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Meetings: Usually
second Monday of the month (except for July and August)
Location:
National Semiconductor (north end of Building E - see map1
& map2, 2900 Semiconductor Dr., Santa Clara, CA
95051 (Near the intersection of Lawrence and Central Expressway);
Directions: Take 101 to Lawrence Expressway. Head south on Lawrence to Kifer (past Central). Turn
right on Kifer. Turn right on Semiconductor Dr. and drive all the way back
to north end to Buldg E. Entrance is on the West side of the
building.
Free Parking:
National Semiconductor parking lot.
Time:
6:30pm: Fast Food & drinks ($2 Donation Recommended towards
Refreshments)
7:00pm: Announcements
7:05pm: Talks starts
8:15pm: Adjourn
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Future meetings and seminars:
There are no regular meetings and seminars scheduled for the months of July and August 2008.
The chapter will be hosting our first Workshop on Bio-informatics and Bio-signal Processing on Aug. 30, 2008 at Santa Clara University. Please see below for summary and click here for workshop website.
And while speakers for SPS chapter meetings after Aug 2008 are being finalized right now, we will co-sponsor a seminar with the Circuits and System Society--SCV Chapter in October, please see below. Details of SPS regular meetings would be provided here as soon as they become available.
SPS SCV Workshop on Bio-informatics and Bio-signal Processing
Date: Aug 30, 2008
Time: 8:30am - 5:00pm
Location: Williman Room, Benson Student Center, Santa Clara University
Topics and speakers:
- Molecular Biology Basics
Speaker: Dr. Craig Stephens, Santa Clara University
- Computational Methods in Bioinformatics
Speaker: Dr. Sami Khuri, San Jose State University
- Signal Processing Models and Algorithms for RNA Sequence Analysis
Speaker: Dr. Byung-Jun Yoon, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
- Biostatisitcs: Statistical analysis of bio-data
Speaker: Dr. Ru-Fang Yeh, University of California San Francisco
Please visit workshop website for registration and detailed workshop program.
Workshop website: http://ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/sps/bioSPS/
Date: Sep 15, 2008
Title: Past and Future of Digital Watermarking
Speaker: Dr. Ton Kalker, Hewlett-Packard Labs
Location: National Semiconductor (Our regular meeting site, as shown above.)
Abstract:
The term 'Digital Watermarking' refers to methods and techniques for
adding auxiliary data to multimedia signals. In the mid nineties
digital watermarking was heralded as the solution for all copyright
and copy protection issues: in one form or another the opening
paragraph of many papers contained the reasoning 'copyright protection
is important, therefore we need watermarking'. However, today, more
than 10 years later, we find very few actually deployed applications
of digital watermarking. In this talk we will try to explain why
digital watermarking has not lived up to its expectations, as well
making an educated guess about what the future of digital watermarking
will be.
Biography:
Ton (Antonius Adrianus Cornelis Maria) Kalker is research scientist in
the Mobile and Media Systems Lab at HP Labs in Palo Alto, CA, where he
is focusing on multimedia security and digital rights management.
Kalker joined HP in June 2004 from Philips Research Laboratories
Eindhoven, where he worked on security of multimedia content, with an
emphasis on watermarking and fingerprinting for video and audio.
Earlier, he worked at Phillips Research in the field of computer-aided
design, specializing in semi-automatic tools for system verification.
Since 1999, Kalker has also served as a part-time professor in the
Signal Processing Systems group at the technical University Eindhoven,
The Netherlands, in the area of signal processing methods for data
protection. A native of The Netherlands, Kalker received both his MS
and PhD degrees in mathematics in from the University of Leiden, The
Netherlands. While pursuing his PhD, he worked as a research assistant
at the university and later, as a lecturer in the Computer Science
Department at the Technical University of Delft. He is a Fellow of the
IEEE (2001) for his contributions to practical applications of
watermarking – in particular, watermarking for DVD-Video copy
protection. Kalker is co-founder of the recent IEEE Transactions on
Information Security and Forensics (ToIFS) and chair of the associated
Technical Committee.
(Co-sponsored seminar with SCV CAS)
Date: Oct 20, 2008 (Note: This meeting is not be held at the regular SPS meeting location.)
Title: Multichip module packaging and its impact on architecture
Speaker: Dr. Hubert Harrer, Senior Technical Staff Member, Server and Technology Group, IBM
Location: Ramada Inn in Sunnyvale (Click here for map and directions)
Abstract:
The presentation compares the system packaging and technologies of IBM´s
latest system z high end servers.
Starting from the z900, the system design change towards a blade-like
architecture will be explained. The latest system generation z9 has achieved
a doubling of the multiprocessor performance compared to the z990 system by
maximizing its CPU configuration in combination with increasing the speed of
the interconnections.
This MCM technology is the key enabler for the high bandwidths between
processor chips and the cache chips. The glass ceramic module has
accomplished this challenge within the 102 layers resulting in a total
wiring length of 545m. The increase of bandwidth requirements for the
packaging will be compared for the last generations. Also the complex board
and card technology of the second level packaging will be discussed. The
cooling of the system is being done with a modular refrigeration unit (MRU),
which cools the processor chips down to 45C. This low temperature ensures
highest reliability and reduced leakage current of the chips. An air cooled
backup mode at a lower frequency ensures that the system does not go down in
case of an MRU fail. The MCM has been designed for a maximum power of 850W
during nominal operation and 1200W in case of the air-cooled backup mode.
The presentation will focus on the electrical design methodologies for high
end servers like power delivery concepts, signal integrity methodologies and
power integrity designs for delivering such high currents.
Biography:
Dr. Hubert Harrer is a Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) since 2002 working in
the IBM Server and Technology Group. He received his Dipl.-Ing. degree in
1989 and his Ph.D. degree in 1992 from the Technical University of Munich.
In 1993 he received a DFG research grant to work at the University of
California at Berkeley in the paradigm of Cellular Neural Networks. Since
1994 he has worked for IBM in the Boeblingen Packaging Department. In 1999
he was on international assignment at IBM Poughkeepsie, New York. He was
leading the z900 MCM designs and is the technical lead for z-series CEC
packaging designs since 2001. This includes the system z990 and system z9
mainframe computers. His technical interests focus on packaging technology,
high frequency designs and electrical analysis for first and second level
packaging. He has published multiple papers and holds 7 patents in the area
of packaging.
Past Meeting Flyers, Abstracts and Slides
June 2, 2008: Enhancing Image Fidelity through Spatio-Spectral Design for Color Image Acquisition, Reconstruction, and Display
May 12, 2008: Content-Adaptive Efficient Resource Allocation for Packet-Based Video Transmission
Apr 14, 2008: RF Systems Design :Fundamental Theory and WiMAX Examples
Mar 10, 2008: Digital Fingerprinting for Multimedia Forensics
Feb 11, 2008: Simplified Fast Motion Estimation: Simplified and Unified Multi-Hexagon Search (SUMH) with Context Adaptive Lagrange Multiplier (CALM)
Jan 7, 2008: An Open Baseband Processing Architecture for Future Mobile Terminal Design
Dec 10, 2007: Re-Live the Movie "The Matrix": From Harry Nyquist to Image-Based Rendering
Nov 12, 2007: Efficient Techniques for MPEG-2 to H.264 VideoTranscoding
Oct 8, 2007: Overview of Multimedia Signal Processing on Multi-Core Processors
Sep 17, 2007: Transceiver Designs for Multicarrier Transmission
Sep 10, 2007: Overview of WiMax Technology and Evolution {Slides}
May, 2007: Tesla Roadster: Embedded microprocessors and Design trade-offs!
March, 2007: A Simulation
Model for IEEE 802.11n
Feb 12, 2007: A/D and D/A
Converters with Integrated High-speed Compression
May 12, 2006: New
Directions in Home Theater Systems
Apr 10, 2006: Correcting
Distortion in Multi-media Audio Terminals
Feb 13, 2006: Distributed Wireless Communication: A Shannon-Theoretic Perspective on Fading Multihop Networks {Slides}
Dec 12, 2005: Mobile WiMAX: True Broadband Wireless Enabled {Slides}
Jun
13, 2005: Using Technology to Keep Other Countries
Honest
Apr 25, 2005: How many
antennas does it take to get broadband wireless access? - The story of MIMO
{Slides}
Jan 10, 2005: Converting
MATLAB Algorithms to FPGA or ASIC Designs
Dec 13, 2004:
Reconfigurable Systems Emerge {Slides}
Nov 08, 2004: Nonlinear adaptive
systems
Sept 13, 2004: Anytime,
Anywhere IP Communications
June 14, 2004: Fortran
95, or Matlab meets C++
April 12, 2004:On the
Deployment of the Voice Biometric: Challenges and Best Practices
March 08, 2004: Telephony
Speech Recognition Application Testing {Slides}
Feb 05, 2004:Speech
Technology for Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) {Slides}
Charter
IEEE Santa Clara Valley Signal Processing Society
focuses on all aspects of the theory and application of Signals involving filtering,
coding, transmitting, estimating, detecting, analyzing, recognizing,
synthesizing, recording, and reproducing signals. The term
"signal" includes audio, video, speech, image, communication,
geophysical, sonar, radar, medical, musical etc.
2007 Officers
Chair
Tokunbo Ogunfunmi
tokunbo[at]ieee[dot]org
Vice Chair
Xiaoshu Qian
xiaoshu[dot]qian[at]intel[dot]com
Treasurer
Vlad Potanin
vlad[dot]potanin[at]nsc[dot]com
Secretary
Douglas Chan
douglas[dot]chan[at]ieee[dot]org
Program Coordinator
Yen-Kuang Chen
y[dot]k[dot]chen[at]ieee[dot]org
Photos from past meetings
URL:
http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/sps
2006 Officers
Chairman
M Saseetharran
Vice Chairman/
Treasurer
Man Po (Bill) Lam
Program Co-ordinator
Brian Sublett
Treasurer
Ozur Oyman
Secretary
Madan Ankapura
2005 Officers
Chairman
M Saseetharran
Vice Chairman/
Treasurer
Man Po (Bill) Lam
Program Co-ordinator
Brian Sublett
Secretary
Vikash Rungta
Just Joined
Madan Ankapura
2004 Officers
Chairman
M Saseetharran
Vice Chairman
P S Chang
Secretary
Nelson Zierbach
Treasurer
V (Ramki) Ramakrishna
Auxiliary Officer
Kenneth White
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