1. Council on Electronic Design Automation Chapter
Spring Planning Meeting
January 16, 2016
San Marcos, TX

2. Chapter Officers Chair Kevin Nesmith EDDR Software
Vice Chair
Wen Hao Liu
Cadence
Secretary
Guo Yu
Oracle
Treasurer
Duo Ding
Webmaster
Jason Monagaras
Si2 2

3. 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+ 3

4. 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 4

5. 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

6. Membership by the Numbers 1/12/2016
What constitutes a “CEDA Member”?
Central Texas Chapter CEDA
list #2221, up 32% from this time last year
Actual council members #42, up from #35
LinkedIn group up to #91

7. 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

8. Questions?
Thank You!