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sscs DLs and their hosts during the morning break (from left): hua Fan, Qiang Li (chair, sscs chengdu), ping Luo, Jacky zou, tzi-Dar chiueh,
Jan Van der spiegel, seng-pan u, howard Luong, Yuxin Wang (deputy director, national Key Lab in analog ics), and haiqi Liu (vice chair,
sscs-chengdu).

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Prof. Jan Rabaey, "The Innovation Is
in the Mind-The Converging Trajectories of IT, Neuro, and Nano"
-Minoru Fujishima IEEE SSCS
Kansai Chapter Chair
-John Corcoran
-Compiled by K. Olstein

DL Tour-Workshop
Inaugurates SSCS/CASS
Chengdu Chapter in July
The IEEE SSCS/CASS Chengdu Joint
Chapter celebrated its formation with
a quadruple-component workshop on
7 July that featured SSCS DLs Jan Van
der Spiegel, Howard Luong, Tzi-Dar
Chiueh, and Seng-Pan U (Ben). The
Chengdu SSCS/CASS Joint Chapter
obtained IEEE approval in January.
The Chengdu DL workshop, which
was free and open to the public, drew
as many as 166 participants from academia, industry, and research institutes who engaged each other and the
speakers in spontaneous discussions
during the lectures and on breaks, and
even outside and after them. Chapter
hosts showed the DLs around the university, the national key laboratory,
and local attractions. At dinner, they
welcomed special guest SSCS DL Kofi
Makinwa. A nice surprise.
Located in western China, Chengdu
has been a key area in the Chinese
electronics industry since the 1950s.

sscs DLs, chengdu chapter officers, and the workshop poster. (From left) Yang Liu, bo zhang
(eDs chengdu chair), tzi-Dar chiueh, Jan Van der spiegel, howard Luong, seng-pan u, Qiang
Li (chair, sscs chengdu), and haiqi Liu (vice chair, sscs chengdu).

Most national and international chipmakers have branches in Chengdu
that range from design to packing
and assembly. The local University
of Electronic Science and Technology
of China (UESTC) in Chengdu ranks
number one in China in electronic science and technology and number two
in information and communication
engineering.
In recent years, the rapid growth
in the number of engineers working
on ICs around Chengdu-now more
than 1,000-created a demand for
intercommunication that resulted
in the founding of IEEE SSCS/CASS
Chengdu Joint Chapter. The Chapter's leaders are Prof. Qiang Li

(chair), Prof. Haiqi Liu (vice chair),
and Prof. Guangjun Li and Prof.
Yong-Zhong Xiong.
Each of these chapter leaders represents a major IC specialty: analog/
mixed-signal and biomedical (Qiang
Li), baseband and SoC (Guangjun Li),
RF/mmW (Yong-Zhong Xiong), wireline and sensors (Haiqi Liu), and digital and algorithm (Jianhao Hu). All
have international connections that
will enable the chapter to reach out
to the world. The DL Workshop that
they organized this summer was its
first step.
Tour topics covered the four
areas that are currently most interesting to the Chengdu IC design

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