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

3. Chapter Leadership Team
Chair: Seth Wilk (RF Micropower,
Vice Chair: Nan Sun (UT Austin,
Treasurer: Mikel Ash (TI,
Advisor
Matt Felder
Zhuo Li (IBM,
Notes:

4. 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:

5. 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:

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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.

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

10. QUESTIONS??? Thanks
If you’d like to learn more about electronic services, you’ll want to attend the session on the Electronic Services being presented this afternoon by Christian Borgert (BORE-GERT) and Chip Dawson. If you miss this afternoon’s session, you can see it tomorrow morning.
Now I’d like to answer your questions about newsletters and electronic services . . .
(After Q&A)
I’m sorry we don’t have time to answer all of your questions, but we have an abundance of expertise with us this weekend, and much of it is in the Computer Lab upstairs. Stop by and get more information anytime.