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CHAPTER MEETINGS SPECTRUM - 10/30 | Strategic Reuse: Bringing Fundamental Efficiencies in Automotive EE Engineering - open source ... [more]

SCV-GOLD - 10/30 | Game of Laser Tag & The Sports Page - friendly game and social time afterward ... [more]

Oregon Section - 10/30 | Software Defined Networking, OpenFlow, ARCCN - Webinar: development platform, functionality ... [more]

SCV-TMC - 11/1 | Demystifying Strategy: Getting to the Heart of the Problem - context, direction, getting unity, practical tools, tips ... [more]

SCV-Mag - 11/5 | Spin Caloritronics - physics, spin-dependent effects, dynamics, actuation ... [more]

SCV-PACE - 11/6 | Career Networking Dinner - casual dinner, networking, like-minded folks, career opportunities ... [more]

SCV-CIS - 11/7 | Opportunities and Challenges in Performance and Resource Management in the Cloud – optimization ... [more]

ComSoc - 11/8 | LTE-Advanced Modems Coming to Life - Webinar: simulation, implementation, testing, verification ... [more]

SCV-MTT - 11/8 | Active Components for Advanced Commercial Satellite Systems - size/mass, power, noise figure, output ... [more]

SCV-RAS - 11/8 | Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM): Problem, Basic Implementation, Traps, and Tricks ... [more]

SCV-APS - 11/8 | Antenna Testing in Less Than One Second: Very-Near-Field Techniques for Far-Field Measurements - demo ... [more]

SCV-EDS - 11/13 | Analog Technologies: Status & Opportunities - roadmap, devices, design, embedded NVMs, packaging ... [more]

SCV-CNSV - 11/13 | Object Storage Coming of Age: Big Data and Lots of Users -mobile, file sharing, OpenStack Swift ... [more]

SCV-EMC - 11/13 | Reference Technologies for Precision Navigation and Control in Space - drag-free sensor, UV LEDs, mission ... [more]

SCV-Nano - 11/13 | NanoMEMS - nanometer-scale, inertial sensing, biomedicine, communications, pitfalls ... [more]

SCV-CS - 11/14 | Crime.Com - Post-Modern Criminal Behavior - digital crime, activities, modus operandi, techniques ... [more]

SCV-CPMT - 11/14 | Cost Versus Reliability Tradeoffs for Stacked Devices - density, packaging, 3D, expenses, KGD ... [more]

OEB-Life - 11/14 | Fuel Cells, Hydrogen and the California Carbon Mandate - thermodynamics, H2, efficiency, CO2 emissions ... [more]

SCV-PV - 11/14 | Field Applications of I-V Curve Tracers in the Solar PV Industry - ownership, characterization, data analysis ... [more]

SCV-ComSoc - 11/14 | Technologies for Location Determination in Indoor and Urban Environments -accuracy, test results ... [more]

OEB-IAS - 11/15 | Transformer Failure Due to Circuit Breaker Induced Switching Transients - types, severity, retrofits ... [more]

SCV-SSC - 11/15 | Designing VLSI Interconnects with Monolithically Integrated Silicon-Photonics - modeling, sensitivities ... [more]

SCV-CNSV - 11/16 | Solutions to the Software Patent Problem - 1-day conference, the problem, discussion of solutions ... [more]

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SCV-IT - 11/28 | Introduction to Reed-Solomon and BCH Codes - comprehensive view, time and frequency domains, decoding ... [more]

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The Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers is a forum for presenting work in various areas of theoretical and applied signal processing.

75 Sessions, including: ● Graphical Models in Signal Processing ● Green Radio ● Voice Coding ● Full-Duplex MIMO Communications ● DSP Architecture for Wireless Communications ● Large-Scale MIMO Systems ● Compressive Sensing ● Network Beamforming ● Cognitive Radio Networks ● Many-Core, Multi-Core, and SoC ● Image and Video Coding ● Computer Arithmetic ● Wireless Video Transmission ● Game Theory in Communications ● Medical Image Analysis ● Coding Theory for the Next-Gen Storage Systems ● Compressive Estimation ● Multiuser and Massive MIMO ● Social Networks ● Sequence and Genome Analysis ● Low Power ● Network Optimization ● Security ● Consensus Based Algorithms ● Wireless Full Duplex ● Decoding and Detection ● Interference Alignment ● Image and Video Classification … and more

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November 4-7, 2012 2012 Plenary Talk: “Compressive Sensing: 8 Years After,” Prof. Richard G. Baraniuk, Rice University

Half-Day Tutorial: “Coding Methods for Emerging Storage Systems” – Prof. Lara Dolecek, UCLA, and Prof. Anxiao (Andrew) Jiang, Texas A&M

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ENRICH YOUR CAREER AND FURTHER THE INDUSTRY AT THE 38TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM FOR TESTING AND FAILURE ANALYSIS (ISTFA), NOVEMBER 11-15 IN PHOENIX, ARIZONA.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 intermixed 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.

Register before October 1 for early bird specials.Go to www.istfa.org for up-to-date information and to register.

NEW INTERMIXED TUTORIAL FORMAT A full day of tutorial sessions Sunday with cutting edge topics related to current trends in failure analysis intermixed throughout the week.

• Lab Management • Fault Localization• Electrical and Yield • Microscopy• Technology Specific FA • FIB• Package and Physical Analysis Challenges

23 TECHNICAL SESSIONS INCLUDING PANEL DISCUSSION: FA CHALLENGES OF 3D INTEGRATION• Emerging Concepts and Techniques• Fault Isolation and Failure Analysis of 3D Packages• Nanoprobing Techniques/Applications• Fault Isolation and Failure Analysis of TSVs• Photon Based Techniques: An Understanding• Rethinking the FA Process• Improving Fault Isolation with Software• Packaging and Assembly Analysis• Counterfeit Electronics Detection and Mitigation• Circuit Edit: Beam Interaction Studies, Strategies• TEM Defect Detection • Device Level Sample Prep• Chip Level Sample Prep • Alternative Energy• Case Studies • Defect Analysis• Test and Diagnosis • Posters

NETWORKING AND SOCIAL EVENTS• Attendee Luncheons• Networking Reception• Tools of the Trade Tour - Registration is required• Hitting a Home Run with your Failure Analysis – Inside the Diamondbacks’ Chase Field• Dessert Reception and Poster Session

TECHNOLOGY-SPECIFIC USER GROUPSMeet, share ideas, and discuss relevant issues in a noncommercial environment. Planned topics are:

• Nanoprobing • Contactless Fault Isolation• Focused Ion Beam • Sample Preparation

EDUCATION SHORT COURSES 7 Pre- and Post-Conference Short Courses

• NEW! Photovoltaic Modules: Reliability and Test Standards• Fault Isolation• Counterfeit Electronic• NEW! Failure Analyzing the Failure Analysis Process• NEW! Electrostatic Discharge in Robotic Manufacturing Lines: Electrostatic Basics, ESD-Failure Mechanisms, Tool Risk Evaluation Methods and ESD- vs. EOS-Classification and Characterization Methods• NEW! ESD/ Factory EOS• Financial Management of the FA Process

2012 KEYNOTE ADDRESS University Innovation: How Today’s Academic Research Seeds Tomorrow’s Commercial Breakthroughs

Trevor J. Thorton, PhD, Professor and Director of Electrical Engineering, Arizona State UniversityHear first-hand the trials and tribulations faced by researchers on the road towards commercial breakthrough.

REGISTER BY OCTOBER 1 AND SAVE.• Discounted fees for EDFAS and ASM Members. • Non-members of EDFAS receive a one year membership with their registration.• Group discounts available

Additional information is on the ISTFA website.

Plan and register at www.ISTFA.org.

EXPOSITION - NOV. 13-14The 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!

NEW in 2012!• Tools of the Trade Tour – See the latest products and services in action• Photo Contest• Networking Reception on the show floor• “Video Street Beat” – Coverage of your booth by editors of AM&P and EDFA magazines

The ISTFA exposition is your once-a-year opportunity to access the innovators, influencers, and decision makers –all in one location!

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Managing Time & Multiple Priorities

– Date/Time: Tuesday, Oct 30, 9:00AM-1:00PM – Location: Synopsys, Sunnyvale – Fee: $325 for IEEE Members; $375 non-members "I enjoyed this class very much. I thought it was very informative and useful. It really made me more aware of how I can organize my time."

Emotional Intelligence – Date/Time: Thursday, Nov 1, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM – Location: – Tibco, Palo Alto – Fee: $450 for IEEE Members; $525 non-members

“Emotional intelligence isn't a luxury you can dispense with in tough times. It's a basic tool that, deployed with finesse, is a key

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Delegation and Coaching: The Winning Combination

– Date/Time: Thursday, Nov 8, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM – Location: – Tibco, Palo Alto – Fee: $425 for IEEE Members; $525 non-members

Get the willing cooperation of others; provide staff members with opportunities to develop and use their skills and knowledge. and

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December 4-7, 2012 Santa Clara Convention Center

The ninth annual Printed Electronics USA conference and exhibition covers all the applications, technologies and opportunities.

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.

Graphene LIVE! covers all promising applications of graphene, including graphene composites, batteries and supercapacitors, functional inks, logic and memory, touch screens, sensors and bio-electronics and beyond.

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

Interviewing and Hiring the Best Talent -- Date/Time: Tuesday, Nov 13, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM -- Location: – Tibco, Palo Alto -- Fee: $425 for IEEE Members; $525 non-members Non-HR personnel learn the proper interviewing skills required to best assess candidates while staying within legal boundaries.

Project Management: A Team Approach for Accountability & Results -- Date/Time: Mon-Tues, Dec 3-4, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM -- Location: – Tibco, Palo Alto -- Fee: $725 for IEEE Members; $650 non-members

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Immerse yourself in Best-in-Class design strategies for leading embedded architecture - ARM

This year's ARM Techcon doubles your value

with two events in one. Whether you are a hardware or software engineer, ARM Techcon 2012 offers classes, hands-on tutorials and training at all levels of expertise. Invest in your in future today with a solid core of strategies, tools and methodologies for successfully incorporating ARM IP in your design. Choose to attend October 30th where the focus is on designing ICs using ARM cores, or October 31 -November 1, where the focus will be on designing systems and developing software around ARM-based hardware. If your responsibilities span across both areas- we offer an all-access pass to attend the entire conference, the best value – plus there’s an IEEE discount. The exhibition floor is unique, based on which days you attend.

Get the Solutions for your ARM-Powered Designs

Keynote Talks Simon Segars, EVP and General Manager Processor and Physical IP Divisions, ARM Jack Sun, VP, Research & Development and CTO, TSMC Jonathan Koomey, Stanford University Warren East, CEO, ARM

ABOUT ARM ARM designs the technology that lies at the heart of advanced digital products, from wireless, networking and consumer entertainment solutions to imaging, automotive, security and storage devices. ARM's comprehensive product offering includes 32-bit RISC microprocessors, graphics processors, enabling software, cell libraries, embedded memories, high-speed connectivity products, peripherals and development tools. Combined with comprehensive design services, training, support and maintenance, and the company's broad Partner community, they provide a total system solution that offers a fast, reliable path to market for leading electronics companies.

Exhibit at ARMTechCon6! Don’t miss this opportunity to showcase your ARM-based products or technology solutions. Increase ROI, launch new products, influence target customers, expand your visibility. Contact Seam Raman, Sales Director, [email protected], 415-947-6622.

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A one-day intensive conference for chip design teams working with ARM silicon IP and tools.

110 papers - Tracks on: - SoC Architecture & Analysis - SoC Design & Verification - SoC Design for Power & Performance - SoC IP Sponsors:

SYSTEM AND SOFTWARE DESIGN DAYS (October 31 – November 1) Two days of courses and exhibits for system developers employing the ARM architectures.

Tracks on: - Android/Open Source - Compute Platforms - Developing & Debugging - Low Power Design - Microcontroller and Programmable Platforms - Multimedia Processing - Safety & Security - Software Optimization on ARM-Powered systems - The Fundamentals of ARM Sponsors:

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Building the Lean, Green Super Machine

Server Design Summit is the only event focused entirely on the $40 billion server market. And it is the first event to deal with “Bringing Servers into the Cloud Computing Era.”

This two-day event will bring you the latest in designing for next-generation virtualized servers! From simple blades to powerful high-end systems, servers are the key to managing networked computing. Talk with industry leaders, see the latest products, meet with potential partners. Organized in three tracks:

Saving Energy in Servers and Datacenters

Increasing Server Performance

Designing Cloud Servers Special Sessions “Facebook Open Compute Project,” Amir Michael, Facebook

“VC Forum,” with Battery Ventures, US Venture Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, NEA

Panel on "Cloud Server Design Tradeoffs" with panelists from Dell, HP, SeaMicro, Cisco Systems and Oracle

Panel on "Future of Server Design" with panelists from Calxeda, Intel, Oracle and IBM Almaden Research Center

Evening Discussion Tables Beer, Pizza and Chat with the Experts Table Topics: • Cooling methods • High-speed links • Storage performance • Memory • Virtualization • Security • Application acceleration • Server accelerators • Caching methods • Cloud servers • Marketing • Backup and recovery

Shipments of cloud servers are projected to reach 875,000 units in 2012, up a notable 35 percent from 647,000 in 2011 and nearly double the 460,000 in 2010. — Peter Lin, IHS ISuppli, January 2012

Keynote Speakers “Cloud Computing and the Mega-Datacenter,” Jason Waxman, General Manager, High Density Computing Data Center Group, Intel Corporation

"Servers Meet Today's Enterprise Information Challenges," Robert Hormuth, Director, Server Architecture, Dell

"Cloud-Scale Networking - The Evolving Network Edge," Sarwar Raza, Distinguished Architect, Hewlett-Packard

"Getting Big Results from Big Data," Keith Klemba, Vice President, SAP Research

"Solid State Memory Increases Server Performance Cost-Effectively," Adam Roberts, Solid State Memory Architect & Senior Engineer, IBM Sessions and Panels: - CPU Data Demands - Optimizing Cloud Servers for Cost and Performance - System Power Management - Increasing Storage Performance - Accelerating Cloud Connectivity - Data Center Server Strategies - System Scaling and Networking - Virtualization and Cloud Servers - Accelerating Application Performance - Cloud Server Design Tradeoffs - Future of Server Design ... and more!

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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.

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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

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IEEE GLOBECOM is the Premier Event for telecommunications industry professionals and academics from companies, governmental agencies and universities around the world, with a technical program focused on recent communication research and development. GLOBECOM includes 12 symposia conducted by the various ComSoc technical committees covering major industry technologies and numerous hot topics – over 1000 presentations.

Keynote Presentations: - Vint Cerf, Google: “Internet Challenges 2012-2020” - Henry Samueli, CTO, Chairman, Broadcom - Krish Prabhu, President, AT&T Labs, CTO, AT&T - Hossein Eslambolchi, “The Power of Technology to

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Technical Sessions over 160 sessions across 12 Symposia tracks, including sessions on:

● Green Hardware and Chip Designs ● Energy Saving in Communication Network and Equipment ● Multimedia Quality of Service ● Compressed Sensing ● Theoretical Aspects of Communication Systems ● Femto-Cell Networks ● Network Coding ● Security in Cloud Computing and Storage ● Network Layer Modeling and Design ● Optical Spectrum Management ● Cognitive Radios Networks ● Spectrum Sharing ● Interference Management ● MIMO Systems ● Satellite & Space Communications ● Traffic Control ● Network Design and Management ● … and many more – see Program!

Technical Tutorials Twelve half-day tutorials ● Intro to Small Cell Wireless Networks ● Mobile-Station and Base-Station Cooperation ● Interference Alignment ● Gigabit Wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11ac) ● Content Delivery Acceleration ● QoS Provisioning in Wireless Cognitive Radio Network ● M2M in Smart Grid & Smart Cities ● Resource Management in Mobile Cloud Computing ● Opportunistic Communication ● Security Investigation on 4G LTE Wireless Networks ● Cooperative Spectrum Sensing: From Fundamental Limits to Practical Designs ● Joint PHY-MAC Design for Spectral- and Energy-Efficient Wireless Networks

22 Full-Day Workshops selection: ● Heterogeneous and Small-Cell Networks ● Smart Devices ● Broadband Wireless Access ● Green Internet of Things ● Machine-to-Machine Communications ● Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles ● Radar and Sonar Networks ● Wireless Cloud Computing ● Multicell Cooperation ● Optical Wireless Communications … and more

Theme: “The Magic of Global Connectivity”

GLOBECOM INDUSTRY FORUM & EXPO – FOR WORKING ENGINEERS!

GLOBECOM, features an exposition of key providers of technology and tools, including Components, Subsystems and Systems, Test Equipment, Hardware, Software, and Middleware. The Industry Forum includes a Welcome Reception and twelve 2-hour forum sessions with broad interest programming, focused on the telecommunication industry’s current practiced technology, major technology implementations, complex IT business systems, regulatory impact assessments, economic models, and engineering methods used by industry practitioners. Disneyland Hotel

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December 3-7, 2012 Disneyland Hotel, Anaheim

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AnDevCon Comes Back to Burlingame!

AnDevCon IV 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 50 classes to bring Android open source development to a high level. Exhibit Hall hours:

Thursday Dec 6, 11:00 am – 7:00 pm Friday Dec 7, 11:00 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.

The Exploratorium -- the museum of science, art and human perception -- is moving to new facilities on Pier 15 and 17 of San Francisco's waterfront, from its present location at the Palace of Fine Arts. It now gets over 500K visitors per year, mostly youth, and is expanding its exhibits and amenities. They wish to partner with the IEEE on projects for their new larger space, for electricity and magnetism perceptual exhibits that will require professional consulting. The IEEE will get credit on the exhibits and in their publications.

December 4-7, 2012 Hyatt Regency Burlingame

Technical Classes Keynotes, Exhibits, more

Keynotes: Chet Haase, Android Team, Google Roman Guy, Software Engineer, Google

Technical Classes: - Android Fundamentals - Attacking Android Insecurity - Developer Tool Essentials - Hacking APKs for Fun and Profit - Architecting Android Apps - Creating Apps for Google TV - Advanced OpenGL ES - Mastering the Android Touch System - Leveraging Android's Linux Heritage - Mobile Data Synchronization - Reusable Custom Components - Utilizing Sensors in Android - Creating ePub Books for Android - Extending the Android Vibrate Function for Games - Tracking User Behavior … plus dozens more, and choice of 7 Workshops

Earlybird registration thru October 19 – save $500 And save $100 by using Code “IEEE”

on 3-day passport, or for free exhibits admission.

For information and to register, visit

www.AnDevCon.com

The IEEE’s San Francisco Section will fund travel and expenses for IEEE member(s) to consult with the Exploratorum on their designs. And the Section will also consider funding project materials as the need arises. If you are interested in volunteering, please email Mike Butler at [email protected]

Volunteers wanted

Electrical Design Engineers

http://www.AnDevCon.com/



Game of Laser Tag & The Sports Page

Time: 6:30 PM to suit up Cost: IEEE Members: $12; Non-members: $17

(Food and drinks not included) Place: Laser Quest, 1400 N. Shoreline Blvd.,

Mountain View; then food at Sports Page, 1431 Plymouth St., Mountain View

RSVP: from website Web: scv-gold-laser-tag.eventbrite.com

Come join IEEE SCV GOLD for a friendly game of

Laser tag, and to network with your fellow Bay Area engineers!

We will be playing three games, so you can improve your scores and learn your opponent's strategies. After the game, join us at Sports Page for a meal and social time.

TUESDAY October 30, 2012SCV Grads of the Last Decade (GOLD)


Software Defined Networking, OpenFlow, ARCCN, and the Skolkovo Innovation Centre

(Webinar) Speaker: Dr. Carolyn Turbyfill, Director of

Engineering, The Applied Research Center for Computer Networks (ARCCN)

Time: 6:30 PM (PDT) Cost: none Place: on the Web RSVP: from website Web: www.e-grid.net/docs/1210-or-cs.pdf

Dr. Carolyn Turbyfill holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University. Her first research project in the field of Computer Science was the Wisconsin Benchmark that pioneered benchmarks by which relational database systems are measured today. She has advanced her career with milestones consisting of the first commercial implementations of leading edge products such as: the first firewall appliance, SunScreen SPF-100 and SKIP, one of the first commercial Virtual Private Networks (VPN); the first managed security service and the first round trip email marketing service. While at Sun Microsystems, she worked with CISSP, a coalition of companies, on changing export controls on encryption. As VP of Engineering at StackSafe, she led the team that developed the StackSafe Test Center, which was named the 2008 ITIL Innovation of the Year. In 2009 Dr. Turbyfill was inducted into the Women in Technology International's (WITI) Hall of Fame for her longstanding commitment to create opportunities for women in technology careers.

Software Defined Networking (SDN) replaces

dedicated network hardware with standards based software running on servers that implements the control plane of switches and routers. Dr. Turbyfill will discuss ARCCN's work to provide an OpenFlow standards-based application development network platform taking much of the features and functionality that exist inside custom proprietary software and driving it into an open SDN space. OpenFlow is an API that links an Ethernet switch and a controller. OpenFlow implements layer 2 Ethernet switches as flows directed by a centralized controller(s).

ARCCN is a non-profit organization, located in the Skolkovo Innovation Center, Moscow. Skolkovo is Russia’s answer to Silicon Valley. Its goal is "to concentrate international intellectual capital, thereby stimulating the development of break-through projects and technologies." Dr. Turbyfill will also discuss ARCCN's relationship with Skolkovo and how ARCCN is building collaborative relationships with international academic, research and commercial organizations to achieve its goals.

TUESDAY October 30, 2012

Oregon Section, Computer Chapter



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Demystifying Strategy: Getting to the Heart of the Problem

Speaker: Sarah Thrift, Insight Consultancy Solutions Time: Networking at 6:00 PM; Management Forum

at 6:30 PM, Dinner at 7:15 PM; Presentation at 7:45 PM

Cost: IEEE Members: $11; Non-members: $14 ($3 more at door)

Place: Ramada Silicon Valley, 1217 Wildwood Ave, Sunnyvale

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

Sarah Thrift is a former McKinsey consultant and former advisor to UK Chancellor and subsequent Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Sarah is a renowned strategy advisor, specializing in technology, financial services, healthcare and nonprofit sectors.

Ever wonder how to best answer your strategic

questions? That is, how to get to the right question, how to break it down, how to get buy-in, ..., etc? Come hear Sarah Thrift explain how properly understanding context is crucial to focusing efforts in the most productive direction, and getting unity among colleagues. She will combine the latest strategic thinking with practical tools and tips that are audience actionable.

THURSDAY November 1, 2012

SCV Technology Management

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Spin Caloritronics

Speaker: Pr. Gerrit E.W. Bauer, PhD, Institute of Materials Research, Tohoku University

Time: Networking and pizza at 7:00 PM; Prsentation at 7:30 PM

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

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

Pr. Gerrit E.W. Bauer, PhD holds an Engineering Degree (1980) in Chemical Technology from Twente University (The Netherlands) and Doctor Degree in Physics (1984) from the Technical University Berlin (Germany) for research carried out at the Hahn-Meitner-Institute of Nuclear Research. After a postdoc at the Institute for Solid State Physics at the University of Tokyo (1984-86), he became a member of the Scientific Staff of the Philips Research Laboratories (1986-92). He was appointed Professor of Physics at Delft University of Technology in 1992 and at Tohoku University in 2011. He (co)authored >200 refereed scientific papers in the area of condensed matter physics, in the last two decades mainly in the field of magnetoelectronics/spintronics. He received the Wilhelm-Conrad-Röntgen Award from Würzburg University (2000), the Outstanding Referee Award by the American Physical Society (2008), the Lars Onsager Medal from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (2009). He became Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2010 “for exposing the interaction between spin transport, magnetization dynamics, charge and heat transport, and mechanical motion”.

The spin degree of freedom of the electron affects

not only charge, but also heat and thermoelectric transport, leading to new effects in small structures that are studied in the field of spin caloritronics (from calor, the Latin word for heat). This lecture addresses the basic physics of spin caloritronics. Starting with an introduction into thermoelectrics and Onsager’s reciprocity relations, the generalization to include the spin dependence in the presence of metallic ferromagnets will be addressed. Using this foundation I will describe several recently discovered spin-dependent effects in metallic nanostructures and tunneling junctions as well as a zoo of spin-related thermal Hall effects in terms of a two spin-current model of non-interacting electrons.

Next, I will argue that different classes of spin caloritronic effects exist that can be explained only by the collective spin dynamics in ferromagnets. The thermal spin transfer torque that allows excitation and switching of the magnetization in spin valves as well as the operation of nanoscale heat engines is complemented by thermal spin pumping. The latter generates the so-called spin Seebeck effect, which is generated by a heat current-induced non-equilibrium of magnons at a contact between an insulating or conducting ferromagnet and a normal metal. Under these conditions a net spin current is injected or extracted from the normal metal that can be detected by the inverse spin Hall effect.

Both classes can be formulated by scattering theory of transport in the adiabatic approximation for the magnetization dynamics and computed in terms of material-dependent electronic structures. Further issues to be addressed are the relation between electric, thermal and acoustic actuation, as well as the application potential of spin caloritronics.

MONDAY November 5, 2012

SCV Magnetics


Opportunities and Challenges in Performance and Resource Management in the Cloud

Speaker: Xiaoyun Zhu, Staff Engineer, Cloud Resource Management Group, VMware

Time: Networking and food at 6:45 PM; Presentation at 7:00 PM

Cost: none Place: Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley, Room 118,

Building 23, Moffett Field RSVP: from website Web: ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/cis

Xiaoyun Zhu is a Staff Engineer in the VMware Cloud Resource Manage-ment Group, focusing on developing automated resource and performance management solutions for virtualized datacenters and applications. Her general interests are in applying control theory, optimization, algorithms, and statistical learning to IT systems management and automation. Prior to VMware, she was a Senior Research Scientist at Hewlett Packard Labs for 8 years. She has co-authored over 50 refereed papers in journals and conference proceedings, and holds 17 patents. She has been a program committee member for ICAC, IM, NOMS, CNSM, MASCOTS, CCGrid, and SIGMETRICS, and an associated editor for the Journal of Network & Systems Management. Xiaoyun co-founded the first International FeBID Workshop (now known as Feedback Computing Workshop) in 2006, along with Joe Hellerstein and Tarek Abdelzaher, and has been on the steering committee of FeBID since then. She will be the Program Chair for ICAC in 2013. Xiaoyun received her dual B.S. in Automation and Applied Mathematics from Tsinghua University in 1994, and her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from California Institute of Technology in 2000.

In the past decade, the information technology

industry has experienced a paradigm shift as computing resources became available to businesses and individuals as a utility through cloud-based services. The wide adoption of server virtualization technologies has laid a foundation for both private and public cloud environments. The benefits of virtualized infrastructures are multifaceted, including easier deployment, elastic capacity, higher availability, higher resource utilization, and lower energy cost. At the same time, it brings many new challenges to the areas of application performance management and service level assurance. These challenges make it impossible for human administrators to carry out monitoring, detection, analysis, and remediation of performance problems on a 24x7 basis. On the other hand, they present unique opportunities in applying control theory, optimization, and statistical learning based techniques to developing model-based, automated performance diagnosis and control frameworks. There has been some amount of success in this area in the last several years, but many problems remain. In addition, much of the research work published was evaluated on lab test beds of limited scale, with a small number of applications and virtual machines. On the other hand, real cloud environments today can easily have thousands or more physical hosts and hundreds of thousands of VMs. So any performance management automation solution developed will have limited practicality unless it passes the scalability test. In this talk, I’ll highlight some of the open research problems and related technical challenges, in hope to attract more invocative ideas and solutions from a larger community of researchers and practitioners.

WEDNESDAY November 7, 2012 SCV Computational Intelligence


Active Components for Advanced Commercial

Satellite Systems Speaker: Norman Chiang, Space Systems/Loral Time: Networking and refreshments at 6:00 PM;

Presentation at 6:30 PM Cost: none Place: Agilent Technologies, 5301 Stevens Creek

Boulevard, Santa Clara RSVP: from website Web: meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/

list_meeting/14919

Norman Chiang works for Space Systems/Loral (SS/L). He has recently assumed responsibility as Repeater Products Engineering Unit Supervisor. Norm’s group’s responsibilities consist of the design and development of LNA and Linearized Channel amplifiers from C-Band through Ka-Band. He was assigned as RE (responsible engineer) on 2012 IRAD program responsible for the ADM (Agile Down Converter) development and a highly linear Ku-band MMIC amplifier design. Norm joined SS/L in December, 2010.

Prior to joining SS/L, Mr. Chiang was with Teledyne Microwave (formerly known as Varian and Litton Solid State) where he was responsible for the design and development of microwave and millimeter-wave MMICs and components for advanced radar and communications systems.

Additionally, Mr. Chiang has held position of responsibility at California Eastern Lab under partnership with NEC where he designed and developed a handset power amp for North America TDMA cellular markets.

Mr. Chiang received his BSEE from University of Wisconsin – Madison and his MS from Santa Clara University. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, has served on the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE Compound Semiconductor IC Symposium (formerly known as GaAs IC Symposium), also served as Communication committee for the IEEE IMS2002 Conference. Norm is currently serving RWW conference committee.

Advanced satellite systems require high

performance RF/Microwave active components including LNA’s, Down Converters, Local Oscillators, and Linearized Channel Amplifiers to name a few. Vital parameters such as size/mass, DC power consumption, linearity, noise figure, RF output power, and bandwidth are optimized to meet the demanding requirements and competitive advantages for space applications. This presentation will describe the latest advances in RF/Microwave active front-end components that will enable these advanced systems.


SCV Microwave Theory and Techniques


Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM): Problem, Basic Implementation, Traps, and Tricks Speaker: Mark Phillip Woodward, Ph.D., consultant

for Neato Robotics Time: Presentation at 7:00 PM Cost: none Place: Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley, Room 118,

Building 23, Moffett Field RSVP: from website Web: ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/ras

Mark Woodward is a robotics consultant, specializing in inference and planning under uncertainty. Currently he is consulting for Neato Robotics, located in Newark, CA. Mark holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Harvard University (2012), and a Masters and Bachelors degree in Computer Science from Stanford University. He has worked on perception and control of autonomous helicopters and cars, and inference of human goals for service robots.

We all have grand visions for our robots, be it

straightening our home, taking out the trash, or even delivering an ice cold beverage. One challenging prerequisite to these tasks is determining where the robot is in its environment. If the environment is known then this problem is called localization. If the environment is unknown then this problem is called simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). In this talk I will describe the full SLAM problem, I will present an easy to implement SLAM algorithm, and I will cover some traps and tricks from my experience implementing SLAM algorithms. I will also make a brief argument for probabilistically sound implementations. In the remaining time, and as long as you want to stick around, I will answer any

questions you may have about SLAM in general or about your own specific implementations.


SCV Robotics and Automation


Antenna Testing in Less Than One Second: Very-Near-Field

Techniques for Far-Field Measurements

Speaker: Cedric Caudron, EmScan Time: Networking and food at 6:30 PM;

Presentation at 7:00 PM Cost: none Place: Cogswell Polytechnical College, 1175

Bordeaux Drive, Sunnyvale RSVP: not required Web: sites.ieee.org/scv-aps

Cedric Caudron is an application engineer at

EmScan, a Canadian company that has developed a technique to make very rapid measurements of an antenna pattern using very near field measurements and computing the far field pattern with high accuracy. The technique eliminates the need for a large antenna test range. Cedric’s talk will describe the technique and provide a comparison of the results with those of conventional far field antenna pattern measurements.

A demonstration of the technique will be performed at the meeting.


SCV Antennas and Propagation

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[email protected] www.ozeninc.com


Career Networking Dinner

Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM Cost: $17 Place: Sneha Restaurant, 1214 Apollo Way, SUITE

404 B, Sunnyvale RSVP: from website Web: pacedinnernov2012.eventbrite.com

Come join us for a casual buffet dinner and meet with other engineers, managers and technologists in the bay area. If you are looking to expand your network, meet people in similar fields or backgrounds, this is a great event to do that. We hope to provide an opportunity to network, discuss your work with like-minded folks, exchange career opportunities with participants, and more!

To facilitate active conversation in making this short time most beneficial, please provide a description of your current/most recent job title during registration. We will try to set up groups of same-field folks.

Registration cost covers dinner. Indian buffet with Veg as well as non-Veg options will be served.


SCV Professional Activities Committee for Engineers (PACE)


Analog Technologies: Status & Opportunities

Speaker: Dr. Albert Bergemont, Vice President of

Technology, Research & Development, Maxim Integrated Products

Time: Networking and pizza at 6:00 PM; Presentation at 6:15 PM

Cost: none Place: Texas Instruments Building E Conference

Center, 2900 Semiconductor Dr., Santa Clara

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

For the last 12 years, Dr. Albert Bergemont has been the Vice President of Technology, Research & Development at Maxim Integrated Products, an analog chip provider. Prior to Maxim, he spent 10 years developing advanced technologies at National Semiconductor, 10 years at STMicroeletronics and a few years at both Harris and Honeywell. Throughout his career, he developed several generations of core Analog CMOS technologies down to 90nm. Albert also worked with Carver Mead at FOVEON to develop and improve characteristics of the first 3D Active Pixel Sensor CMOS imager. Albert is also a leading expert in the field of non-volatile memory technology: he successfully innovated & developed several non-volatile technology platforms (EPROMs, EEPROMs and Flash) at STMicroelectronics and was the father of contactless Flash technology at National Semiconductor. Within Maxim, Albert successfully developed several versions of embedded EEPROM and Flash as well as zero-cost Non Volatile Memory elements (OTP, MTP) on Maxim proprietary process platforms. He also developed the latest 180 & 90nm technology platforms as well as specialty technologies for industrial applications. Albert has authored and co-authored over 50 papers. He currently holds close to 200 patents, with a few more pending at Maxim.w

What is the technology roadmap for Analog

Microelectronics? From the major players, it seems that front end processes are not experiencing smaller features anymore.

This talk will review the state of the art analog BCD processes and highlight what are the major components (process, devices & design) required to pursue scaling. We will also highlight the need (and its difficult implementation) for various embedded NVMs (costly floating gate versus new emerging universal memories) as well as the importance of emerging packaging technologies such as (e)WLP, embedded SIP and TSVs.

The emergence of smart systems in the consumer domain will force IC makers to gradually change their IC culture as the acquisition and merging of different skills (BCD design, Packaging, Sensors & Software) is coming on the horizon.

TUESDAY November 13, 2012

SCV Electron Devices


Object Storage Coming of Age: Big Data and Lots of Users

Speaker: Joe Arnold, SwiftStack Time: 7:00 PM Cost: none Place: KeyPoint Credit Union, 2805 Bowers Ave.,

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

Joe Arnold is the CEO of SwiftStack, a supplier of a storage system for web, mobile and as-a-service applications based on OpenStack Swift. He was part of the early public OpenStack Swift launches outside of Rackspace at Internap and KT.

Prior to working with OpenStack, Joe was the head of engineering at Engine Yard, overseeing the development of their Ruby on Rails deployment platform and AppCloud, and managing the open source development efforts of Rails 3, JRuby and Rubinius.

Large-scale web and mobile applications,

enterprise file sharing and life sciences applications have unique demands on storage systems. These services need lots of storage to accommodate the massive amount of data that accumulates. This data may be only occasionally accessed, or it may get requested by millions of users.

Swift is an open source object storage system that came out of the OpenStack project. This talk will provide an overview of OpenStack Swift, and will cover specific examples of how OpenStack Swift is being used today. Use cases will be examined, including high-volume websites, mobile application development, custom file-sharing applications, data analytics, and operations teams providing private storage infrastructure-as-a-service.

This talk will also provide a detailed overview of the design of Swift’s architecture by covering the components of Swift and the mechanisms it uses to recover from hardware failures.


SCV Consultants' Network of Silicon Valley


Reference Technologies for Precision Navigation and Control in Space

Speakers: Karthik Balakrishnan and Andreas

Zoellner, Stanford University Time: Networking and light dinner at 5:30 PM;

presentations at 6:30 PM Cost: none Place: Stanford University, Physics and

Astrophysics/Hansen Experimental Physics Lab building, room 102, Stanford

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

Karthik Balakrishnan is a Ph.D. student in Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford, where he received his MS in 2011. He received his BS in Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, San Diego . Karthik's interests are in small satellites, and he is developing a system using Ultraviolet LEDs to manage the electric charge on a drag-free proof mass. Karthik has been working on a small satellite designed to test this system in space, which is currently schedule for launch in mid 2013.

Andreas Zoellner is a Ph.D.

student in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, where he received his MS in Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2011. Before coming to Stanford, he received a Diplom in Engeneering Cybernetics at the Universität Stuttgart, Germany. Andreas is interested in small satellites and the application of drag-free technology for future satellites missions. He is developing a high-precision optical displacement sensor, the Differential Optical Shadow Sensor (DOSS) which is part of the Modular Gravitational Reference Sensor (MGRS). Andreas is designing a CubeSat mission to demonstrate the DOSS and to pioneer the first drag-free CubeSat.

The Space Gravity Group at Stanford is currently

working on a Modular Gravitation Reference Sensor (MGRS), a drag free sensor which enables advances in Earth science and precision distributed Earth-observing sensors, as well as space science, precise orbit determination and maintenance, and precision spacecraft formation flying. During our talk, we will describe the MGRS, and give more detail on two sub-systems, the Differential Optical Shadow Sensor (DOSS) and UV-LED based charge control. Precise control over the electric potential of an electrically isolated proof mass is necessary for the operation of an MGRS. On-orbit charging caused by cosmic rays, as well as during caging and uncaging of the proof mass, leads to an electrostatic attraction between the proof mass and its housing. We will show how AlGaN UV LEDs are used to control proof mass potential on an spherical proof mass in an MGRS-like configuration and will provide a look ahead to an upcoming technology demonstration mission of UV LEDs. The DOSS is used as a high precision, compact, low-cost displacement sensor in the MGRS. We will describe how the sensor detects external disturbances by measuring relative motion between the proof mass and spacecraft, with a performance goal of 1 nm at 1 mHz. The DOSS then feeds this signal to the spacecraft control system to maintain a geodesic orbit. We will finally describe a proposed drag-free CubeSat mission built around the MGRS.


SCV Electromagnetic Compatibility

MET Laboratories

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Facilities in Union City and Santa Clara

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Crime.com - Post-Modern Criminal Behavior

Speaker: Dr. Hal Berghel, University of Nevada, Las

Vegas and CS Distinguished Lecturer Time: Networking/Refreshments 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

Dr. Hal Berghel is currently Professor of Computer Science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas where he has previously served as Director of the School of Computer Science and Associate Dean of the College of Engineering. He is also the founding Director of the Identity Theft and Financial Fraud Research and Operations Center. His research interests are wide-ranging within the binary and digital ecosystem, ranging from logic programming and expert systems, relational database design, algorithms for non-resolution based inferencing, approximate string matching, digital watermarking and steganography, and digital security (including both computer and network forensics). Since the mid-1990′s he has applied his work in digital security to law enforcement, particularly with respect to digital crime, cyberterrorism, and information warfare. His research has been supported by both industry and government for over thirty years. His most recent work in secure credentialling technology was funded by the Department of Justice. In addition to his academic positions, Berghel is also a popular columnist, author, frequent, talk show guest, inventor, and keynote speaker. For nearly fifteen years he wrote the popular Digital Village column for the Communications of the ACM.

Berghel is a Fellow of both the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Association for Computing Machinery, and serves both societies as a Distinguished Visitor and Distinguished Lecturer, respectively. He has received the ACM Outstanding Lecturer of the Year Award four times and was recognized for Lifetime Achievement in 2004. He has received both the ACM Outstanding Contribution and Distinguished Service awards. He is also the founder and owner of Berghel.Net, a consultancy serving business and industry, and co-owner of BC Innovations Management, a startup company in IP and DRM.

This talk begins with an overview of the role of

crime in general, and digital crime in particular, in the shadow economies of the world. It illustrates this via a sequence of specific criminal activities that have been studied by the author. This talk will explain the latest digital crime scene in terms of sources, modus operandi, and the digital techniques involved. Examples will be drawn from actual case files and published media reports, and the techniques will be explained and in some cases actually demonstrated. Exploits include: bank card skimming, ATM hacking, digital gas pump hijacking, phishing scams, bank card brokering and internet dumpsites, hotel room invasions, physical counterfeiting (e.g., Superdollar), digital counterfeiting and some brute-force techniques as well. If your organization is interested in the latest digital exploits of the denizens of digital darkness, this talk is for you.

WEDNESDAY November 14, 2012

SCV Computer


Cost Versus Reliability Tradeoffs for Stacked Devices

Speaker: Steve Steps, Senior Director of Wafer Level Burn-In & Test, Aehr Test Systems

Time: Optional dinner at 6:00 PM; Presentation at 6:45 PM

Cost: $20 for dinner ($10 for students, unemployed); no cost for presentation

Place: Biltmore Hotel, 2151 Laurelwood Rd, Santa Clara

RSVP: from website Web: www.cpmt.org/scv

Steve Steps has been the Senior Director of Wafer Level Burn-In and Test at Aehr Test Systems for the last 12 years. Prior to joining Aehr Test Systems, Steve worked at KLA and worked for 19 years at the Hewlett-Packard Company. Steve has had over 20 technical papers accepted at conferences around the world. Steve's educational background includes a BS degree in Electrical Engineering, a BS degree in Computer Science and a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering.

The industry demand for high feature-sets in very small, light products such as digital cameras, smart phones, medical devices and automotive electronics has driven a variety of high density packaging techniques. To achieve this high density, a wide variety of 3D packaging methods have been developed. The latest technique for stacking die is the Through Silicon Via (TSV) technology under development in many companies.

Although stacking has been very effective in improving the density of the resulting device, it has been decreasing the overall reliability of the device. Many of the same markets that are driving for high density are also becoming more reliability sensitive. It was easy to throw away a simple cell phone if it failed. However, modern smart phones are both much more expensive and contain more content that the user does not want to lose. Reliability demands are even higher if the device is being used for medial or automotive purposes.

This presentation will examine the reliability implications of stacked die. It will cover why reliable die ("Known Good Die -- KGD") is becoming more critical, what are the conditions that affect both the reliability and the need for KGD, and close with a case study of a technique for producing KGD: Wafer-Level Burn-In (WLBI).

WEDNESDAY November 14, 2012 SCV Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology


Fuel Cells, Hydrogen and the California Carbon Mandate

Speaker: Prof. Donald Anthrop, San Jose State

University (retired) Time: Networking and buffet dinner at 6:00 PM;

Presentation following Cost: $15 Place: Willow Tree Restaurant, 6513 Regional St,

Dublin RSVP: from website Web: www.ieee4life.org

Donald Anthrop received a B.S. in chemistry from Purdue University in 1957 and a Ph.D. in materials engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1963. He specialized in high-temperature thermodynamics. He feels fortunate and honored to have studied thermodynamics from two renowned researchers, Professors Alan Searcy and William Giauque. Prof. Giauque was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1949 for experimentally verifying the third law of thermodynamics.

After receiving his Ph.D., he worked in the aerospace industry, Avco Corporation, for several years and then at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory. In 1968, he accepted a teaching position at Dominguez Hills State College, which at the time was the newest campus in the State University system. In 1971, he joined the faculty at San Jose State University to work in a new program in environmental science. He was only the second faculty member in that program at the time. At SJSU, he taught primarily energy and water courses. He retired from SJSU in 2004, returning occasionally to teach a course. He has over 70 published papers. One of his first papers on energy, "The Environmental Side Effects of Energy Production," was published in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists in 1970.

For the environmentalists convinced that global

warming caused by carbon dioxide emissions will destroy the planet, motor vehicles powered by fuel cells operating on hydrogen seemed like a sure way to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Prodded by the big environmental organizations, and lacking any knowledge of thermodynamics, in 2004 former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger unveiled his so-called California Hydrogen Highways plan that set a goal of 100 statewide fueling stations by 2010 and a longer tern goal of 250 stations. According to the US Department of Energy, there are currently 23 stations in the state.

The environmental lobby would like us to believe that the only impediment to their brave new world of hydrogen-powered vehicles is a lack of refueling stations. To the contrary, the real problem lies in the production of hydrogen.

The actual energy required to produce a kg of hydrogen by electrolysis of water is 56.3 kw-hrs. After subtracting the energy required to compress the gas for use in a motor vehicle, the energy obtained from the reaction of a kg of hydrogen in a fuel cell is only 17.4 kw-hrs. There are about 19.8 million automobiles and 14 million light trucks, vans, and sport utility vehicles registered in California. If all of the automobiles were small cars like the Chevy Volt, about 260 billion kw-hrs of electrical energy would be required to produce and compress the hydrogen needed to power this fleet of fuel cell vehicles. This electrical energy is equivalent to about one-third of the total annual nuclear generation in the U.S. To produce this hydrogen would require construction of about 35,000 Mw of new nuclear generation, which is equivalent to 17 new Diablo Canyon plants.

Replacing the entire fleet of 19.8 million cars with fuel cell vehicles would reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 73 million tons – just 0.2 percent of the world total – provided no fossil fuels were used to produce the hydrogen.


OEB Life Members


NanoMEMS: Convergence between Nanotechnology and

Microelectromechanical Systems

Speaker: Dr. Hector J. De Los Santos, NanoMEMS Research, LLC, Irvine

Time: Networking & light lunch at 11:30 AM; Presentation at 12:00 Noon

Cost: IEEE Members and Students $5; Non-Members $10

Place: Texas Instruments Bldg E-1 CMA Room. 2900 Semiconductor Drive, Santa Clara

RSVP: from website Web: www.ieee.org/nano

Héctor J. De Los Santos received the Ph.D. degree from the School of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, in 1989. Prior to founding NanoMEMS in 2002, he spent two years as Principal Scientist at Coventor, Inc., Irvine, CA, and eleven years at Hughes Space and Communications Company, Los Angeles. He holds over 20 US and European patents, and is author of bestseller textbooks, including Introduction to Microelectro-mechanical (MEM) Microwave Systems (1999), and RF MEMS Circuit Design for Wireless Communications (2001). His most recent book, Principles and Applications of NanoMEMS Physics, was published in 2005. His current research interests include, discovery, conception, theory, physics, computational modeling, simulation, analysis, design and applications (electronic, microwave and mm-waves, photonics, etc.) of devices and circuits enabled by exploiting physical phenomena occurring down to nanometer length scales, including, plasmonics, photonic crystals, RF MEMS, and mechanical systems in the quantum regime.

Dr. De Los Santos serves as a reviewer for several technical journals, funding agencies, in particular, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the European Science Foundation, the Australian Research Council (ARC), and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada. He is an IEEE Fellow.

NanoMEMS exploits the convergence between

nanotechnology and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) brought about by advances in the ability to fabricate nanometer-scale electronic and mechanical device structures. While the “Nano” aspect of this field is in its infancy, and is not expected to reach maturity until well into the 21st century, its “MEMS” aspect is a topic of much current and near-term impact in, for instance, inertial sensing, biomedicine, optical and RF/Wireless communications. In this context, we will begin this talk by discussing the fundamentals of NanoMEMS, in particular, as it relates to its most speculative and futuristic paradigms and applications, and then will focus on the RF/Wireless MEMS aspect, specifically in its role as enabler of ubiquitous wireless connectivity. We conclude by pointing out potential pitfalls to be encountered in its development, in particular, by addressing the subjects of stiction and pull-in in the contexts of varactors (Casimir effect) and switches.


SCV Nanotechnology


Field Applications of I-V Curve Tracers in the Solar PV Industry

Speaker: Paul Hernday, Senior Applications

Engineer, Solmetric Time: Networking and refreshments at 6:30 PM;

Presentation at 7:00 PM Cost: none Place: Palo Alto Research Center (G.E. Pake

Auditorium), 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto

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

Paul Hernday is a Senior Applications Engineer with Solmetric, a leading US manufacturer of test equipment and software solutions for the solar PV industry, where he focuses primarily on PV array performance testing and troubleshooting. His background includes the development of microwave and optical fiber test equipment at HP and Agilent Technologies, design and installation of PV systems, and development of the Solmetric curve tracer for PV field applications. Paul provides training on PV performance measurement at industry workshops and train-the-trainer events.

Recent changes in solar PV system ownership

models and the shift to performance based incentives have created a demand for more comprehensive characterization of PV system performance. This, in turn, has resulted in the rapid adoption of I-V curve tracing methods for commissioning and troubleshooting commercial and utility-scale PV arrays. This presentation provides an overview of this important performance measurement application, including operating principles of field-portable I-V curve tracers, deployment of equipment at the site, measurement process, data analysis, and troubleshooting of PV performance issues.


SCV Photovoltaics


Technologies for Location Determination in Indoor and

Urban Environments

Speakers: Subbu Meiyappan, Co-founder & VP Engineering, and Tom Wolf Ph.D., Senior Director of Engineering, NextNav, LLC

Time: Networking and food at 6:30 PM, Presentations at 7:00 PM

Cost: $5 for food Place: Texas Instruments Building E, 2900

Semiconductor Dr., Santa Clara RSVP: from the website Web: ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/comsoc

Subbu Meiyappan is a Co-founder and Vice President of Hardware Engineering at NextNav, where he oversees the design, implementation, manufacturing of the NextNav beacons and reference receiver implementations. Subbu specializes in communication hardware system design. He has been involved with various aspects of hardware design and implementation for the last 16 years in the telecommunications and semiconductor industries. Prior to NextNav, Subbu was at Qualcomm, Airgo Networks, Cisco Systems, Philips Semiconductors and VLSI Technology, Inc. He has 15 issued patents and several patents pending. Subu has a MSEE from Stanford University and BS from Tennessee Technological University.

Tom Wolf is a Senior Director of Engineering at

NextNav, where he oversees the Advanced Systems Group and focuses on high precision altitude technology. Tom has been involved in all aspects of the development of consumer navigation products. He has over 20 years of experience at companies such as Qualcomm, Snaptrack, Gyration, and Trimble. Tom has 8 issued patents and several patents pending. He has a PhD in EE from Stanford University, and BS and MS degrees from the University of Pennsylvania.

GPS provides excellent location positioning

service as long as the receiver has an unobstructed view of the sky. But because the GPS signal is very faint, it can’t usually be received indoors, and is often obstructed in urban areas even when outdoors. This session looks at location positioning technologies for such "GPS challenged" environments. NextNav's solutions for accurate and carrier-grade location service over a GPS-like channel will be described with test results provided to confirm its commercial viability.

Two talks will be followed by a panel session with

audience Q and A.

Positioning Technologies for GPS Challenged Locations, by Subbu Meiyappan

This presentation will provide an overview of various location technologies for GPS challenged locations, especially indoors and obstructed line of sight urban areas. We'll also touch on the state of the art of these location technologies, the challenges they face, and highlights of NextNav's location solution.

In particular, we will examine solutions for multi-path propagation in a terrestrial system designed for positioning as well as timing and synchronization across a wide area. Results from various tests across the entire network will be presented.

Accurate Altitude Techniques for Indoor Positioning, by Tom Wolf Ph.D.

While the 2D positioning is important in GPS challenged areas, GPS suffers from lack of precise altitude capabilities even in the presence of good satellite visibility. This primarily stems from dilution of precision (DOP) limitations.

In this talk, we present a novel technique to determine altitude to floor-level accuracy. This scheme was developed and enabled by use of reference weather stations in a wide area wireless network. It is to be used in conjunction with MEMS barometers found in most smartphones and tablets. Results from various tests across the network will be discussed.


SCV Communications


Transformer Failure Due to Circuit Breaker Induced

Switching Transients Speakers: Dave Shipp and Thomas Dionise, Eaton

Corp Time: No-host social at 5:30 PM; Presentation at

6:15 PM; Dinner at 7:15 PM; Presentation continues at 8:00 PM

Cost: $25 for IEEE members, $30 for non-members, $15 for student and retired members

Place: Zio Fraedos, 611 Gregory Lane, Pleasant Hill

RSVP: by November 12 to Michael Nakamura, [email protected] or telephone (925) 330-6595

Web: www.e-grid.net/docs/1211-oeb-ias.pdf

David D. Shipp, PE, (S’72-M’72-SM’92-F’02) received the B.S.E.E. degree from The Oregon State University in 1972. He is a Principal Engineer for Eaton Corporation’s Electrical Services and Systems Division and a Fellow of the IEEE. He is a distinguished scholar in power system analysis and has worked in a wide variety of industries. He has spent many years performing the engineering work associated with his present-day responsibilities, which include a wide range of services covering consulting, design, power quality, arc flash, and power systems analysis topics. Over the last few years, he has pioneered the design and application of arc-flash solutions, modifying power systems to greatly reduce incident energy exposure. Present day topics cover switching transient induced failures of transformers. He has written over 85 technical papers on power system analysis topics. More than 12 technical papers have been published in IEEE/IAS national magazines and two in EC&M . He spent ten years as a professional instructor, teaching full time. He occasionally serves as a legal expert witness with a specialty in forensics (failure analysis). Mr. Shipp is currently the Chair for the IEEE I&CPS-sponsored Working Group on generator grounding. He has received an Industry Applications Society (IAS)/IEEE Prize Paper Award for one of his papers and conference prize paper awards for six others. He received the 2011 IEEE Richard H. Kaufmann award. He is very active in IEEE at the national level and helps write the IEEE Color Book series standards.

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Switching transients associated with circuit

breakers have been observed for many years. Recently this phenomenon has been attributed to a significant number of transformer failures involving primary circuit breaker switching. These transformer failures had common contributing factors such as 1) primary vacuum or SF-6 breaker, 2) short cable or bus connection to transformer, and 3) application involving dry-type or cast coil transformers and some liquid filled. This paper will review these recent transformer failures due to primary circuit breaker switching transients to show the severity of damage caused by the voltage surge and discuss the common contributing factors. Next, switching transient simulations in the electromagnetic transients program (EMTP) will give case studies which illustrate how breaker characteristics of current chopping and re-strike combine with critical circuit characteristics to cause transformer failure. Design and installation considerations will be addressed, especially the challenges of retrofitting a snubber to an existing facility with limited space. Finally, several techniques and equipment that have proven to successfully mitigate the breaker switching transients will be presented including surge arresters, surge capacitors, snubbers and these in combination.

Thomas J. Dionise, PE, (S ’79-M ’82-SM ’87)

received the B.S.E.E. degree from The Pennsylvania State University in 1978, and the M.S.E.E. degree with the Power Option from Carnegie Mellon University in 1984. He is currently a Power Quality Engineering Specialist in the Power System Engineering Department, with Eaton Corporation, Warrendale. He has over 27 years of power system experience involving analytical studies and power quality investigations of industrial and commercial power systems. In the metals industry, he has specialized in power quality investigations, harmonic analysis and harmonic filter design for electric arc furnaces, rectifiers and VFD applications. He co-authored a paper which received the 2006 Metal Industry Committee Prize Paper Award. Mr. Dionise is the Chair of the Metal Industry Committee and member of the Generator Grounding Working Group. Tom has served in local IEEE positions and had an active role in the committee that planned the IAS 2002 Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in Pennsylvania.


SCV Industry Applications


Designing VLSI Interconnects with Monolithically Integrated

Silicon-Photonics

Speaker: Vladimir Stojanovic, Associate Professor of

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT

Time: Networking with pizza at 6:00 PM; Presentation at 6:30 PM

Cost: none Place: Texas Instruments Building E Auditorium,

2900 Semiconductor Dr., Santa Clara RSVP: not required Web: sites.ieee.org/scv-sscs

Vladimir Stojanovic is the Emanuel E. Landsman Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. His research interests include design, modeling and optimization of integrated systems, from CMOS-based VLSI blocks and interfaces to system design with emerging devices like NEM relays and silicon-photonics. He is also interested in design and implementation of energy-efficient electrical and optical networks, and digital communication techniques in high-speed interfaces and high-speed mixed-signal IC design. Vladimir received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2005, and the Dipl. Ing. degree from the University of Belgrade, Serbia in 1998. He was also with Rambus, Inc., Los Altos, from 2001 through 2004. He received the 2006 IBM Faculty Partnership Award, and the 2009 NSF CAREER Award as well as the 2008 ICCAD William J. McCalla, 2008 IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging, and 2010 ISSCC Jack Raper best paper awards. He is an IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Distinguished Lecturer for the 2012-2013 term.

Limited scaling of both on-chip and off-chip

interconnects has led to energy-efficiency and bandwidth density constraints that are emerging fast as the major performance bottlenecks in embedded and high-performance digital systems. While optical interconnects have shown promise in extensive architectural studies to date significant challenges need to be overcome both in device and circuit design as well as the integration strategy. Pushing the photonic link energy efficiencies below sub-100 fJ/bt will require monolithic integration of silicon photonic interconnects within manycore processor die to minimize the energy spent on interconnect parasitics that are significant even between 3D-stacked dies.

In this lecture we describe experimental and modeling efforts in designing high-performance, energy-efficient, monolithically integrated photonic links. The link modeling illustrates the inherent trade-offs between circuit and device components and points both in directions of efficient system approaches and critical device design sensitivities. The experimental platform for monolithic integration of silicon photonic devices into a mainstream sub-100nm foundry CMOS process flow will also be described. This platform serves as an infrastructure hub for research in photonic device design, integration and process issues as well as circuit design. It facilitates full integration of circuits and photonic components and high-speed in-situ testing infrastructure.


SCV Solid State Circuits


One-Day Conference: Solutions to the

Software Patent Problem

Speakers: over 25 speakers, moderators, and panelists

Time: 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM (includes lunch) Cost: $40 for IEEE members, $60 for in-house

counsel, $125 for non-members Place: Locatelli Activity Center, Santa Clara

University, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara RSVP: from website Web: www.CaliforniaConsultants.org John Allison, School of Business, UT- Austin Keith Bergelt, Open Innovation Network James Bessen, Boston University School of Law Brad Burnham, Union Square Ventures Colleen Chien, Santa Clara University School of Law Andrew Chin, University of North Carolina John Duffy, Univ of Virginia School of Law Nair Flores, Facebook Hon. Paul Grewal, Northern District of California Andrew Hirschfeld, US Patent and Trademark Office Heidi Keefe, Cooley LLP Amy Landers, McGeorge College of Law Ben Lee, Twitter Mark Lemley, Stanford Law School Brian Love, Santa Clara University School of Law Peter Menell, UC Berkeley School of Law Jason Mendelson, Foundry Group Michael Meurer, Boston University School of Law Suzanne Michel, Google Inc. Christina Mulligan, Yale Law School Kristen Osenga, Univ of Richmond School of Law Arti Rai, Duke Law School Hon. Edith Ramirez, Federal Trade Commission Dan Ravicher, Public Patent Foundation Michael Risch, Villanova Law School Julie Samuels, Electronic Frontier Foundation Pam Samuelson, UC Berkeley School of Law Wendy Seltzer, Yale Law School Christal Sheppard, Univ of Nebraska College of Law Ted Sichelman, Univ of San Diego School of Law Richard Stallman, Free Software Foundation Jennifer Urban, UC Berkeley School of Law Samson Vermont, University of Miami School of Law Kent Walker, Google

Normally an academic-oriented conference would

debate the merits of software patents. This conference is different. Rather than having another debate, this conference will use a premise -- that software patents are a problem -- as a springboard for discussing ways to address those problems. In rapid succession, patent experts at the conference will present innovative proposals (ranging from abolishing software patents to company/industry self-help), debate their relative merits, and discuss how they might be implemented. To extend the discussion, many of the speakers and other interested experts will publish short essays in Wired.com describing their proposed solution and advocating for its adoption. We hope conference attendees and Wired.com readers will embrace the best proposals and catalyze real action towards solving the software patent problem.

Organizers: Santa Clara Law Professors Colleen Chien and Eric Goldman.

FRIDAY November 16, 2012

SCV Consultants' Network of Silicon Valley



[email protected]

www.File-EE-Patents.com

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


The Passage through Resonance of a Coupled

Mechanical Oscillator - Part 1: The Experiment (Capture, Escape,

and Quasi-Periodicity)

Speaker: Ghulam Mustafa, Ph.D., Crossing

Automation, Inc. Time: Presentation at 6:30 PM Cost: none Place: Intersil Corp., 1001 Murphy Ranch Road,

Milpitas RSVP: from website Web: sites.ieee.org/scv-css

Ghulam Mustafa manages the Reliability Engineering and System Characterization Group at Crossing Automation, where he is responsible for overall system reliability and performance measurement. Prior to joining Crossing, he worked at United Technologies Research Center where he developed life-cycle models for new technology development, reliability models for hydrogen fuel cells and noise reduction in jet engines. He has worked on wafer handling robots / automation systems for the past ten years and semiconductor capital equipment for the past eighteen. In one of his previous lives, he designed and installed wind mills (now he only fights them). Currently, he is involved with implementing modular design methods for 450mm wafer handling systems; of particular interest to him are areas of testing, characterization and system identification for health monitoring, failure prevention, and predictive preventive maintenance. His areas of interest include system dynamics, measurement, control and all aspects of product reliability, and robust design. Nonlinearity has always held a special place, whether he is testing a robot or watching the leaves flutter in the wind.

Coupled oscillators are ubiquitous in nature and

man-made systems. They range from circadian rhythms in biological systems to phase locked loops in electric circuits and multi-link robots. Indeed our solar system itself is one giant web of coupled oscillators. The complexity of dynamics of individuals withstanding, when coupled, these oscillators exhibit a myriad of intricate behaviors, some persistent, some transient and yet others that are intermittent and indeed chaotic. The mechanical oscillator being presented consists of a large flexible column with a tip mass, and attached to it is a pendulum. This is a prototype of a vibration absorber from the flexible column to the pendulum, but in order for the energy to flow from the beam to the pendulum, the coupling must satisfy certain resonance conditions. This internal resonance condition sets the stage for complex behavior to enter into the dynamics. The talk will focus on the experimental observations as the oscillator is forced through two different resonance zones. Within each zone, the oscillator displays distinct characteristics, starting from resonance capture and escape in the first zone, only to enter into a regime that is largely quasi-periodic interrupted by windows of phase-locked periodic motions in the second. Motion in each zone finds its way into chaos, each following a distinct route, different from the other, yet chaotic just the same. The two scenarios, namely, the saparatrix crossing in the first case and breakup of the torus in the second, will be presented. Part 1 of this talk is informal and intuitive rather than formal or mathematical. Experimental data will be presented in time and frequency domains, supplemented by cross sections of re-constructed manifolds which attract the nearby dynamics. Part 2 will cover the modeling and analysis based on the experiment.


SCV Control Systems


Introduction to Reed-Solomon and BCH Codes

Speaker: Cody (Yingquan) Wu, Distinguished System Architect, LSI Corp.

Time: networking and food at 5:30 PM; Presentation at 6:00 PM

Cost: none Place: Room 202 in Packard Bldg, Stanford

University, Stanford RSVP: from website Web: www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/its

The talk attempts to provide a comprehensive view of Reed-Solomon codes. It first introduces the code definition in both the time and frequency domains. It then heuristically describes the legendary Berlekamp-Massey algorithm for decoding Reed-Solomon and BCH codes, and proceeds with the transformation toward inversion-less decoding algorithms. Finally, it briefly touches some micro-architecture designs.

WEDNESDAY November 28, 2012 SCV Information Theory


Disturbance Accommodating Adaptive Control with Application

to Wind Turbines Speaker: Dr. Susan Frost, Intelligent Systems

Division, NASA Ames Research Center Time: Networking and food at 6:45 PM;

Presentation at 7:00 PM Cost: none Place: Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley, Room 118,

Building 23, Moffett Field RSVP: from website Web: ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/cis

Dr. Susan Frost is a research engineer with NASA Ames Research Center working on control problems for aircraft and wind turbines. She has the following degrees: PhD, MS Electrical Engineering, and MS Mathematics from the University of Wyoming and BA Mathematics from Wellesley College.

Adaptive control techniques are well suited to

applications that have unknown modeling parameters and poorly known operating conditions. Many physical systems experience external disturbances that are persistent or continually recurring. Flexible structures and systems with compliance between components often form a class of systems that fail to meet standard requirements for adaptive control. For these classes of systems, a residual mode filter can restore the ability of the adaptive controller to perform in a stable manner. New theory will be presented that enables adaptive control with accommodation of persistent disturbances using residual mode filters. After a short introduction to some of the control challenges of large utility-scale wind turbines, this theory will be applied to a high-fidelity simulation of a wind turbine.

WEDNESDAY December 5, 2012

SCV Computational Intelligence


EMI/EMC Filter Technical Presentation

Speaker: David Stanis, Consultant to WEMS

Electronics Time: Networking and light dinner at 5:30 PM;

presentations at 6:30 PM Cost: none Place: McAfee, 2821 Mission College Blvd, Santa

Clara RSVP: from website Web: www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/emc

David Stanis has over forty years experience encompassing all aspects of EMI/EMC. After receiving his BSEE from Southern Massachusetts University in 1972, David went on to work for various companies involved in both commercial and military EMI/EMC testing and filter design. David returned to California in 1973 and held the position of EMC Test Engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena working on the Viking spacecraft mission to Mars and the Voyager spacecraft mission to Jupiter and Saturn. Upon conclusion of the Voyager program, David left JPL and went on to work for Cornell-Dubilier Electronics Filter Division, San Fernando Electric Filter Division, AVX/US Microtek Filters and the Filter Division of WEMS Electronics. Positions included Engineering Manager, Manager of New Product Development, Operations Manager and Division Marketing Manager. This vast experience provides David with a broad in-depth knowledge of EMI/EMC Requirements, EMI filter design and EMI filter manufacturing. David retired in 2008 after sixteen years as General Manager of the Filter Division at WEMS Electronics. Although retired, David continues to provide consulting services to WEMS Electronics.

This talk will address the various types of industry

wide custom EMI filters both single circuit components and multicircuit filter assemblies. Discussion will include Common Mode and Differential Mode interference and filtering techniques, MIL-PRF-28861 “S” Level requirements and problems and a review of EMI Filter Source Control/Specification Control Drawings.

TUESDAY December 11, 2012

SCV Electromagnetic Compatibility


The Passage through Resonance of a Coupled

Mechanical Oscillator - Part 2: Modeling and Analysis

Speaker: Ghulam Mustafa, Ph.D., Crossing

Automation, Inc. Time: Presentation at 6:30 PM Cost: none Place: Intersil Corp., 1001 Murphy Ranch Road,

Milpitas RSVP: from website Web: sites.ieee.org/scv-css

Ghulam Mustafa manages the Reliability Engineering and System Characterization Group at Crossing Automation, where he is responsible for overall system reliability and performance measurement. Prior to joining Crossing, he worked at United Technologies Research Center where he developed life-cycle models for new technology development, reliability models for hydrogen fuel cells and noise reduction in jet engines. He has worked on wafer handling robots/automation systems for the past ten years and semi-conductor capital equipment for the past eighteen. In one of his previous lives, he designed and installed wind mills (now he only fights them). Currently, he is involved with implementing modular design methods for 450mm wafer handling systems, of particular interest to him are areas of testing, characterization and system identification for health monitoring, failure prevention, and predictive preventive maintenance. His areas of interest include system dynamics, measurement, control and all aspects of product reliability, and robust design. Nonlinearity has always held a special place, whether he is testing a robot or watching the leaves flutter in the wind.

Part 1 of the talk (see Nov 28, 2012) focused on

the experimental observations as the oscillator is forced through two different resonance zones. Part 2 will cover the modeling and analysis based on the experiment.

WEDNESDAY December 12, 2012

SCV Control Systems

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