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/

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

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Upcoming Events
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Previous Events

• 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"

• November 15, 2007:   Our speaker was   Jan M. Rabaey (Scientific Director Berkeley Wireless Research Center), and the topic of his presentation was  " Scaling the Power Wall "

• October 15 - 16, 2007:   IEEE RFIC Short Course (Santa Clara Valley - Solid State Circuits Society) 

• October 18, 2007:   Our speaker was   Mr. Jason Trachewsky (Senior Technical Director of Broadcom), and the topic of his presentation was   " A 2x2 MIMO Baseband for High-Throughput Wireless Local-Area Networking (802.11n). "

• September 20, 2007:   Our speaker was   Mr. Umesh Nawathe (Senior Manager of Sun Microsystems), and the topic of his presentation was " Design and Implementation of SUN Niagara2 Processor. "

• August 16, 2007:   Our speaker was   Mr. Amirpouya Kavousian, M.S.E.E., B.S.E.E.(Stanford University), and the topic of his presentation was " A Digitally Modulated Polar CMOS PA with 20MHz Signal BW. "

• June 28, 2007:   Our speaker was   Mr. Dennis Fischette, BSc.Phys.(AMD), and the topic of his presentation was " First Time, Every Time. Practical Advice for Phase-Locked Loop Design Success in a Modern CMOS World. "

• May 17, 2007:   Our speaker was   Mr. Allen Podell (Podell Consulting), and the topic of his presentation was " Active Filters, NICs and NACs."

• April 19, 2007:   Our speaker was   Mr. Sandeep Gupta, M.S.E.E., B.S.E.E. (Teranetics), and the topic of his presentation was " Architectures and circuits for high speed, high accuracy time interleaved ADC’s."

• March 22, 2007:   Our speaker was   Dr. Mark Horowitz (Stanford Univ.), and the topic of his presentation was " Rethinking Analog: Digitally Driven Analog Design. "

• February 15, 2007:   Our speaker was   Dr. Philippe Jansen (IMEC, Inc.), and the topic of his presentation was " RF ESD Protection strategies – The design and performance trade-off challenges."

• January 18, 2007:   Our speaker was   Dr. Willie Lu (Executive Director of USCWC), and the topic of his presentation was " Wireless Architecture (OWA) – Defining 4G mobile phone technologies."

• More past events

Officers for 2008

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

• Vice Chair: Mark Hooper [m.hooper(AT)ieee(DOT)org]

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

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

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

• Events Coordinator: Pete Edwards [pedwards(AT)cadence(DOT)com]

• Past Chair: Adrian Gradinaru [adrian.gradinaru(AT)ieee(DOT)org]