Solid-State Circuits / Circuit
and System Joint Chapter
IEEE Central Texas Section
Fall Planning Meeting
September 8, 2012
San Marcos, TX
Chapter Leadership Team
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Chair: Zhuo Li (IBM, zhuoli@ieee.org)
Vice Chair: Nan Sun (UT Austin,
nansun@mail.utexas.edu)
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Secretary: Mikel Ash (TI, mikel.ash@ti.com)
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Advisor
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Matt Felder (matt_felder@yahoo.com)
Haoxing Ren (IBM, renhaoxing@ieee.org)
IEEE Central Texas Section
Chapter Updates
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Meeting location: UT Campus ENS 306 or ACES
2.402
Officer election will be held at October meeting.
Ten technical meetings, two administrative meetings.
Oct 27 Workshop: IEEE CTS CAS/SSC Workshop:
Data Parallelism for Multi-Core Chips and GPU
(Speakers from IBM, AMD, Altera, Texas A&M, and
maybe Nvidia and Intel). Include tutorial and panel
discussion as well.
IEEE Solid State Circuits 2011 Outstanding Chapter
Award at ISSCC ($1000 prize)
IEEE Central Texas Section
2012 Chapter Meetings
Date
Technical/Adm
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Topic
Speaker
# pl
01/17/12
Technical
Integrated Systems for a Smarter Planet
Dr. Peter Hoftsee (IBM)
15
02/07/12
Technical
Ultra Low Power Electronics in the Next Decade
Ajith Amerasekera (TI)
44
03/27/12
Technical
Annual Review of ISSCC Processor and
Memory
Matt Felder, Josh Friedrich,
Dr. Ramin K. Poorfard and
Dr. Betty Prince
23
04/03/12
Technical
Annual Review of ISSCC Analog and RF
Matt Felder, Josh Friedrich,
Dr. Ramin K. Poorfard and
Dr. Betty Prince
29
05/29/12
Technical
What is ESD? Why is it important for Electrical
Engineers?
Ajay Kuma (TI)
13
06/26/12
Technical
SSCS Inaugural Webinar Event - "Dark Secrets
of RF Design"
Dr. Tom Lee (Stanford)
20
07/06/12
Technical
Bridging Design and Manufacture of
Analog/Mixed-Signal Circuits in Advanced
CMOS
Dr. Alvin Loke (AMD)
12
07/10/12
Technical
Memory and Memory Related Technology
Trends at the June 2012 VLSI Symposium
Dr. Betty Prince (Memory
Strategies International)
20
08/10/12
Technical
IEEE CASS Distinguished Lecture: Ultra Low
Power Analog Integrated Circuits for Implantable
Medical Devices
Dr. Fernando Silveira
(Universidad de la
República)
22
08/30/12
Technical
IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecture: Energy
Limits in Current A/D Converter Architectures
Dr. Boris Murmann
(Stanford)
45
IEEE Central Texas Section
SWOT Analysis
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Strengths
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Good technical talks, DL program.
Stable attendance rate.
So far one workshop per year in last two years and one
planned for this year.
Good leadership pipeline.
Stable funding resource from CAS and SSC Society.
Extra subsidy funding from CAS and SSC for workshop or
extra events to promote memberships.
Weaknesses
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Find more good technical talks and workshop topics.
Increase attendance rate.
IEEE Central Texas Section
SWOT Analysis
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Opportunities
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Local chip design and EDA companies
University of Texas, Austin
Threats
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Seminars inside companies and Universities
A less interesting workshop may get cancelled or need more
funding.
IEEE Central Texas Section
Chapter Plans / Issues
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Continue ISSCC annual review.
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One more SSC Distinguished Lecture in Oct 11.
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Cosponsor event/seminars with new CEDA chapter
(Aug 30 DL seminar is sponsored by both SSC and
CEDA).
Invite Distinguished Lecture Program speakers.
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QUESTIONS???
Thanks
IEEE Central Texas Section