IEEE CASS-EDS-SSCS Wuhan Joint Chapter Held Opening Ceremony and Organized Advanced Integrated Circuits Forum
On 10 October 2019, an opening ceremony was held at the campus of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, China, to celebrate the formation of the IEEE CASS-EDS-SSCS Wuhan Joint Chapter (Wuhan Joint Chapter). The opening ceremony was organized together with a technical forum on advanced integrated circuit (IC) and an advanced IC poster competition for students. The event was jointly hosted by the Wuhan Joint Chapter, the School of Optical and Electronic Information (SOEI), and the Wuhan International Institute of Microelectronics (WHIME), HUST.
In the morning session, Prof. Jiang Tang, the dean of SOEI, HUST, firstly delivered an opening address and congratulated the formation of the Joint Chapter. He talked about the important role of the Joint Chapter and how it will help the faculty and students to advance their careers in either academia or industry. Next, Prof. Chao Wang, the founding chair of the Chapter, from HUST, introduced the newly-established Chapter. Specifically, he introduced the newly-formed committee from eight founding organizations including the HUST, Wuhan University, Hubei University, Hubei University of Technology, XMC, Synopsys Wuhan Limited, Tianma Microelectronics, and FiberHome Microelectronics. Then, on behalf of IEEE, Prof. Yong Lian, the President of IEEE CAS Society, officially announced the formation of the IEEE CASS-EDS-SSCS Wuhan Joint Chapter and awarded the Chapter Banner to the Chapter Chair, Prof. Chao Wang.
Afterwards, Prof. Guilin Zheng, the Chair of IEEE Wuhan Section, from Wuhan University, introduced the IEEE Wuhan Section and the IEEE Region 10. He talked the benefits of IEEE members including the access to IEEE publication, professional networking, career opportunities, continuing education, etc. Then, Prof. Yong Lian, the IEEE CASS President introduced IEEE and promoted the CAS Society. He encouraged the faculty and students to join the IEEE and its affiliated societies and participated in the various IEEE-sponsored activities around the world. Prof. Yoshifumi Nishio, the Vice President of IEEE CAS Society, from Tokushima University, spoke next to promote the CASS. Prof. Nishio introduced the activities of CAS Society in Region 10 and encouraged the students to join the CAS Society on the spot. Following the CASS representatives, Dr. Shuji Ikeda, a BoG member of IEEE ED Society, promoted the IEEE ED Society by introducing the society and its regional activities in Region 10. Prof. Hanjun Jiang, the former chair of IEEE SSCS Beijing Chapter, from Tsinghua University, promoted the IEEE SSC Society and also shared the growing experience of the SSCS Beijing Chapter to the newly-formed Wuhan Joint Chapter. As the Vice Chair of an outstanding chapter of the IEEE CAS Society, Dr. Kwen-Siong Chong from CASS Singapore Chapter also shared the success experience by introducing the chapter organization and activities in the past few years.
The afternoon session was the advanced integrated circuit forum consisting of five technical talks. Firstly, Prof. Bah-Hwee Gwee, the committee member of CASS Singapore Chapter, from Nanyang Technological University, gave a talk on machine learning for automatic analysis of delayered IC images. Then, Prof. Guoxing Wang, the Vice President of IEEE CAS Society, from Shanghai Jiaotong University, gave a lecture titled “A New Signal Processing Paradigm: Continuous-Time Discrete-Amplitude (CTDA) Systems”. Afterwards, Prof Runsheng Wang, from Peking University, gave a talk titled “The Smaller, the Bigger – Understanding Variability in Nanoscale CMOS Devices and Circuits”. Prof. Chun Zhang, from Tsinghua University, talked about sensors and integrated circuits for robots. At last, Prof Qiang Li, the Chair of CASS Chengdu Chapter, from University of Electronic Science and Technology, talked about ultra-low voltage ADC design.
The one-day event was concluded by the award ceremony of the advanced IC poster competition. In total, there were 19 students from various universities (HUST, Wuhan University, Hubei University of Technology, and Nanyang Technological University, etc) who had submitted a poster to present his/her research work in the fields of integrated systems, circuits and devices. All posters had been assessed by a panel of six professors through one round of online examination and another round of assessment in the poster session during teabreak. Based on the scores of the panel members, the first-class, second-class, and third-class winners received award certificates and cash prizes sponsored by the IEEE CAS Society. The results of the competition are as follows:
- One first-class prize (RMB 500): Zhicheng Wang, “A Time-Division-Multiplexing (TDM) Scheme for Simultaneous Wavelength Locking of Multiple Silicon Micro-rings”;
- Two second-class prizes (RMB 300 each): Nian Duan, “An Electro-Photo-Sensitive Synaptic Transistor for Edge Neuromorphic Visual System”; Yi Zhan, “A 180nW 100KHz ultra-low power relaxation oscillator”;
- Three third-class prizes (RMB 100 each): Jia Chen, “A Comprehensive Mixed Hardware-Software Study on 1T1R RRAMs based Convolution Neural Network”; Kaixuan Ye, “A 0.5-V Capless LDO with 30-dB PSRR at 10-kHz Using a Lightweight Local Generated Supply”; Long Cheng, “Functional demonstration of in-memory arithmetic logic unit in memristive crossbar array”;
There are about 100 research faculty and students attended the opening ceremony and technical forum. The event was well received and very successful.
As the biggest city in the central China, Wuhan is famous as the one of the four key semiconductor bases as well as one of the higher education hubs in China, which has many famous semiconductor companies and more than 80 universities. By forming this Joint Chapter, the Wuhan Joint Chapter plan to build a platform for the academia and industry in the fields of integrated circuits in Wuhan area and also help to promote academic exchanges between Wuhan and the rest of the world.
Chao Wang, CASS-EDS-SSCS Wuhan Joint Chapter Chair
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The Spain CAS Chapter Won the Best Chapter Award
The Spain Chapter of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, chaired by Prof. Antonio Lopez Martin, from the Public University of Navarra, received the Best Chapter Award of the IEEE-Spain Section in 2019. The awards ceremony was held in Valencia, on October 11th, during the celebration of the 113th IEEE Region 8 Committee Meeting and the IEEE-DAY in Spain. The picture shows Prof. Antonio López (left) receiving the award from Stephen Welby, Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer of IEEE (right).
Antonio Lopez-Martin, Spain CAS Chapter Chair
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The Chongqing CAS Chapter Established
The IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS) Chongqing Chapter Formation Workshop was successfully held in River & Holiday Hotel Chongqing on 28th Oct, 2019.
Franco Maloberti, CASS Past President; Amara Amara, CASS President-Elect; Yoshifumi Nishio, CASS VP-RAM; Chua-Chin Wang, CASS Distinguished Lecturer; Qiang Li, CASS Chengdu Chapter Chair attended the workshop and delivered speeches. The heads and directors from Fuling Districts People’s Governments, Investment Promotion Bureau, Economic and Information Commission, and CCID Branch of Chongqing were invited as the distinguished guests to attend the ceremony.
In the workshop, Wei Wang, CASS Chongqing Chapter Chair introduced the overview of Chongqing IC Industry and the future development plan of Chongqing Chapter. Franco Maloberti and Yoshifumi Nishio introduced the society and how to run CASS Chapter, respectively. Amara amara, Chua-Chin Wang, and Qiang Li made the presentations about the advanced analog integrated circuits design and artificial intelligence techniques. And, U-Fat Chio, CASS Chongqing Chapter Secretary was served as MC of the workshop.
The establishment of CASS Chongqing Chapter is under the enthusiasm of Yoshifumi Nishio, and is jointly organized by Wei Wang, U-Fat Chio from Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, and Wen-Qiang Lu from Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology of the Chinese Academy of Science, as well as the IEEE CASS members from Chongqing Liangjiang Semiconductor Research Institute, Chong Qing XSEMI Co., Ltd and Chongqing Central Prime Intelligent Chip Technology Co., Ltd actively applied to the IEEE.
In the future, Chongqing Chapter is further absorbing relevant scientific and technical personnel from higher education institutions, research institutes and companies with strong R&D capabilities in Chongqing. The Chapter will provide international engineering exchanges, industrial development dynamics research, engineering education and training services for the engineers, technicians, and young professionals. By inviting well-known experts and scholars to visit Chongqing, hold high-level international conferences, academic forums, training courses and other activities, provide opportunities for members to meet face-to-face with international experts, meet the professional and technical needs of members, and expand the influence of the society, to promote the healthy development of Chongqing's electronic information industry.
The workshop was organized by Chongqing Central Prime Intelligent Chip Technology Co., Ltd, and gotten the support by Chongqing Fuling District People’s Government. Besides, Chongqing United Microelectronics Center, MooreElite, and Chongqing East Lake High-tech Development Co., Ltd had sponsored the event.
U-Fat Chio, CASS Chongqing Chapter Secretary, and Yoshifumi Nishio, CASS VP-RAM