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SCV-Phot - 5/3 | An Association Perspective on Solar/PV Manu-facturing - overview, challenges, collaboration, costs, leverage ... [more]
Monterey - 5/4 | Speech and Robotics at the Honda Research Institute - misunderstandings, correction utterances, detection, timing ... [more]
SCV-TMC - 5/5 | Culture Eats Strategy for Lunch - organizational culture, undermining, adapting ... [more]
SCV-MTT - 5/5 | Theory, Principles, and Techniques for Designing Low-Noise Oscillators - resonators, from 10MHz to 10GHz ... [more]
OEB-Life - 5/10 | How do we Know that Human Activities have Affected the Global Climate? - changes, models ... [more]
SCV-CS - 5/10 | small processors solve BIG PROBLEMS - ultra-low-energy cores, SDR, grand challenges ... [more]
Monterey - 5/11 | Data Science at LinkedIn: Turning Data into Products and Stories - terabytes, noisy data, algorithms ... [more]
OEB-Mag - 5/11 | Magnetic Surface Nanostructures - self-assembled, ordered, impurity atoms, chains ... [more]
SCV-ComSoc - 5/11 | Evolution: Status and New Developments in WiFi, 3G, and 4G-LTE from a Silicon Perspective ... [more]
SCV-CSS - 5/11 | The EtherCAT Standard for Control Systems - fieldbus, footprint, overhead, topology, costs ... [more]
SCV-CPMT - 5/11 | Friday Afternoons at an Electronic Manu-facturing Services (EMS) Provider - zero-defect, support ... [more]
SCV-PV - 5/11 | Solyndra – Commercial Rooftops and Beyond - no displacement, endangered species, permitting, grid integration ... [more]
SPECTRUM - 5/12 | Real-Time Matters! Timing and Performance Analysis for Embedded Systems - behavior, model-based ... [more]
SCV-CAS - 5/16 | Physical Verification Challenges and Solutions for 45nm and Beyond - tape-out, complexity, verify, optimize ... [more]
CS - 5/17 | Software Experts Summit 2011: Managing the Pace of Innovation - software security, best practices, agile dev’t ... [more]
SCV-CNSV - 5/17 | What Every Inventor and Entrepreneur Needs to Know about Patents - vs open source, disclosure, timeline ... [more]
SCV-Mag - 5/17 | Sub-Picosecond Switching and the Future of HAMR ... [more]
SCV-PES-IAS - 5/18 | Why Grid Storage? Conditioning and Frequency Control -frequency regulation, system reliability ... [more]
SCV-EMBS - 5/18 | Bionanoelectronics: The State of the Art and The Near-Term Future - diagnostics, sensors, monitoring ... [more]
SCV-PELS - 5/18 | Capacitive Power Transfer for Contactless Charging - series resonance, soft-switching, efficiency ... [more]
SCV-SSC - 5/19 | Ultra-Low-Power Electronics in the Next Decade - personal and health technology, energy, power management ... [more]
OEB-IAS - 5/19 | Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment - plug-in EVs, supply equipment, standards, market ... [more]
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Conference Calendar
May 2-5: Embedded Systems Conference - Silicon Valley (ESC) - San Jose Convention Center [more]
May 11-13: Conference on Space Optical Systems and Applications (ICSOS) - Santa Monica [more]
May 12: Smart Power Grid Technology Conference (SPGTC) - Biltmore Hotel, Santa Clara [more]
May 17: Software Experts Summit 2011: Managing the Pace of Innovation - CHM, Mt. View [more]
May 23-26: Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs (ISPSD) - San Diego [more]
June 27-30: IEEE Int’l Technology Management Conference (ITMC) - Hilton, San Jose [more]
Call for Papers: Nov 6-9: Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers - extended summaries due May 1 [more]
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SCV-RAS - 5/19 | Human-Friendly Robotics - safety, compatibility, performance, sensing, control ... [more]
ARRL - 5/19 | General Class Amateur Radio License Course - upgrade from Tech, 6 evenings ... [more]
SCV-CPMT - 5/26 | Silicon Interposers for 2.5D and 3D Packaging - density, interconnection, vertical stacking ... [more]
SCV-Life - 6/7 | Initial Meeting Followed by Guest Speaker - social and professional goals, guidelines, inviting speakers ... [more
SCV-CPMT+Phot+EMB - 6/8 | MEMS Adaptive Optics for Biological Imaging – beacons, wavefront sensing, tissue ... [more]
SCV-EDS - 6/14 | Statistical Variability and Reliability in Advanced Nanoscale CMOS - TCAD, simulation ... [more]
SCV-CS+PES - 6/14 | Smart Meter Analytics: What Can We Learn from the Data? - 2TB per year, analyzing, benefit ... [more]
SCV-CPMT - 6/16 | Tour: HALT-HASS Testing and Chamber Demonstration - testing, methods, demonstrations ... [more]
SCV-CSS - 7/13 | Networked Control Systems II: Innovative Topologies for Distributed Motion Control – ethernet ... [more]
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ICSOS covers technologies, procedures and
algorithms that relate to free-space optical systems, with emphasis on laser communications. The domain of the applications includes terrestrial, near-Earth and deep space (planetary).. Areas of interest include: components, subsystems, systems (flight and ground), devices, applications, laboratory and field demonstrations, algorithms, link models, signaling techniques and concept of operations. Sessions: ● Atmospherics ● Optics in Space ● Ground Stations ● Flight Demos ● Coherent Technologies ● ATP Systems ● Quantum Communications ● Modulation and Coding ● Planned Flight Demos ● Studies & Analysis … and more. For additional information, contact
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“The Convergence of Microelectronics Technology and Green Applications”
- 1-day Short Course - 95 papers, over 4 days
The IEEE ISPSD is the premier forum for technical discussion in all areas of power semiconductor devices, power integrated circuits, their hybrid technologies, and applications.
Sponsored by the IEEE Electron Devices and Power Electronics Societies, with IEE-Japan
JPL Tour: The JPL tour on May 13 is 2 - 2.5 hours in duration and includes a multi-media presentation on JPL entitled "Journey to the Planets and Beyond" which provides an overview of the Laboratory's activities and accomplishments. Guests may also visit the von Karman Visitor Center, the Space Flight Operations Facility, and the Space Flight Assembly Laboratory.
Registration Includes: Welcome Reception, Banquet (Thurs evening), all Technical Sessions, breakfast on Wednesday and Thursday, morning and afternoon coffee breaks, one copy of USB Proceedings.
For full information, see our website:
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Sessions: ● Smart Power Technology ● IGBTs ● Diodes ● GaN Power Devices ● SiC Power Devices ● High Voltage MOSFETs ● Packaging and Modules ● Device and Process Reliability ● Smart Power Circuit Topologies ● Low Voltage Power Devices
Plenary Talks: ● Opportunities and Challenges with Net Zero Energy Buildings ● Trends in High-Speed Railways and the Implications on Power Electronics ● SiC Power Devices: Present Status, Applications and Future Perspective
One-Day Short Course: Covering Solid State Lighting, PV Systems, GaN Power Ics, Large-Area Power Devices, On-Die Power Delivery.
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May 11-13, 2011 Marriott, Santa Monica
Late registrations accepted
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Have you ever wanted to continue your education in engineering while you continued working? Santa Clara University’s School of Engineering offers graduate degree and non-degree programs to both full-time students and working professionals. Simplified registration for the Summer Open University. Graduate-level instruction. Up to 12 units may be transferred to a graduate-degree program.
Early-morning classes: - Linear Algebra - Speech Coding - Applied Math - Intro to Systems Engineering (and more)
Evening classes: - Web Architecture & Protocols - Logic Design Using HDL - IC Fab Processes - Nanoelectronics (and more)
Saturday classes: - Wireless Mobile Networks - Design of SOCs - Law, Technology, IP (and more)
Courses on Emerging Technologies
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Hilton Hotel, San Jose June 27-30 2011
● 6 tracks ● 190 papers in 38 sessions
We invite researchers, educators, managers and students of engineering management to attend this year’s ITMC.
Keynotes: Dr. William F. Miller, Stanford (author of The Silicon Valley Edge: A Habitat for Innovation and Entrepreneurship)
Dr. Geoffrey Moore (author of Dealing with Darwin)
Sessions: ● Adapting to Changing Management, Career Paths ● Faciliting Collaboration ● Globalization of R&D ● Improving Innovation Productivity ● Information Networks ● Innovative Business Models ● Innovative Stratgies of Entrepreneurial Firms ● Inventory Management ● Management of Knowledge Creation ● Managing Organizational Performance ● Open Innovation ● Optimizing Knowledge Management ● Outsourcing Issues in Global Supply Chains ● Partnering for Innovation ● Technology Issues in Supply Chains ● R&D Mangement ● Risk Management in Supply Chains ● Sustainability Entrepreneurship... and more
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Morning Choices: Strategic Project Leadership: Transforming Organizations with Business-Focused Projects
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Afternoon Choices: Managing Project Risk: Identifying, assessing, prioritizing, strategies
Tips for Publishing in International Journals: Knowing the process, choosing the journal, responding to reviews
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2011 IEEE International Technology Management Conference
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If you can only attend one event this year, the ESC Silicon Valley is the must-attend event for embedded systems engineers. ESC is the largest gathering of 250+ exhibitors showcasing the latest embedded technologies available today.
EE TIMES ACE Awards Access to Live Product Teardowns Exhibits (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday)
Customize your educational experiences by selecting from over 120 sessions in 26 tracks specific to your interests.
Tracks: ● Linux/Android/Open Source ● Programming Languages and Techniques ● Windows for Embedded ● RTOS and Real Time Software ● Memory in Embedded Designs ● HW and Platform Design ● Best Practices ● Programmable Logic in Embedded Designs ● Tools ● Microcontrollers in Embedded Designs (and more)
The 6th annual Multicore Expo will be co-located with ESC Silicon Valley and will provide 4 days of dedicated multicore technology training options and multicore-related exhibits.
Technical Tracks Headliners Multicore Expo Pavilion
Team Building Using MBTI – Date/Time: Tues, April 12, 9:00AM – 5:00PM – Location: – Synopsys, Mountain View
Fee: $420 for IEEE Members; $520 non-members
Influential Communication – Date/Time: Tues, May 10, 9:00AM – 5:00PM – Location: – TIBCO Software, Palo Alto
Fee: $400 for IEEE Members; $500 non-members
Managing Time & Multiple Priorities – Date/Time: Thurs, May 19, 9:00AM – 1:00PM – Location: – TIBCO Software, Palo Alto
Fee: $300 for IEEE Members; $350 non-members
Getting Things Done Across Organizational Borders
– Date/Time: Tues, June 7, 9:00AM – 5:00PM – Location: – Integrated Device Technology, San Jose
Fee: $400 for IEEE Members; $500 non-members
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– Date/Time: Th - Fri, June 9-10, 9:00AM – 1:00PM – Location: – TIBCO Software, Palo Alto
Fee: $625 for IEEE Members; $700 non-members
5 Habits of Intentional Leadership – Date/Time: Th - Fri, June 16-17, 9:00AM – 5:00PM – Location: – Synopsys, Sunnyvale
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Asilomar Hotel and Conference Grounds Pacific Grove, California
November 6-9, 2011 www.asilomarssc.org
Authors are invited to submit papers before May 1st, 2011, in the following areas: Submissions should include a 50 to 100 word abstract and an extended summary (500 to 1000 words, plus figures). Submissions must include the title of the paper, each author's name and affiliation, and the technical area(s) in which the paper falls with number(s) from the above list. Check the conference website (www.asilomarssc.org) for specific information on the electronic submission process. Submissions will be accepted starting February 1, 2011. No more than FOUR submissions are allowed per contributor, as author or co-author. All submissions must be received by May 1st, 2011. Notifications of acceptance will be mailed by mid July 2011, and author information will be available on the conference website by late July 2011. Full papers will be due shortly after the conference and published in early 2012. All technical questions should be directed to the Technical Program Chair, Dr. Robert W. Heath Jr., e-mail [email protected] or the General Chair, Dr. Jim Schroeder, e-mail [email protected].
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
General Chair: Jim Schroeder, Harris Corporation Technical Program Chair: Robert W. Heath Jr., The University of Texas at Austin Conference Coordinator: Monique P. Fargues, Naval Postgraduate School Publication Chair: Michael Matthews, ATK Space Systems Publicity Chair: Linda DeBrunner, Florida State University Finance Chair: Frank Kragh, Naval Postgraduate School
The site for the 2011 Conference is at the Asilomar Conference Grounds, in Pacific Grove, CA. The grounds border the Pacific Ocean and are close to Monterey, Carmel, and the scenic Seventeen Mile Drive in Pebble Beach.
The Conference is organized in cooperation with the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, and ATK Space Systems, Monterey, CA. The IEEE Signal Processing Society is a technical co-sponsor of the conference.
4. Robust Methods, 5. Computational Aspects, 6. Applications (Sonar, Radar, Microphone arrays, etc.) F. Biomedical Signal and Image Processing: 1. Medical Image Analysis, 2. Imaging Modalities, 3. Advances in Medical Imaging, 4. Biomedical Signal Processing, 5. Biomedical Applications, 6. Bioinformatics, 7. Image Registration and Multi-modal Imaging, 8. Image Reconstruction, 9. Computer Aided Diagnosis, 10. Functional Imaging, 11. Visualization G. Architecture and Implementation: 1. Energy efficient design, 2. High-speed computer arithmetic, 3. Reconfigurable signal processing, 4. Multicore, manycore and distributed systems, 5. Algorithm and architecture co-optimization, 6. System-level representation and synthesis, 7. Cyber-physical system prototypes/testbeds H. Speech, Image and Video Processing: 1. Speech Processing, 2. Speech Coding, 3. Speech Recognition, 4. Narrowband / Wideband Speech and Audio Coding, 5. Document Processing, 6. Models for Signal and Image Processing, 7. Image and Video Coding, 8. Image and Video Segmentation, 9. Image and Video Analysis, 10. Image / Video Security, Retrieval and Watermarking, 11. Image and Video Enhancement / Filtering, 12. Biometrics and Security, 13. Wavelets
A. Communications Systems: 1. Modulation and Detection, 2. Error Control Coding, 3. OFDM / Multicarrier, 4. Cognitive Radio, 5. Adaptive Waveforms, 6. Wireless Security/Privacy, 7. Power line communication, 8. DSL and Wireline Technologies, 9. 60GHz, 10. Optical Communications, 11. 4G Applications B. MIMO Communications and Signal Processing: 1. Space-Time Coding and Decoding, 2. Channel Estimation and Equalization, 3. Multi-user MIMO, 4. Base Station Cooperation, 5. Limited Feedback Techniques, 6. Interference Management C. Networks: 1. Transmission Techniques for Ad Hoc Networks, 2. Wireless Sensor Networks, 3. Network Information Theory, 4. Cooperative Diversity, 5. Relays, 6. Heterogeneous Networks, 7. Cognitive/Adaptive Sensor Networks D. Signal Processing and Adaptive Systems: 1. Compressive Sensing, 2. Machine Learning Based Statistical Signal Processing, 3.Information Theoretic Signal Processing, 4. Cognitive Information Processing, 5. Adaptive Filtering, 6. Fast Algorithms E. Array Signal Processing: 1. Source Localization, 2. Source Separation, 3. Adaptive Beamforming
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May 17, 2011 Computer History Museum, Mt. View
The IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Software
magazine are proud to present a high-level, one-day summit entitled "Managing the Pace of Innovation".
Increasing globalization, new technologies, today’s economic downturn, and fast-changing regulations constantly reshape the competitive landscape, even for industries that once seemed stable. To respond to this chaos, organizations place a premium on innovation.
We invite you to network with an engaging team of software engineering thought leaders, who will share their experiences and proven techniques for adapting to this relentless pace of business innovation. Enjoy stimulating keynotes by top experts, an interactive panel discussion, a Second Life experience, and networking opportunities at lunch and breaks. Get one-on-one guidance and input from experts. Get inspired and motivated by top professionals.
Only $90, through May 1st!
Detalis and registration:
www.computer.org/portal/web/ computingnow/sw/ses11
Internationally renowned speakers include well-known IEEE Software authors and Software Industry leaders: Gary McGraw, Cigital, CTO Jan Bosch, Intuit VP Grady Booch (via Second Life), IBM Chief
Scientist Grigori Melnik, Microsoft senior program manager Linda Rising, independent consultant and
patterns/agile/retrospectives expert Rebecca Wirfs-Brock, independent consultant and
founder, Wirfs-Brock Associates
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An Association Perspective on Solar/PV Manufacturing
Speaker: Bettina Weiss, Executive Director, PV
Group of SEMI Time: Networking/Light Dinner at 6:00 PM;
Presentation at 7:00 PM Cost: none Place: KeyPoint Credit Union, 2805 Bowers Ave,
Santa Clara RSVP: not required Web: ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/leos
Bettina Weiss, as Executive Director, PV Group, oversees the global photovoltaic program (PV Group) for SEMI. She is responsible for global PV strategy and operations for member engagement, expositions, Standards, information products, EHS initiatives, policy and other activities for photovoltaics and is the PV interface to the SEMI International Board of Directors as well as the industry worldwide.
Weiss joined SEMI in 1996 and worked in several Standards positions in SEMI Europe in Brussels Belgium and in global headquarters in San Jose. From 2005 to 2008, she was Director, International Standards, overseeing SEMI's International Standards Program operations. From 2008 to 2010, Weiss helped build SEMI's PV Group initiatives in North America and, later, worldwide.
Prior to joining SEMI, Weiss worked in sales and marketing positions at Metron Semiconductor and Varian Semiconductor in Munich, Germany. She holds a B.A. in English from the Interpreters and Translators Institute in Munich, and is a certified translator for Anglo-American Law and Economics.
This presentation will provide a 20,000 foot view
of the overall PV market and address the challenges facing the industry. It will cover the need for stakeholder collaboration in order to move the industry forward and expand the market while continuing to drive down costs. And finally, how we can leverage semiconductor's existing core competencies in order to create a long-term sustainable solar market.
TUESDAY May 3, 2011
SCV Photonics
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Speech and Robotics at the Honda Research Institute
Speaker: Dr. Antoine Raux, Honda Research
Institute, Mountain View Time: 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM Cost: none (bring maney for parking fee) Place: University of California at Santa Cruz,
Simularium Room (Room 180, Engineering Bldg 2), Santa Cruz
RSVP: not required; see website for paper PDF, and for map
Web: www.ee.com/ieee
Antoine Raux is a research scientist at Honda Research Institute USA. His research focuses on spoken interaction with machines. Specifically, he is interested in issues related to speech recognition, turn-taking, speech synthesis, and dialog management in the context of spoken dialog systems. While focused on telephone-based systems during my PhD, he is now broadening the scope of his work to human-robot interaction and other situated interaction scenarios.
In spoken communications, correction ut- terances, which are utterances correcting other participants utterances and behaviors, play crucial roles, and detecting them is one of the key issues. Previously, much work has been done on automatic detection of correction utterances in human-human and human-computer dialogs, but they mostly dealt with the correction of erroneous utterances. However, in many real situations, especially in communications between humans and mobile robots, the misunderstandings manifest themselves not only through utterances but also through physical actions performed by the participants. In this paper and talk, we focus on action corrections and propose a classification of such utterances into Omission, Commission, and Degree corrections. We present the results of our analysis of correction utterances in dialogs between two humans who were engaging in a kind of on-line computer game, where one participant plays the role of the remote manager of a convenience store, and the other plays the role of a robot store clerk. We analyze the linguistic content, prosody as well as the timing of correction utterances and found that all features were significantly correlated with action corrections.
WEDNESDAY May 4, 2011
SCV Moneterey Bay Subsection
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Culture Eats Strategy for Lunch
Speaker: Jim Arena, Senior Director, Juniper
Networks Time: Networking at 6:00 PM; Forum at 6:30 PM;
Dinner at 7:15 PM; Presentation at 7:45 PM Cost: $10 for IEEE members; $13 for others
($3 more at door) Place: RAMADA Silicon Valley, 1217 Wildwood
Ave, Sunnyvale RSVP: not required Web: www.ieee-scv-tmc.org
Jim Arena, senior director at Juniper Networks, is currently leading Junos Transformation. This is Juniper’s 2 year initiative to scale its co-wide core operating system for high performance network routers, switches and security products. Jim has spent over 20 years leading large cross-company or cross-organizational initiatives. He was a member of the 4-person leadership team that led the HP/Compaq merger across 23 workstreams affecting 165,000 employees. He was accountable for the Decision Accelerator, a methodology for driving decisions that stick. These are just two of the initiatives in which he’s had a significant role as an transformation leader in medium- and large-sized companies. Prior to Juniper he’s done this work at SAP, Business Objects and HP.
You know you have a good strategy; one that
should allow the company to add distinctive value and win. Some organizations seem to be built for speed, built for quick decisions, and built to not revisit those decisions over and over. But, typically that’s not the case. Culture is far more powerful than a brilliant strategy.
Situations are created where companies have to execute and execute well. In the HP/Compaq merger, HP was literally competing on all fronts. When the acquisition was announced, its sub-scale PC and Enterprise business was second string to well funded competitors. It had to execute, and in the most difficult climate – a merger with an entirely different culture at Compaq computer. For example, the engineering team had relied on dive and catch to stay one step ahead of the competition, but, with the merger, this could not be sustained when the team had grown well in excess of several thousand. The story of overcoming deeply embedded cultural weaknesses has been played out many times in the fast changing valley.
Come to this meeting and learn lessons, through hard fought experiences, specific strategies in:
Describing the culture – a way to talk credibly in an analytical environment
Organizing and mobilizing – build the rigor that pays off for change
Highlighting the leadership defining moments that tip the balance
THURSDAY May 5, 2011
SCV Technology Management
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Theory, Principles, and Techniques for Designing
Low-Noise Oscillators
Speaker: Professor Jeremy Everard, University of York, UK
Time: Networking and food at 6:30 PM; Presentation at 7:00 PM
Cost: none Place: National Semiconductor Conference
Center, Building E, 2900 Semiconductdor Drive, Sunnyvale
RSVP: not required Web: www.50MHzandUp.org
Dr. Jeremy Everard is the BAE Systems and Royal Academy of Engineering Research Professor at the Department of Electronics, University of York, UK.
Professor Jeremy Everard will present the theory,
underlying principles, and latest techniques for the design of state-of-the-art low-noise oscillators. Detailed design discussions will cover oscillators with exceptional performance operating from 10MHz to 10GHz using using a variety of different resonators: LC, crystal, SAW, helical, printed-helical, coplanar, ceramic transmission line (CRO), and dielectric (DRO). New material includes simplified accurate phase noise theory for negative resistance oscillators and a description of measurement systems and a cross correlation system with a noise floor below -200dBc.
Organized by the 50 MHz and Up Group
THURSDAY May 5, 2011
SCV Microwave Theory and Techniques
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How do we Know that Human Activities have Affected the
Global Climate?
Speaker: Benjamin D. Santer, Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Time: Networking and dinner at 6:00 PM Cost: $15.00 per person, includes buffet dinner Place: Willow Tree Restaurant, 6513 Regional St,
Dublin RSVP: No later than Sunday, May 8, from the
website Web: www.ieee4life.org
Dr. Benjamin D. Santer is an atmospheric scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). His research focuses on such topics as climate model evaluation, the use of statistical methods in climate science, and identification of natural and anthropogenic “fingerprints” in observed climate records. Dr. Santer’s early research on the climatic effects of combined changes in greenhouse gases (GHGs) and sulfate aerosols contributed to the historic “discernible human influence” conclusion of the 1995 Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He spent much of the last decade addressing the contentious issue of whether model-simulated changes in tropospheric temperature are in accord with satellite-based temperature measurements. His recent work has attempted to identify anthropogenic fingerprints in a number of different climate variables, such as tropopause height, atmospheric water vapor, the temperature of the stratosphere and troposphere, and ocean surface temperatures in hurricane formation regions.
Dr. Santer holds a Ph.D. in Climatology from the University of East Anglia, England, where he studied under Professor Tom Wigley. After completion of his Ph.D. in 1987, he spent five years at the Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology in Germany, and worked with Professor Klaus Hasselmann on the development and application of climate fingerprinting methods. In 1992, Dr. Santer joined Professor Larry Gates at LLNL’s Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison.
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Human-caused climate change is not a
hypothetical future event. It is real, and we are experiencing it in our lifetimes. Despite compelling evidence of human effects on global climate, there is a continuing need for scientists to explain "how we know it's us". The first part of my talk will briefly summarize the scientific underpinning for "discernible human influence" conclusions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. I will show that the climate system is telling us an internally- and physically-consistent story. The message in this story is that observed changes in many different (and independently-measured) aspects of the climate system cannot be explained by natural causes alone.
Studies of the causes of climate change frequently rely on computer models of the climate system. Such models are the only tools we have for attempting to understand the size (and geographical and seasonal distribution) of the climate changes we are likely to experience over the 21st century. But not all computer models show equal skill in capturing key features of present-day climate. Should models with higher skill in reproducing today's climate be regarded as more trustworthy predictors of 21st century climate change? Is it easy to identify the "top 10" climate models in the world? How should decision-makers - and scientists interested in studying the impacts of climate change - use and interpret information on the strengths and weaknesses of different climate models? Can we find clever ways of reducing uncertainties in projections of future climate change? These are a few of the questions that will be addressed in the second part of the talk.
Dr. Santer served as convening lead author of the climate-change detection and attribution chapter of the 1995 IPCC report. More recently, he was the convening lead author of a key chapter of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program’s report on “Temperature Trends in the Lower Atmosphere”. His awards include the Norbert Gerbier–MUMM International Award (1998), a MacArthur Fellowship (1998), the U.S. Department of Energy's E.O. Lawrence Award (2002), and a Distinguished Scientist Fellowship from the U.S. Dept. of Energy, Office of Biological and Environmental Research (2005).
TUESDAY May 10, 2011
OEB Life Members
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small processors solve BIG PROBLEMS
Speaker: Dr. Chris Rowen, Founder and CTO,
Tensilica, Inc. Time: Networking and light dinner at 6:30 PM;
Presentation at 7:00 PM Cost: $2 donation accepted for food & drinks Place: Cadence Bldg 10, 2655 Seely Ave, San
Jose RSVP: from the website Web: sites.ieee.org/scv-cs
Dr. Chris Rowen is Chief Technology Officer of Tensilica, which he founded in July 1997. He was a pioneer in the development of RISC architecture at Stanford in the early 80s and helped start MIPS Computer Systems Inc. in 1984, where he served in a variety of functions including as Vice President for Microprocessor Development and managed MIPS in Europe. When Silicon Graphics purchased MIPS, he became the technology and market development leader for Silicon Graphics Europe. In 1966, he became Synopsys’ Vice President and General Manager of the Design Reuse Group. He received a B.A. in physics from Harvard University and M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University.
There’s no question that computing is percolating
ever more deeply into the lives of billions on people. Smart-phones, distributed applications in the cloud, and embedded intelligence in running in parallel. Unhappily, Moore’s Law scaling of existing processor types isn’t enough to keep up with the energy-efficiency demands of all these applications. So how must processors evolve?
In this talk, we’ll look first at what’s common to the problems faced by designers of 4G wireless systems, imaging systems and high-performance computers. Then we’ll explore the startling range of processor types required – ultra-low energy 32b processor cores approaching 0.01mm2 in area, specialized data processors at trillion RISC operations per second, software-defined radio platforms for Gbps cellular wireless and supercomputing configurations approaching the “exaFLOP” level for grand-challenge problems like climate modeling. The efficiency and processor design automation of this new category of processors opens up a compelling new technical applications and silicon system opportunities.
TUESDAY May 10, 2011
SCV Computer
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Data Science at LinkedIn: Turning Data into Products
and Stories
Speaker: Dr. Monica Rogati. LinkedIn Time: 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM Cost: none (bring maney for parking fee) Place: University of California at Santa Cruz,
Simularium Room (Room 180, Engineering Bldg 2), Santa Cruz
RSVP: not required; see website for paper PDF, and for map
Web: www.ee.com/ieee
How do you know Darth Vader’s LinkedIn account is not real? How do you train a recommender system *before* it goes live? What are the hottest companies, industries or jobs this year, and more importantly, how do you leverage terabytes of data to define “hot”? What algorithms will find your next sharp CTO in a 100MM resume haystack? Data scientists ask (and answer) these questions every day. We'll discuss how to handle big & noisy data, technologies and methods used in data science, and how to build data driven products that bring value to a hundred million professionals.
WEDNESDAY May 11, 2011SCV Moneterey Bay Subsection
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Magnetic Surface Nanostructures
Speaker: Dr. Axel Enders, Assistant Professor,
University of Nebraska – Lincoln Time: 3:00 PM Cost: none Place: Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, Berkeley RSVP: required, by email to Catherine Jenkins Web: ewh.ieee.org/r6/oeb/mag
In this talk, I will discuss synthesis strategies for
and magnetism of surfacesupported self-assembled Fe and Co nanostructures. Simple tricks of surface science are used to fabricate a variety of nanostructures, from simple impurity atoms to atomic chains, stripes, dots and surface alloys to more complex, ordered structures such as cluster arrays or metal-molecule networks. Such structures are fascinating research objects as they give us an unprecedented view on the evolution of fundamental magnetic properties, such as the magnetic anisotropy. I will highlight Co nanodot arrays formed by self-assembly on reconstructed W(110) substrates. It is demonstrated that clusters containing 3 – 12 atoms in varied geometries on W(110) surface exhibit antiferromagnetic coupling, which is in a drastic contrast to the strong ferromagnetic coupling in bulk phases of Co, ultrathin films and nanoclusters of Co on various fcc and bcc substrates. I will present STM studies and measurements of the cluster magnetization with XMCD that exclude ferromagnetic spin alignment and explain our findings with first principles calculations, which consider the hybridization of W and Co states. I will show how the particular strength of this study, which is the combination of local STM probing with areaintegrating magnetic dichroism and photoelectron spectroscopy measurements, can be deployed also for the study of metal-organic surface structures and multiferroic nanostructures.
WEDNESDAY May 11, 2011
OEB Magnetics
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Evolution: Status and New Developments in WiFi, 3G,
and 4G-LTE from a Silicon Perspective
Speakers: Michael Hurlston, Sr VP, Broadcom; Je
Woo Kim, VP of Technology, Qualcomm Time: Networking, food, drinks at 6:00 PM;
Presentations at 6:30 PM Cost: $5 donation is requested for refreshments Place: National Semiconductor Auditorium (Bldg
E), 2900 Semiconductor Drive, Santa Clara RSVP: by email to [email protected] Web: www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/comsoc
Michael Hurlston is the Senior VP and General Manager for Broadcom’s Home and Wireless Networking line of business. Michael has over 13 years of experience in the wireless industry, spanning MMDS, 802.16, 802.11, and Bluetooth technologies. He joined Broadcom in 2001 and helped take it from its start in WLAN to its current position as the market leader. In the process, he led Broadcom to a number of industry firsts including 802.11g, 500 million units shipped, 802.11n and Wi-Fi+BT combination chips. Michael holds an MBA and a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Davis.
Je Woo Kim is the VP of Technology at Qualcomm, in Santa Clara. Prior to joining Qualcom in 2007, Dr. Kim worked at TeleCIS Wireless (WLAN/WiMAX chip developing company) and was an Associate Professor at Pusan National University, Pusan, Korea (1997 -2001). He was also a Senior Technical Advisor for Samsung Electronics/Samsung Thales (1993 -2001) and a Senior Engineer at Samsung Electronics (1990-1993). Je Woo received his Ph.D from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Seoul, Korea
IEEE ComSocSCV brings together the semiconductor
industry leaders in the WiFi and 3G-CDMA/ 4G-LTE markets for this information packed technical meeting. Each of our esteemed speakers will present their subject matter as described in the abstracts below. A panel session with audience Q and A will follow the two presentations. ComSocSCV officer Daniel Wong, PHD will moderate the panel. The speakers will cover the technology trend (integrated technology (CDMA, OFDM, WiFi, etc..), memory size, major challenges, etc) for ICs inside broadband wireless devices (can be both basestation and subscriber), the market size, key applications and opportunities. Please join us for what promises to be an exciting and illuminating session!
1. Evolution of Wi-Fi, Michael Hurlston
Abstract: This talk will cover the progression of the Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11) market and technology over the past 10 years. Wi-Fi has moved from a data driven application set to mobile, video and even white spaces (unused broadcast TV spectrum). In addition, the WiFi technology itself has continued to evolve from 802.11b to g and on to the faster and more throughput efficient 802.11n. With those changes have come significant advances in the areas of RF design and Integrated Circuit implementations. These will be explored along with a glimpse at what the future may bring. 2. 3G and 4G Mobile Broadband Technologies and Silicon Solutions, Je Woo Kim,
Abstract: In the 3 part talk, we address the overall broadband wireless technologies and market trends. In section I, standards and technologies for the wireless broadband systems are described. 4G wish list and key features are addressed, too. In section II, mobile services, mobile broadband evolution and 3G/LTE multi-mode device strategy are discussed. For 3G/LTE multi-mode device strategy, the evolution path for data only LTE to VoLTE (voice)/LTE data is discussed. Silicon vendors, their products, features/technologies and product strategies for mobile broadband are compared in section III. The 3GPP progression path from LTE to LTE Advanced (true 4G) will also be examined.
WEDNESDAY May 11, 2011
SCV Communications
• Patent application preparation, prosecution, IP Strategy • Enforcing, Licensing and Monetizing Patents • Broad Experience in many Electrical and Software arts • Our Experts: IEEE Fellow, SPIE Fellow, Technical and Legal Experts
Ph: 408-288-7588 www.StevensLawGroup.com
Email: [email protected]
1754 Technology Dr, #226 San Jose
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The EtherCAT Standard for Control Systems
Speaker: Joey Stubbs, EtherCAT Technology Group Time: Pizza and networking at 6:30 PM;
Presentations at 7:00 PM Cost: none Place: Cogswell Polytechnical College, Sunnyvale RSVP: not required Web: www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/css
Joey Stubbs is the North American representative of the EtherCAT Technology Group, the largest industrial fieldbus organization in the world. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of South Carolina, as well as several technical degrees. He has over 20 years of industrial experience in industrial automation. He is also a registered Professional Engineer (PE) and a registered Project Management Professional (PMP).
This presentation is an in-depth introduction to Ethernet as a fieldbus, and specifically EtherCAT, the fastest industrial Ethernet fieldbus available, capable of updating 1000 distributed I/O in 30µs, 200 16-bit analog I/O in 50µs, or 100 servo axes in 100µs. Its small footprint, low overhead, and open nature make it ideal for embedded applications, custom controls manufacturers, and device developers. EtherCAT sets new standards for real-time performance and topology flexibility, while meeting or undercutting standard industrial fieldbus cost levels. EtherCAT features include IEEE 802.3 compatibility, high precision device synchronization, a cable redundancy option, flexible topology, fiber optic or Cat5 cabling options, and a native functional safety protocol (SIL3). EtherCAT is an international standard (IEC, ISO and SEMI). EtherCAT is represented by the EtherCAT Technology Group (ETG), the largest fieldbus organization, with over 1500 member companies from 52 countries around the world.
WEDNESDAY May 11, 2011
SCV Control Systems
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Friday Afternoons at an Electronic Manufacturing Services (EMS) Provider
Speaker: John Burke, Engineering Director,
AsteelFlash USA Time: Buffet dinner at 6:00 PM; Presentation (no
cost) at 6:45 PM Cost: $20 ($10 for full-time students,
unemployed). $5 more at door Place: Biltmore Hotel, 2151 Laurelwood Rd (Fwy 101 at Montague Expressway), Santa Clara
RSVP: from website Web: www.cpmt.org/scv
John Burke founded the UK-based SMART (Surface Mounted and Related Technologies) Group and is active in helping people solve issues with soldering and other manufacturing process-related topics, while holding down a full time executive job for a company in the valley.
He has headed the management team at three contract manufacturing companies as well as managing manufacturing-related sections of large multi-national companies, and has long experience with electronics and system-level manufacturing, design, and test; both at bench and at executive management levels. John takes an active role in all aspects of process and process improvement, and has many patents issued on advanced manufacturing technology.
John has 20+ years’ experience in high-tech manufacturing of electronics and box build equipment as well as semiconductor products, in both public and private companies. Particular areas of expertise include DFX and lean manufacturing engineering, soldering technology implementation and troubleshooting, forecasting, strategic planning, vendor management, product manufacturing (site/country) transition management, restructuring, internal and external reporting, market trend and roadmap planning, team technology training, six sigma yield engineering and management, report standardization for ease of centralized dashboard data reporting.
This presentation will cover issues that can and
do occur on customer products related to design issues and will focus on key criteria that should be addressed when working with any EMS provider in order to enable virual zero-defect manufacturing and -- more importantly -- avoid continuous engineering support requirements from the OEM and ensure that delivery expectations are met.
This topic will be of particular interest to Component Engineers, Quality/Reliability Engineers, and Manufacturing Technology Engineers.
WEDNESDAY May 11, 2011
SCV Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology
MET Laboratories
EMC – Product Safety
US & Canada
• Electromagnetic Compatibility • Product Safety Cert. • Environmental Simulation • Full TCB Services • Design Consultations • MIL-STD testing • NEBS (Verizon ITL & FOC) • Telecom • Wireless, RFID (DASH7 & EPCglobal Test Lab)
Facilities in Union City and Santa Clara
www.metlabs.com [email protected] 510-489-6300
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Solyndra – Commercial Rooftops and Beyond
Speaker: Scott Dailey, Director of Product
Management, Solyndra Time: Networking at 6:00 PM; Presentation at
6:30 PM Cost: none Place: Palo Alto Research Center (G.E. Pake
Auditorium), 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto
RSVP: not required Web: www.svpvs.org
Scott Dailey is Director of Product Management at Solyndra. His team is responsible for Solyndra's commercial rooftop PV products as well as new markets and applications for Solyndra's technology. Prior to Solyndra, Dailey was at OptiSolar, where he helped develop a 19 GW project portfolio, including permitting, BOS optimization and construction strategy for Sarnia Solar Farm (currently the world's largest PV system @ 80 MW), the Topaz project (planned: 550 MW), and other projects in the US, Canada and France; acquired by First Solar in 2009. Prior to OptiSolar, Mr Dailey was VP of Product Mktg & Bus Dev at Digidesign, whose flagship product Pro Tools revolutionized the pro audio industry and earned technical Oscar®, Grammy® and Emmy® awards. Mr. Dailey began his career in energy in 1985, developing innovative technology for oil and gas exploration at Sperry-Sun (acquired by Halliburton). He holds a BS in petroleum engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and an MBA from Stanford.
Commercial rooftops offer many compelling advantages over ground-mount and residential PV. Commercial rooftop solar doesn’t displace agriculture or mar pristine desert landscapes. There are no endangered species, and no significant transmission/interconnection challenges. Grid integration and permitting are simple, and there are typically no “angry neighbors.” In addition, the available supply of these large rooftops is truly vast, estimated at over 10 Billion square meters, or well over 500 GW potential worldwide.
Solyndra’s products were specifically designed for the commercial rooftop market. We’ll take a look at the world from a “Solyndrical” point of view, and understand why Solyndra has shipped over 100MW to 1,000+ rooftops in over 20 countries worldwide. Some new applications will also be covered, including Agricultural Shade and other innovative deployments of this unique technology. We’ll have a Solyndra panel on-hand, and will be taking signups for a tour of our factory in Fremont.
WEDNESDAY May 11, 2011SCV Photovoltaics
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Physical Verification Challenges and Solutions
for 45nm and Beyond
Speaker: Haifang Liao, Celesda Design Solutions Inc. Time: Networking/Light Dinner at 6:30 PM;
Presentation at 7:00 PM Cost: $2 donation for food Place: QualComm, Building B, 3165 Kifer Road,
Santa Clara RSVP: not required Web: www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/cas
Haifang Liao received his B.S. and M.S degrees in electrical engineering from Zhejiang University in 1983 and Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1986, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1995.
Dr. Liao is the CEO of Celesda Design Solutions, Inc. which he founded in 2008. Prior to that, he was the founder and CEO of eTop Design Technology, Inc. which was acquired by Cadence in 2004. Then in Cadence, he served as the senior architect and later the product manager of the physical verification. Before that, Dr. Liao was co-founder and VP engineering of Ultima Interconnect Technology, Inc., one of two predecessor companies to Celestry. Celestry was acquired by Cadence in 2003.
From 1986 to 1991, Dr. Liao was a lecturer in Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Within this period, from 1988 to 1990, he served as a manager to develop physical verification tool set for China national ICCAD project --- Panda system.
Advanced semiconductor technology provides the capability to integrate billions of transistors for SOC designs, the tape-out data for manufacture reaches terabyte magnitude, and the complexity of design rules in the deep sub-wavelength processes increases explosively. This talk will review challenges of physical verification for complicated SOC designs on 45nm process and beyond. We analyze properties of various applications in different aspects, complexity of design rules and layout structures, and introduce a fast platform for physical verification as well as design-for-manufacture (DFM) to analyze, verify, modify and optimize designs. The new solution is fully compatible with the existing design flow and offers multiple times speed up with signoff quality.
TUESDAY May 16, 2011
SCV Circuits and Systems
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Nanotechnology Seminar: Consumer Applications
Speakers: Spike Narayan, IBM; Dania Ghantous,
Qnovo; Sujeet Kumar, Envia Systems; Prof. Ali Shakouri, UC Santa Cruz; and others
Time: Registration at 8:00 AM; Presentations from 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Cost: IEEE Members: $60, Non-Members: $75, Students $45 (includes lunch). Add $15 at the door
Place: National Semiconductor Bldg E-1, 2900 Semiconductor Drive, Santa Clara
RSVP: from the website Web: www.ieee.org/nano
SAVE $15 -- REGISTER EARLY ONLINE AT
www.123signup.com/register?id=vhxff
8.00-8.30 Registration and Breakfast 8:30 Welcome: Dr. Allen Amaro, Chair, IEEE SFBA
Nanotech Council 8:35 Dr. Spike Narayan, Functional Manager, IBM,
Nanotechnology: Leveraging Semiconductor Technologies to Address Global Challenges
9:20-11:50 Session 1: Energy Generation/Storage 9:20 Dr. Dania Ghantous, VP Technology, Qnovo,
Lithium-Ion Batteries: Opportunities and Challenges
10:10 Dr. Sujeet Kumar, CTO, Envia Systems, High Capacity Cathode for Consumer Electronics Application
11:00 Prof. Ali Shakouri, Dept. of EE, UC Santa Cruz, Nanostructured Materials for Direct Conversion of Heat Into Electricity
11:50-12:30 Lunch and Networking
12:30-3:00 Session 2: OLED/Displays 12:30-1:20 Dr. Carl Taussig, Director, Information
Surfaces, H-P Labs, SAIL (Self-Aligned Imprint Lithography), Green Manufacturing for Green Products
1:20-2:10 Dr. T. E. Edman, VP, Display Business, Applied Materials, Nanotechnology Meets Industrial Scale Manufacturing: Delivering High-performance Affordable Displays to Consumers
2:10-3:00 Dr. Mateusz Bryning, Zikon, Nano-Droplets and Porous Networks for Electronic Displays
3:00-3:15 Break-Refreshments 3:15-4:05 Session 3: Solid State Lighting 3:15-4:05 Chuck Edwards, VP Product Development,
Intematix, Novel Remote Phosphor Architectures and Methods for Modeling Performance
4:05-4:55 Dr. Florian Pschenitzka, Cambrios, Using Metal Nanowires As Transparent Electrodes for OLED Solid State Lighting
4.55-5.00 Concluding Remarks, Dr. Geetha Dholakia
TUESDAY May 17, 2011
SCV Nanotechnology
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Software Experts Summit 2011: Managing the Pace of Innovation
Speakers: luminaries including Gary McGraw, Cigital;
Grady Booch, IBM; Jan Bosch, Intuit; Linda Rising, Consultant; Grigori Melnik, Microsoft; Rebecca Wirfs-Brock, WB Associates; Forrest Shull, Fraunhofer
Time: 9:00 AM - 7:00 PM Cost: $90 through April 15 (includes breakfast,
lunch) Place: Computer History Museum, 1401 N
Shoreline Blvd, Mountain View RSVP: from website Web: www.computer.org/ses11 Schedule: 9 AM: Welcome, Forrest Shull, Fraunhofer Center for
Experimental Software Engineering
9:15 AM: Keynote 1: Software Security and the ‘Building Security In’ Maturity Model, Gary McGraw, Cigital
10:45 AM: How Speed Drives Innovation, Jan Bosch, Intuit
11:15 AM: When Decisions Went Well or Not—and Why? A Park Bench Discussion, Moderator: Linda Rising, Independent Consultant
12 Noon: lunch, and Surprising New Techniques to Improve Your Decision-Making, Linda Rising, Independent Consultant
1:45 PM: Keynote 2: Everything You Know Is Wrong!, Grady Booch, IBM
2:45 PM: Want to Shape Future Markets? Don't Ask the Customer!, Pekka Abrahamsson, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
3:45 PM: Making Distributed Agile Work, Grigori Melnik, Microsoft
4:15 PM: Managing Project Risk and Incremental Design Innovation, Rebecca Wirfs-Brock, Wirfs-Brock Associates
4:45 PM: Closing Remarks, Forrest Shull, Fraunhofer Center for Experimental Software Engineering
Increasing globalization, new technologies, today’s
economic downturn, and fast-changing regulations constantly reshape the competitive landscape, even for industries that once seemed stable. To respond to this chaos, organizations place a premium on innovation.
The IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Software magazine are proud to present this high-level, one-day summit, in the heart of Silicon Valley. We invite you to network with an engaging team of software-engineering thought leaders, who will share their experiences and proven techniques for adapting to this relentless pace of business innovation. Enjoy stimulating keynotes by top experts, an interactive panel discussion, a Second Life experience, and networking opportunities at lunch and breaks. Get one-on-one guidance and input from experts. Get inspired and motivated by top professionals.
Lowest-cost registration through April 15th.
TUESDAY May 17, 2011
IEEE Computer Society & IEEE Software Magazine
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What Every Inventor and Entrepreneur Needs to Know
about Patents Speaker: David Dreyfuss, Moore Patents Time: Presentation at 7:00 PM Cost: none Place: KeyPoint Credit Union, 2805 Bowers Ave.,
Santa Clara RSVP: not required Web: www.CaliforniaConsultants.org
Dr. David Dreyfuss is a U.S. registered patent agent with Moore Patents where he focuses on drafting and prosecuting patents appli-cations for clients ranging from solo inventors to large companies in a wide range of technical disciplines.
David also has many years of experience as a senior entrepreneur and technologist with unusually broad-based multidisciplinary expertise in the physical sciences and engineering and experience in a broad range of settings and industries. Starting from degrees in Physics and Gas Dynamics from MIT, he went on to teach Mechanical Engineering at Rutgers, develop automated inspection systems at PA Technology and Dupont, and develop printers and printing systems at PA, AM Graphics, Lexmark and The Salmon Group.
David currently also serves as VP of Engineering and Board Member for Aerulean Plant Identification Systems, Inc. As an independent consultant he has worked on digital printing, inspection and machine vision problems as well as intellectual property, Google Answers and web site and e-commerce business development. He has numerous published articles, papers and patents.
Nearly everyone thinks they have some idea what
a patent is and what it's good for, but do you really know how to use patents effectively for your business? This talk will explore the patent world from the inventor's point of view: who, what, why, how, and when. A free-form presentation and discussion is
planned with time emphasis on topics of most interest to the audience. Some planned topics include:
Why patents? Patents vs. open source Patents as property: who owns them, and what
can you do with them The differences between a patent disclosure and
a technical paper The differences between patent examination and
peer review Are patents a rich man's (big company's) game? Self representation vs. hired help: patent agents,
patent attorneys, etc. U.S.-only vs. multi-jurisdictional filing The patent timeline and how to fit it into business
plans Timing issues: invention conception, reduction to
practice, conference or trade show presentation, talking to investors and customers, publications, provisional, non-provisional, and PCT filings, non-disclosure agreements, etc.; what has to come before what and why?
After examination: interferences, re-examination, infringement suits, damages, appeals, licenses, etc.
Consequences of new changes in patent law: patentable subject matter is redefined by Supreme Court, especially as applied to software and business methods; first-inventor-to-file is about to become law in the U.S. (U.S. currently has a first-to-invent priority system)
TUESDAY May 17, 2011
SCV Consultants' Network of Silicon Valley
Patent Agent Jay Chesavage, PE
MSEE Stanford 3833 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto 94303
www.File-EE-Patents.com
TEL: 650-619-5270 FAX: 650-494-3835
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Bionanoelectronics: The State of the Art and The Near-Term Future
Speaker: Mark Buenger, Director of Research, Lux
Research Time: Optional dinner (no host, no reservations) at
6:15 PM; Presentation at 7:30 PM Cost: none, for talk Place: Dinner at Stanford Hospital Cafeteria;
Presentation at Room M-114, Stanford University Medical School
RSVP: not required Web: www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/embs
Mark Buenger is the Director of Research at Lux Research based in the firm's San Francisco office. Mark joined Lux Research 5 years ago with 14 years of business strategy experience, both as a management consultant and technology analyst. His previous work experience includes Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, International Engagement Manager at European consultancy Icon Medialab, and Managing Director of Icon Medialab's U.S. office. The first six years of Mark's career were spent at Accenture in the U.S., U.K., and Sweden. Mark's education includes International Marketing at Maelardalen Polytechnic in Sweden, and Market Research at the University of Texas in the U.S. He also studied biochemistry through the University of California at Berkeley's extension program.
Recent strides in multiple disciplines have
enabled the precise engineering of polymers, biomolecules, and electronics, and the integration of the three. In applications like diagnostics, medical devices, industrial sensors, and environmental monitoring, nano/bio/electro hybrid technologies are being brought to bear, and making their way to the marketplace. Lux Research will provide an overview of the field, placing particular inventions and developers on the timeline to commercialization.
WEDNESDAY May 18, 2011
SCV Engineering in Medicine and Biology
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Why Grid Storage? Conditioning and Frequency Control
or, why Grid Frequency is like Golf: everything’s fine until the
swing Speaker: Tom Stepien, CEO, Primus Power Time: Dinner at 6:00 PM; Presentation at 7:00 PM Cost: $25.00 IEEE members, $30.00 non
members, $10.00 Students Place: Biltmore Hotel, 2151 Laurelwood Rd (Fwy
101 at Montague Expressway), Santa Clara RSVP: by email to James Alvers,
[email protected], 925-463-7115
Web: www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/pes_ias
Tom Stepien is the CEO of Primus Power. He is a veteran of the electronics industry, holding various engineering, operations and general management jobs at Applied Materials and Novellus, most recently as VP & GM at Applied Materials. Tom earned both BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering at MIT.
About Primus Power: Founded in 2009, Primus Power has developed a low cost, versatile and power dense battery system that economically addresses a wide range of energy storage applications. Primus technology will significantly improve the cost, reliability, environmental footprint & security of the electric grid, and accelerate adoption of intermittent renewable energy sources. In November 2009 Primus Power was one of sixteen companies selected by the Department of Energy to receive a Smart Grid Demonstration Program grant, receiving one of the largest awards to commercialize, deploy and monitor a 25 MW/75 MWh energy storage system for a major California utility.
The development of distributed, grid-scale energy storage systems offers great promise for improving the reliability, safety and cost of the electrical grid. The need for utility-scale grid storage is being driven by rapid growth of intermittent renewable energy, such as wind power, as well as load growth and under investment in transmission & distribution assets. A significant number of new energy storage technologies are being developed which could offer solutions to these and other issues facing the grid. Tom will discuss the recent advances in energy storage and its benefits, such as frequency regulation (one of the most deployed applications to date), as well as enhanced system reliability, and increased penetration of renewable energy:
1. Introduction to Grid Storage and Primus Power 2. Technology Overview 3. Current benefits and deployment examples 4. Future/potential benefits
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Capacitive Power Transfer for Contactless Charging
Speaker: Mitchell Kline, UC Berkeley EECS graduate student
Time: Networking & Pizza at 6:00 PM; Presentation at 6:30 PM
Cost: Donations for food accepted Place: National Semiconductor Building E
Auditorium, 2900 Semiconductor Drive, Santa Clara
RSVP: from website Web: www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/pels
Mitchell Kline graduated from Texas A&M University with a B.S. in Computer Engineering in 2008. He received his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 2010. His research interests include power electronics, integrated circuits, and MEMS sensor interfaces.
The simplicity and low cost of capacitive
interfaces makes them very attractive for wireless charging stations. Major benefits include low electromagnetic radiation and the amenability of combined power and data transfer over the same interface. We present a capacitive power transfer circuit using series resonance that enables efficient high frequency, moderate voltage operation through soft-switching. We discuss limitations on the maximum efficiency for a given amount of coupling capacitance and present an optimal design which achieves this efficiency. Automatic tuning loops ensure the circuit operates at the optimum frequency and maximum efficiency over a wide range of coupling capacitance and load conditions.
An example interface achieves near 80% efficiency at 3.7 W with only 63 pF of coupling capacitance. An automatic tuning loop adjusts the frequency from 4.2 MHz down to 4 MHz to allow for 25% variation in the nominal coupling capacitance. The duty cycle is also automatically adjusted to maintain over 70% efficiency for light loads down to 0.3 W.
WEDNESDAY May 18, 2011SCV Power Electronics
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A Practical Guide to Measuring and Modeling Power-Delivery-
Network Components Speaker: Dr. Eric Bogatin, President, Bogatin
Enterprises, LLC Time: 7:00 AM - 6:00 PM Cost: IEEE Member $250; non-Member $275;
Student/Un-Employed $100 (through April 29)
Place: Biltmore Hotel, 2151 Laurelwood Road, Santa Clara
RSVP: from website Web: ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/emc
Dr. Eric Bogatin received his BS degree in physics from MIT, and MS and PhD degrees in physics from the University of Arizona in Tucson. He has held senior engineering and management positions at Bell Labs, Raychem, Sun Microsystems, Ansoft, and Interconnect Devices. Eric has written five books on signal integrity and interconnect design and over 300 papers. His sixth book is a science fiction novel, Shadow Engineer, available on Amazon.com. Eric is currently a signal integrity evangelist with Bogatin Enterprises, which specializes in signal integrity training and education. He is a distinguished lecturer for the IEEE EMC society and lectures worldwide on signal integrity topics.
Registration & Continental Breakfast: 7:00 AM
Morning Session: 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Module 1: Measuring Low impedance with a 2-port VNA
Module 2: Building Models from S-parameter Measurements
Lunch/Exhibits Open: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Afternoon Session: 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Module 3: Interpreting the Complex Behavior of Planes
Module 4: Interpreting Plane properties with Capacitors
Reception/Exhibits Open: 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM There will be an exhibition by vendors of EMC
design, test and measurement products and services. During the reception in the exhibit area, heavy appetizers and a cash bar will be available. You are welcome to attend the reception only at NO CHARGE, provided a registration form is submitted in advance. Thus, if you can't join us for the entire day, drop by for the reception and exhibition to network with the speakers and attendees as well as vendors. You might even win a raffle prize!
THURSDAY May 19, 2011
SCV Electromagnetic Compatibility
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Ultra-Low-Power Electronics in the Next Decade
Speaker: Ajith Amerasekera, Fellow, Texas
Instruments Inc Time: Networking at 6:00 PM; Presentation at
6:30 PM Cost: none Place: National Semiconductor Building E
Auditorium, 2900 Semiconductor Drive, Santa Clara
RSVP: from website Web: sites.ieee.org/scv-sscs
Ajith Amerasekera is a TI Fellow and Director of the Kilby Research Labs at TI. After receiving his PhD in 1986 he worked at Philips Research Labs, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, on the first submicron semiconductor development. In 1991, he joined Texas Instruments, Dallas, working in the VLSI Design Labs on circuit and device modeling of high current effects in devices and circuits. Since 1999, he has been working on circuit design and IP development for TI’s CMOS technologies from 250nm to 32nm. Before taking up the role at the Kilby Labs, Ajith was Chief Technology Officer for TI’s ASIC Business Unit and Director of ASIC Technology Strategy. He has 28 issued patents, and has published over 100 papers in technical journals and conferences, in addition to 4 books on ICs and semiconductor device reliability. Ajith has served on the technical program committees of a number of International Conferences, and he was the Technical Program Chair of the 2010 VLSI Symposium on Circuits.
We are seeing a shift in electronic technology from
centralized and high-touch to ubiquitous and low-touch. Semiconductors are enabling the development of intelligent systems that enable a more immersive environment expanding the role and applications of electronic technology. Driving this change is the availability of low-power electronics for wireless connectivity and performance processing. In the next decade, our ability to develop system-level solutions for energy management, delivery and consumption, will determine the extent to which the application space for electronic technology will grow. Power management techniques developed in the last decade have focused on process technology and circuit design techniques. As we move to distributed intelligent systems, power reductions of another few orders of magnitude are required. This talk looks at some of the key areas for innovation ranging from ultra-low power chips for personal and health technology to solutions for energy generation and delivery for autonomous systems.
The constraint for the development and deployment of autonomous systems is access to the energy sources. In most applications advances in battery technology together with some form of harvesting and storage will be possible provided the power requirements are low. The present battery technology roadmap has a 2x capacity improvement every decade, while the power demand will probably increase at the rate of 2x every 18 months or so. Key areas for innovation are in RF/analog, where achieving wireless connectivity with high data rates will be a challenge for low power, the need for more performance embedded processing, and the sensor technology, as well as the battery, energy generation, harvesting, and management. The next decade will see strong cross-functional design between multi-scale systems engineers, circuit designers, and software engineers.
THURSDAY May 19, 2011
SCV Solid State Circuits
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Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment
Speaker: Ali Vakili, Eaton Time: Networking/Social at 5:30 PM; Presentation
at 6:15 PM; Dinner at 7:15 PM; Presentation continues at 8:00 PM
Cost: Dinner is $20 for IEEE members, $25 for non-members
Place: Marie Callender's Restaurant - The Garden Room; 2090 Diamond Blvd, Concord
RSVP: by email by May 17 to Gregg Boltz, [email protected] or (925) 210-2571
Web: www.e-grid.net/docs/1105-oeb-ias.pdf
Ali Vakili received his Bachelor of Engineering and Masters degrees in Electrical Engineering from State University of New York. Ali has over 26 years of electrical engineering experience both in switchgear design, Industrial automation, commissioning and troubleshooting, and is currently the District Application Engineer for EATON Corporation, a position he has held for the last 4 years. Ali is Professional Engineer in California and he was recently awarded LEED Accredited by GBCI.
A new industry is exploding in response to energy
and environmental needs and economic opportunities. The USA is taking charge, establishing its leadership in the Plug-in electric vehicle (EV) marketplace. This presentation will provide latest information on the status of the EV cars, Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSE); the SAE and UL standards for EVSE; and available EVSE equipment in the market place.
- Overview of EV & EVSE systems - Overview of codes and standards - Available EVSE products in the market place
THURSDAY May 19, 2011OEB Indusry Applications
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Human-Friendly Robotics
Speaker: Prof. Oussama Khatib, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Stanford University
Time: Presentation at 7:00 PM Cost: none Place: Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley,
Room 109-110, Moffett Field RSVP: not required Web: ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/ras
Oussama Khatib received his Doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering from Sup’Aero, Toulouse, France, in 1980. He is Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. His work on advanced robotics focuses on methodologies and technologies in human-centered robotics including humanoid control architectures, human motion synthesis, interactive dynamic simulation, haptics, and human-friendly robot design. He is Co-Editor of the Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics series, and has served on the Editorial Boards of several journals as well as the Chair or Co-Chair of numerous international conferences. He co-edited the Springer Handbook of Robotics, which received the PROSE Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences & Mathematics and was also the winner in the category Engineering & Technology. He is a Fellow of IEEE and has served RAS as a Distinguished Lecturer, as a member of the Administrative Committee, and as the Program Chair of ICRA 2000. He is the President of the International Foundation of Robotics Research (IFRR) and a recipient of the Japan Robot Association (JARA) Award in Research and Development. Professor Khatib received the 2010 IEEE RAS Pioneer Award in Robotics and Automation for his fundamental pioneering contributions in robotics research, visionary leadership, and life-long commitment to the field.
Interacting, exploring, and working with humans, the new generation of robots being developed today will increasingly touch people and their lives, in homes, workplaces, and communities, providing support in services, entertainment, education, manufacturing, personal health care, and assistance. This presentation focuses on the effort to develop human-friendly robotic systems that combine the essential characteristics of safety, human-compatibility, and performance with emphasis on (i) new design concepts and novel sensing modalities; (ii) efficient planning and whole-body humanoid robot control strategies; and (iii) robotic-based synthesis of human motion and skills.
In human-friendly robot design, our effort has focused on the development of intrinsically safe robotic systems that possess the requisite capabilities and performance to interact and work with humans. The novel design concept was based on a hybrid actuation approach that consists of biomimetic pneumatic muscles combined with small electric motors. The flexible muscles and the lightweight mechanism allow for human safety, while the electric motors compensate for the slower dynamics and nonlinearities of the pneumatics. This concept was shown to significantly decrease the inherent danger of robotic manipulators, as measured in terms of the reflected mass perceived at the point of impact. Safety can be further enhanced by the addition of robot skin to provide impact reduction and tactile sensing capabilities for advanced sensor based behaviors.
Redundancy is major challenge in the planning and control of humanoid robots. Inspired by human behaviors, our early work in robot control encoded tasks and diverse constraints into artificial potential fields capturing human-like goal-driven behaviors. To implement such behaviors on robots with complex human-like structures we developed a unified whole-body task-oriented control structure that addresses dynamics in the context of multiple tasks, multi-point contacts, and multiple constraints. The performance and effectiveness of this approach have been demonstrated through extensive robot dynamic simulations and implementations on physical robots for experimental validation. The new framework provides multi-task prioritized control architecture allowing the simultaneous execution of multiple objectives in a hierarchical manner, analogous to natural human motion.
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THURSDAY May 19, 2011
SCV Robotics and Automation
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Initially motivated by the development of human-like skills in robotics, our extensive study of human musculoskeletal system has brought insights and results that proved extremely valuable in human biomechanics. Understanding human motion is a complex procedure that requires accurate reconstruction of movement sequences, modeling of musculoskeletal kinematics, dynamics, and actuation, and suitable criteria for the characterization of performance. These issues have much in common with the problems of articulated body systems studied in robotics research. Building on methodologies and techniques developed in robotics, a host of new effective tools have been established for the synthesis of human motion. These include efficient algorithms for the simulation of musculoskeletal systems, novel physio-mechanical criteria and performance measures, real-time tracking and reconstruction of human motion, and accurate human performance characterization. These developments are providing new avenues for exploring human motion -- with exciting prospects for novel clinical therapies, athletic training, and performance improvement.
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Silicon Interposers for 2.5D and 3D Packaging
Speaker: Phil Marcoux Time: Registration at 11:30 AM; Buffet lunch at
11:45; Presentation (no cost) at 12:15 PM Cost: $15 ($5 for full-time students, unemployed).
$5 more at door Place: Biltmore Hotel, 2151 Laurelwood Rd (Fwy
101 at Montague Expressway), Santa Clara RSVP: from website Web: www.cpmt.org/scv
Phil Marcoux was named "the Father of SMT" by the IPC in 2007. In addition to his participation in the implementation of SMT, he has participated in the early implementation and promotion of WLP and now 2.5D and 3D IC packaging.
Phil has been CEO of three Silicon Valley companies and now serves as a consultant to several companies in new business development and technology adaptation. He earned a BSEE from University of Florida and the equivalent of a combined MSEE/MBA from University of Santa Clara. Phil has written and delivered dozens of papers and workshops internationally. He also authored several texts including "Fine Pitch Surface Mount Technology", 1992.
Skyscrapers are taking over skylines in virtually every major city in the world. The same is occurring in semiconductor packaging. Electronic product density requirements have driven semiconductor packaging to the point where the components are being assembled on top of each other.
There are a variety of skyscraper building technologies being evaluated and promoted. The majority of these new technologies are being called "2.5D or 3D packages". The most commonly accepted 2.5D technology employs a "PCB" built on silicon and is called an interposer. 3D technology doesn't use silicon PCBs but incorporates newer, advanced die interconnection and solder reflow requirements.
This lunch talk will discuss the hows and whys of what some people call the "2.5D Evolution, but 3D Revolution" by someone who's living in the midst of the turmoil.
THURSDAY May 26, 2011
SCV Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology
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Initial Meeting Followed by Guest Speaker
Speaker: An interesting "Mystery Guest" who has
worked with the Life Group Time: Buffet dinner at 7:00 PM; Discussions and
presentation at 7:30 PM Cost: $10 donation (at the door - additional
donations accepted, to cover $15 actual price of buffet dinner)
Place: Santa Clara County Office of Education, San Jose Room, 1290 Ridder Park Drive, San Jose
RSVP: by June 6, to Lee Colby, [email protected] Web: www.e-grid.net/docs/1106-scv-life.pdf
This is the first meeting of the Santa Clara Valley Life Affinity Group we will discuss social and professional goals and guidelines with the attendees and follow with a talk on an area of current interest.
Suggested sample activities include:
Assist middle-school teachers to make math and science more interesting/meaningful to students (California ranks 49th in the U.S. in the 4th to 8th grades)
Examine alternate sources to solve the energy problems
Discuss global warming, obesity, aging, and other relevant issues
Create opportunities to meet and socialize with former colleagues and to make new friends
With over 1,000 members in the South Bay, we have a wealth of knowledge and experience to cover these topics. We also plan to invite speakers to inform and to generate lively discussions. My fellow officers and I sincerely hope you will participate in our activities. We plan 3-4 meetings annually, including a joint session with the East Bay and San Francisco Sections’ Life Member Affinity Groups.
We have a beautiful meeting room with convenient parking for the June 7 meeting; snacks and refreshments provided. After 30-40 minutes to socialize, we will have a very interesting presentation on a current hot subject. After a Q&A session, we will conclude by 8:30 PM.
TUESDAY June 7, 2011
SCV Life Members Affinity Group
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MEMS Adaptive Optics for Biological Imaging
Speaker: Professor Joel Kubby, University of California at Santa Cruz
Time: Buffet dinner at 6:00 PM; Presentation (no cost) at 6:45 PM
Cost: $20 ($10 for full-time students, unemployed). $5 more at door
Place: Biltmore Hotel, 2151 Laurelwood Rd (Fwy 101 at Montague Expressway), Santa Clara
RSVP: from website Web: www.cpmt.org/scv
Joel Kubby is a Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California at Santa Cruz. His research is in the area of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) with applications in Optics, Fluidics and Bio-MEMS. Prior to joining the University of California at Santa Cruz in 2005, he was an Area Manager with the Wilson Center for Research and Technology and a Member of Technical Staff in the Webster Research Center in Rochester New York (1987-2005). While with Xerox he received a Xerox Excellence in Science and Technology Award. Prior to Xerox he was at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill New Jersey working in the area of Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM). While at Bell Labs he received an Exceptional Contribution Award. He has led a six-company industrial research consortium under the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Advanced Technology Program (ATP) to develop a new process for optical MEMS and has over 80 patents and over 40 journal publications. He is the co-chair of the SPIE Silicon Photonics conference and the MEMS Adaptive Optics conference. He likes to sneak around at night on full moons and construct pictures that are large enough to be seen on Google Earth.
This talk will review the development of wide-field
and confocal microscopes with direct wavefront sensing and adaptive optics for correcting aberrations when imaging through thick tissues (Drosophila embryos and mouse brain tissue). Similar to the wavefront measurement using “artificial guide stars" in astronomical imaging, where atomic sodium in a layer in the Earth's mesosphere at an altitude of 95 km is excited at resonance by a high-power sodium laser, we have developed an approach for making wavefront measurements using implanted fluorescent reference beacons for use as artificial guide stars. Using this approach we show that the Strehl ratio can be improved by an order of magnitude when imaging through thick tissue samples.
This "MEMS Application" talk expands on our April talk on Developments in MEMS Packaging (www.cpmt.org/scv/meetings/cpmt1105.html). You may download those slides.
WEDNESDAY June 8, 2011
SCV Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology, with Photonics and Engineering in Medicince and Biology
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Simulation of Nano-Scale Statistical Variability and Reliability: From TCAD to
Statistical Circuit Simulation Speaker: Prof. Asen Asenov, FIEEE, FRSE; Leader
of the Device Modeling Group, University of Glasgow; CEO of Gold Standard Simulations Ltd.
Time: Pizza and networking at 6:00 PM; Presentation at 6:15 PM
Cost: none Place: National Semiconductor, Building E1
Conference Center, 2900 Semiconductor Drive, Santa Clara
RSVP: not required Web: www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/eds
Asen Asenov (FIEEE, FRSE) received his MSc degree in solid state physics from Sofia University, Bulgaria in 1979 and the PhD degree in physics from The Bulgarian Academy of Science in 1989. He has ten years of industrial experience as a head of the Process and Device Modeling Group in Institute of Microelectronics, Sofia, developing one of the first integrated process and device CMOS simulators IMPEDANCE. In 1989–1991 he was a Visiting Professor at the Physics Department of Technical University of Munich, Germany. He joined the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering at the University of Glasgow in 1991, and served as a Head of Department in 1999-2003.
As a James Watt Professor in Electrical Engineering and a Leader of the Glasgow Device Modeling Group, Asenov directs the development of 2D and 3D quantum mechanical, Monte Carlo and classical device simulators and their application in the design of advanced and novel CMOS devices. He has pioneered the simulations of statistical variability in nano-CMOS devices including random dopants, interface roughness and line edge roughness. He has over 570 publications and more than 160 invited talks in the above areas.
Professor Asenov is also a co-founder, CEO and a director of Gold Standard Simulations (GSS) Ltd.
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Simulation of statistical variability and reliability is
of great importance for the semiconductor industry. In the technology development cycle it can help the design of transistors with reduced variability by tailoring the device structure and doping distribution. It can facilitate the screening of new device architectures in terms of their variability reduction potential. TCAD of statistical variability and reliability in the early technology development cycle can help to develop accurate and realistic compact models at the PDK stage improving the quality of the design process. Finally the forecast of the statistical variability few technology generations ahead is of great importance for the development of new variability resistant design strategies and corresponding EDA tools. In this talk Professor Asenov will present advanced TCAD simulation methods and tools that allow the predictive simulation of statistical variability and statistical reliability in present and future nanoscale CMOS transistors. The capabilities of the tools will be illustrated with simulation results of statistical variability in conventional and novel MOSFET architectures scaled according to the prescriptions of the ITRS. Professor Asenov will present also advanced strategies and tools for statistical compact model extraction and generation and statistical circuit simulation.
Yield improvement with supply voltage scaling Professor Asenov is a fellow of the Royal Academy
of Scotland, an IEEE Fellow and a member of the IEEE Electron Device Society Technology Computer-Aided Design Committee and of the BP Fellowship Committee. He is a co-author of European Nanoelectronics Advisory Council (ENIAC) Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) and acted on behave of EC as and reviewer for more than 15 EC projects and as an evaluator of several FP5, FP6 and FP7 calls. He has been a general chair, co-chair and TPC chair for many international conferences.
TUESDAY June 14, 2011
SCV Electron Devices
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Smart Meter Analytics: What Can We Learn from the Data?
Speaker: Harald Weppner, Fellow – Corporate
Strategy Group, SAP Labs Time: Networking and light dinner at 6:30 PM;
Presentation at 7:00 PM Cost: $2 donation accepted for food & drinks Place: Cadence Bldg 10, 2655 Seely Ave, San
Jose RSVP: from the website Web: csjune14.eventbrite.com
Harald Weppner holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science and joined SAP Labs, Palo Alto in 1998 as an application developer in the High Tech business unit - one of the first development teams outside of SAP's headquarters in Walldorf, Germany. Later, as the chief industry solution architect his focus shifted towards driving more focused innovation into SAP development by actively guiding the early phases from an initial idea to defining a product ready for development. One of the key initiatives involved a new distributed manufacturing solution - marketed as SAP's Supplier Network Collaboration Platform. From 2006 on Harald has been a member of SAP Research and the Office of the Chief Scientist team in Palo Alto working on enabling the "Internet of Things". He is currently a member of SAP's Global Business Incubator developing the 1st generation of SAP applications leveraging in-memory database technologies.
Beyond operational efficiency gains through the automated meter readings, smart meters are seen as a key technology enabler for reducing the output of greenhouse gases, improving energy efficiency and increasing the percentage of renewable energy. The European Union has set a 20-20-20 goal of reducing/improving each goal by 20% by the year 2020. For an average-sized Utility company (Energy retailer) the amount of data collected via smart meters increases from ~ 1GB to over 2TB per year when compared to classic meters. In this talk we will explore the information effects that result from analyzing this data and how it can benefit Energy retailers and consumers alike using SAP's In-Memory Computing Engine.
TUESDAY June 14, 2011SCV Computer, with Power & Energy
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Tour: HALT-HASS Testing and Chamber Demonstration
Speakers: Ops A La Carte staff Time: Registration at 11:30 AM; Buffet lunch from
11:30 AM - 12:45 PM (optional); Presentations and tours from 12:45 PM
Cost: none Place: Ops A La Carte LLC, 990 Richard Avenue
#101, Santa Clara RSVP: from website, by June 1 Web: www.cpmt.org/scv
Ops A La Carte and Chart Industries have
installed a HALT chamber at Ops A La Carte's Santa Clara test facility HALT and HASS Labs. Ops A La Carte and Chart Industries invite you to our Open House where you will learn about advanced methods for reliability testing and learn about state-of-the-art reliability test chambers. We will provide a BBQ lunch followed by technical presentations and live demonstrations highlighting the features and benefits of the HALT chambers and testing.
Schedule: 11:00-11:30AM: Registration, tours, meet and
greet 11:30-12:30PM: Lunch 12:30-12:45PM Technical presentation 1: “Ten
Mistakes Made When Performing HALT” by Mike Silverman
12:45-1:00PM Tour (first one) 1:00:1:15PM Technical presentation 2: “How to
Integrate HALT into an Existing Reliability Program” by Mike Silverman
1:15-1:30PM Tour (second one) 1:30-3:00PM Visit Poster Sessions
Poster Topics: "LN2 Provisioning, including VJ Pipe, Bulk, MicroBulk"; "Secrets for Cost-effective HALT/HASS Installations"; "Pitfalls to Avoid When Evaluating HALT Chambers"; "Most Effective Reliability Techniques".
THURSDAY June 16, 2011
SCV Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology
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Networked Control Systems II: Innovative Topologies for Distributed Motion Control
Speaker: Jason Goerges, ACS Motion Control, Inc. Time: Pizza and networking at 6:30 PM;
Presentation at 7:00 PM Cost: none Place: Cogswell Polytechnical College, Sunnyvale RSVP: not required Web: www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/css
Jason Goerges is a native of Minnesota, and received his Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering and Minor in Business Management from the University of Minnesota. He went on to receive a Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University with a focus on digital signal processing and control systems. After working as an engineer at Honeywell Flight Control Systems, Jason joined ACS Motion Control in 2007 and currently resides near Minneapolis with his wife. He enjoys spending time with family and friends, and being active in his local community.
With a modern industrial ethernet network like EtherCAT, it is now possible to provide fully coordinated real time multiaxis motion control with a distributed architecture. Traditionally, achieving this level of performance was best handled with a centralized architecture because of the required bandwidth and deterministic communication. If the features of a modern real-time industrial ethernet network like EtherCAT is used, the performance of a centralized controller can be extended to a network based approach, which has many benefits (scalability, low cost, easy connectivity).
WEDNESDAY July 13, 2011
SCV Control Systems
