The TC-14 CPMT / CS IEEE Barcelona Workshop
of the IEEE Systems Packaging Committee
January 22-24, 2001, Sitges, Spain

Condensed from a report by Interconnection Decision Consulting

Overview

This 9th European Workshop of the Systems Packaging
Committee was held in Sitges, Spain, a resort community near
Barcelona. For the first time, it was sponsored not only by
the IEEE Computer Society and IEEE CPMT Society, but also by
IMAPS Europe. This was part of a recent pattern of having the
workshop in Cork, Ireland at alternate times, and having it
elsewhere in the Mediterranean on the off years. ( The last
time away from Cork it was held on Malta. )

Organizing workshops is more and more difficult with recent
cutbacks in the electronics and technology industry, but a very
satisfactory workshop was compiled, thanks to the efforts of
Rolf Aschenbrenner of Fraunhofer IZM and Erich Klink of IBM
Germany. Sessions were on Automotive, Microsystems Technology,
Space Technology, and Cellular and Wireless. The final session
was on Signal and Power Integrity.

Attendance was just under 70, and the interaction between
attendees was worthwhile.

Something interesting happened with the schedule of events.
Because Spain normally has dinner at 10:00 PM, the workshop had
the usual morning and afternoon sessions and the reception, but
then had the evening session immediately thereafter and dinner
after the end of the day's sessions - at 10:00 PM.

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