VLSI Technology & Circuits Committee

Objective

The objective of the VLSI Technology and Circuits Committee is to identify new/hot areas of interest to the Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits communities. Based on the nature of the areas, we will recommend any or all of the following:

Initiate topical workshops of current interest (attached to existing conferences or start new ones)
Special Issues for major publications (e.g., T-ED)
Panel session topics for major conferences
Special Sessions for major conferences

Membership

This is a non-voting Ex-Officio AdCom member position with a two-year renewable term. We expect to limit the membership of the committee to no more than three terms so that new ideas can be generated, incorporated, and executed.

Operation

This committee operates entirely by email. There are two Society AdCom meetings a year, with one meeting always being held in conjunction with IEDM. The other AdCom meeting is normally held sometime in the April-June time period in conjunction with another EDS sponsored conference. For 2007, the dates and locations of the two AdCom meetings are as follows:

Dates	Meeting	Locations
June 3, 2007	IEDST	Xijiao Hotel, Beijing, China
December 9, 2007	IEDM	Hilton Washington, Washington, D.C., USA

History

The VLSI Technology and Circuits Technical Committee was formed in 1998 under the leadership of Prof. Charles G. Sodini (MIT), followed by Dr. H.-S. Philip Wong (IBM), Werner Weber (Infineon), and Dr. James A. Hutchby (SRC). Since its formation, the VLSI Committee has chartered its missions to identify new technical trends, to help foster new technical concepts, and to serve the emerging needs of the Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits communities in VLSI. The Committee Members include many well recognized technical experts representing a very wide spectrum of technical expertise in VLSI devices, technology, and circuits. Every year, the committee brainstorms (by email) on ideas that are suitable for a new workshop, special issue for a journal, panel sessions, and special sessions for conferences. Committee members then take these ideas forward and find a way to make them happen, either by being the organizers themselves, or by finding suitable organizers for the topic. We work closely together with journal editors and conference organizers. Especially in the case of new workshops, it is much easier to attach the new workshop to existing conferences rather than to start new.

Contact

Committee's website: http://www.ieee.org/society/eds/technical_committees/vlsi. If you have ideas for a new workshop, a special issue for journals, or topics for panel sessions and special sessions for conferences, please contact Current Committee Members. If you would like to volunteer in the committee or have suggestions and comments to the activities of this committee, please contact Dr. Bin Zhao.

Chair:
Bin Zhao
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
32 Discovery, Suite 100
Irvine, CA 92618, USA
Email: bin.zhao@ieee.org

Any comments, ideas, and suggestions related to the field of VLSI Technology and Circuits are sincerely welcome!