Motion 2: To fund all chapter subsidies as recommended by the chapters committee up to the $1,000 per chapter limit. The motion passed without dissent.
Motion 3: To support an additional $10K for any subsequent chapter subsidy needs, to be allocated at the chapters committee discretion. The motion passed without dissent.
Motion 4: Allow SSCS Life Membership to those qualifying for IEEE Life Membership and who have been an SSCS member since 1/1/97 or have been an SSCS member for past five years, whichever comes first. The motion passed without dissent.
Motion 5: To provide a one-time free 1/2 year membership to IEEE, SSCS and EDS to non-IEEE members who register at ISSCC 2000 at the non-member rate. The motion passed without dissent.
Motion 6: To fund a total of $145K for a CD of the 1966-1988 JSSC plus a DVD of the 1966-1998 JSSC; this is $35K more than the $110K funded at the February AdCom. The motion passed without dissent.
Motion 7: To fund $110K for a CD-DVD of an archival collection of ISSCC Digests. The motion passed without dissent.
Motion 8: To technically cosponsorship for the year 2000:
Motion 9: To provide technically cosponsorship for the year 2000 Southwest Symposium on Mixed Signal Design. The motion passed without dissent.
Motion 10: To fund $20K for production of the ISSCC 2000 short course in CD format. The motion passed without dissent.
Motion 11: To join IEEE Sensors Council and approve expenditure of $2K for participation. The motion passed without dissent.
Motion 12: To approve the proposed 2000 budget with the following additions as approved at this meeting: $10K Chapters Committee, $7.5K Membership, $35K JSSC CD-ROM with equal revenues from sales, $110K for ISSCC CD with equal revenue from sales, $10K additional for short course CD from ISSCC with revenue equal to the $20K total from sales. The motion passed without dissent.
Bruce Wooley was elected Society President for 2000-2001.
Charles Sodini was elected Society Vice President for 2000-2001.
AI 8-99 B. The Chapters Committee will return with a more detailed proposal for an outstanding chapters award at the February 2000 AdCom meeting.
AI 8-99 C. Anne O'Neill will develop, with meetings committee approval, a questionnaire for attendees of SSCS sponsored and technically co-sponsored meetings to learn how the attendees view the quality of the meeting and how they rank it with other meetings that they may attend.
AI 8-99 D. Charlie Sodini will talk with the leadership of the Southwest Symposium on Mixed-Signal Design to see if they plan to grow past the point of a local meeting. If so they will need to move their meeting dates further away from ISSCC in order to avoid a competition for quality papers.
AI 8-99 E. Mark Horowitz will talk with DAC leadership about how SSCS involvement may enhance the circuit design track of this conference.
AI 8-99 F. All Distinguished Lecturers who give Distinguished Lectures will notify Dick Jaeger, whether requesting financial support or not.
AI 8-99 G. AdCom members who know of suitable experts willing to serve as Distinguished Lecturers will notify Dick Jaeger. AdCom members are willing to serve as Distinguished Lecturers, also contact Dick Jaeger.
AI 8-99 H. Gerhard Fettweis will investigate and make a recommendation on whether SSCS should enter into a Sister Society Agreement with VDE/ITG. The AdCom will ballot by email.
AI 8-99 I. T.R. Viswanathan will investigate MOSIS funding issues at CAS, and make a recommendation whether SSCS should contribute to this program.
AI 8-99 J: The President will fill the AdCom position vacated by the resignation of Dick Hester, as instructed by AdCom.
| Asad Abidi | Sergio Bambi | Dick Hester |
| Mark Horowitz | Dick Jaeger | Steve Kosonocky |
| Toshiaki Masuhara | Kevin O’Connor | Willy Sanson |
| Charlie Sodini | Bob Swartz | Lew Terman |
| Rudy Van der Plassche | Jan Van der Spiegel | T.R. Viswanathan |
| Neil Weste | Bruce Wooley |
(b) Voting members absent:
| Gerhard Fettweis | Ebby Friedman | Dave Hodges |
| Nicky Lu | Chris Mangelsdorf | Eric Vittoz |
(c) Non-voting members present:
| Steve Lewis | Stan Schuster | Tim Tredwell |
| John Trnka |
(d) SSCS Executive Director present:
Anne O’Neill
(e) Guests
Don Loughry
B. The minutes of the February, 1999 SSCS AdCom meeting were distributed
by Secretary Asad Abidi.
Motion 1: To approve the minutes of 2/14/99. The motion
passed without dissent.
B. Millennium Medals:
45 Millennium Medals have been allocated to SSCS. A Committee of Lew
Terman and Dave Hodges, after discussion and input from AdCom, will send
the nominations to the IEEE wide committee by the October 1 deadline.
C. New Financial Model:
The IEEE is undergoing financial restructuring, and the Societies and
Councils will be paying a substantially larger share of the IEEE expenses
than at present, perhaps as much as a total aggregate increase in the $10M
range. The "New Financial Model" is still being developed, and is
expected to be adopted for the year 2000 budget, and will have major impact
on Society/council finances.
D. Branding
As result of a survey by a consultant, a widespread image void about
IEEE is thought to exist. IEEE is now looking to develop a branding/identity
system to better present IEEE.
E. Visits to Asian Chapters
A very high level of activity was observed during visits to SSCS chapters
in Korea, Taiwan and Japan. Activities included conferences, seminars,
meetings with Distinguished Lecturers as speakers, and membership drives.
The preliminary society budget for 2000 was presented. attachment
The preliminary 2000 budget net meets the mandated goal of an improvement
of 3% of the 1999 budgeted expenses .
Action item A: Anne O'Neill will poll AdCom members after the fall election to determine their preference for scheduling the AdCom meeting Saturday, February 5 or Sunday, February 6, 2000.
The August 2000 SSCS AdCom meeting will be held Monday August 28 in downtown San Francisco. The ISSCC Executive Committee is expect to meet in Vancouver Saturday, August 26, 2000.
Motion 2: Fund all chapter subsidies as recommended by the chapters committee up to the $1,000 per chapter limit. The motion passed without dissent.
Motion 3: Support additional $10K for any subsequent chapter subsidy needs, to be allocated at the chapters committee discretion. The motion passed without dissent.
After discussion on funding an Outstanding Chapters Award, the AdCom requested the Chapters Committee return with a more detailed proposal at the February 2000 meeting.
Action item B: The Chapters Committee will return with a more detailed
proposal for an outstanding chapters award at the February 2000 AdCom
meeting.
B. Life Membership
An IEEE member qualifies for Life Membership when over 65 years of
age and his/her age plus the number of years of IEEE membership is greater
than 100. IEEE allows free society membership to Life Members who
have been in a society for at least five years prior to or after attaining
Life Membership. SSCS has not been in existence for five years yet,
so life membership in the Society will not be officially permitted until
2002.
The AdCom discussed pre-paying SSCS membership for 2000 and 2001 for IEEE Life Members who have been members in SSCS since its inception. The estimated cost to fund free membership in SSCS for 2000 and 2001 to those approximately 162 IEEE Life Members who have been an SSCS member since 1/1/97 would be $2,268. In the year 2002 those qualifying will automaticalkly recieve SSCS Life Membership because the Society will have been in existience for five years.
Motion 4: Allow SSCS Life Membership to those qualifying for IEEE Life Membership and who have been an SSCS member since 1/1/97 or have been an SSCS member for past five years, whichever comes first. The motion passed without dissent.
C. Membership promotions
Kosonocky reported on membership promotions in recent months. In February
1998 and 1999, a $25 discount for new half-year members was offered at
the ISSCC. Free half-year membership for the 2000 ISSCC was discussed;
the estimated total cost for 2000 could be $14,000 assuming 450 new members.
Motion 5: To provide a one-time free 1/2 year membership to IEEE, SSCS and EDS to non-IEEE members who register at ISSCC 2000 at the non-member rate. The motion passed without dissent.
The membership committee is pursuing additional joint society membership promotions with CAS for DAC, ISCAS and ICCAD.
D. New member welcome
The new members welcome letter has gone out to 2,345 new members
who joined after August 1998. These new members received the 1997-98
JSSC CD-ROM at the same time as all members in May 1999.
Since the May mailing of the CDs, any new SSCS members have received their copy of the CD with their welcome letter. Since May, 658 letters with the CD have been mailed to new members.
E. Survey of Member Satisfaction
The membership committee continues to study issues and opportunities
to survey member satisfaction.
B. IEEE Online Library
She also reported on the IEEE Online Library which will be rolled out
in January 1, 2000. IEEE Online Library is a single web access point
for all material published by IEEE, including the Journal of Solid-State
Circuits currently available through OPeRA and, the ISSCC Digest and other
conference proceedings. It will have capability for delivering other
multimedia in addition to print, such as S-parameter files of devices,
animated clips of clocking behavior, circuit parameters for circuit software
analysis. Not all capabilities will be enabled on January 1.
Tim Tredwell presented proposals for providing members with more archival solid-state material on CD-ROM and DVD. He proposed the JSSC 66-88 CD-ROM collection of 4 CDs also include all the JSSC issues 66-98 on a single DVD with a master index. This collection will be provided in a bound album known as a Brag book with additional empty sleeves for inserting subsequent CDs.
Motion 6: To fund a total of $145K for a CD of the 1966-1988 JSSC plus a DVD of the 1966-1998 JSSC ; this is $35K more than the $110K funded at the February AdCom. The motion passed without dissent.
An archival CD-ROM project similar to the JSSC collection was presented for all issues of the ISSCC starting from the first 1956 conference through 2000. This will be presented in a Brag book set of 4 CDs with additional sleeves for inserting later issue CDs.
Motion 7: To fund $110K for a CD of an archival collection of ISSCC Digests 1955-2002. The motion passed without dissent.
A. Practices for Reviewing Society Meeting Sponsorship:Besides categorizing meetings as workshops, symposia, and conferences, we can also categorize meetings by their attendees.
When discussing sponsorship with a particular meeting's leadership, we should find out how they view themselves in terms of :
- LOCAL - A meeting in which most of the attendees are from a local area around the meeting. Chapter sponsored meetings often fit this definition.
- NATIONAL - A meeting in which most of the attendees are from a single nation. Examples are ICVC (Korea), SB Micro (Brazil).
- INTERNATIONAL - A meeting in which most of the attendees are from a large cross section of attendees. Examples are ISSCC, CICC.
and work with them to achieve their goals.
- Workshop, Symposium, or Conference
- Local, National, International,
Meeting Reviews - We should continue to gather data from each meeting that we sponsor or technically co-sponsor. Specifically:
We should also develop a questionnaire for attendees of all the meetings we sponsor and technically co-sponsor to learn how the attendees view the quality of the meeting and how they rank it with other meetings that they may attend.
- number of attendees
- number of speakers
- number of papers submitted
- number of papers accepted
Action Item C: Anne O'Neill will develop, with Meetings Committee approval, a questionnaire for attendees of SSCS sponsored and technically co-sponsored meetings to learn how the attendees view the quality of the meeting and how they rank it with other meetings that they may attend.
B. The Southwest Symposium on Mixed-Signal Design:
The Southwest Symposium on Mixed-Signal Design sponsored by the IEEE San Diego join chapter of AP/EDS/MTT, has requested technical cosponsorship. The meeting is being held just 3 weeks after ISSCC. Sodini will talk with the leadership on their future plans.Motion 8: To technically cosponsorship the Southwest Symposium on Mixed Signal Design for the year 2000. The motion passed without dissent.
Action Item D: Sodini will talk with the Symposium leadership on their future plans. If they plan to grow past the point of a local meeting, they will need to move their meeting dates further away from ISSCC in order to avoid a competition for quality papers.
C. ASIC-SOI:
Tim Tredwell gave an update on the ASIC conference to be held in Washington DC on September 15-18, 1999, The conference appears to have a quality program and looks financially stable. (SSCS a 20% interest in this conference.) Sponsorship of this meeting will shift from SSCS to EDS next year.D. Technically cosponsored meetings for 2000:
Motion 9: To technically cosponsorship for the year 2000:
VLSI Technology Symposium
The motion passed without dissent.
Asia Pacific ASIC
ESSCIRC
BCTM
GaAs IC SymposiumE. Spectrum Conference Companion:
SSCS will not participate in Spectrum Conference Companion at this time. The main issue of concern was advertising on the Spectrum web site. A meeting with exhibits, such as the CICC, may participate on their own initiative.F. Design Automation Conference:
After a discussion of how SSCS might play a role in DAC, Mark Horowitz offered to talk with the DAC leadership to discuss how our involvement may enhance the circuit design track of this conference.Action Item E: Mark Horowitz will talk with DAC leadership about how SSCS involvement may enhance the circuit design track of this conference.
AP-ASIC Report: Toshiaki Masuhara attachment
The Asian Pacific ASIC conference met on August 23-25, 1999 at Yonsei University, in Seoul Korea. Registration was 155. It was a sucessful meeting. The conference accepted 95 papers out of 130 submitted (a 73% acceptance rate). 40% of the accepted papers were from outside Korea.CICC Report: Mike Beunder attachment
CICC reported the following details on its technical papers for May 16 -19, 1999 meeting in San Diego:287 papers submitted (up 24%)
- 137 accepted (48%)
- 20 Invited papers (up 43%)
Papers from 19 countries were presented:Registration for the technical portion was 636, with 303 attendees at the educational sessions.
- 50/50 US/International
- 50/50 industry/academic
Financial summary:
Income: $ 407,372The next conference will be May 21-24, 2000, in Orlando, Florida.
Expenses: $ 398,682
Surplus: $ 8,690 (2%)
VLSI Circuits Report: Bill Biderman attachment
The Symposium on VLSI Circuits held in Japan in June 1999 had 148 papers submitted from 15 countries, split equally between industry and academia. This was up from 127 in 1997. There were 394 registrants, down from 504 in 1997, and 156 in workshops.ISSCC Report: John Trnka attachment
For its February 15-17, 1999 meeting, 298 papers were submitted with a 52% acceptance rate. The presented papers had the following geographical distribution:50% from North AmericaThere were 14 additional solicited technical papers that were solicited and 3 invited plenary presentations.
20% from Europe
30% from the Far EastFinancial summary (assumes 5% lower attendance for 2000 budget):
SSCTC Report -- Co-Chair: Stan Schuster attachment
SSCTC will have a MEMS Circuits workshop this October, in conjunction with the ISSCC program committee meeting in Washington DC. The price of this workshop was discussed and decided that even though it seems high, it was not a factor in attendance decisions. It was also felt that the infrastructure support that Courtesy provides is essential so that interested members can put on a workshop without monumental effort. A hotel contract has been signed to have the workshop in conjunction with the ISSCC program committee meeting in Washington DC in October 2000. If this year's October workshop does not bring a reasonable attendance, then SSCTC will consider attaching the October workshop to an existing meeting. Since the advertising and planning for this year's workshop was considered good, the only reason for poor attendance would be the fact that it is almost stand-alone. Attaching it to an existing conference, such as BCTM, has the advantage of offering future directions for the existing conference based on the workshop theme. Schuster will talk with BCTM about this possibility.
Loughry reported that 19 Societies are represented among the developers of IEEE standards. The four major Societies involved are Computer, Power Engineering, Industry Applications and Communications Societies. 5 to 10% of the developers of the 802 computer communications standards are circuit designers. Members of standards developing working groups typically represent their employers rather than their Society.
Loughry offered to return to provide a workshop presentation if there was interest.
The SSC Awards Committee evaluated five Fellow nominations, down substantially from previous years.
The SSC Predoctoral Fellowship was not awarded for 1999-2000 due to the absence of qualified candidates.
Action Item F: All Distinguished Lecturers who give Distinguished Lectures notify Dick Jaeger, whether requesting financial support or not.
Jaeger spoke of the value of adding new Distinguished Lecturers.
Action Item G: AdCom members who know of suitable experts willing to serve as Distinguished Lecturers notify Dick Jaeger.
B. Short Course from ISSCC 2000 on CD-ROM -- Tim Tredwell attachment
In continuing to prepare a CD-ROM of the ISSCC 2000 Short Course on
the RF Circuits for Wireless Networks, the following actions are being
taken.
Motion 10: To fund $20K for production of the ISSCC 2000 short course
in CD format.
Asad Abidi presented a proposal for the charter and scope of work of SSCS Technical Committees. He will return to the February 2000 AdCom with a set of topics which reflect technical trends in solid-state circuits.
Two SSCS representatives will be appointed to the IEEE Sensors Council AdCom/BOG.
Action item H: Gerhard Fettweis wil investigate and make a recommendation on whether SSCS should enter into a Sister Society Agreement with VDE/ITG. The AdCom will ballot by email.
Circuits and Systems Society requested SSCS help with the financial support of MOSIS which fabricates MOS chips for class projects. In recent years, MOSIS has lost significant amounts of government funding. For many univsersities this is not a problem for research-related fabrication, which is paid for by research grants.
Action item I: T.R. Viswanathan will investigate MOSIS funding issues at CAS, and make a recommendation whether SSCS should contribute to this program.
Motion 12: To approve the proposed 2000 budget with the following additions as approved at this meeting: $10K Chapters Committee, $7.5K Membership, $35K JSSC CD-ROM with equal revenues from sales, $110K for ISSCC CD with equal revenue from sales, $10K additional for short course CD from ISSCC with revenue equal to the $20K total from sales. The motion passed without dissent.
This slate balances 4 nominees from industry and 4 from industry.
One is from the Far East, three are Europeans, three are North American
and one is a North American in the Far East. Swartz noted it is difficult
to get industry candidates to run and the process should start even earlier
next year.
The AdCom approved a prioritized list of candidates to fill the elected AdCom postion created by Dick Hester's reisgnation effective the end of this year.
Action Item J: The President will fill the AdCom position vacated by the resignation of Dick Hester, as instructed by AdCom.
The Committee nominated Bruce Wooley for Society President for 2000-200 and Charles Sodini for Society Vice President for 2000-2001.
The results of the SSCS officer election were:
Bruce Wooley was elected Society President for 2000-2001.
Charles Sodini was elected Society Vice President for 2000-2001.
The meeting adjourned at 5:50 PM.Respectfully submitted,
Anne O'Neill, Exectuive Director SSCS,
Asad Abidi, Secretary, SSCS AdCom,
October 5, 1999