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Newsletter of the Central Texas Section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc. Archives of The Analog can be found on the CTS web site here.Published monthly. Deadline for inclusion is the 26th day of the previous month. Send submissions, comments, questions to John Purvis, Editor, john.purvis@ieee.org CONTENTSGeneral Interest Local Chapter ActivitiesConferences, Events and Other MeetingsLocal IEEE Conferences, Events and WorkshopsNon-IEEE Meetings and Events of interest suggested by the membership MiscellaneousLatest issue of IEEE-USA Today's EngineerScience, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Events and Information Career Tips, Tools and Gadgets IEEE EXTERNAL LINKS
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General InterestELECTION NOTICE We are holding the 2012 Central Texas Section Officer Elections. In so doing we are utilizing theIEEE vTools.Voting
system. We have had no additional candidate names submitted by
petition. Therefore, the election is proceeding as scheduled, starting
on 1 Nov 2011. Voting will be permitted until 30 Nov 2011.
IEEE members will have received instructions via email for this election. Once in vTools, you are asked to select one candidate for each position, or specify a write-in candidate. In fact there is only one candidate on the ballot for each position except for that of Vice-Chair, San Antonio. For that position there are two candidates. Please don’t hesitate to contact me at polhamus@ieee.org if you have a question, comment, or complaint regarding your voting experience. Thank you in advance for voting --- your vote counts! Chairman's ColumnThe
election of officers for the Central Texas Section is open. You
need to vote using the vTools voting process described above.
Previous words in this space have described the effort to find
candidates for all of the positions. As I expect to fall heir to
the chair of the Nominating Committee, I welcome your thoughts on the
process and on any people who should be considered in the future for
the five elected officer positions in the section.
In addition, I expect that the new chairman will be asking for suggestions for the appointed officer jobs. The section has had several workshops recently, with successful efforts by the Power and Energy Chapter and the Electron Devices Chapter's Solar Technology Workshop. The Metropolitan Area Workshop was a success beyond all of our predictions with over 150 paid participants and over 35 new IEEE members recruited. The sessions sponsored by the Computer, Communications, and Power and Energy Societies, as well as the IEEE-USA Careers Committee were well attended. At the last minute DeAnne Pearson added a series of mini career consultations to the program. Thanks to all the other volunteers and to the IEEE Staff and our local Chairs, Thuy Dao and Kenny Rice. Tom
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We are looking for
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Handheld CMOS NMR Biosensor |
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Nan Sun Nan Sun is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He received the B.S. degree in electronic science and technology from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 2006, where he ranked top in the Department of Electronic Engineering and graduated with the highest honor and the Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Award. He earned the Ph.D. degree in engineering science from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University in 2010. Dr. Sun received the 1st-class Outstanding Student Award from Tsinghua University each year from 2003 to 2006. He won the Top Prize in the Intercollegiate Physics Competition in 2003. He is the recipient of Samsung Fellowship, Hewlett Packard Fellowship, and Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award in 2003, 2006, and 2007, respectively. He also won the Harvard Teaching Award in three consecutive years: 2008, 2009, and 2010. His research interests include: 1) developing micro- and nano-scale solid-state platforms (silicon ICs and beyond) to analyze biological systems for biotechnology and medicine; 2) low-cost medical imaging systems; 3) miniature spin resonance systems; 4) analog, mixed-signal, and RF integrated circuits. |
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will present our work that showcases how silicon RF chips can be used
not only for wireless RF applications, but also for biomolecular
sensing aimed at low-cost disease screening. The main function of the
RF chip is to manipulate and monitor the dynamics of protons in water
via nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Target biological objects such as
cancer marker proteins alter the proton dynamics, which is the basis
for the biosensing. The high sensitivity of the RF chip made possible
the construction of an entire NMR system around the RF chip in a 100-g
platform, which is 1200 times lighter, yet 150 times more spin-mass
sensitive than a state-of-the-art commercial benchtop NMR system. The
system can become a useful addition in pursuing disease detection in a
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The joint Circuits & Systems/Solid State Circuits Societies normally meet on the 2nd Tuesday of every month. This meeting is open to the public and interested parties. Additional details will be posted at the website. If you have any questions about this meeting or this group, please contact renhaoxing@ieee.org or zhuoli@ieee.org
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| Topic/Title | 3D Full-wave, Package-Board Simulation Aided by the Cloud |
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| Speaker | Dr. Dipanjan Gope |
| Date/Time | November 17, 2011 (Thursday) 6:00PM - 7:30PM |
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| Location | Freescale, Building B 7700 Parmer Ln Austin, TX 78729 |
| Notes | For more information, please visit https://cpmtaustinchapter.org/
or contact Nanju Na at 512-286-9677 |
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Evolution of Technologies to Tackle Big Data |
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Rohit Jain, distinguished technologist, HP Rohit Jain is the Neoview CTO and Manager of Database Performance Services at HP. Rohit has 35 years of experience in applications and databases, out of which 22 years has been in the development and deployment of relational databases for OLTP, Business Intelligence, and Advanced Analytics. Rohit has been a solutions architect, consultant, developer, development manager, architect, product manager, CTO, and services manager of database products offered by Tandem, Compaq, and HP, such as NonStop SQL/MP, SQL/MX, and Neoview. |
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The
Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear
Research. CERN scientists can generate 40 terabytes of data every
second during experiments. Boeing jet engines can produce 10
terabytes of operational information for every 30 minutes they turn. A
four- engine jumbo jet can create 640 terabytes of data on just one
Atlantic crossing; multiply that by the more than 25,000 flights flown
each day. Twitter serves more than 200 million users who produce
more than 90 million "tweets" per day, or 800 per second. Each of these
posts is approximately 200 bytes in size. On an average day, this
traffic equals more than 12 gigabytes and, throughout the Twitter
ecosystem, the company produces a total of eight terabytes of data per
day.. What are the challenges that companies face as they try to deal with such huge volumes of data? What technologies are they using to capture, store, search, share, analyze and visualize this massive amount of data? This talk will attempt to provide some answers to these questions. |
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HP facility in Austin. The address is 14231 Tandem
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Pizza and Drinks |
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Follow the Austin chapter on Twitter @AustinIEEECS, and please feel to tweet with our tag for relevant content to our community. We've officially launched the LinkedIn group for our the
Austin chapter of the IEEE Computer Society. Feel free to sign up
at the following URL: https://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=4064900. |
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| Topic/Title |
Closed-loop
Control of Clinical Sedation, Reinforcement Learning for
Patient-Specific Propofol Anesthesia: A Human Volunteer Study |
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| Speaker | Dr. Brett L. Moore, Senior Product Development Engineer in Research and Development, Kinetic Concepts Inc. |
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| Date/Time | Tuesday, November 15, 6:00 Networking, 6:30 PM Dinner, 7:30 PM Program |
| Location | Conference Room B University Center St. Mary’s University San Antonio, TX |
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Dinner, $15 Members, $4 students, $18 Non-Members |
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Please email Dr. Djaffer Ibaroudene, dibaroudende@stmarytx.edu
, or call (210) 431-2050 |
| Notes | See website for directions and parking, https://www.ieee-cs-cts.org |
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| Topic/Title | Design for Testability for Integrated Circuits |
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| Speaker | Luis Basto |
| Speaker Bio | Luis
is a member of the Front-End Solutions team at Cadence Design
Systems. The primary focus of his current job is to help
customers resolve front-end design issues particularly in the area of
DFT. Luis has over 23 years of design and DFT experience in the
semiconductor industry working for Motorola, AMD, Analog Devices, Texas
Instruments, and Cadence. He has worked as an individual
contributor as well as managed design teams globally. He is a
Senior Member of the IEEE and has been awarded 6 US patents in the area
of design and DFT. He has a BSEE from the University of Houston
and an MSEE from Southern Methodist University. |
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Moore’s
Law is helping pack ever more functionality and circuitry onto a
silicon wafer. This makes access and testing of the highly
embedded devices more difficult. This presentation will cover
what is design for testability as it applies to digital designs, some
fundamental test theory, and common DFT methodologies as practiced
today. |
| Date | Wednesday, November 16, 2011 Networking at 6:00 pm; Business and Program from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm |
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PoK-e-Jo’s,
2121 W. Parmer Lane at Lamplight Village, Austin TX
78727 |
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Cost: $5.00 minimum charge for the
restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
| Reservations | Not required. All interested parties are invited
to attend. https://www.ewh.ieee.org/r5/central_texas/cn/index.htm |
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Do a friend a favor. Bring your colleagues to grow the Consultants Network.
More information on Consultants Networks: https://www.ieeeusa.org/business/whatis.asp
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Sponsoring the Solar Technology Workshop, September
16. See IEEE Meetings section for
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The Engineering Management Society has become the Technology Management Council. Information about meetings can be found in the sections for Technology Management Council - Austin and Technology Management Council - San Antonio
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| Notes | Welcome from the
new Chair of IEEE CTS GOLD, It is my pleasure to serve as the Chair for CTS GOLD. I am excited about implementing Social Events, Networking Events, Workshops/Seminars, Focus Groups, Career Guidance Mentorship, and much more. I am usually tied to a computer deep in the basement, as most Information Technology workers are, so I am truly excited to plan and participate in events that get me away from staring at a screen. I enjoy any chance to be outdoors, especially if it is with Remote Control 1/8 scale gas powered buggies, which is one of my favorite hobbies. I will plan an R/C event if other members enjoy R/C as well, just utilize my contact details below to let me know. As the GOLD Group matures, events, discussions, and useful resources will be posted on the following sites. Events: https://goo.gl/d8D0D Linkedin Group: https://goo.gl/aVi3O Facebook Group: https://goo.gl/2wQ4Z I am planning a kickoff event, so make sure you visit the resource pages above to get the latest news. Thank you, Troy Green Chair, IEEE CTS GOLD troy.green@ieee.org |
More information on GOLD: https://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/gold/index.html
GOLD Launches Mentoring
Connection Webinar
Are you interested in becoming a mentor
or finding a mentor to help with your professional
development?
If the
answer is yes, check out a free new IEEE Graduates of the Last Decade
(GOLD) webinar aimed at
helping mentors and mentees connect with each other. Learn more at https://bmsmail3.ieee.org:80/u/17953/32170
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Al Crouch, Chief Technologist and R&D Director at Asset Intertech Al Crouch is Chief Technologist, Core Instruments and Director of IJTAG R&D at Asset Intertech in Austin, TX. He received his BSEE and MSEE from the University of Kentucky after serving six years in the U.S.. Air Force. After graduation, he worked at Texas Instruments in the Defense Systems Group as a Design-for-Test Engineer. He then worked at Digital Equipment Corp. as a Test Automation engineer. Al spent ten years at Motorola Semiconductor working mostly in the Microprocessor and Embedded-Core space as a DFT lead/manager where he earned the Distinguished Innovator award for being an inventor on more than ten issued patents. Al then worked at Inovys, a Low Cost Structural Test start-up as the Chief Scientist where his role was to link the Design-Space to the Test-Space to make the test, debug, characterization, and yield-learning more efficient. His current work at Asset Intertech involves developing products to access and operate embedded instruments using IJTAG-based tools. He has published extensively in trade journals and conference publications and is the author/co-author of several textbooks on design for test. |
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Modern
chips have a wealth of embedded content and are becoming more complex
in architecture with SOCs being made up of multiple cores and
known-good-die being stacked into SIPs and POPs — and more recently the
push for 3D IC using Through Silicon Vias (TSV’s). The need for access to embedded instruments for debug, validation, test and yield analysis on various occasions during a chip's life-cycle are driving the industry toward "standard" solutions instead of collections of ad hoc instruments and access mechanisms. These solutions include IEEE 1149.1, 1500, 1149.7, and P1687 and a number of defacto instruments provided by EDA companies, FPGA companies, and chip and core designers. The presentation will cover how the embedded instrumentation can be used to accomplish more efficient testing on chips as well as on boards or in-system and the impact of the common access methods. |
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N Mopac Expwy, Austin, TX 78759 |
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No meeting scheduled at this time.
For more information, contact Ray Chen
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October 10. The tour is limited to the first 30 registrants. RSVP to: Tom O'Brien Ph. 210-845-4966 or t.p.obrien@ieee.org US citizenship status must be stated during registration. |
| NotesMonthly Seminar "Designing with Solar Technology" |
Joint Meeting with
IEEE Communications Chapter on October 27, 2:00 pm – 3:00
pm Topic: Autonomous Aero-Visual and Sensor Based Inspection Network for Power Grid and Asset Monitoring No lunch, but light refreshments will be served LOCATION: Southwest Research Institute 6220 Culebra Road, San Antonio Administration Building, 1st Floor Conference Room |
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| Topic/Title | We
will not be holding our Thursday evening technical meetings at El Gallo
for the remainder of this year. We will resume our regular monthly
meeting schedule in January. December 2011 Announcement "TXI Hunter Cement Plant Tour" |
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| Abstract | Tour:
The Electrical Supervisor will give a brief talk on the plant
electrical system then take us on a tour. They will provide a bus or a
15 passenger van to take tours to the actual Quarry. The tour will take
roughly two hours and lunch will be provided afterwards. |
| Date/Time | Saturday December 3, 2011 9:00 AM meet at site |
| Location | TXI Hunter Cement, 7781 FM 1102, New Braunfels, TX 78132 |
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| Reservations | Please RSVP by the morning of Thursday, December 1 to Steve Pearson at pearssteve@gmail.com if you plan to attend. Please include the number of people which can be expected in your group. |
| Notes | Recommended
Dress: Tennis shoes (no sandals or open toes), clothes that may get
dusty or dirty. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE): TXI will furnish
all PPE but feel free to bring your own if desired. Directions This facility is next to I-35 South in between San Marcos and New Braunfels in Hunter, Texas. |
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| Topic/Title | No meeting for November - Combined Nov-Dec Meeting |
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| Speaker | Daniece Carpenter, Worldwide Regulatory Compliance for Dell Inc. |
| Abstract | Excerpts from the Product Safety Symposium in October |
| Date/Time | December 6, 2011, 6:30 - 8:00pm |
| Cost | Use the link below to find out the cost and to make
your last minute registration for this event: https://www.psessymposium.org |
| Reservations |
Definitely required! |
| Location | Dell Parmer Campus, Parmer South Building 4, Victoria Conference Room (just inside the visitor’s entrance) |
| Notes |
We encourage you, others in your organization, or other interested parties to participate in our meetings. The PSES meets on the third Tuesday of every month at 6:30pm, with the program starting at 7:00pm. For further information about the PSES, please contact Dale Ritzen at (512) 651-5338.
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Certifications for PDHs will be
available. Doug will have a limited number of copies of his
book
available for purchase. int meeting with the Women in Engineering chapter |
Contact Leslie Martinich (lmartinich@ieee.org) for more information about the Austin TMC.
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| Cost | Attendance is free. You will need to pay for your lunch
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| Registration | Please email Michael Frye (mfrye@uiwtx.edu) an RVSP by Tuesday,
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Contact Leslie Martinich (lmartinich@ieee.org) for more information about the Austin TMC.
October 30-November 2, 2011: 2011 Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD).
November
6-8, 2011: IEEE International Symposium on Workload
Characterization (IISWC 2011)
November 8-10, 2011: 2011 International SpaceWire Conference
Marriott Plaza Hotel, San Antonio, TX, USA
https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/conferencedetails/index.html?Conf_ID=18975
December 4-6, 2011: 2011 IEEE International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS)
San Antonio, TX, USA
https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/conferencedetails/index.html?Conf_ID=19269
May 14-17, 2012: 2012 IEEE-IAS/PCA Cement Industry Technical Conference, San Antonio
J.W. Marriott Hill Country Resort, San Antonio, TX, USA
https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/conferencedetails/index.html?Conf_ID=18155
May 30 - June1, 2012: 2012 IEEE International Conference on IC Design & Technology (ICICDT)
Freescale Semiconductor 7700 W Parmer Lane, Austin, TX, USA https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/conferencedetails/index.html?Conf_ID=19537
June
3-8, 2010: 2012 IEEE 38th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC)
Austin Convention Center, Austin, TX. https://www.ieee-pvsc.org/
IEEE Conference Search can be found at https://www.ieee.org/web/conferences/search/index.html
See also https://www.wikicfp.com - A place to organize and share Calls for Papers.
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