Solid-State Circuits / Circuit and System Joint Chapter IEEE Central Texas Section Spring Planning Meeting January 16, 2016 San Marcos, TX

Chapter Leadership Team Chair: Seth Wilk (RF Micropower, swilk@ieee.org) Vice Chair: Nan Sun (UT Austin, nansun@mail.utexas.edu) Treasurer: Mikel Ash (TI, mikel.ash@ti.com) Advisor Matt Felder (matt_felder@yahoo.com) Zhuo Li (IBM, zhuoli@ieee.org) Notes:

Chapter Updates Meeting location: UT Campus ACES (POB) 2.402 We are looking for additional locations and would appreciate any suggestions. Kenny Rice mentioned that he might be able to help. We were able to hold several meetings jointly at different locations last year and would like to do so in 2016 3 Technical seminars so far for 2016 Dallas Section will do TexasWISE this year Notes:

2015 Chapter Meetings Notes: Meeting Date Event Category Meeting Title Speaker vTools L31 1/9/2015 Technical IEEE CTS CAS/SSC CEDA Jan 9 Meeting - Tackling Variability Challenges in VLSI Circuits Mingoo Seok Yes 2/3/2015 IEEE CTS CEDA CAS/SSC Feb 3 Seminar - Opportunities and Challenges in Human Centered Robotics Dr. Sentis and Dr. Fok 2/20/2015 Ultra low energy DSP, synonym of ultra low voltage DSP Wim Dehaene 3/12/2015 IEEE CTS CAS/SSC March Meeting:The Annual Review of the ISSCC Conference: Digital, Processor and Memory Betty Prince and Eric Fluhr 3/24/2015 IEEE CTS CAS/SSC March Meeting: The Annual Review of the ISSCC Conference: Analog and RF Ramin Poorfard and Axel Thomsen 3/27/2015 TexasWISE Workshop Invited Speakers and Industry Madness Session 5/28/2015 Advances and Trends in CMOS Analog and RF Integrated Circuits David Allstot 9/10/2015 How Test Automation Drives Modern Agile Software Development Chris Durand 9/24/2015 Logic debugging by replacing internal gates with new functions Masahiro Fujita 10/19/2015 Micropower Incremental A/D Converters Gabor Temes yes 10/27/2015 3D Vertical NAND Flash Betty Prince 11/4/2015 Trustworthy Hardware Ramesh Karri   12/11/2015 Social IEEE CEDA, CS, COMSOC/SP, CTCN, and SSC/CAS Holiday Social and Networking Event 12/15/2015 CMOS Transceiver Circuits for Short-Reach Optical Communication Tony Chan Carusone Notes:

IEEE CTS CAS/SSC Seminar: Demystifying Linear Time Varying Systems 2016 Scheduled Meetings Meeting Date Event Category Meeting Title Speaker vTools 2/5/2016 Technical IEEE CTS CAS/SSC Seminar: Demystifying Linear Time Varying Systems Shanthi Pavan Yes IEEE CTS CAS/SSC Seminar: Design Techniques for High Performance Continuous-time Delta Sigma Modulators 4/21/2016 IEEE CTS CAS/SSC Seminar: Energy efficient circuit technologies for the sub-14nm era: challenges and opportunities Ram Krishnamurthy We plan to schedule the ISSCC reviews again this year Both Nagaraja and Nan will attend

SWOT Analysis Strengths Weaknesses Good technical talks, DL program (1 so far this year) Stable attendance rate. So far one workshop per year in last three years and one more 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 Find more good technical talks and workshop topics. Increase attendance rate. Keep website updated

SWOT Analysis Opportunities Threats Local chip design and EDA companies University of Texas, Austin Threats Seminars inside companies and Universities A less interesting workshop may get cancelled or need more funding.

Chapter Plans / Issues Continue ISSCC annual review. Cosponsor event/seminars with other chapters Invite Distinguished Lecture Program speakers. Notes:

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