Council on Electronic Design Automation Chapter Spring Planning Meeting January 16, 2016 San Marcos, TX
Chapter Officers Chair Kevin Nesmith EDDR Software kevin.a.nesmith@ieee.org Vice Chair Wen Hao Liu Cadence whliu@cadence.com Secretary Guo Yu Oracle guo.yu@oracle.com Treasurer Duo Ding dingeceutexas@gmail.com Webmaster Jason Monagaras Si2 jmongaras@gmail.com 2
Chapter Meetings Date Technical/Admin Topic Speaker # attendant 01/09/15 Technical Tackling Variability Challenges in VLSI Circuits Mingoo Seok (Columbia U.) 30+ 02/03/15 Opportunities and Challenges in Human Centered Robotics Dr. Sentis & Dr. Fok (UT) 20+ 03/10/15 Electromigration Study for TSV-Based 3-D ICs Dr. Jiwoo Pak (Cadence) 10+ 04/10/15 Storage in Big Data Systems and the Roles Flash can Play Thomas Hebregtsen (IBM) 24+ 06/05/15 Photonics at Extreme Ultraviolet and Soft X-ray Wavelengths Prof. Carmen Menoni (Colorado St. Univ.) 32+ www.ieee-ceda.org 3
Chapter Meetings Holiday Social and Networking Date Technical/Admin Topic Speaker # attendant 9/10 Technical Software Debug and Test Chris Durand (Bridge360) 11+ 10/1 IBM Watson Robotics Ali Unwala (IBM) 39+ 10/13 Memory for Internet of Things Dr. Betty Prince (Memory Strategies International) 20+ 11/4 Trustworthy Hardware Ramesh Karri (NYU) 19+ 11/11 The New Horizon’s Mission to Pluto Scott Weidner (SWRI) 33+ 12/11 Social Holiday Social and Networking www.ieee-ceda.org 4
SWOT Analysis Weaknesses Strengths Local chip design and EDA companies, universities Found new meeting home at Cadence Weaknesses Meeting attendance Opportunities 4 new officers Co-sponsor events with other chapters and Semiconductor/EDA company events Threats Differentiate with other parent societies/chapters
Membership by the Numbers 1/12/2016 What constitutes a “CEDA Member”? Central Texas Chapter CEDA Email list #2221, up 32% from this time last year Actual council members #42, up from #35 LinkedIn group up to #91
Chapter Plans DAC support activities from now until June ICCAD support activities in November Co-sponsor annual TexasWISE workshop Co-sponsor annual consultants workshop Elections in November Happy hour event at the end of 2016
Questions? Thank You!