IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society
Taipei Chapter
2008 Annual Meeting Report
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Contents
1. Organization and Society’s Web Page
2. General Affairs
3. Activities in Year 2008 and Future Plan
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Organization
Name
Chorng-Kuang
Wang
Advisory
Board
Jieh-Tsorng Wu
Affiliation
Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University
Department of Electronics Engineering, National Chiao Tung University
Shen-Iuan Liu
Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University
Chairman
Wei-Zen Chen
Department of Electronics Engineering, National Chiao Tung University
Secretary
Chien-Nan Kuo
Department of Electronics Engineering, National Chiao Tung University
Treasurer
Tsung-Hsien Lin
Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University
Tai-Cheng Lee
Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University
Conference
Affairs
Po-Chiun Huang
Liang-Hung Lu
Education
Affairs
Hao-Chiao Hong
Publicity
Affairs
Ching-Yuan Yang
Assistant
Sylvia Su
Department of Electrical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University
Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University
Department of Electrical and Control Engineering, National Chiao Tung
University
Department of Electrical Engineering, National Chung Hsing University
Department of Electronics Engineering, National Chiao Tung University
http://www.ics.ee.nctu.edu.tw/~SSCSTPE
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General Affairs
1. Presentation at Region-10 SSCS Chapter Chair Meeting.
2. Presentation at SSCS Chapter Chair Meeting, San
Francisco, 2008/Feb.
3. Annual Meeting and Chair Election
VLSI Design/CAD Symposium, Keng-Ting, Taiwan,
2008/August
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Activities in Year 2008
 ISSCC Rehearsal/Program Overview
 Short Courses (8)
 2 more short courses to be held in Nov. and Dec.
 Co-sponsored Events (2)
 IC Design Contest, May~June, 2008.
 Silicon-IP Design Contest, April~June, 2008.
 Co-sponsored Conferences (3)
 2008 IEEE International Symposium on VLSI Design, Automation,
and Test (300 participants)
 2008 VLSI Design/CAD Symposium (1000 participants)
 2008 Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference
 Student Travel Grant
 Headcounts
: 20
 Grant
:NT$ 10,000 for Airplane fair
 Membership Promotion in
 VLSI/CAD Symposium
 VLSI-TSA-DAT
 A-SSCC Press Conference
 ISSCC Press Conference*
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Short Course and Lecture
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Successful Entrepreneurship in the field of Fabless Semiconductors
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Dr. Rakesh Kumar (TCX)
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Nov. 17/18, at NTU/NCTU, Hsinchu/Taipei
Systematic Transistor and Inductor Modeling for Millimeter-Wave Design
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Prof. Behzad Razavi of UCLA
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Sep. 11, 2008 , at NTU, Taipei
Digital RF Processor (DRP) for Single-Chip Mobile Radios: All-Digital PLL,
Transmitter and Discrete-Time Receiver
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Dr. R. Bogdan Staszewski, Texas Instruments, USA
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Aug. 20/21, 2008, at NCTU/NTU, Hsinchu/Taipei
More Moore or More than Moore
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Prof. Willy Sansen, K.U. Leuven, Belgium
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Apr. 24, 2008, at NTU, Taipei
High-Speed ADCs: History and Future
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Prof. Akira Matsuzawa, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
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Apr. 24, 2008, at NTU, Taipei
Microscopic Wireless
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Prof. Jan M. Rabaey, UC Berkeley, USA
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Apr. 1, 2008, at NTU, Taipei
Noise Measurements in Mixed-signal LSIs
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Prof. Makoto Ikeda, University of Tokyo, Japan
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Mar. 28, 2008, at NTU, Taipei
Designing with Nanoscale Switches
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Prof. Siva Narendra, Portland State University, USA
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Mar. 28, 2008, at NTU, Taipei
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Membership Promotion & 07’ISSCC Replay
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VLSI-DAT & VLSI-TSA Symposium
Ambassador Hotel, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan,
April 21-24, 2008
VLSI Design/CAD Symposium
 Howard Beach Resort, Kenting,
Taiwan
 Aug 5-8, 2008
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A-SSCC Press Conferemce
 Time : September 15 2008
 Venue : Grand Hyatt Taipei
 Attendance : 27
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Plan for the Next Year
1. Annual report at SSCS Chapter Chair Meeting,
2009/Feb.
2. Annual Meeting, 2009/Aug., Taiwan
3. Short Courses.
4. Co-sponsoring conferences, symposiums, …
5. Membership drive.
6. Senior membership drive.
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