prof. Makoto Ikeda. prof. Michael Flynn, University of Michigan. Dr. tomohiro takahashi, sony. Dr. toru Miwa, sanDisk. Dr. Kiran Gunnam, hGst research. Thanks to the co-organization of IEEE SSCS and JSPS, each workshop succeeded in surveying recent progress in all the basic fields of solidstate circuits within the space of a single day. Yuichiro Ishii, renesas electronics. -Minoru Fujishima Hiroshima University SSCS-Kansai Chapter Chair IEEE SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS MAGAZINE W i n t e r 2 0 15 37