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TUESDAY August 21, 2012
SPECTRUM Magazine
Speaker: Chris Rommel, Vice President, Embedded Software and Hardware Practices, VDC Research
Time: 11:00 AM (PDT)
Cost: none
Place: on the Web
RSVP: from website
Web: spectrum.ieee.org/webinar/2109794

The functionality required in today’s embedded systems is requiring organizations to reassess the ways in which they are developing and managing the engineering process. Embedded system engineering organizations are (more…)

TUESDAY August 14, 2012
SCV Electron Devices Chapter
Speaker: Dr. Khaled Ahmed, Applied Materials
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

Switching speed in advanced CMOS transistors has become limited by the increasing parasitic resistance, which is dominated by the always shrinking source/drain contact area (<50nm).  The solution to this pain is (more…)

MONDAY August 13, 2012
SCV Computer Chapter
Speaker: John Davis, Microsoft
Time: Networking and 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

Star-Cap is a high-fidelity, real-time, software-only power modeling and management system for computer clusters.  The foundation of Star-Cap is a power model generator that produces full-system power models for (more…)

WEDNESDAY September 12, 2012
SCV Circuits and Systems Chapter
Speaker: Alvin Loke, AMD 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

Despite increasing economic and technical challenges to scale CMOS, we continue to witness unprecedented performance with 22-nm fully-depleted tri-gate devices now in production.  This tutorial offers a summary of (more…)