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November 2011

CHAPTER MEETINGS SCV-Phot - 11/1 | Recent Advances in Green and Blue Laser Diodes on GaN Substrates - direct-diode green, displays, projectors ... [more]

SCV-TMC - 11/3 | Going from Team Member/Leader to Organiza-tional Manager - promotion, preparation, additional skills, style... [more]

SCV-RAS - 11/3 | Haptics: Engineering Touch in Robot-Assisted Medical Interventions - teleoperation, feedback, simulation ... [more]

SCV-EDS - 11/4 | Current Status and Future Directions of Non-Volatile Memory Technology - half-day seminar ... [more]

OEB+SCV-Life - 11/7 | LIFE: Fusion Energy Soon Enough To Make A Difference - Laser Inertial Fusion Energy, safe, goals ... [more]

SCV-CS+SSC+EDS - 11/8 | On-Chip Interconnect: Demanding Challenges for Complex SoCs - market, features, power, cost ... [more]

SCV-EMC - 11/8 | Antennas and Transmission Lines - RF communi-cation, antenna effects, physics, engineering, examples ... [more]

SCV-Mag - 11/8 | Magnetic Materials and Devices for the 21st Century: Stronger, Lighter, and More Energy Efficient... [more]

OEB-Mag - 11/9 | Magnetic Materials in Sustainable Energy - paradigm, research, hard & soft magnets, optimization ... [more]

SCV-CPMT - 11/9 | Semiconductor Industry Update and Outlook, Including Equipment, LEDs, PV - growth forecasts, latest data... [more]

SCV-ComSoc - 11/9 | Video Distribution in the Home - 3 talks: transmission, MoCA, HomePlug AV, Ethernet, adapters ... [more]

SCV-PV - 11/9 | The Rise of Copper/Indium/Selenium Solar Panels - thin-film, greener, conversion rates, economics ... [more]

SCV-CAS - 11/9 | Reliability and Yield of MOS Devices and Circuits - new phenomena, mechanisms, modeling ... [more]

SCV-PES+IAS - 11/9 | Tour of Sustainability Base at NASA Ames Research Center - low energy, recycling, lighting, geothermal ... [more]

SPECTRUM - 11/10 | Accelerating Development of Smart Grid Power Electronics Control Systems - webinar: prototyping, FPGAs ... [more]

SCV-Section - 11/14 | Senior Member Grade Elevation Night - upgrade to Sr Member, simplified process, drop-in ... [more]

SCV-Nano - 11/15 | Half Day Symposium - Nanophotonics and Imaging - 4 talks, panel: imaging, lasers, EUV, metrology ... [more]

SCV-CNSV - 11/15 | Protecting Your Ideas: A Primer on Intellectual Property for Engineers - new AIA, IP protection ... [more]

SCV-Mag - 11/15 | Pure Spin Currents: Discharging Spintronics - dissipation, currents, pumping, novel approaches ... [more]

SCV-CSS - 11/16 | Control Systems for Variable-Speed Wind Turbines - power generation, yaw, speed, pitch, damping ... [more]

SCV-PELS - 11/16 | The Impact of Microinverters in Photovoltaic Systems - energy costs, mismatches, efficiency, reliability ... [more]

SCV-EMB - 11/16 | Unleashing the Power of Integrated Circuits for DNA Sequencing - nanopore, analog, data analysis ... [more]

SCV-IT - 11/30 | Feedback Communication Systems: Fundamental Limits and Control-Theoretic Approach - models, duality ... [more]

SCV-PACE - 11/30 | Career Networking Night - job market, websites, meeting employers, job openings ... [more]

Conference Calendar

Nov 3-4: Symposium on Energy-Efficient Electronic Systems (E3S) - Banatao Auditorium, UC-Berkeley [more]

Nov 6-9: Android Developer Conference (AnDevCon) - Hyatt Regency Burlingame [more]

Nov 13-17: 37th Int'l Symposium for Testing and Failure Analysis - San Jose Convention Center [more]

Nov 29 - Dec 2: Printed Electronics USA Conference - Santa Clara Convention Center [more]

Dec 12-14: 3D Architectures for Semiconductor Integration & Packaging - Hyatt S.F. Airport [more]

Jan 15-18: IEEE Radio and Wireless Week - Santa Clara Marriott [more]

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IEEE GRID is the monthly newsmagazine of the San Francisco Bay Area Council of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. As a medium for news for technologists, managers and professors, the editorial objectives of IEEE GRID are to inform readers of newsworthy IEEE activities sponsored by local IEEE units (Chapters, Affinity Groups) taking place in and around the Bay Area; to publicize locally sponsored conferences and seminars; to publish paid advertising for conferences, workshops, symposia and classes coming to the Bay Area; and advertise services provided by local firms and entrepreneurs.

IEEE GRID is published as the GRID Online Edition residing at www.e-GRID.net, in a handy printable GRID.pdf edition at the end of each month, and also as the e-GRID sent by email twice each month to more than 24,000 Bay Area members and other professionals.

Editor: Paul Wesling IEEE GRID PO Box 2110 Cupertino CA 95015-2110 Tel: 408 331-0114 / 510 500-0106 / 415 367-7323 Fax: 408 904-6997 Email: edi tor@e-gr id.net www.e-GRID.net

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IEEE sometimes seems like a large, staff-driven organization – but, at its heart, it is mostly run by us volunteers. Our involvement helps us to develop and extend our career; we help in bringing quality technical presentations to our chapters; we network with other engineers, both to assist them, and to help guide our own directions.

It’s at this time of year that your 40+ local chapters in the SF Bay Area (and, more specifically, the chapter that’s the most interest to you) are looking for you – as a volunteer – to take on some responsibility, perhaps as Secretary or Treasurer for the next year. And if they already have strong candidates, they’d like your help on the Program Committee, or as webmaster, or in some other position.

So, consider contacting your local chapter’s chair, and asking what you can do to help. After s/he gets back up off the floor, from the shock, I’m sure you’ll get a good reception, and find yourself working with a nice class of local people.

I’ve found that this was the case for me. Back in 1971 (I think), I had attended a multi-week short course held locally, and I wanted to have one on another subject that interested me. The local chapter chair suggested that he’d back me up if I wanted to set one up. The rest – as they say – is history: I went on to organize about 300 such local courses over the next 4 decades. You can read about it in a GRID article from 1980:

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Who would have thought that I’d start out as a hard-working local volunteer, graduate to run parts of an IEEE Society, and now serve as your Bay Area Communications Director and editor? As the saying goes, “Big oaks from little acorns grow!” Start your own IEEE story. Paul

NOTE: This PDF version of the IEEE GRID – the GRID.pdf – is a monthly publication and is issued a few days before the first of the month. It is not updated after that. Please refer to the Online edition and Interactive Calendar for the latest information: www.e-GRID.net

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Sponsored by the Santa Clara Valley Section of IEEE

IEEE Senior Member Grade Elevation Night Date: Monday, November 14, 2011

Time: 6:15 – 8:00 PM (drop in at any time between 6:15 PM and 7:30 PM)

Location: Cogswell Polytechnical College, Room 172 1175 Bordeaux Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94089

Refreshments will be provided

The IEEE Santa Clara Valley Section, in conjunction with PACE, is sponsoring a Senior Member Grade Elevation night for all IEEE members who meet the requirements for grade elevation to Senior Member. The requirements are posted at:

www.ieee.org/web/membership/senior-members Summary:

* be an engineer, scientist, educator, or technical executive in IEEE-designated fields; * have been in professional practice for:

7 years if you hold a baccalaureate degree in an IEEE-designated field; 6 years if you hold a baccalaureate and a masters degree; 5 years if you hold a doctorate

* show professional maturity and "significant performance" over a period of at least five of those years in professional practice.

IEEE members who meet these requirements are encouraged to attend. Potential Senior Members will have an opportunity to meet with Senior/Fellow Members and possibly obtain the references that are required for the application, as well as to get a formal Nomination from the Section. Please download the Application Form (www.ieee.org/web/membership/senior-members/application.html), enter your background/ answers and bring 4 copies, but do NOT begin the application process on the IEEE website (this is done AFTER our meeting). Also, members are asked to write a few sentences on Page 2 of the Application, or else in a file on the flash memory device, explaining how they have significantly performed their professional duties for at least five years. To help our volunteer Senior/Fellow members evaluate your application, particularly the sections on Professional Experience and Significant Performance, please prepare a Curriculum Vitae (CV) / resume that contains details that don’t “fit” into the application; the CV also contains details that explain possible questions that arise in the minds of the reviewers. Bring 4 copies of this resume. Please remember that this collaborative exploratory process does not guarantee that you will receive all of the requisite references. For any questions, please send email to John Berg [email protected]

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12:00 – 1:00pm Registration & Light Lunch 1:00 Welcome: Allen Amaro, 2011 Chair, IEEE SFBA

Nanotechnology Council & Session Chair = Jeffrey Perkins, President, Yole

Development 1:10 "Nanophotonics communications & SOC/3D

interconnect" - Dr. Hughes Metras – Dir. North America, Leti

1:50 "Life beyond the diffraction limit: nano-scale imaging and lasers" - Dr. Xiang Zhang, Ernest S. Kuh Endowed Chair, UC Berkeley

2:40 "New Light at the End of the EUV Tunnel" - Dr. Hakaru Mizoguchi, CTO, Gigaphoton

3:20 “Fast Scan AFM for Nano-Metrology”, Dr. Chanmin Su - Dir of Tech, AFM Business Unit, Bruker-Nano

4:10 Panel – Challenges & Breakthroughs in Photonics Moderator: Jeffery Perkins, President, Yole Dev’t.

Panelists: Dr. Hughes Metras – Leti; Dr. Xiang Zhang – UC Berkeley; Dr. Hakaru Mizoguchi – Gigaphoton; Dr. Herbert Bennett – NIST

4:50 Wrap-up/Closing Remarks

Cost (Advanced Registration):

IEEE Members & Students $30, Non-Members $35

For At Door Payment: Add $5. RSVP from the website:

www.ieee.org/nano

Other Confirmed Speakers: Elad Alon, U of California, Berkeley, USA Jeffrey Bokor, U of California, Berkeley, USA Paul Franzon, North Carolina State U, USA Wilfried Haensch, IBM Watson, USA Adrian Ionescu, EPFL, Switzerland Tsu-Jae King Liu, U of California, Berkeley, USA Hideo Ohno, Tohoku University, Japan Gianluca Piazza, U of Pennsylvania, USA Jan Rabaey, U of California, Berkeley, USA Heike Riel, IBM Zurich, Switzerland Robert Rogenmoser, SuVolta, USA Toshitsugu Sakamoto, LEAP, Japan Alan Seabaugh, Notre Dame U, USA Naresh Shanbhag, U of Illinois, USA Vladimir Stojanovic, MIT, USA Philip Wong, Stanford University, USA Ming Wu, U of California, Berkeley, USA Peter Wyatt, MIT Lincoln Lab, USA Eli Yablonovitch, U of California, Berkeley, USA Naoki Yokoyama, AIST, Japan

The Berkeley Symposium on Energy Efficient Electronic Systems was established in 2009 to promote collaborations among researchers working on increasing energy efficiency for information processing systems.

Highlights: Power: Where It Matters, When It Matters, & When It Does Not, Dan Hutcheson, VLSI Research, Inc (Keynote Address)

Power Efficiency in Datacenter Networks, Taliver Heath, Google

Technical Areas: Low voltage tunneling FETs Low voltage nanomechanical logic Energy efficient spintronic logic Energy efficient memory and storage devices Energy efficient chip scale interconnects Low voltage CMOS circuits and architectures

Agenda available.

Register at: tinyurl.com/4ypw7pt

Half Day Symposium

Nanophotonics and Imaging Tues. November 15, 2011 – National Semiconductor, Santa Clara

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RWW maintains a focus on the intersection between radio systems and wireless technology, creating a unique forum for engineers to discuss hardware design and system performance of state-of-the-art wireless systems and their end use applications. This multidisciplinary IEEE event offers the latest information on wireless communications and networking, associated enabling technologies and emerging new services and applications. Sunday evening there will be an open (no-cost) panel session (below) for all wireless professionals (local and conference attendees) and on Tuesday afternoon there will be a new demo track that provides an interactive forum with hands-on demonstrations of the latest wireless experiments and innovations. RWW has multiple conferences touching on the intersection between radio systems, wireless technology and applications:

• RWS: IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium

• SiRF: IEEE Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems

• PAWR: IEEE Topical Meeting on Power Amplifiers for Wireless and Radio Applications

• BioWireleSS: IEEE Topical Conference on Biomedical Wireless Technologies, Networks, and Sensing Systems

• WiSNet: IEEE Topical Meeting on Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks

Panel Session: Spectrum Sharing and Frequency Reuse (Sunday evening – no registration required)

Michael Marcus: Whitespace communications and the adaptive sharing of TV channels in the USA

Jeffrey Pawlan: SDR and Cognitive Radio hardware and how it facilitates frequency reuse and spectrum sharing

Nuno Borges Carvalho: Whitespace communications in Europe

Antoinette Cook Bush: challenges of seeking in parallel both regulatory approval and investment capital for innovative wireless technologies in contexts where nonroutine approval for the technologies are needed

Michael Marcus: The future of sharing satellite downlink bands with terrestrial communications

Richard Reaser: GPS and LightSquared: a case study in sharing

Distinguished Lecturers’ Talks:

“Microwave Near-field Imaging of Human Tissue: Hopes, Challenges, Outlook”, Dr. Natalia K. Nikolova

“Autonomous Aero-Visual and Sensor Based Inspection Network for Power Grid and Asset Monitoring”, Dr. Arun K. Somani

“A Look At Some Of The Principles Of Wireless Communication From A Maxwellian Viewpoint”, Dr. Tapan Sarkar

“Advanced Doherty Power Amplifiers”, Dr. Fadhel M. Ghannouchi

Plenary Talk:

“On Scaling Wireless Capacity”, Dr. A. Paulraj

Leverage options for scaling –adding bandwidth, multiple antennas, coding-decoding, relays, cooperation, interference management, scheduling, aggregation, time shifting, cell splitting, compute partitioning, spectrum management, more. Workshops: (Sunday afternoon)

Tutorial: National and International Spectrum Management Policies and Processes for Wireless Professionals

Advances of Nanoelectronics in RF Technology

Telemedecine: Wireless Sensor and Body Area Networks

Wireless Sensor Network Technologies for the “Internet of Things” Implementation

Rump Session: Emerging PA Architectures and Technologies

Advance registration website is now open. Register now to take advantage of the early registration pricing until January 1, 2012!

Visit us:

www.RadioWirelessWeek.org

To exhibit at RWW, contact Jennifer More, [email protected]

Radio and Wireless Week

15-18 January 2012 Santa Clara Marriott

Sessions, Workshops, Panels, Exhibition

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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 Winter Open University. Graduate-level instruction. Up to 12 units may be transferred to a graduate-degree program.

Early-morning classes: - SoC Formal Verification Techniques - Analog Integrated Circuits - Phase-Locked Loops - Advanced Mechatronics (and more)

Evening classes: - Intro to Nano-Bioengineering - Digital Signal Processing - VLSI Design - Computer Architecture - Logic Design Using HDL - Global Technology Development (and more)

Saturday classes: - Secure Coding in C & C++ - Law, Technology & IP - Introduction to Biofuels Engineering (and more)

Email LeAnn Marchewka with inquiries: [email protected]

Nov. 29 – Dec. 2, 2011 Santa Clara Convention Center

The eighth annual Printed Electronics USA conference and exhibition covers all the applications, technologies and opportunities. This is the World's largest event on the topic.

Printed Electronics USA gives the big picture, not least by inviting leading speakers from around the world from a range of industries including consumer goods, healthcare, military, electronics, advertising, publishing and others. Commercialization and the full range of technologies are the emphasis, from interactive packaging and promotional posters to sensing fabrics and ultra low cost wireless identification tags.

Photovoltaics USA covers the solar cell sector. All the latest developments in thin film, organic, printed photovoltaics as well as emerging technologies growing alongside the more established ones, such as luminescent concentrators and infrared harvesting.

Technical Sessions A prestigious program with over 70 technical presentatiions – see the Advance Program.

Prepare for that next project or assignment! To remain competitive in Silicon Valley's changing environment, engineers need to update their knowledge base. The School of Engineering offers professional Certificates and Open University programs, as well as graduate degrees, for those who are driven to become leaders in their fields.

Registration is open through Dec 9 Classes begin January 9

50% SCU Engineering Alumni discount

Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, with easy parking

Review winter Open University courses:

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The world's largest and most comprehensive event on

the new electronics

Master Classes on Nov 29, Dec 2 – interactive sessions: • Introduction to Printed Electronics • Displays & Lighting • Thin Film Photovoltaics: Principles/Technologies/Market • Materials • Logic, memory & circuitry design for the new electronics • Printing Technologies • Creating New Products with Printed Electronics • RFID: its Progress towards being Printed • Energy Harvesting & Storage for Small Electronic Devices

Tradeshow Over 100 leading companies will be showcasing innovative technologies and commercial applications in the field of printed electronics and photovoltaics. This is the world’s biggest tradeshow on the topic and an ideal place to meet your suppliers, customers and partners in one place. Participate in Demonstration Street, featuring examples of printed electronics in action.

Save through November 18th Use code “IEEE25” for additional 25% discount

thru Dec.1. Exhibits-only option available.

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Project Management: Team-Based Accountability - PMI Certified -- Date/Time: Tues-Wed, Nov 8-9, 9:00AM – 5:00PM -- Location: TIBCO Software, Palo Alto -- Fee: $625 for IEEE Members; $700 non-members

Delegation and Coaching: The Winning Combination -- Date/Time: Thurs, Nov 17, 8:30AM – 4:30PM -- Location: TIBCO Software, Palo Alto -- Fee: $425 for IEEE Members; $500 non-members

Clear Business, Technical and E-Mail Writing -- Date/Time: Wed, Nov 30, 9 AM – 5 PM -- Location: TIBCO Software, Palo Alto -- Fee: $425 for IEEE Members; $500 non-members

Upgrade your skill set – prepare for future challenges

AnDevCon Comes Back to Burlingame!

AnDevCon II is the technical conference for software developers building or selling Android apps. Whether you're an enterprise developer, work for a commercial software company, or are driving your own start-up, if you are building Android apps, you need to attend AnDevCon. You’ll find hundreds of experienced developers and engineers (like you) choosing from more than 70 classes to bring Android open source development to a high level. Exhibit Hall hours:

Tuesday, November 8th 11:00 am – 6:45 pm Wednesday, November 9th 10:00 am – 2:30 pm

“This was a great conference! The scope and breadth of

classes gave a great opportunity to learn more about Android development in general AND gave the

opportunity to network with other people at all levels. It's a great learning place with wonderful people!”

Andrew Mauer, Sr. Project Manager, B-Line Express, Inc.

SCV Chapters, Technology Management & Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology Societies

Meeting Management -- Date/Time: Thurs, Dec 1, 9:00AM – 1:00PM -- Location: TIBCO Software, Palo Alto -- Fee: $350 for IEEE Members; $425 non-members

Presentation Skills for Engineers -- Date/Time: Tues, Dec 6, 9:00AM – 5:00PM -- Location: – Cypress Semi, San Jose -- Fee: $500 for IEEE Members; $550- non-members

This class is top notch! Peter is very experienced and provided

me with lots of good tips I can use on all my presentations. Definitely worthwhile.

-TIBCO Software

For complete course information, schedule, and registration form, see our website:

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November 6-9, 2011 Hyatt Regency Burlingame

Technical Classes Keynotes, Exhibits, more

Keynotes: “Android Awesomeness!” Chet Haase and Romain Guy, Google “Developing Consumer Apps in a Really, Really Big Company”, David Baldie and Andrew Peret, AmEx

Technical Classes: - Android Fundamentals: What I wish I knew when I started! - Creating a Modular Framework - What’s New in Android Tablet Dev’t with Honeycomb - Web App Development with PhoneGap - Taking Advantage of Apache Maven - Creating ePub Books - Android Variants, Hacks, Tricks - Save the Battery! Design for Better Power Consumption - Build Android Applications using Ruby - Using HTML5 … plus dozens more

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Conference: November 13-17, 2011 Exposition: November 15-16, 2011

San Jose Convention Center

Enrich your career and further the industry at the 37th International Symposium for Testing and Failure Analysis (ISTFA), November 13-17 in San Jose.

ISTFA™ is the best venue for learning new failure analysis techniques, solutions and enterprise for success.

Acquire the latest knowledge from the field's leading professionals with six days of tutorials, short courses, technical presentations, panels, and user groups. Research leading-edge instruments and solutions at the industry's largest dedicated equipment exposition. Meet and network with hundreds of your peers from around the world. All this makes ISTFA your best opportunity to learn, network and advance your career.

16 TECHNICAL SESSIONS Alternative Energy (Photovoltaics, SS Lighting, etc.) Emerging FA Techniques and Concepts FA Process/Case Studies MEMS, Discretes and Optoelectronic Device FA Packaging- and Assembly-Level FA Finding Invisible Defects Defect Characterization & Metrology Test and Diagnosis Circuit Edit (Laser, FIB, etc.) Counterfeit Electronics Detection and Mitigation Photon-Based Fault Isolation Techniques Sample Preparation and Device Deprocessing Nanoprobing and Electrical Characterization Panel Discussion on ‘But How Do You Find an

“Invisible” Defect?’ Posters

9 TUTORIALS Sunday & Monday, Nov 13-14 Continuously updated tutorial sessions with new and cutting-edge topics related to failure analysis. Two New Tutorials This Year! EDUCATION SHORT COURSES Friday Nov 18 Three New Courses! Held at the San Jose Hilton Achieving Goals Through Effective Communication Counterfeit Electronics Cross-sectioning/De-packaging Curve Tracing Techniques for IC Failure Analysis Fault Isolation FIB Sample preparation for Failure Analysis Differentiating EOS/ESD

2011 Keynote Address Dr. Joseph Michael from Sandia tools and analysis used to identify the origins of the anthrax spores – A MUST ATTEND!

TECHNOLOGY-SPECIFIC USER GROUPS Meet, share ideas, and discuss relevant issues in a noncommercial environment. Planned topics are: FIB Nanoprobing Package & Assembly FA, 3D Finding the invisible defect NETWORKING AND SOCIAL EVENT Tuesday evening, 7:30 PM Wine and Cheese at the Hilton Hotel The EDFAS Board, ASM and the ISTFA Organizing Committee are working hard to bring another productive and fulfilling conference to fruition. We’re sure you’ll find ISTFA 2011 a truly memorable event.

EXPOSITION The ISTFA exposition is North America’s largest tradeshow of FA-related equipment and services. This promises to be an exciting year on the show floor where you will see the latest industry advances and network with vendors for problem-solving advice. Bring your questions, needs and concerns. Get solutions to your FA problems! The ISTFA exposition is your once-a-year opportunity to access the innovators, influencers, and decision makers – all in one location!

To exhibit, sponsor or advertise, contact Kelly Thomas at [email protected]

or 440.338.1733.

Discounted fees for EDFAS and ASM Members. Non-members of EDFAS receive a full year’s membership with their registration.

Additional information is on the ISTFA web site. Plan and register at:

www.ISTFA.org

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Today the focus on 3-D integration and packaging

has shifted from trying to understand the technology opportunity to one of understanding the practical challenges of technology adoption and commercialization, including who is getting there first, how, and at what cost. There remains a natural degree of uncertainty as companies work to secure a technology position, obtain new process and design tools, and new customers and new applications.

This conference continues to give a broad, yet thorough perspective on the techno-market opportunity and challenge offered by building devices and systems in the vertical dimension. Industry leaders from around the world are invited to speak on topics important to the emerging and on-going 3-D related efforts. The format of the conference and its presentations enables speakers to present the most up-to-date and forthright perspectives as possible. This conference provides a unique forum where one can gain the latest insights to bring clarity in the direction of their own efforts.

Join the experts from ACB, NTS and Washington

Laboratories for a comprehensive overview of methods and requirements of EMC and Radio Regulations. This seminar will cover requirements for radio transmitters, processes in the "BRICK" countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, Korea) as well as Asia-Pacific and South America, practical testing techniques, laboratory operations, and measurement methods.

The training will feature critical technical updates on regulations and policies from the FCC/TCB Council training in October 2009. Observe laboratory demonstrations of key concepts, compliance measurements, power, frequency, bandwidth, spurious emissions, and more. Who Should Attend: Design, development and test engineers and technicians for updates on test methodology from practicing experts. Laboratory management personnel involved in the maintenance of accreditation status or responsible for obtaining accreditation.

Monday Pre-Conference Half-day Symposium: “3-D ICs and TSVs—Passing the Test”

- Automation of DFT - Process Control Solutions - Metrology and Standards - TSV Array Macro-inspection

Sessions: 3-D Integration: Shaping the Future Techno-Market Views on the 3-D Era 3-D Design and Interposers 3-D Integration: Shaping the Future Application and User Perspectives Leading Consortia and Sponsored Research Efforts Tooling and Processes Hold the Key

Earlybird Rates through November 2nd (save $150). Corporate multi-attendee discount.

Full details:

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Module 1 (Nov 7-8):

"FCC, IC and EU Regulations" – a two-day comprehensive presentation on FCC, IC and EU requirements for Radio Certification.

Module 2 (Nov 9): "Global Regulations for Wireless Devices" - a one-day comprehensive presentation focusing upon global wireless requirements.

Module 3 (Nov 10-11): "Laboratory Measurement Methods for Wireless and EMC Requirements" - a two-day intensive presentation on laboratory methods to meet EMC requirements and best practices to obtain and maintain accreditation.

Register for all three and save $390.

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Hyatt Regency SF Airport Hotel, Burlingame December 12-14, 2011

2011 Wireless & EMC Seminar Program

Technology and Methods for FCC, EU and International Compliance

November 7-11, 2011 Elliott Laboratories, Newark

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Recent Advances in Green and Blue Laser Diodes Fabricated

on Nonpolar/Semipolar GaN Substrates

Speaker: Dr. James W. Raring, Vice President of

Laser Engineering, Soraa Inc. Time: Networking and light dinner at 6:00 PM;

Presentation at 7:00 PM Cost: none Place: Keypoint Credit Union, 2805 Bowers Ave,

Santa Clara RSVP: from the website Web: ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/leos

Dr. James Raring received his Ph.D. in Materials Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2006 where he developed an advanced InP-based photonic integration scheme by combining MOCVD regrowth with quantum well intermixing. Leveraging this novel monolithic integration platform, he demonstrated the first single-chip 40 Gb/s optical transceiver. After completing his work at UCSB, Dr. Raring joined Sandia National Laboratories as a Senior Member of Technical Staff in the photonic integrated circuit (PIC) group where he continued development of high-functionality InP-based devices.

In 2008, Dr. Raring joined Soraa Inc. as a founding employee where he has helped grow the company and establish key infrastructure such as the epitaxial growth capabilities. As Vice President of Laser Engineering, he and the Soraa team are developing state-of-the-art blue and green InGaN-based laser diodes fabricated on nonpolar/semipolar GaN substrates towards commercialization. Key achievements for the Soraa laser engineering team include the demonstration of the first true green (525nm) continuous-wave laser diode, record wall-plug efficiency (>23%) from single-mode blue laser diodes, and over 4.5W from a blue laser bar. With over 10 years of experience in compound semiconductor and optoelectronic device technology, Dr. Raring has authored or co-authored over 100 technical papers and conference presentations.

Fueled by rapid progress toward the commercialization of the direct-diode green laser and the introduction of innovative new display technologies based on blue-laser diode pumped green phosphors, we are entering a paradigm shift for projection displays that will require a massive deployment of GaN-based laser diodes. By combining direct green laser diodes with the already available red and blue laser diodes, a compact, highly-efficient, low-cost R-G-B laser-based light engine is realized to enable brilliant miniature displays with enhanced viewing flexibility. These miniature displays, or so-called pico projectors, will see proliferation into smart-phones, cameras, and other handheld devices. In parallel to the rapid progress in these small scale displays, we are in the midst of a swift technology shift in high lumen output projectors serving markets such as desktop projectors, home theater, digital advertising, and cinema where conventional bulb illumination is being replaced with laser diode based illumination. The cumulative result of these new consumer applications requiring GaN-based blue and green laser will drive the next boom in laser diode demand.

Soraa Inc. is pursuing the unconventional nonpolar and semipolar orientations of bulk GaN for the development of high performance green and blue laser diodes. These novel orientations provide superior physics over the conventional c-plane orientation, which suffers from internal polarization fields that spatially separate the electron and hole wavefunctions in the light emitting quantum well regions. Such internal fields reduce the radiatiave recombination efficiency and introduce design constraints on the epitaxial and device structure. Free from these restrictions, Soraa is making rapid progress towards the commercialization of blue and green laser diodes with the demonstrations of the first true green (525nm) continuous wave laser diode and world-class power and efficiency from single-mode blue laser diodes.

TUESDAY November 1, 2011

SCV Photonics


Going from Team Member/Leader to Organizational Manager

Speaker: David Gazave, PMP, ActionCOACH

Business Coaching Time: Registration & Informal Networking at 6:00

PM; Management Forum at 6:30 PM; Dinner at 7:15 PM; Presentation at 7:45 PM

Cost: $10 for IEEE Members, $13 for non-members ($3 more after 11/2)

Place: RAMADA Silicon Valley, 1217 Wildwood Ave, Sunnyvale

RSVP: from the website Web: www.ieee-scv-tmc.org

David Gazave has over 3 decades of experience in various roles and industries as a project and program Manager, has held a PMP certification since 2004 and is currently a certified business coach and franchise owner at ActionCOACH, where he helps business leaders create turnaround and growth strategies that produce stabile, profitable organizations.

Technical project managers and other Team

leaders are sometimes fortunate enough to be promoted to higher levels of management. Often, when this happens without preparation, the technical expert who was so good at getting a project team to perform, suddenly finds him/herself feeling like a fish out of water. Managing managers and "managing up" requires additional skills and behavioral style changes that are not always held or are natural for the seasoned line/project manager.

As a manager moves up the ladder of an organization, he/she can be more successful by trading directive behaviors for influencing and coaching behaviors.

This program will be interactive and encourage role play so that the audience will gain insights into the differences in management styles. This program is appropriate for Middle Managers, Project Managers, and Team Leaders who want to cultivate leadership skills that will help them move into and adapt to higher level management roles.

THURSDAY November 3, 2011

SCV Technology Management


Haptics: Engineering Touch in Robot-Assisted

Medical Interventions

Speaker: Ann Majewicz, CHARM Laboratory, Mechanical Engineering Department, Stanford University

Time: Presentation at 7:00 PM Cost: none Place: Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley Campus,

Room 118, Moffett Field RSVP: not required Web: ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/ras

Ann Majewicz received her BS in Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering from the University of St. Thomas in 2004 and her MSE in Mechanical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 2010. She is currently a PhD Candidate at Stanford University under the supervision of Dr. Allison Okamura. She is funded by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Her research interests are surgical robotics, minimally invasive surgery, and intuitive teleoperation. Her current research is on the development of a robotic needle steering system for clinical use.

Allison M. Okamura received the BS degree from

the University of California at Berkeley in 1994, and the MS and PhD degrees from Stanford University in 1996 and 2000, respectively, all in mechanical engineering. She is currently Associate Professor in the mechanical engineering department at Stanford University. She was previously Professor and Vice Chair of mechanical engineering at Johns Hopkins University. She has been an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Haptics, an editor of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation Conference Editorial Board, and co-chair of the IEEE Haptics Symposium. Her awards include the 2009 IEEE Technical Committee on Haptics Early Career Award, the 2005 IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Early Academic Career Award, and the 2004 NSF CAREER Award. She is an IEEE Fellow. Her interests include haptics, teleoperation, virtual environments and simulators, medical robotics, neuromechanics and rehabilitation, prosthetics, and engineering education.

Haptics is the science and technology of experiencing and creating touch sensations in human operators. Because many medical interventions require physical contact between a patient and a caregiver, haptics plays an important role in the introduction of new medical technology. This talk will examine the role of haptics in medical robotics, including teleoperated robot-assisted surgery, models and simulations to enable training and planning of medical interventions, and rehabilitation. Robot-assisted surgery can improve the outcomes of medical procedures by enhancing accuracy and minimally invasive access, thereby reducing patient trauma and recovery time. With approaches ranging from psychophysical studies to control systems engineering, we have designed teleoperated robots capable of providing haptic feedback in challenging surgical environments. Haptic information is also needed for accurate medical simulation and planning. Surgical simulators present a safe and potentially effective method for surgical training, and can also be used in robot-assisted surgery for pre- and intra-operative planning. I will describe approaches to determine the mechanics of interaction between surgical instruments and tissues, and their application in simulation and robot-assisted interventions. Finally, rehabilitation through robotically enabled orthotics and prosthetics inherently requires understanding and appropriate generation of haptic interactions. Our recent work in this area includes motor control augmentation with an exoskeleton robot, and studies of the role of haptic proprioception in prosthetic limb use.

THURSDAY November 3, 2011 SCV Robotics and Automation


Current Status and Future Directions of Non-Volatile

Memory Technology Speakers: from Intel, Micron, Ovonyx, HP, Arizona

State University and more Time: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM Cost: $30 for IEEE Members, $60 for non-

members, $15 for IEEE Student Members, $30 for students

Place: National Semiconductor, Building E1, Conference Center, 2900 Semiconductor Drive, Santa Clara

RSVP: from the website Web: www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/eds

Speakers: Dr. Gurtej Sandhu, Micron Dr. Al Fazio, Intel Dr. Chuck Dennison, Ovonyx Professor Michael Kozicki, Arizona State

University Dr. Joshua Yang and Dr. Stan Williams, HP

Laboratories

FRIDAY November 4, 2011

SCV Electron Devices


LIFE: Fusion Energy Soon Enough To Make A Difference

Speaker: Dr. Edward Moses, Director, National

Ignition Facility, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Time: 6:30 PM Cost: $15.00 per person, includes buffet dinner Place: Michaels at Shoreline, 2960 Shoreline Blvd,

Mountain View RSVP: By November 4, from the website; meeting

space is limited Web: www.ieee4life.org

Dr. Edward Moses is the director for the National

Ignition Facility (NIF) and the principal associate director for the NIF and Photon Science organization at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). He has 20 years of experience developing Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration laser systems and 30 years of experience developing and managing complex laser systems and high-technology projects. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. from Cornell University. Dr. Moses joined LLNL in 1980. He has served as leader of the Atomic Vapor Laser Isotope Separation, senior vice president of Advanced Technology Applications, and program leader for the development of Peregrine, an advanced Monte Carlo technique for cancer treatment. First as project manager for NIF and then as principal associate director for the NIF and Photon Science Directorate at LLNL, he has been responsible for completing construction and bringing NIF into full operation. Dr. Moses is also the program director for the National Ignition Campaign, an effort aimed at achieving ignition in the laboratory for the first time. He holds patents in laser technology, inertial fusion energy, and computational physics and has received many honors, including the Jefferson Award for Public Service.

LIFE (Laser Inertial Fusion Energy) is an

advanced energy concept under development at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Based on physics and technology developed for the National Ignition Facility, a LIFE power plant has the potential to meet future worldwide energy needs in a safe, sustainable manner without harmful emissions to the atmosphere.

The National Ignition Facility (NIF) is the world's largest and most energetic laser. The goal of the facility is to achieve controlled nuclear fusion and energy gain in the laboratory for the first time — in essence, creating a miniature star on Earth. NIF's 192 giant lasers, housed in a ten-story building the size of three football fields, will deliver at least 60 times more energy than any previous laser system. NIF will focus more than one million joules of ultraviolet laser energy on a tiny target in the center of its target chamber — creating conditions similar to those that exist only in the cores of stars and giant planets and inside a nuclear weapon. The resulting fusion reaction will release many times more energy than the laser energy required to initiate the reaction.

It is widely recognized that fusion energy provides a highly attractive solution to society's demand for safe, secure, environmentally sustainable energy — at a scale that meets our long-term needs. This presentation will present the LIFE approach to achieving this goal.

MONDAY November 7, 2011

OEB and SCV Chapters, Life Members


On-Chip Interconnect: Demanding Challenges

for Complex SoCs

Speaker: Drew Wingard, Ph.D., Chief Technical Officer, Sonics, Inc

Time: Networking, pizza at 6:30 PM; presentation at 7:00 PM

Cost: none Place: Cadence / Bldg 10, 2655 Seely Ave, San

Jose RSVP: from website Web: sites.ieee.org/scv-cs

Drew Wingard co-founded Sonics in September 1996, where he has focused on interconnect and memory system architectures for SoCs. Prior to co-founding Sonics, he led the development of advanced circuit and CAD methodology for MicroUnity Systems Engineering, Inc. from 1994 to 1996. Dr. Wingard also co-founded and worked at Pomegranate Technology from 1992 to 1994, where he designed an advanced SIMD multimedia processor. Since December 2001, he has served as secretary and a director of the OCP-IP, a non-profit trade organization that owns and promotes the Open Core Protocol, an IP core interface standard that he originally authored. Dr. Wingard has been awarded 22 US patents in the areas of interconnect network architectures and protocols. He received a B.S. from the University of Texas, Austin and an M.S. and a Ph.D. from Stanford University, all in electrical engineering.

By now, we’ve all gotten pretty used to these

amazingly converged consumer devices: always-connected, media-rich and computing-capable platforms focused on the capture and delivery of massive amounts of content – all at seemingly impossibly low prices. At the heart of consumer electronics today are System on a Chip (SoC) semiconductors that integrate heterogeneous processing, many disparate memories and mind boggling flavors of I/O to enable or deliver the applications and features of the device. In this talk, I’ll discuss the integration challenges facing the manager of a $100,000,000 development program that hopes to sell SoC’s for about $10, and describe technologies being applied to manage the performance, feature, cost and power requirements of future consumer SoCs.


SCV Computer, with Solid State Circuits & Electron Devices


Antennas and Transmission Lines Speaker: Mark Steffka, EMC Technical Specialist,

GM Powertrain; IEEE EMC Society Distinguished Lecturer

Time: Networking/light dinner at 5:30 PM; Presentation at 6:30 PM

Cost: Light Dinner and beverages will be served for a fee. Coffee, tea, and snacks are served free of charge.

Place: Applied Materials Bowers Cafeteria, 3090 Bowers Ave., Santa Clara

RSVP: not required Web: ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/emc

Mr. Mark Steffka received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan in 1981, and a M.S. from Indiana Wesleyan University in 1987. He has almost 30 years of experience in the design and development of military, aerospace, and automotive electronics systems. He is currently with General Motors' Powertrain Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Group. In 2000, he was appointed as a Lecturer at the University of Michigan-Dearborn and in 2006, was also appointed as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Detroit - Mercy. He regularly teaches at both universities with courses on EMC, antennas, and electronic communication systems.

He is the author and/or co-author of many publications on EMC, Radio Frequency Interference (RFI), and his paper to the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Congress on "Engine Component Effects of Spark-Ignition Caused Radio Frequency Engineering (RFI)" was "Judged (by SAE) to be among the most outstanding SAE technical papers of 2007". He is an IEEE member and his professional activities include serving as a technical session chair for SAE and IEEE conferences, was the Technical Program Co-Chair for the 2008 IEEE International Symposium on EMC, and has been an instructor the symposium's "Global EMC University". He has also been an invited speaker at IEEE and SAE conferences held in the United States and international locations. He is a member of the ARRL's EMC Committee, and holds the amateur radio call sign WW8MS.

The effective and efficient use of radio frequency communication is solely dependent upon transferring electromagnetic energy to and from an antenna, and this energy transfer is also responsible for EMC issues. Many engineers today working in EMC (as well as those working in electronic system design/development) either have not had a formal background in antennas and transmission lines, or have not had an opportunity to practice their previous knowledge or skills in this area. Since these antennas and "antennas effects" can "make or break" a product's EMC compliance, or render communication systems non-functional - it is critical that there be an understanding of the physics involved in antenna and transmission line design and engineering. This presentation will consist of an explanation of antenna and transmission line theory, show the use of relevant mathematics in antennas, provide overview of computer methods to assist in antenna design, and show "real-life" examples.


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Magnetic Materials and Devices for the 21st Century:

Stronger, Lighter, and More Energy Efficient

Speaker: Oliver Gutfleisch, IFW Dresden, and

Visiting professor, Imperial College London - Magnetics Society DL

Time: Netowrking and Pizza at 7:00 PM; Presentation at 7:30 PM

Cost: none Place: Western Digital, 1710 Automation Parkway,

San Jose RSVP: not required Web: ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/mag

Oliver Gutfleisch is at IFW Dresden, and is a Visiting professor at Imperial College London Fields of interest include high performance permanent magnets for E-mobility and energy applications, magnetocaloric materials and magnetic cooling, ferromagnetic shape memory alloys, and solid state hydrogen storage.

A new energy paradigm, consisting of greater

reliance on renewable energy sources and increased concern for energy effciency in the total energy life-cycle, has accelerated research into energy-related technologies. Due to their ubiquity, magnetic materials play an important role in improving the effciency and performance of devices in electric power generation, conditioning, conversion, transportation, and other energy use sectors of the economy.

This lecture focuses on the state-of-the-art hard and soft magnets and magnetocaloric materials, with an emphasis on their optimization for energy applications. Specifcally, the impact of hard magnets on electric motor and transportation technologies, of soft magnetic materials on electricity generation and conversion technologies, and of magnetocaloric materials for refrigeration technologies, are

discussed. The synthesis, characterization, and property evaluation of the materials, with an emphasis on structure–property relationships, are discussed in the context of their respective markets, as well as their potential impact on energy eff ciency. Finally, considering future bottlenecks in raw materials, options for the recycling of rare-earth intermetallics for hard magnets will be discussed.


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Semiconductor Industry Update and Outlook, Including Equipment, LEDs, PV

Speaker: Dr. Dan Tracy, Senior Director, Industry Research & Statistics, Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI)

Time: Optional buffet dinner at 6:00 PM; Presentation (no charge) at 6:45 PM

Cost: $20 per person; $10 for fulltime students and currently unemployed engineers; $5 more at the door

Place: Biltmore Hotel, 2151 Laurelwood Rd (Fwy 101 at Montague Expressway), Santa Clara

RSVP: from website Info: www.cpmt.org/scv/meetings/cpmt1111.html

Daniel Tracy is the senior director of Industry Research & Statistics for Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI). Prior to joining SEMI, Dr. Tracy was a Research Associate with Rose Associates and worked at National Semiconductor's Package Technology Group. Dr. Tracy has a Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Expectations for 2011 began with modest growth forecasts, generally in the range of 5% to 10% growth for semiconductor revenues. By the third quarter, however, the industry began to show signs of slowing due to broader economic concerns. The presentation will provide that latest data for semiconductor industry spending on equipment and materials. Included in the discussion will be an update on projected spending for new and upgraded fabs in 2012. Highlights will also cover investments related to the LED and PV manufacturing sectors.

WEDNESDAY November 9, 2011 SCV Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology


Magnetic Materials in Sustainable Energy

Speaker: Oliver Gutfleisch, IFW Dresden, and

Visiting professor, Imperial College London Time: 3:00 PM Cost: none Place: Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, bldg 6-2202,

Berkeley RSVP: By Nov 6 by email with name, company, to

Kate Jenkins, [email protected] Info: ewh.ieee.org/r6/oeb/mag/

Oliver Gutfleisch is at IFW

Dresden, and is a Visiting professor at Imperial College London Fields of interest include high performance permanent magnets for E-mobility and energy applications, magnetocaloric materials and magnetic cooling, ferromagnetic shape memory alloys, and solid state hydrogen storage.

A new energy paradigm, consisting of greater

reliance on renewable energy sources and increased concern for energy efficiency in the total energy lifecycle, has accelerated research in energy-related technologies. Due to their ubiquity, magnetic materials play an important role in improving the efficiency and performance of devices in electric power generation, conversion and transportation. Magnetic materials are essential components of energy applications (i.e. motors, generators, transformers, actuators, etc.) and improvements in magnetic materials will have significant impact in this area, on par with many “hot” energy materials efforts (e.g. hydrogen storage, batteries, thermoelectrics, etc.).

The lecture focuses on the state-of-the-art hard and soft magnets and magnetocaloric materials with an emphasis on their optimization for energy applications. Specifically, the impact of hard magnets on electric motor and transportation technologies, of soft magnetic materials on electricity generation and conversion technologies, and of magnetocaloric materials for refrigeration technologies, will be discussed.

The synthesis, characterization, and property evaluation of the materials, with an emphasis on structure-property relationships, will be examined

in the context of their respective markets as well as their potential impact on energy efficiency.

Finally, considering future bottle-necks in raw materials and in the supply chain, options for recycling of rare-earth metals will be analysed.

WEDNESDAY November 9, 2011

OEB Magnetics


Video Distribution in the Home

Speakers: Michail Tsatsanis, Director of Systems Engineering, Entropic Communications; Todd Antes, VP Marketing, Digital Home, Qualcomm Atheros, Inc.; Vinay Gokhale, SVP of Marketing & Business Development, Entropic Communications

Time: Networking and food at 6:00 PM; Presentations at 6:30 PM

Cost: $5 donation accepted for food & drinks Place: National Semiconductor Auditorium (Bldg

E), 2900 Semiconductor Dr., Santa Clara RSVP: from website Web: www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/comsoc

Todd Antes is Vice President of Marketing, Digital Home, at Qualcomm Atheros Inc.. Mr. Antes has extensive experience in senior management roles in the wireless semiconductor and cellular industries, including ten years at Philips Semiconductors. Prior to joining Qualcomm Atheros, he was director of marketing and business development at Philips Semiconductors, leading the product marketing, marketing communications, business development and standardization activities of the company’s wireless LAN, Bluetooth, Ultrawideband, wired connectivity and connectivity ASIC product lines. He also served as director of marketing for Philips’ Global Cellular Business Line and was a member of the founding executive team of AirPrime, a 3G/cellular data products company acquired by Sierra Wireless in 2003. Antes earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and his Master of Business Administration degree from Santa Clara University.

Michail Tsatsanis is the Director of Systems Engineering at Entropic Communications. Prior to joining Entropic, Michail was Director of Systems for NextWave Wireless, founder and Chief Scientist of Aktino and Chief Scientist and CTO at Voyan Technology. Michael was previously on the Electrical Engineering faculty at Stevens Institute of Technology, NJ where he directed the Department’s Wireless Laboratory. He is the author of more than 80 peer-reviewed papers, three book chapters and numerous patents. He has received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, two IEEE Best Paper Awards and has served the IEEE as Associate Editor for two IEEE Transactions. He has been an active contributor to IEEE, MoCA, ITU and ATIS-NIPP standards. Dr. Tsatsanis holds a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia.

With the growing demand for broadband media content on devices in the home – TVs, computers, gaming consoles, network-attached storage units, tablets and smartphones – the need for high quality connectivity has never been more important. We are seeing growing consumer interest and rapid advances in home video distribution solutions optimized for the transmission of multimedia content. We share these with you in this seminar, which includes three talks followed by a panel discussion. Here is a quick overview of each talk: 1. Michael Tsatsanis will talk about how Entropic

leveraged the ubiquitous availability of coaxial cable infrastructure in North America to make MoCA (Multimedia-Over-Coax) the technology of choice for carrier grade multimedia networking for cable, satellite and telco operators. Michael will provide an overview of MoCA and review the technical challenges that had to be overcome to address the operators’ needs for ubiquitous coverage and coexistence with legacy services. MoCA is a great example of the right technology being applied to the right problem at the right time and under the right market conditions.

2. Todd Antes will describe Qualcomm Atheros’ Hy-Fi Technology and show that this takes an unprecedented approach to solving the home networking issues faced by many consumers. Rather than forcing one technology to fit every home and every application, Hy-Fi leverages Qualcomm Atheros’ arsenal of Wi-Fi®, HomePlug® AV and Ethernet solutions to deliver a high-performance network with the reliability of wires and the flexibility of wireless.

3. Vinay Gokhale will discuss why MoCA will retain its dominant position in home video distribution and how service providers can extend the reach of MoCA networks using inexpensive MoCA/WiFi adapters to offer everything that the consumer may need without the need for any radical change in technology. He will lay out a road map that shows MoCA the backbone of a network via which Consumers will be able to easily access their favorite shows and take them to go on their TVs, PCs, tablets and other portable devices.

After the presentations, the three speakers will engage in a lively panel session with the moderator and the audience.

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WEDNESDAY November 9, 2011 SCV Communications


Vinay Gokhale brings more than 20 years of high

tech technology experience to Entropic. Prior to Entropic, Mr. Gokhale served in an executive management role at SiRF where he was responsible for Marketing, Business Development for the Wireless sector and functioned as General Manager for SiRF's Infrastructure and Services Business Unit. Mr. Gokhale also served in executive roles including EVP RFID Products at Impinj where he was responsible for building silicon and reader products for the UHF RFID market. Before that he served as Wireless Data VP and Business Unit Director at Conexant. Mr. Gokhale has an MBA from Stanford University, as well as an MS and BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Irvine.


The Rise of Copper/Indium/ Selenium Solar Panels

Speaker: Gregory Ashley, Vice President and Chief

Operating Officer, Solar Frontier North America

Time: Networking at 6:30 PM; Presentation at 7:00 PM

Cost: none Place: Palo Alto Research Center (Pake

Auditorium), 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto

RSVP: not required Web: www.svpvs.org

Gregory Ashley serves as vice president and chief operating officer of Solar Frontier in the United States. He oversees sales and marketing for Solar Frontier in North America, responsible for commercializing a breakthrough thin-film solar module in one of the most dynamic global markets.

Ashley brings nearly thirty years of experience in the energy sector, and served most recently as president of the U.S. market for Canadian Solar. In that role, he built a national sales team and launched the marketing and financing programs for the region. In addition to directing sales and marketing efforts within the U.S., he supported global emerging markets.

Ashely is a nationally known authority on alternative power generation, power quality and energy efficiency. Before joining Canadian Solar, he was senior manager of strategic business development for Sun Edison, where he helped build the company to its current position as North America’s leader in solar energy services. Ashley developed the company’s strategic plans, business practices and founding solar projects.

Ashley began his career in the solar energy field in the early 1980s, and later held positions in sales and business development for several of the nation’s largest energy equipment and services providers, including Johnson Controls, Westinghouse and Heliodyne Solar. He brings expertise on utility smart grid solutions, utility-integrated distributed generation, power purchase agreements and demand side management to his work developing the U.S. solar market.

Ashley holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of California at Davis.

Solar power is best option available at the utility

scale and as distributed generation; however, we don’t want to replace one environmental risk (carbon emissions) with another (toxic materials). Recognizing that green energy production must become more ecological is where Solar Frontier sees CIS (copper, indium, selenium) solar panels leading the thin-film market.

CIS thin-film technologies have the capacity to be a greener solution in a green industry. Using these materials, manufacturers have been increasing their energy conversion rates, while using no toxic chemicals in manufacturing and offering superior reliability and stability.

Solar Frontier recently announced the start of commercial production at its gigawatt-scale Kunitomi factory in Miyazaki, Japan, the world’s largest CIS thin-film solar module production plant, representing the beginning of CIS’s rise. While currently representing an estimated 2-3% of the total solar market share, CIS has the capacity to lead thin-film to be the market leader by setting new industry standards for efficiency, and lowering overall costs.

While presenting Solar Frontier’s example, COO Greg Ashley will discuss the rise of thin-film and the environmental and economical advantages to CIS. He will also argue for the need for CIS manufacturers to band together on messages to ensure the success of CIS and the prospects and challenges for the next generation of thin film solar. Ashley brings nearly thirty years of experience in the energy sector, having served most recently as president of the U.S. market for Canadian Solar before joining Solar Frontier Americas.


SCV Photovoltaics


Reliability and Yield of MOS Devices and Circuits

Speaker: Prof. Gilson Wirth, Universidade Federal do

Rio Grande do Sul Time: Networking and light dinner at 6:30 PM;

Presentation at 7:00 PM Cost: $2 accepted for food Place: QualComm Santa Clara, Building B, 3165

Kifer Road, Santa Clara RSVP: not required Web: www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/cas

Gilson I. Wirth received the B.S.E.E and M.Sc. degrees from UFRGS, Brazil, in 1990 and 1994, respectively. In 1999 he received the Dr.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany. He is currently a full professor at the Electrical Engineering Department at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS.

From July 2002 to December 2006 he was professor and head of the Computer Engineering Department, Universidade Estadual do Rio Grande do Sul (UERGS). In July, August and December 2001 he was at Motorola, Austin, Texas, leading the team working in CMOS process technology transfer to CEITEC, Porto Alegre, Brazil. In February and March 2002 he was at the Corporate Research Department of Infineon Technologies, Munich, Germany, working as guest researcher on low-frequency noise in deep submicron MOS devices.

His research interests include low-frequency noise, ionizing radiation effects, bias temperature instability (BTI), reliability and design for yield of digital, analog and mixed-signal circuits.

With the device sizes shrinking well below 100 nm

and introduction of novel materials in the fabrication technology, new phenomena started playing a role on the reliability of MOS devices. As a consequence, performance and reliability become influenced also by factors other than physical dimensions. We need to understand the underlying physical mechanisms, and develop analysis and modeling techniques to support IC designers. Furthermore, the variations of parameters over time (aging and transient effects such as noise and soft errors) may lead to dramatically increased overhead in the timing budget, as well as on test procedures.

Effects that play a major role on the reliability of today digital and analog designs are discussed, as well as effects that are expected to become relevant in future technologies.

Modeling techniques to abstract the physical level effects into the design flow are studied.

Among the effects discussed, the major ones are: - Parametric variability due to effects such as

random dopant fluctuations and line edge roughness.

- Aging effects such as Bias Temperature Instability (BTI), Hot Carrier Injection (HCI), Electromigration and Time Dependent Dielectric Breakdown (TDDB).

- Radiation Effects as Single Event Transients (SET) and Single Event Upsets (SEU).

- Device intrinsic noise, with focus on the Random Telegraph Signal (RTS). Besides its importance for analog design, as a source of low-frequency noise, RTS is also becoming a concern in digital circuits, as for instance in SRAM and flash memories. RTS may be modeled as momentary changes in threshold voltage, meaning that circuit behavior may change between two logic operations of a digital circuit. Different modeling approaches are discussed, focusing on operation conditions relevant for digital and analog design, including large signal AC operation.

Design techniques to improve yield and reliability are also addressed.

Mutual relation between the different reliability phenomena is also studied. For instance, charge trapping and de-trapping plays a role in both bias temperature instability and low-frequency noise, and random dopant fluctuations may exacerbate the impact of BTI and noise on circuit performance.


SCV Circuits and Systems


Tour of Sustainability Base at NASA Ames Research Center

Speaker: Rich Ross, Construction Manager, AECOM

Design Time: Tour at 6:00 PM Cost: none; limited to first 20 people; US Drivers

license/Greeen Card required Place: Building N232, NASA Ames Research

Center, Moffett Field RSVP: by email, to Fred Jones,

[email protected], phone 650-604-2521

Web: www.e-grid.net/docs/1111-scv-pes.pdf

Rich Ross, Construction Manager, AECOM Design, has more than 20 years experience managing the construction of commercial, industrial and research facilities. Rich has served as the Construction Manager for Sustainability Base from the submittal reviews through foundation pour and steel top out to today when the interior is being fitted out with work space walls, furniture and task lighting.

The tour will introduce you to the low energy,

conservation and recycling design concepts of renowned Architect William McDonough. This net-zero energy building utilizes LED lighting, optimized day-lighting controls, passive lighting enhancement with low work space walls and glass full walls, skylights, geothermal heating and cooling optimized with automatic natural ventilation, sun shades on exterior windows, recycled waste water, native low water plants, wood floors recycled from demolished wind tunnels, solar panels and fuel cells. Coupled with NASA control systems developed to minimize energy and fuel use for human habitation in outer space, this facility is expected to produce more energy than it uses.


SCV Power & Energy, and Industry Applications


Accelerating Development of Smart Grid Power Electronics

Control Systems using RCP and HIL Techniques

Speakers: Brian MacCleery,Principal Product

Manager for Clean Energy Technology, National Instruments; William Kramer, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Time: 11:00 AM PST (1 hour) Cost: none Place: on the Internet RSVP: from web page Web: spectrum.ieee.org/webinar

Brian MacCleery, Principal Product Manager for Clean Energy Technology at National Instruments, has the mission to facilitate the design, prototyping and deployment of advanced embedded systems technologies that will help make clean energy less expensive and more abundant than fossil fuels. MacCleery works with green engineering companies worldwide to help them accelerate their commercialization process through the use of high level graphical programming software and cutting edge reconfigurable embedded instrumentation and control hardware. MacCleery holds bachelors and masters degrees in electrical engineering from Virginia Tech where he completed his graduate research in electromechanical modeling and simulation and led multidisciplinary student teams in the development of novel magnetic levitation and propulsion machine designs for energy efficient rapid transit.

William Kramer is Senior Engineer II, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Electricity, Resources, & Building Systems Integration Center. Bill has worked for over 27 years with automation and control systems. He is a member of both ASME and IEEE. He has worked on projects that include HVAC equipment controls, automated board test systems, solar - electric - and hybrid vehicle technologies, fuel cell technologies and advanced power electronics. Prior to working at the National Renewable Energy Lab he worked in industry for companies including the Trane Company, Hewlett Packard, Agilent and Lockheed Martin. Dr. Kramer is a senior research engineer within the Distributed Electricity Systems Integration group at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado.

The design and deployment of grid-tied power

electronics control systems historically has been hampered by a lack of rapid prototyping, commercial off-the-shelf embedded systems and real-time HIL simulators that satisfy the demanding requirements of switch-mode power system designers. To address these challenges, National Instruments is involved in a collaborative R&D effort with the National Renewable Energy Lab and other groups to develop a comprehensive new tool chain for power electronics system design based on reconfigurable FPGAs and high level graphical programming tools. Attend this session to see live demonstrations of new hardware/software tools under development and information on how you can become pioneer user and collaborator in the effort.

MODERATOR: Dexter Johnson, Sr. Analyst at Cientifica, a business intelligence company for emerging technologies, and Author and Editor of several market reports on nanotechnology. He is contributing editor for IEEE Spectrum’s Tech Talk, and program director for numerous international conferences on nanotechnology, fiber optic telecommunications and IT.

THURSDAY November 10, 2011

SPECTRUM Magazine


Half Day Symposium - Nanophotonics and Imaging

Speakers: from Leti, UC-Berkeley, Gigaphoton, NIST,

Yole Development Time: light lunch at 12:00 PM; Presentations from

1:00 PM - 5:00 PM Cost: IEEE Members & Students $30; Non-

Members $35 ($5 more, at door) Place: National Semiconductor Auditorium E-1,

2900 Semiconductor Drive, Santa Clara RSVP: from the website Web: www.ieee.org/nano

12:00 – 1:00pm Registration & Light Lunch 1:00 Welcome: Allen Amaro, 2011 Chair, IEEE SFBA

Nanotechnology Council & Session Chair = Jeffrey Perkins, President, Yole

Development 1:10 "Nanophotonics communications & SOC/3D

interconnect" - Dr. Hughes Metras – Dir. North America, Leti

1:50 "Life beyond the diffraction limit: nano-scale

imaging and lasers" - Dr. Xiang Zhang, Ernest S. Kuh Endowed Chair, UC Berkeley

2:40 "New Light at the End of the EUV Tunnel" - Dr.

Hakaru Mizoguchi, CTO, Gigaphoton 3:20 “Metrology and Standards for NanoMaterials” -

Dr. Herbert Bennett – NIST Fellow & Executive Advisor, NIST

4:10 Panel – Challenges & Breakthroughs in Photonics Moderator: Jeffery Perkins, President, Yole

Development Panelists: Dr. Hughes Metras – Leti Dr. Xiang Zhang – UC Berkeley Dr. Hakaru Mizoguchi - Gigaphoton Dr. Herbert Bennett – NIST 4:50 Wrap-up/Closing Remarks


SCV Nanotechnology


Protecting Your Ideas: A Primer on Intellectual Property

for Engineers

Speaker: Gary J. Edwards, Ph.D., Esq., Haynes and Boone, LLP

Time: 7:00 PM Cost: n one Place: KeyPoint Credit Union, 2805 Bowers Ave.,

Santa Clara RSVP: not required Web: www.californiaconsultants.org

Gary J. Edwards is a partner in Haynes and Boone's Intellectual Property Practice Group in San Jose. He has extensive experience in patent litigation, patent prosecution and IP licensing. He has represented clients in various matters related to development, enforcement, defense and monetization matters.

Gary has a Ph.D. in Physics from the Univ. of Connecticut. He works with high technology companies to protect their technology, build intellectual property portfolios, assert those portfolios and defend against the assertions of competitors. He has a strong background in Physics and Materials Science. His analytical abilities and technical skills enable him to assist clients in a wide range of technical areas.

Dr. Edwards has broad experience in protecting diverse technologies. His experience covers a range of technological areas that includes:

- optical devices - optical materials (including nonlinear materials,

and LEDs) - semiconductor processing - semiconductor processing equipment (e-beam,

lithography, surface inspection, materials deposition, etching)

- semiconductor devices - energy storage technologies including solid-state

batteries - alternative energy systems (e.g., solar, wind and

tidal) - telecommunications (e.g., high-speed LAN, DSL,

wireless, and modem technologies) - nanotechnologies (e.g., MEMS, superconducting

devices, and materials structures) … more

This talk will address two areas: (1) how the new America Invents Act (AIA) both helps and hinders independent engineering consultants, and (2) Intellectual Property (IP) protection for engineers.

The AIA as signed into law in September is quite controversial, and many predicted that it would benefit large corporations at the expense of "the little guy." This talk will address this issue by presenting arguments that go both for and against this criticism.

This talk will also provide an introduction to IP protection for engineers. As an independent contractor or as an employee of a company, it is important to capture and protect the IP that you create. Many engineers remain unaware of how to protect IP, or of the importance of protecting IP.

- electronic circuits - imaging technologies - remote sensing devices - information technologies (e.g., software and

networking). Gary's broad technological background lends itself

to complex technologies, novel materials structures, and cross-disciplinary technologies.


SCV Consultants' Network of Silicon Valley

Patent Agent Jay Chesavage, PE

MSEE Stanford 3833 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto 94303

[email protected]

www.File-EE-Patents.com

TEL: 650-619-5270 FAX: 650-494-3835


Pure Spin Currents: Discharging Spintronics

Speaker: Dr. Axel Hoffmann, Materials Science

Division, Argonne National Laboratory Time: Netowrking and Pizza at 7:00 PM;

Presentation at 7:30 PM Cost: none Place: Western Digital, 1710 Automation Parkway,

San Jose RSVP: not required Web: ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/mag

Dr. Axel Hoffmann received his Diploma degree with honors from the RWTH Aachen in 1994 and his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California – San Diego in 1999. After receiving his doctorate he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Los Alamos National Laboratory working on neutron scattering from magnetic heterostructures. In 2001 he joined the Materials Science Division of the Argonne National Laboratory, where he is currently a staff member in the Magnetic Thin Film Group. His research interests encompass a wide variety of magnetism related subjects, including basic properties of magnetic heterostructures, spin-transport in novel geometries, and biomedical applications of magnetism. His main research focus has recently been on pure spin currents investigated by magnetotransport and magnetization dynamic measurements. He has more than 100 publications, four book chapters, and three magnetism-related U.S. patents. In the past he served as the chair for the Topical Group on Magnetism and its Applications of the American Physical Society and the chair of Technical Committee for the IEEE Magnetics Society. Currently he is an associate editor for the Journal of Applied Physics and a senior IEEE member. He has been active in many Intermag and Magnetism and Magnetic Materials Conferences, including serving as a publication co-chair for the 2007 Joint MMM/Intermag conference and a program co-chair of the MMM conference in 2010. In 2013 he will be the general chair for the MMM Conference.

As semiconducting electronic devices are

miniaturized to ever-smaller dimensions, power dissipation becomes an ever-increasing problem due to leakage charge currents. Spintronics may help addressing some of these issues by utilizing besides the charge degree of freedom also the electron spin. Conventional spintronics approaches are used for non-volatile devices, such as magnetic random access memory, where spin currents are mainly considered as spin-polarized charge currents and as a result the spin and charge currents are in parallel and directly coupled.

Looking further into the future, the question arises, whether eliminating charge currents altogether

could provide additional benefits for applications. Towards addressing this question, non-local device geometries allow for separating spin and charge currents, which in turn enables the investigation and use of pure spin currents. This approach opens up new opportunities to study spin-dependent physics and gives rise to novel approaches for generating and controlling angular momentum flow.

In this lecture, I will discuss different approaches for generating pure spin currents, such as non-local electrical

injection from a ferromagnet, charge-to-spin current conversion via spin Hall effects, and spin pumping from ferromagnetic resonance. Furthermore, I will show how spin currents can then be used for gaining new insights into spin dependent phenomena. In particular, the temperature dependence of spin and charge relaxation times allows to identify different spin relaxation mechanisms. In addition, spin pumping facilitates the generation of macroscopically large pure spin currents. This permits quantificatoin of spin Hall effects with great precision, even in materials where these effects are relatively weak. Finally, I will conclude with a brief outlook on the current scientific and future technological opportunities for pure spin currents.


SCV Magnetics


Control Systems for Variable-Speed Wind Turbines

Speaker: Prof. Ping Hsu, San Jose State University Time: Networking, pizza at 6:30 PM; Presentation

at 7:00 PM Cost: none Place: Cogswell Polytechnical College, Room

#172, 1175 Bordeaux Drive, Sunnyvale RSVP: from the website Web: www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/css

Prof. Ping Hsu graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1988 with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering. He joined San Jose State University in 1990 and is currently a faculty member in the Electrical Engineering Department. His research interests include nonlinear control, generator and motor control, power electronics, and power systems. Prof. Hsu was involved in the control software development for a variable speed wind turbine starting in 1997. The work resulted in a commercial generator control system that is used in thousands of commercially manufactured 750 kW and 1.5 MW turbines. Prof. Hsu has been collaborating with wind turbine and power electronics equipment manufacturers in the area of system analysis and development.

The presentation gives an overview of various control applications in a modern variable speed electrical power generation wind turbine. The presentation will start with an introduction of various types of turbine and turbine dynamics. Control applications in wind turbines include yaw control, turbine speed control, generator torque control, blade pitch control, control of doubly-fed induction generator, control of power for grid connection and structure vibration damping control.


SCV Control Systems

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


The Impact of Microinverters in Photovoltaic Systems

Speaker: r. Brandon J. Pierquet Senior Design

Engineer, Enphase Energy Time: etworking, pizza at 6:00 PM; Presentation

at 6:30 PM Cost: none (donation for food) Place: exas Instruments (formerly National

Semiconductor) Building E Auditorium, 2900 Semiconductor Drive, Santa Clara

RSVP: ot required Web: ww.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/pels

Dr. Brandon J. Pierquet is currently a Senior Design Engineer at Enphase Energy, where he is working on the development of new microinverter implementations and control strategies. He received his Ph.D. and S.M. degrees in from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2011 and 2006 respectively, and his B.S. degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2004, all in electrical engineering. His research interests include resonant power conversion for ac systems, multi-port converter topologies, embedded system control, and solar energy applications.

Interest in photovoltaic (PV) systems has

increased significantly over the past decade, in both the public and private sector. With the cost of photovoltaic modules dropping, and increasing energy costs, many installations are proving to be a fiscal benefit. In traditional installations, a single central dc-ac inverter is fed by a series connected string of modules; mismatch between the ideal maximum power point tracking (MPPT) of each module reduces the realisable energy capture of the system. A new style of inverter, often referred to as a microinverter, provides the MPPT and dc-ac conversion at each PV module, allowing direct connection to the grid.

This talk will cover the trade-offs presented by microinverters in various system configurations, from kilowatt sized residential systems through multi-megawatt utility scale installations. Focus will be placed on the challenges faced in cost, efficiency, reliability, safety, and overall market acceptance. Some depth into the common power electronic topologies and control algorithms will be covered, along with grid interconnection challenges and standards compliance issues.

WEDNESDAY ovember 16, 2011

SCV Power Electronics


Unleashing the Power of Integrated Circuits for

DNA Sequencing Speaker: Stefan Roever, CEO & Founder, Genia

Technologies, Inc. Time: Optional dinner at Stanford Hospital

Cafeteria, 6:15 PM; Presentation at Med School at 7:30 PM

Cost: none Place: Presentation at Room M-114, Stanford

University Medical School, Stanford RSVP: not required Web: www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/embs

Stefan Roever has a broad entrepreneurial, software, and finance background. He was Co-Founder and CEO of Brokat Technologies, an encryption banking software company. Brokat reached a several billion dollar market cap and went public in 1998 on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and on NASDAQ in 2000. Mr. Roever was honored with the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in Germany. He is an active private equity investor and currently serves as Chairman of WRS Materials, a roll-up of wafer reclaim companies. Mr. Roever also is a two time award holder of Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum. He earned degrees in both economics and law from the University of Tuebingen.

There is no debate that genetic information is

needed to truly realize the promise of personalized medicine. The problem is that today’s DNA sequencers cost anywhere from $50K - $1M, rely on complicated optics, and utilize a complex workflow that does not lend itself to clinical utility.

Genia is using standard semiconductor technology to enable massively parallel, single molecule DNA sequencing. The company has developed a versatile nanopore-based platform which allows for single molecule, electrical, real-time analysis without the need for enzymes, complicated optics, labels, amplification, or fluidics. Genia’s key proprietary innovations around the nanopore allow single molecules of single stranded DNA to move through the pore slowly so the sequence can be measured accurately. The sensor itself is truly transformative and allows very small electrical signals (~0.2 pA current levels) to be seen high above the noise floor, which is one of the issues other nanopore companies are currently struggling with. The data show that with highly accurate analog electronics and clever data analysis techniques, single base discrimination is possible, and adequate SNR can be reached to perform DNA sequencing.

Genia’s mission is to unify Moore’s Law with biotechnology to make genetic information universally available. By developing a true integrated circuit on standard semiconductor process technology, Genia brings Moore’s Law to the biological world to revolutionize the world of DNA sequencing.


SCV Engineering in Medicine and Biology


Feedback Communication Systems: Fundamental Limits

and Control-Theoretic Approach

Speaker: Ehsan Ardestanizadeh, PhD, ASSIA, Inc. Time: Refreshments at 5:30 PM; Presentation at

6:00 PM Cost: none Place: 202 Packard Bldg, Stanford University,

Stanford RSVP: not required Info: ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/it

We combine techniques from information theory,

estimation and control, and optimization theory to investigate the benefits of feedback in improving fundamental limits on information flow in communication networks. We focus on three network models. First, combining the Lagrange duality technique and tools from information theory including the dependence balance bound, we derive an upper bound on the sum rate achievable by linear codes for the k-sender Gaussian multiple access channel with feedback. This upper bound is further shown to coincide with the known lower bound by Kramer, hence establishing the linear sum capacity. Next, we study the application of tools from classic linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) control in designing codes for feedback communications. For the k-receiver Gaussian broadcast channel with feedback, we construct a linear code based on a mapping to the LQG control problem, which achieves the best known lower bound on the sum rate. In addition, depending on the correlation among the receivers' noises, it is shown that in the high signal-to-noise ratio regime this code can achieve k degrees of freedom, i.e., the sum rate increases linearly with the number of receivers. Finally, we consider the wiretap channel with rate-limited feedback and discuss the benefits of feedback in improving the secrecy capacity.


SCV Information Theory


Career Networking Night

Time: Refreshments at 6:00 PM; Discussions at

6:30 PM Cost: none Place: Keypoint Credit Union, 2805 Bowers

Avenue , Santa Clara RSVP: From website Web: sites.ieee.org/scv-pace/upcoming-events

This is a networking event you should not miss if

you are interested in today’s job market. Are you tired of looking through countless openings on company websites? Wouldn’t it be great if you could meet the employers face to face and learn about the latest job openings and requirements? Do you want to stand out as a candidate and get your resume noticed or even get it to the top of the pile? If yes, then come and join us for this hiring focussed networking night. At registration, please provide a link to your linkedin profile and a job title for the kind of opportunity you are most interested in. We will update details on the participating employers shortly.


SCV PACE (Professional Activities Committee for Engineers)

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