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Need Innovation Across the Entire Stack!
Algorithms
Software Systems
Hardware Systems
Circuits

The good stuff is
in between!

Devices
Materials
A slide from Prof. Murmann's presentation, illustrating his sandwich analogy indicating the
advantageous position of IC designers for collaborations.

on up, encompassing the hardware, software, and algorithms,
to build practical and efficient

machine learning applications.
Beyond the concept of codesign,
stretching beyond one's specialty

to other domains is required to
solve challenging machine learning problems. The tinyML Foundation believes collaborative
partnerships like this one with
the IEEE SSCS are essential to support the cross-functional community involved in ultralow-power
machine learning at the edge. We
look forward to another event as
soon as possible." -Ira Feldman,
tinyML, United States
-Sevil Zeynep Lulec, Alvin Loke,
Xinfei Guo, Ka-Meng Lei,
Po-Hsuan Wei, Shahriar Mirabbasi,
Abira Altvater, and Kelsey Rodriguez

IEEE SSCS Oregon Chapter Remembers Dr. Barrie Gilbert,
Recognizes Award Winners

The start of 2020 brought some exciting news for IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Oregon Chapter
members and also some very sad
news. Dr. Barrie Gilbert, IEEE Life
Fellow, who helped relaunch the
SSCS Oregon Chapter, sadly left us
on 30 January 2020 after a fall at his
home in Portland, Oregon. He was
a naturally gifted circuit designer
who started experimenting with
circuits at age nine. Gilbert became
one of the most famous analog circuit designers in the world.
In 1979, Gilbert founded the first
remote design center for Analog
Devices, which was located in Portland. The Oregon SSCS Chapter was
relaunched in 2018, with its first
technical seminar, "Electron Tornadoes, Paper Circuits, and Semiconductor Spinning Tops," presented by
Gilbert. The auditorium was filled
with young and old SSCS members,
all of whom were entertained by Gilbert's talk and the opportunity to
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Dr. Farhana Sheikh, IEEE SSCS Oregon Chapter
chair.

see the cool devices he brought with
him from his home museum. The
Oregon Chapter will miss Gilbert
and his dedicated support.
February brought exciting news
to select members of the IEEE SSCS
Oregon Chapter. Dr. Christopher
Hull, Dr. Stefano Pellerano, and their
team from Intel were awarded the
prestigious International Solid-State
Circuits Conference (ISSCC) 2019
Lewis Award for Outstanding Paper
and the 2019 Demonstration Certificate of Recognition for their work "A
Scalable 71-to-76-GHz, 64-Element

Phased-Array Transceiver Module
With 2 × 2 Direct-Conversion IC in
22-nm FinFET CMOS Technology." In
addition to Hull and Pellerano, SSCS
members who were acknowledged
with awards are as follows:
■■ Dr. Steven Callender
■■ Dr. Woorim Shin
■■ Dr. Yanjie Wang
■■ Dr. Somnath Kundu
■■ Dr. Abhishek Agrawal
■■ Peter Sagazio
■■ Brent Carlton
■■ Dr. Farhana Sheikh
■■ Dr. Arnaud Amadjikpe
■■ Dr. William Lambert
■■ Divya S. Vemparala
■■ Mark Chakravorti
■■ Satoshi Suzuki
■■ Robert Flory.
Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the
Chapter had to improvise on monthly meetings. In March and April, online conference calls were held with
the Executive Committee, and it was
decided to start working on holding
online events. The Chapter virtually
hosted its first SSCS Distinguished
Lecturer, Prof. Dejan Markov ic,

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