SOCIETY NEWS

A Brand New Look for ieee-cas.org

The official website of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society has been completely revamped. The dazzling new style makes the homepage easier to browse and enables information to be found more efficiently. The new homepage continues to serve as the main electronic archive as well as a dynamic information sink for disseminating important society’s news and initiatives and providing links to other websites of interest to our members. Take a look at it now!!


Nomination for IEEE CASS Awards

The purpose of the annual IEEE Circuits & Systems Society Awards is to illuminate the accomplishments of CAS Society members and celebrate their dedication and contributions both within the field and to the CAS Society. Award recipients are nominated by their CASS peers in order to honor the service and contributions that further strengthen the CAS Society.

Take a moment to review the Society & Achievement Awards that are presented by the CAS Society. If you would like to nominate the accomplishments of a fellow Society member, complete and submit the corresponding nomination application listed below.

Nominations for the annual CASS awards are now being accepted. All nominations and reference letters must be submitted electronically by February 28, 2009, to cass-awards@ieee.org.

Details can be found in the award page of the society’s website.


CASS Distinguished Lecturers 2009-2010

The CAS Society has appointed its Distinguished Lecturers for 2009-2010. Names and proposed lectures of the new appointees are:

Alan N. Willson, Jr

Lecture #1: Desensitizing Halfband Digital Filters

Bah-Hwee Gwee

Lecture #1: Low Power Asynchronous-Logic Circuit Design

Lecture #2: Micropower Low-Voltage Digital Class D Amplifier for Hearing Aid Application

Eduard Alarcon

Lecture #1: Energy-efficient On-chip Power Management: System, Circuit and Device Perspectives

Gabriel Alfonso Rincón-Mora

Lecture #1: AC Design and Performance of Low-Dropout Regulators (LDOs)

Lecture #2: Power Losses in Switching DC-DC Converter ICs

Massimo Alioto

Lecture #1: Ultra-low power logic circuits: From voltage-mode to current-mode

Lecture #2: Physical-level and circuit-level design techniques for low-leakage FinFET logic circuits

Myung H. Sunwoo

Lecture #1: Cost effective low power IP designs for mobile communications

Lecture #2: Promising low power reusable solutions: Application Specific Instruction-set Processors

Nitish V. Thakor

Lecture #1: Neuroengineering: Building Brain Machine Interface

Lecture #2: Neural Interfaces: Circuits, Signals and Systems for Brain Computer Interface/Brain Machine Interface (BCI/BMI)

Oscar C. Au

Lecture #1: Exploring characteristics, capabilities, system designs, and applications of distributed video coding (DVC)

Lecture #2: Lightweight Encryption for Multimedia Rights Management

Sergio Bampi

Lecture #1: Front-End Architecture for multi-band analog-digital interfaces in RF CMOS

Lecture #2: Advancements in on-chip H.264 video compression hardware

Shyh-Jye Jou

Lecture #1: Circuits, Systems and Verification Platform for 10Gpbs On-Chip Transmission Link

Lecture #2: Core SoC Technologies for Indoor 60GHz Multi-Gbps Wireless Baseband Transceiver

Yu Cao

Lecture #1: Predictive Technology Modeling for Robust Nanoelectronic Design


A full list of current Distinguished Lecturers can be found in the society’s website.

 

New IEEE Fellows 2009

The following CAS members have been elected to the Fellowship of the IEEE effective January 1, 2009 (names with asterisk (*) are elevated by the CAS Society):


Ronald Blanton

Fa Dai

Orla Feely*

Gerhard Fettweis

Wen Gao*

Sheila Hemami

King Choi (Dominic) Ho

Shoji Kawahito

Chong Kyung

Yong Lian*

Homer Mantooth

Un-Ku Moon

Steven Nowick*

Dario Petri

Joel Phillips

Jose Pineda-De-Gyvez

Raymond Quere

Jaijeet Roychowdhury

Robert Staszewski

Xiaoou Tang*

Peter Vary

Hans-Joachim Wunderlich

Albert Wang*

Enrico Zanoni


Congratulations to all the newly elected Fellows!


More details are available in the society’s website.

IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award 2009

The 2009 IEEE Gustav Robert KIrchhoff Award was awarded to Prof. Ernest E. Kuh, William S. Floyd, Jr. Professor Emeritus in Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. The award recognizes Prof. Kuh for his “outstanding contributions to theory and practice in circuits and systems and for pioneering work in electronics design automation.”