GRID.pdf GRID.pdf September 2010 CHAPTER MEETINGS Conference Calendar SCV-CE - 8/31 | New Developments in HDMI - improvements, issues, Sept 16: GSA Emerging Opportunities Expo & 3D, interface, developments (new date) ... [more] Conference - Santa Clara Convention Center [more] SCV-CAS - 9/1 | Ultra-Low-Voltage VLSI Design for Minimum Energy Computing - subthreshold CMOS, tradeoffs ... [more] Oct 3-8: 32nd Annual EOS/ESD Symposium & SCV-TMC - 9/2 | Technology Management and Green Entrepreneur- Exhibits - Nugget Resort, Reno, NV [more] ship - Thinking outside the glass box, the power of green ... [more] Oct 12: Cloud Forum for Practitioners: The Cloud in SCV-Phot - 9/7 | Medical Image Processing in Ophthalmology and 2013 - Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey [more] Beyond - processing methods, state of the art, support clinicians... [more] SCV-ComSoc - 9/8 | High-Speed Transmission on Twisted Pair in Oct 18-20: Smart Grid Electronics Forum (SGEF) LANs and DSL - 2 talks: 1-GBASE-T, EEE, vectored DSL ... [more] - Crowne Plaza Hotel, San Jose [more] SFBAC - 9/8 | The Smart Grid: From Appliance to Generator and Nov 9-11: AdvancedTCA/MicroTCA Summit Back - 1-day webinar: control, security, applications, services ... [more] [more] - Santa Clara Convention Center SCV-CS - 9/14 | Multicore Programming: Pitfalls and Solutions - race conditions, finding, reproducing, debugging ... [more] Nov 14-18: 36th Int'l Symposium for Testing and Failure Analysis - InterContinental Hotel, Dallas [more] SCV-CNSV - 9/14 | How to Be an Effective Technical Consultant by Speaking the Language of Business - point of view, feedback... [more] Dec 8-10: 3D Architectures for Semiconductor SCV-EDS - 9/14 | LDMOS: Technology and Applications - lateral Integration and Packaging - Hyatt, Burlingame [more] diffusion, dc-dc converters, layout techniques ... [more] CALL FOR PAPERS: SCV-EMB - 9/15 | The Art of Catheter-Based Imaging - interventional International Symposium on Quality Electronic cardiology, diseases, ultrasound, optical ... [more] Design - March 14-16, 2011 - Due Sept. 30th [more] SCV-PELS - 9/15 | From Carbon-based to Sustainable Energy: What We Can Learn from "How Big Things Happen" in America [more] OEB-IAS - 9/16 | PV Solar Plants – Controls and Inverters - utility- Career Development scale plants, expectations ... [more] Professional Skills Courses [more] SCV-CSS - 9/16 | Patent Strategies for Entrepreneurs and Innovative - 5 Habits of Intentional Leadership - Virtual Teams: Work- Thinkers - general principles, tools, working examples ... [more] ing Together Apart - Management Essentials - and more SCV-CAS - 9/20 | Silicon Photonics: Opportunities & Challenges - Classes for Working Engineers [more] low cost, sensing, analysis, recent results ... [more] - Python - C++ - Java - Embedded Linux - IC Design – SCV-Nano - 9/21 | SolFocus Concentrator Photovoltaics – An Cryptography - Digital Signal Processing and more Introduction - what it is, how it works, where to use ... [more] SCV-Mag - 9/21 | Thermally-Assisted Magnetic Recording at up to 1 Tb/in2 using an Integrated Plasmonic Antenna – technologies [more] Computer History Museum Come celebrate and partner with the Computer Continued on next page ====> History Museum – special offer for IEEE Members to become CHM members [more] Local Chapter Seminars & Webinars Santa Clara University Grad School of Engineering 9/8: IEEE Webinar -The Smart Grid: From Appliance to Generator and Back - a full-day webinar [more] Fall Classes & Open University [more] - Digital Signal Processing - Distributed Computing 9/23-24: EMC Modeling and Design; Radiated - Computer Networks - Software Ethics - Signals, Circuits, and Systems - - Power Systems - and more Immunity and Cosite Interference - Doubletree Hotel [more] 9/25 | Smart Grid Workshop: M2M Communications, Support our advertisers Emerging Devices and "The Internet of Things" - six talks in two tracks ... - SCU, 1:00 PM [more] MARKETPLACE – Services page 3 September 2010 www.e-grid.net Page 1 CHAPTER MEETINGS (continued from Page 1) IEEE GRID SCV-CPMT - 9/23 | Design of High Density & 3D Packaging: Tools and Knowledge - electrical, thermal, manufacturing ... [more] ® SCV-ComSoc - 9/25 | Smart Grid Workshop: M2M Communica- Your Networking Partner tions, Emerging Devices and "The Internet of Things" ... [more] September 2010 • Volume 57 • Number 9 SF-IAS - 9/28 | Short Circuit, Device Coordination, and Arc Flash Analysis - trends, new concepts, exposure, calculations ... [more] IEEE-SFBAC ©2010 SCV-PSES - 9/28 | What's in Your Electronic Product, and Why Should a Product Safety Engineer be Concerned? ... [more] SCV-Rel - 9/29 | Development and Application of Accelerated DIRECTORS OFFICERS Test Methods Specific to CPV Systems - results, lifetime [more] Santa Clara Valley Chair: Allen Earman OEB-Life - 10/5 | Kickoff Meeting - IEEE Life Members Affinity Secretary: Bill DeHope Ram Sivaraman Group - activities, speakers, location of meetings ... [more] Treasurer: Dan Sparks Allen Earman SCV-TMC - 10/7 | Building Powerful Relationships - interpret (Alt: Fred Jones) behaviors, better understanding, de-escalate conflict ... [more] Oakland East Bay SCV-CS - 10/12 | High Performance Computing: Union of Software and Reconfigurable Logic - FPGAs, app’ns ... [more] Victor Stepanians IEEE-SFBAC SCV-CPMT - 10/12 | All-Silicon System with Nano-Packaging: Bill DeHope PO Box 2110 Highest Functionality, Lowest Cost, Smallest Size ... [more] Cupertino, CA 95015-2110 San Francisco SCV-EDS - 10/12 | Is It the End of the Road for Silicon in Power Michael Butler Management? - power MOSFETs, , bounds, GaN ... [more] Dan Sparks SCV-ComSoc - 10/13 | 40/100 Gigabit Ethernet: Market Needs, Applications, and Standards - aggregation, , architecture ... [more] SCV-CAS - 10/18 | Automated Behavioral Modeling: A Quantum Jump in Mixed-Signal Design Verification Technologies .. [more] IEEE GRID is the monthly newsmagazine of the San Francisco Bay Area Council of the Institute of Electrical and SCV-SSC+SPS+CAS+ComSoc - 10/21 | Tutorial: Status of Know- ledge on Non-Binary LDPC Decoders – decoding ... [more] Electronics Engineers, Inc. As a medium for news for SCV-Rel - 10/27 | HCPV Tracker Accelerated Reliability Tests - technologists, managers and professors, the editorial failure modes, time-to-failure distribution, wear-out modes ... [more] objectives of IEEE GRID are to inform readers of SCV-CPMT - 10/28 | Good Things Come in Small Packages - newsworthy IEEE activities sponsored by local IEEE units portable connectivity, performance, low cost, growth trends ... [more] (Chapters, Affinity Groups) taking place in and around the SCV-CPMT - 11/10 | Embedded Passives: Packaging Paradigm of Bay Area; to publicize locally sponsored conferences and the Future? - benefits, when to implement, examples ... [more] seminars; to publish paid advertising for conferences, workshops, symposia and classes coming to the Bay Area; and advertise services provided by local firms and entrepreneurs. 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