IEEE Santa Clara Valley (SCV)
Solid State Circuits Society

About

Our IEEE Santa Clara Valley Solid State Circuits Society Chapter was the first IEEE SSCS Chapter established in the world in 1997. Jonathan David conducted the petition drive and served as first Chapter Chair.

The SCV SSCS Chapter has the largest membership of any SSCS Chapter in the world with over 1600 members. 25 members are IEEE Fellows (6 are Life Fellows), 24 are IEEE Life members (2 are Senior Life members) and 80 are IEEE Senior Members. We hold 8-11 technical meetings every year. Our speakers are experts from industry, Professors or Ph.D. candidates from renowned educational institutions or IEEE Distinguished Lecturers. The emphasis in our presentations is on practical IC design, device modeling and CAE tools. The lecture usually lasts more than one hour and is followed by discussions. We post the majority of our presentations on our web site:

http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/ssc/

http://www.ieee.org/scv/ssc/.

SCV SSCS Technical meetings are typically held on The THIRD Thursday of each month at:  

National Semiconductor Building E Auditorium
2900 Semiconductor Dr., Santa Clara, CA 95051   Directions and NSC Map

The talks are open to everyone, feel free to join us even if you are not an IEEE member yet.

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Upcoming Events
Following events are already set for:

• November 19, 2009: Our speaker is Asad Abidi (UCLA), and the topic of his presentation is "Microelectronics and the Rise of High Technology: A History of the US IC Design Industry"

Previous Events

• October 15, 2009: Our speaker was Stefan Rusu (Intel Corporation), and the topic of his presentation was "Nehalem-EX: a 45nm, 8-core Enterprise Processor"

• September 17, 2009:  Our speaker was  David Su (Atheros Communications), and the topic of his presentation was  " Designing CMOS wireless System-on-a-chip"

• August 20, 2009:  Our speaker was  Tinoosh Mohsenin (University of California, Davis), and the topic of her presentation was  " A 32 Gbps 2048-bit 10GBASE-T Ethernet Energy Efficient LDPC Decoder with Split-Row Threshold Decoding Method"

• June 18 2009:  Our speaker was  Cristian Marcu (Berkeley Wireless Research Center), and the topic of his presentation was  " A Low-Power 60GHz Transceiver with Integrated Baseband Circuitry"

• May 21 2009:  Our speaker was  Nikola Nedovic (Fujitsu Laboratories of America), and the topic of his presentation was  " Clock and Data Recovery in High-Speed Wireline Communications"

• May 12 2009:  Joint sponsorship with IEEE Santa Clara Valley Electron Devices Society. Our speaker was  Dr. Subramanian "Shiva" Ramesh (CTO GreenSys Technologies), and the topic of his presentation was  " Power and variability: challenges and solutions"

• April 16 2009:  Our speaker was  David Sobel (Broadcom Corporation), and the topic of his presentation was  " A Baseband Mixed-Signal Receiver Front-End for 1Gbps Wireless Communications at 60GHz"

• March 19 2009:  Our speaker was  Prof. Bernhard E. Boser (EECS, UC-Berkeley ), and the topic of his presentation was  " Positive Feedback, Negative Feedback - A closer look at phase margin"

• February 12 2009:   Our speaker was Hyunsik Park (Atheros), and the topic of his presentation was  " High-Precision Low-Voltage Low-Power Analog-to-Digital Conversion"

• February 11 2009:   "The Basic Electronic Components: Finding the Missing Memristor" -- Stanley Williams, HP Laboratories. SSCS is Co-Sponsoring a Technical Dinner Meeting. Also Co-Sponsoring this meeting (due to the subject) are the IEEE-NanoTechnology Council and IEEE-Electron Devices Society.

• January 15 2009:  Our speaker was  Ken Kundert, (Designer's Guide Consulting), and the topic of his presentation,  " Analog Verification"

• December 12, 2008:   Our speaker was Prof. Boris Murmann (Stanford University),  and the topic of his presentation,   "Future Directions in Mixed-Signal Circuit Design"

• November 10, 2008:   Short Course: Architecture and Circuit Design for High-Speed Pipelined A/D Converters Prof. Boris Murmann, Stanford University  

• October 16, 2008:   Our speaker was Prof. Michael H. Perrott (MIT),  and the topic of his presentation,   "High Performance Digital Fractional-N Frequency Synthesizers"

• Septmber 18, 2008:   Our speaker was Prof. Ali Niknejad (UC Berkeley),  and the topic of his presentation,   "Teaching CMOS to Surf mm-Waves "

• August 21, 2008:   Our speaker was Stefan Rusu (Intel Corporation),  and the topic of his presentation,   "Power and leakage reduction in the nanoscale era"

• June 19, 2008:   Our speaker was  Domine M. W. Leenaerts , (NXP Semiconductors), and the topic of his presentation,   "WiMedia Ultra-Wide Band Communication"

• May 19, 2008:  IEEE SCV CAS , SSC and MTT Chapters Joint 2008 Presentation(IEEE Distinguished Lecture)
  Our speaker was  Naveen K. Yanduru, (Texas Instruments Inc), and the topic of his presentation is   "Achieving highly integrated, re-configurable RF front-ends in deep sub-micron CMOS with an example of a WCDMA, GSM/GPRS/EDGE receiver front-end without inter-stage SAW filter in 90nm CMOS"

• May 15, 2008:   Our speakers were  Sotirios Limotyrakis and Dave Weber, (Atheros Communications, Inc.), and the topics of their presentations,   "An 802.11n 2x2 MIMO radio in 0.13um CMOS"
  and
  "A Bluetooth v2.1 radio in 0.13um CMOS"

• April 17, 2008:   Our speaker was Raul-Adrian Cernea, (SanDisk Corporation), and the topic of his presentation was   "Nonvolatile Erasable Flash Nand Memories"

• March 20, 2008:   Our speaker was Murat Demirkan, (Agilent Technologies), and the topic of his presentation was   "A 1.8 Gpulses/s UWB Transmitter in 90nm CMOS"

• February 21, 2008:   Our speaker was Kiran Gunnam, (LSI Corporation), and the topic of his presentation was  " Area and Energy Efficient VLSI Architectures For Low-Density Parity-Check Decoders Using An On-The-Fly Computation"

• January 17, 2008:   Our speaker was Samuel Palermo, (Intel Corporation), and the topic of his presentation was  " A 90nm CMOS 16Gb/s Transceiver for Optical Interconnects"

• More past events

Officers for 2009

• Chair: Gregoire de Mercey [gdemercey(AT)ieee(DOT)org]

• Vice Chair: Kiran Gunnam [kgunnam(AT)ieee(DOT)org]

• Treasurer: Mowen Yang [yang.mowen[AT]ieee[DOT]org]

• Secretary: Shailesh Nerurkar [nerurkar.shailesh[AT]gmail[DOT]com]

• Webmaster: Perry Chow [aceperry(AT)ieee(DOT)org]

• Events Coordinator: Krishna Kumar [krishnam321[AT]yahoo[DOT]com]

• Program Chair: Dan Oprica [opricad(AT)ieee(DOT)org]

• Past Chair (2008): Dan Oprica [opricad(AT)ieee(DOT)org]