1. Solid-State Circuits / Circuit and System Joint Chapter Solid-State Circuits / Circuit and System Joint Chapter IEEE Central Texas Section Spring Planning Meeting January 24, 2015 San Marcos, TX

2. IEEE Central Texas Section Chapter Leadership Team l Chair: Seth Wilk (RF Micropower, swilk@ieee.org) l Vice Chair: Nan Sun (UT Austin, nansun@mail.utexas.edu) l Treasurer: Mikel Ash (Cirrus Logic, mikel.ash@cirrus.com) l Advisor l Matt Felder (matt_felder@yahoo.com) l Zhuo Li (IBM, zhuoli@ieee.org)

3. IEEE Central Texas Section Chapter Updates l Meeting location: UT Campus ACES (POB) 2.402 l We are looking for additional locations and would appreciate any suggestions. Kenny Rice mentioned that he might be able to help. l 1 Technical seminars so far with 4 more confirmed l IEEE CTS CAS/SSC/CEDA Workshop: Texas Workshop on Integrated System Exploration (TexasWISE) is being planned l We submitted and were awarded a $4000 subsidy from the SSCS society for TexasWISE!

4. IEEE Central Texas Section 2015 Chapter Meetings We have 5 additional meetings scheduled through March 2015

5. IEEE Central Texas Section SWOT Analysis l Strengths l Good technical talks, DL program (1 so far this year) l Stable attendance rate. l So far one workshop per year in last three years and one more planned for this year. l Good leadership pipeline. l Stable funding resource from CAS and SSC Society. l Extra subsidy funding from CAS and SSC for workshop or extra events to promote memberships. l Weaknesses l Find more good technical talks and workshop topics. l Increase attendance rate. l Keep website updated

6. IEEE Central Texas Section SWOT Analysis l Opportunities l Local chip design and EDA companies l University of Texas, Austin l Threats l Seminars inside companies and Universities l A less interesting workshop may get cancelled or need more funding.

7. IEEE Central Texas Section Chapter Plans / Issues l Continue ISSCC annual review. l Cosponsor event/seminars with other chapters l Invite Distinguished Lecture Program speakers.

8. IEEE Central Texas Section QUESTIONS??? Thanks