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WEDNESDAY September 8, 2010
SCV Communications Chapter
Speakers: Sanjay Kasturia and Jose Tellado, Teranetics; George Ginis, ASSIA, Inc
Time: Networking with refreshments at 6:00 PM; Presentations at 6:30 PM, followed by panel
Cost: none
Place: National Semiconductor, Building E, Conference Room, 2900 Semiconductor Dr, Santa Clara
RSVP: From the website
Web: www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/comsoc

This session will address the challenges of high speed twisted pair-based communications in data centers/enterprises (LAN) and wireline access (DSL).  There will be two talks followed by (more…)

TUESDAY September 28, 2010
SCV Solid State Circuits, with Electron Devices and Computer Chapters
Speakers: David C. Brock, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Contemporary History and Policy, Chemical Heritage Foundation; Christophe Lecuyer, Principal Economic Analyst, Office of the President, University of California
Time: Presentations at 6:00 PM
Cost: none
Place: National Semiconductor Building E Auditorium, 2900 Semiconductor Dr., Santa Clara
RSVP: EventBrite, from website
Web: ewh.ieee.org/mu/scv-sscs
In the first three and a half years of its existence, Fairchild Semiconductor developed, produced, and marketed the device that would become the fundamental building block of the digital world: the microchip.  Founded in 1957 by (more…)

TUESDAY November 16, 2010
SCV Consultants’ Network of Silicon Valley
Speaker: Dr. Kendall Waters, IP and Technology Development, Silicon Valley Medical Instruments, Inc.
Time: Presentation at 7:00 PM
Cost: none
Place: KeyPoint Credit Union, 2805 Bowers Ave., Santa Clara
RSVP: not required
Web: www.CaliforniaConsultants.org

Successfully taking a medical device product from concept to regulatory approval requires a broad range of expertise. Effective strategy execution requires having the right talents available at (more…)

WEDNESDAY September 1, 2010
SCV Circuits and Systems Chapter
Speaker: Massimo Alioto, Ph.D, Visiting Professor at BWRC — UC-Berkeley
Time: Networking/light dinner at 6:30 PM; Presentation at 7:00 PM
Cost: $2 donation 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

In the last years, subthreshold CMOS logic circuits have become very popular in ultra low power applications, which typically constrain the power budget to a few tens of uWs and the supply voltage to (more…)

TUESDAY August 31, 2010
SCV Consumer Electronics
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Speaker: Chandlee Harrell, Silicon Image
Time: Networking/refreshments at 6:30 PM; Presentation at 7:00 PM
Cost: $10 for non-members, $5 foe IEEE members, free for IEEE CES members & Student IEEE members
Place: Hewlett Packard, Building 20, 3000 Hanover St., Palo Alto
RSVP: from the website
Web: ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/ce

HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) is that now-familiar interface that you use to connect video and audio to your HDTV set.  It has gone through a number of improvements since it first (more…)

MONDAY October 18, 2010
SCV Circuits and Systems Chapter
Speaker: Prof. Richard Shi, University of Washington
Time: Networking/light dinner at 6:30 PM; Presentation at 7:00 PM
Cost: $2 donation 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

Verification is becoming the number-one bottleneck in mixed-signal systems-on-chip (SoC) design.  This talk introduces a new design and verification methodology based on the automated generation of (more…)

TUESDAY October 5, 2010
OEB Life Members Group
Speaker/organizer: Charles Herget, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (retired)
Time: Networking, buffet dinner, discussion from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Cost: $10 for buffet dinner
Place: Willow Tree Restaurant, 6513 Regional St, Dublin
RSVP: by email by October 1, to rsvp@ieee4life.org
Web: www.ieee4life.org

The first meeting of the Oakland/East Bay Life Member’s Affinity Group will be held on Tuesday, October 5, 2010, at the Willow Tree Restaurant in Dublin.  This meeting will be an informal gathering to (more…)

TUESDAY September 28, 2010
SCV Product Safety Engineering Chapter
Speaker: Rick Row, Consultant
Time: Optional dinner at 5:30 PM; Presentation at 7:00 PM
Cost: no-host dinner at El Torito Mexican Restaurant; no cost for presentation
Place: Dinner at El Torito Mexican Restaurant, 2950 Lakeside Drive, Santa Clara; Meeting at Applied Materials, Bowers Café, 3090 Bowers Ave, Santa Clara
RSVP: not required
Web: ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/pses

Three trends make mineral sourcing an issue of potentially compelling interest to product safety engineers.  First, many more minerals are used today in manufacturing electronics than just a couple of (more…)

THURSDAY September 16, 2010
SCV Control Systems Chapter
Speaker: Dave Stevens, Stevens Law Group, P.C.
Time: Networking and refreshments at 6:30 PM; Presentation at 7:00 PM
Cost: none
Place: Cogswell Polytechnical College, Board Room, 1175 Bordeaux Drive, Sunnyvale
RSVP: not required
Web: ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/css

This presentation from a legal expert outlines general principles of intellectual property (IP) protection for various technologies, and will provide practical strategic planning tools and roadmaps for (more…)

TUESDAY September 21, 2010
SCV Magnetics Chapter
Speaker: Barry Stipe, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
Time: Networking 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

Thermally-Assisted Magnetic Recording (TAR) and Bit Patterned Recording (BPR) are two of the most promising technologies for surpassing the fundamental limitations of conventional magnetic (more…)