Council on Electronic Design
Automation Chapter
Spring Planning Meeting
January 26, 2013
San Marcos, TX
IEEE Central Texas Section
Chapter Leadership Team
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Chair: Zhuo Li, IBM (zhuoli@ieee.org)
Vice Chair: Magdy Abadir, Freescale
(RA4282@freescale.com)
Secretary: Cliff Sze, IBM (csze@us.ibm.com)
Webmaster: Natarajan Viswanathan, IBM
(nviswan@us.ibm.com)
Publicity Chair: Himyanshu Anand, Freescale
(R61978@freescale.com)
IEEE Central Texas Section
2012 Technical Seminars
Date
Topic
Speaker
Attendees
08/20/2012
IEEE CTS CEDA August Inaugural meeting:
(1) DAC 2012 Review
(2) POWER Processor Design & Methodology
Directions
(3) Overview of Accellera Systems Initiative &
IEEE Design Technology Committee
Joshua Friedrich, IBM
Bill Read, Freescale
Sani R. Nassif, IBM
Zhuo Li, IBM
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Aug 30, 2012
IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecture: Energy
Limits in Current A/D Converter Architectures
Prof. Boris Murmann,
Stanford University
45
Sep 24, 2012
Active Management of Timing Guardband to
Save Energy in POWER7
Charles Lefurgy, IBM
18
Ruchir Puri, IBM
61
Prof. Susmita Sur-Kolay,
Indian Statistical Institute
22
Gary Daniels, GIT Satellite
Communications
144
Oct 3, 2012
IEEE CTS CAS/SSC/CEDA Joint Meeting with
UT ECE Department – Opportunities and
Challenges for High Performance
Microprocessor Designs & Design Automation
Oct 9, 2012
Challenges in Synthesizing Quantum
Computers
Oct 24, 2012
IEEE CTS CTCN / CAS / SSC / CEDA / WIE /
LM Joint Meeting – Legendary Engineering
Success Stories
IEEE CTS CAS/SSC/CEDA Workshop– “Data
Parallelism for multi-core chips and GPU"
Oct 27, 2012
IEEE Central Texas Section
Dec 13, 2012
Placement for the Next Decade
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Chuck Alpert, IBM
20
2012 Big Event
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IEEE CTS CAS/SSC/CEDA Workshop
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Data Parallelism for Multi-Core Chips and GPU
All day workshop held on 10/27/2012
Seven Speakers from IBM, AMD, Altera, ARM,
Texas A&M, UT Austin
74 number of attendees from industry
and academia
The workshop story will be published in SSCS
Magazine
IEEE Central Texas Section
Seminars
IEEE Central Texas Section
Workshop
IEEE Central Texas Section
SWOT Analysis
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Strengths
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Weaknesses
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Year-old chapter with enthusiastic officers!
Need more local speakers
Opportunities
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Local chip design and EDA companies, UT Austin
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DAC 2013
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Co-sponsor events with other chapters
Threats
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Differentiate with other parent societies/chapters
IEEE Central Texas Section
Chapter Plans
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DAC 2013 publicity/promotional event.
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Two seminars have been planned for this year.
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Invite more speakers from local chip design
and EDA companies
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Synopsys, Intel, Freescale, Samsung, etc.,
Invite local speakers to present their DAC
Designer/User Track submission
Have a yearly DAC review
Co-sponsor Distinguished Lectures with
SSC or CAS Society
iPhone App programming workshop (still in plan)
IEEE Central Texas Section
Questions?
Thank You!
IEEE Central Texas Section