant)
Treasurer
John Niple
6581 Capri Way
San Jose, CA 95129
Tel: 408-865-1561
Email: john.niple@gmail.com
Webmaster
David Rivkin, PhD
1390 Curtiss Ave
San Jose, CA 95125
Email: david.rivkin@ieee.org
Past Chair
Yeou-Song (Brian) Lee
Anritsu Company
490 Jarvis Drive
Morgan Hill, CA
Tel: 408 201-1976
Email: brian.lee@ieee.org
INFORMATION
THEORY SOCIETY
Chair/Treasurer
Art Astrin
1051 Greenwood Ave.
Palo Alto, CA 94301
Tel: 650 328-1777
Email: art_astrin@yahoo.com
LASERS & ELECTRO
OPTICS SOCIETY
Chair
Bob Herrick
Finisar
41762 Christy St.
Fremont, CA 94538
Email: Bob_Herrick@sbcglobal.net
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Vice Chair
William Murray
Tel: 650-906-4471
Email: wmurray@invisilog.com
Secretary/Webmaster
David Saperstein
130 Durazno Way
Portola Valley, CA 94028
Tel: 408-570-3150
Email: dbrsap@aol.com
Treasurer
Brent K. Whitlock
Carr & Ferrell LLP
2200 Geng Rd.
Palo Alto, CA 94303
Tel: 650-812-3406
Email: b.whitlock@ieee.org
Past Chair
Dr. Roger F. Hoyt
6613 Tam O'Shanter Drive
San Jose, CA 95120
Phone/Fax number 408 997 1826
Email: r.hoyt@ieee.org
Secretary
Min Hua
Email: minhua@ieee.org
MICROWAVE THEORY
& TECHNIQUES
SOCIETY
Program Chair
Ram Sivaraman
KLA-Tencor, Mail Stop: J1229
145 Rio Robles
San Jose, CA 95134
Tel: 512 296-8734 (c)
Email: ramsivaraman@ieee.org
Chair
Mohamed Sayed
2608 Knob Hill Dr.
Santa Rosa, CA 95404
Tel: 707-578-1092
Email: mmsayed@sbcglobal.net
Educational Activities Coordinator
Edwin Vivian El-Kareh
Tel: 408 875-5203
Email: eelkareh@sbcglobal.net
Vice Chair
Luiz Franca-Neto
Tel: 408-718-0490
Email: franca@ieee.org
Education/Webmaster
Robert Dahlgren
Silicon Valley Photonics, Ltd.
P.O. Box 1569
San Jose, CA 95109
Tel;: 408-437-9292
Email: bob.dahlgren@ieee.org
Treasurer
Jay Banwait
Email: jsbanwait@ieee.org
Secretary
Nima Shams
Tel: 510-676-4475
Email: npshams@gmail.com
Chapter Angel
Ron Kubacki
Venue Coordinator
Amjad Obeidat
Webmaster
Michael Forman
Michael.A.Forman@Sandia.gov
MAGNETICS SOCIETY
Chair
Georg Lauhoff
Samsung Information Systems
Tel: 408 544-5884
georglauhoff@georglauhoff.com
Program Chair:
Uri Cohen
Email: uricohen1111@yahoo.com
Treasurer
Joost Mortelmans
HGST (ret.)
Tel: (650) 941-8035
Email: mortelman@gmail.com
March 2008
Past Chair
Jim Sowers
Space Systems/Loral
3825 Fabian Way, M/S G16
Palo Alto, CA 94303
Tel: 650 852-5172
Email: jimsowers@sbcglobal.net
NANOTECHNOLOGY
COUNCIL
Chair
Kris Verma
Tel: 408 573-0100
Email: krisverma@sbcglobal.net
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Vice Chair
Nick Massetti
Tel: 650 424-3708
Email: nickmassetti@ieee.org
Secretary
Jack Berg
Treasurer
Wei Wu
Tel: 650 857-7255
Email: wei.wu@hp.com
Past Chair
Dhaval Brahmbhatt
50 Airport Parkway, Suite 111
San Jose, CA 95110
Tel: 408 561-1594
Email: dhavaljb@aol.com
Past Chair
Nitin Parekh
Tel: 650 812-4132
Email: nitin.parekh@parc.com
POWER
ELECTRONICS
SOCIETY
(No Report)
POWER
ENGINEERING &
INDUSTRY
APPLICATIONS
SOCIETIES
Chair
James Alvers
Square D/Schneider Electric
6160 Stoneridge Mall Rd., Suite 200
Pleasanton, CA 94588
Tel: 925-730-3105
510-604-6979 (c)
Email: james.alvers@us.schneiderelectric.com
Vice Chair
Richard Celio
Applied Power Technologies
10601 S. De Anza Blvd., #106
Cupertino, CA 95014
Tel: 408-342-0790
408-821-7749 (c)
Email: rcelio@apt4power.com
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Treasurer
Fred Jones, P.E.
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
2575 Sand Hill Rd.
M/S 22 (Bldg. 035, Rm. 006)
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Tel: 650-926-2036
408-687-2433 (c)
Email: f.jones@ieee.org
Secretary
K. S. Wong
Fluor
Tel: 650-742-4306
Email: ks.wong@fluor.com
ADCOM
Rhonda Tramble, P.E.
University of California Santa Cruz
1156 High Street, Barn G
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Tel: 831-459-2733
Email: rtramble@ucsc.edu
Vish Ponnathpore, P.E.
Greene Engineers
1740 Technology Dr., Suite 210
San Jose, Ca 95110
Tel: 408 200 7223
Email: vish.ponnathpore@greeneengineers.com
PRODUCT SAFETY
ENGINEERING
SOCIETY
Chair
Steve Baldwin
Lam Research Corporation
45757 Northport Loop West
Fremont, CA 94538
Tel: 408-838-2667
Email: steve.baldwin@lamrc.com
Vice Chair
Richard Powell
309 Manzanita Avenue
Santa Clara, CA 95051
Tel: 408) 249-5708
Email: r6powell@comcast.net
Treasurer
Mark Montrose
Montrose Compliance Services, Inc.
2353 Mission Glen Drive
Santa Clara, CA 95051-1214
Tel: 408.247.5715
Email: m.montrose@ieee.org
March 2008
Secretary
Gary Eldridge, P.E.
Apple Computer
1 Infinite Loop, MS: 26-P
Cupertino, CA 95014
Tel: 408.974.7365
Email: Geldridge@apple.com
Webmaster
Mike Gibson
Underwriters Laboratories Inc.
455 E. Trimble Rd.
San Jose, CA 95131
Tel: 408-754-6644
Email: Michael.Gibson@us.ul.com
Past Chair
Thomas M. Burke, PE
Underwriters Laboratories, Inc.
1655 Scott Blvd.
Santa Clara, CA 95050-4169
Tel: 408-876-2286
Email: thomas.m.burke@us.ul.com
Past Chair
John W. McBain
KLA-Tencor
160 Rio Robles (A-1114G)
San Jose, CA 95134
Tel: 408.875.8996
Email: Johnmcbain@ieee.org
RELIABILITY
SOCIETY
Chair
Mike Silverman
20151 Guava Court
Saratoga, CA 95070
Tel: 408-472-3889
Email: mikes@opsalacarte.com
Vice Chair
Fred Schenkelberg
968 White Cloud Dr.
Morgan Hill, CA 95037
Tel: 408-710-8248
Email: fms@ieee.org
Tel: 408-822-3340
Email: Jon.Elerath@netapp.com
Ex Officio
Arthur Rawers
Xilinx
585 Calle Siena
Morgan Hill, CA 95037
Tel: 408-482-2177
Email: arthur.rawers@xilinx.com
Webmaster
Wei Hou
Research In Motion
Tel: 519-888-7465 x 3965
whou@rim.com
ROBOTICS AND
AUTOMATION
SOCIETY
Chair
Edward P. Katz
Carnegie Mellon University West
NASA Rsch Park, Bldg 23 M/S 23-11
Moffett Field, CA 94035
Tel: 650-335-2839
Email: e.p.katz@ieee.org
Vice-Chair
Dave Wyland
165 Berkshire Drive
Morgan Hill, CA 95037
Tel: 408-778-3860
Email: dcwyland@ix.netcom.com
Program Chair
Waiming Mok
462 Crescent Ave
Sunnyvale, CA 94087
Tel: 408-404-8707 / 408-738-3016
Email: wmm@ix.netcom.com
Secretary-Treasurer
Angie Shia
125 Hilton Way, Apt #4
Pacifica, CA 94044
Tel: 510-735-6726
Email: the7of9s@yahoo.com
Treasurer
Alan Wood
Sun Microsystems
Tel: 650-568-4855
Email: alanw@ieee.org
SIGNAL
PROCESSING
SOCIETY
Secretary
Jon Elerath
Network Appliance
Chair
Tokunbo Ogunfunmi
Dept. of Electrical Engineering
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Santa Clara University
Santa Clara, CA 95053
Tel: 408-554-4481
Email: tokunbo@ieee.org
Webmaster
Perry Chow
Tel: 408 926-2954
Email: aceperry@ieee.org
Vice Chair
Xiaoshu Qian
Intel Corporation
Email: xiaoshuqian@yahoo.com
Past Chair
Adrian Gradinaru
Magma Design Automation
5460 Bayfront Plaza
Santa Clara, CA 95054-3600
Ph (W): (408) 565-7953
Email: adrian.gradinaru@ieee.org
Treasurer
Vlad Potanin
Tel: 408-721-4679
Email: vlad@nsc.com
Secretary
Doug Chan
douglas.chan@ieee.org
TECHNOLOGY
MANAGEMENT
COUNCIL
Program Coordinator
Yen-Kuang Chen
y.k.chen@ieee.org
Chair
Chris Sims
ems@technicalmanagementinstitute.com
SOLID STATE
CIRCUITS SOCIETY
Chair
Dan Oprica
P.O. Box 62288
Sunnyvale, CA 94088
Tel: 408-985-9166
Email: opricad@ieee.org
Vice Chair
Mark Hooper
211 Stockbridge Ave.
Atherton, CA 94027
Tel: 650-368-0831
Email: mh5@ieee.org
Treasurer
Gregoire Le Grand de Mercey
401 Chiquita Ave
Mountain View CA 94041
Tel: 650-215-0067
Email: gdemercey@ieee.org
Secretary
Kiran Gunnam
2050 McKee Road, Apt 83
San Jose, CA-95116
Tel: 979-492-7964
Email: kgunnam@ieee.org
Vice Chair
Julia Sulisthio
P.O. Box 62407
Sunnyvale, CA 94088
Tel: 408-316-6279
Email: jsulisthio@ieee.org
Treasurer
Richard Stallkamp
18305 Murphy Springs Dr.
Morgan Hill, CA 95037
Tel: 408-779-6038
Email: rstallkamp@ieee.org
Secretary
Larry Reeves
Data Domain
Tel: 408-980-4827
Email: lreeves@ieee.org
VEHICULAR
TECHNOLOGY
SOCIETY
Chair/Treasurer
Clay Maynard
3311 Brandywine Drive
Yuba City, CA 95993
Tel: 530 790-6611
Email: clay@maynard.com
Vice Chair/Programs
David Craven
P.O. Box 730
Los Altos, CA 94023
(510) 572-2141
Email: david.craven@lamrc.com
Secretary/Webmaster
Stephen Foley
25261 Terrace Grove Rd.
Los Gatos, CA 95033
(408) 316-2017
Email: foleys@hotmail.com
WOMEN IN
ENGINEERING
Chair/Treasurer
Roxsana Hadjizadeh
Tesla Motors Inc.
San Jose, CA 95120
Tel: 408-361-9940
Email: Roxsana@ieee.org
Vice-Chair/Secretary
Katie Purcell
Email: ksp34@yahoo.com
Webmaster
Ilya V. Ivanchenko
Email: iva2k@yahoo.com
Publicity
Rich Hendrickson
rich.hendrickson@ieee.org
Event Coordinator
Pete Edwards
pedwards@cadence.com
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