1. 1 Wei-Zen Chen IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Taipei Chapter 2008 Annual Meeting Report Wei-Zen Chen

2. 2 Wei-Zen Chen Contents 1.Organization and Societys Web Page 2.General Affairs 3.Activities in Year 2008 and Future Plan

3. 3 Wei-Zen Chen Organization NameAffiliation Advisory Board Chorng-Kuang Wang Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University Jieh-Tsorng Wu Department of Electronics Engineering, National Chiao Tung University Shen-Iuan Liu Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University ChairmanWei-Zen Chen Department of Electronics Engineering, National Chiao Tung University SecretaryChien-Nan Kuo Department of Electronics Engineering, National Chiao Tung University TreasurerTsung-Hsien Lin Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University Conference Affairs Tai-Cheng Lee Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University Po-Chiun Huang Department of Electrical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University Education Affairs Liang-Hung Lu Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University Hao-Chiao Hong Department of Electrical and Control Engineering, National Chiao Tung University Publicity Affairs Ching-Yuan Yang Department of Electrical Engineering, National Chung Hsing University AssistantSylvia Su Department of Electronics Engineering, National Chiao Tung University http://www.ics.ee.nctu.edu.tw/~SSCSTPE

4. 4 Wei-Zen Chen General Affairs 1.Presentation at Region-10 SSCS Chapter Chair Meeting. 2.Presentation at SSCS Chapter Chair Meeting, San Francisco, 2008/Feb. 3.Annual Meeting and Chair Election VLSI Design/CAD Symposium, Keng-Ting, Taiwan, 2008/August

5. 5 Wei-Zen Chen Activities in Year 2008 ISSCC Rehearsal/Program Overview Short Courses (8) 2 more short courses to be held in Nov. and Dec. Co-sponsored Events (2) IC Design Contest, May~June, 2008. Silicon-IP Design Contest, April~June, 2008. Co-sponsored Conferences (3) 2008 IEEE International Symposium on VLSI Design, Automation, and Test (300 participants ) 2008 VLSI Design/CAD Symposium (1000 participants) 2008 Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference Student Travel Grant Headcounts: 20 Grant:NT$ 10,000 for Airplane fair Membership Promotion in VLSI/CAD Symposium VLSI-TSA-DAT A-SSCC Press Conference ISSCC Press Conference*

6. 6 Wei-Zen Chen Short Course and Lecture 1.Successful Entrepreneurship in the field of Fabless Semiconductors Dr. Rakesh Kumar (TCX) Nov. 17/18, at NTU/NCTU, Hsinchu/Taipei 2.Systematic Transistor and Inductor Modeling for Millimeter-Wave Design Prof. Behzad Razavi of UCLA Sep. 11, 2008, at NTU, Taipei 3.Digital RF Processor (DRP) for Single-Chip Mobile Radios: All-Digital PLL, Transmitter and Discrete-Time Receiver Dr. R. Bogdan Staszewski, Texas Instruments, USA Aug. 20/21, 2008, at NCTU/NTU, Hsinchu/Taipei 4.More Moore or More than Moore Prof. Willy Sansen, K.U. Leuven, Belgium Apr. 24, 2008, at NTU, Taipei 5.High-Speed ADCs: History and Future Prof. Akira Matsuzawa, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Apr. 24, 2008, at NTU, Taipei 6.Microscopic Wireless Prof. Jan M. Rabaey, UC Berkeley, USA Apr. 1, 2008, at NTU, Taipei 7.Noise Measurements in Mixed-signal LSIs Prof. Makoto Ikeda, University of Tokyo, Japan Mar. 28, 2008, at NTU, Taipei 8.Designing with Nanoscale Switches Prof. Siva Narendra, Portland State University, USA Mar. 28, 2008, at NTU, Taipei

7. 7 Wei-Zen Chen Membership Promotion & 07ISSCC Replay VLSI-DAT & VLSI-TSA Symposium Ambassador Hotel, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, April 21-24, 2008 VLSI Design/CAD Symposium Howard Beach Resort, Kenting, Taiwan Aug 5-8, 2008

8. 8 Wei-Zen Chen 8 A-SSCC Press Conferemce Time : September 15 2008 Venue : Grand Hyatt Taipei Attendance : 27

9. 9 Wei-Zen Chen Plan for the Next Year 1.Annual report at SSCS Chapter Chair Meeting, 2009/Feb. 2.Annual Meeting, 2009/Aug., Taiwan 3.Short Courses. 4.Co-sponsoring conferences, symposiums, … 5.Membership drive. 6.Senior membership drive.