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THURSDAY July 19, 2012
SCV Solid State Circuits Chapter
Speaker: Jafar Savoj, Xilinx, Inc.
Time: Refreshments at 6:00 PM; Presentation at 6:30 PM
Cost: none
Place: Texas Instruments Auditorium, 2900 Semiconductor Dr., Santa Clara
RSVP: not required
Web: sites.ieee.org/scv-sscs

This talk describes the design of a fully-adaptive backplane transceiver embedded in a state-of-the-art, low-leakage, 28nm CMOS FPGA.? The wide common mode receive AFE utilizes a three-stage CTLE to provide selective (more…)

TUESDAY July 17, 2012
SCV Nanotechnology Chapter
Speaker: Dr. Joy C. Andrews, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Time: Registration & 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

Correlation of chemistry and morphology in hierarchical functional materials such as battery electrodes, fuel cells and catalysts can drive design of more efficient materials.? Full-field nanoscale chemical imaging has been used (more…)

MONDAY July 16, 2012
SCV Circuits and Systems Chapter
Speaker: Robert Wiser, Silicon Image, Inc.
Time: Networking/Light Dinner at 6:30 PM; Presentation at 7:00 PM
Cost: $2 donation accepted for food
Place: QualComm, Building B, 3165 Kifer Road, Santa Clara
RSVP: not required
Web: www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/cas

Creating and maintaining a robust link with the requisite signal-to-noise ratio for high QoS multi-Gb/s communication in the 60-GHz band presents unique challenges.? Adaptive beamforming and beamsteering is (more…)