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Solid-State Circuits / Circuit and System Joint Chapter IEEE Central Texas Section Spring Planning Meeting January 26, 2013 San Marcos, TX. Chapter Leadership Team. Chair: Zhuo Li (IBM, zhuoli@ieee.org) Vice Chair: Nan Sun (UT Austin, nansun@mail.utexas.edu )
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Solid-State Circuits / Circuit and System Joint ChapterIEEE Central Texas SectionSpring Planning MeetingJanuary 26, 2013 San Marcos, TX
Chapter Leadership Team • Chair: Zhuo Li (IBM, zhuoli@ieee.org) • Vice Chair: Nan Sun (UT Austin, nansun@mail.utexas.edu) • Treasurer: Mikel Ash (TI, mikel.ash@ti.com) • Secretary: Seth Wilk (SJT Micropower, swilk@sjtmicropower.com) • Advisor • Matt Felder (matt_felder@yahoo.com)
Chapter Updates • Meeting location: UT Campus ENS 306 or ACES 2.402. • Fifteen technical seminars in 2012. • One workshop (> 40% surplus, more than $2000). • Data Parallelism for Multi-Core Chips and GPU • All day workshop held on 10/27/2012 and seven speakers from IBM, AMD, Altera, ARM, Texas A&M, UT Austin. 74number of attendees from industry and academia • The workshop story will be published in SSCS Magazine • Dr. Seth Wilk joined as Secretary, Mikel Ash transitioned to Treasurer role
SWOT Analysis • Strengths • Good technical talks, DL program. • Stable attendance rate. • So far one workshop per year in lastthreeyears and one planned for this year. • Good leadership pipeline. • Stable funding resource from CAS and SSC Society. • Extra subsidy funding from CAS and SSC for workshop or extra events to promote memberships. • Weaknesses • Find more good technical talks and workshop topics. • Increase attendance rate.
SWOT Analysis • Opportunities • Local chip design and EDA companies • University of Texas, Austin • Threats • Seminars inside companies and Universities • A less interesting workshop may get cancelled or need more funding.
Chapter Plans / Issues • Continue ISSCC annual review. • Invite Distinguished Lecture Program speakers. • Four Technical seminars on the Calendar so far and two are pending. • March 8 Workshop: IEEE CTS CAS/SSC Workshop: Texas Workshop on Integrated System Exploration (TexasWISE) • http://texaswise.tamu.edu • Speakers from Stanford, MIT, Rice, and UT Dallas • Free registration and food. Cap at 150 people. • Please take one CFP and Call-for-poster flyer (for students)