Compiled by ChorngKuang Wang Chair, Steering Committee

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SSCS SponsoredAsian Solid-State Circuits
Conference (A-SSCC)Status Update

• Compiled by Chorng-Kuang Wang (Chair, Steering
  Committee)
• San Francisco
• Feb. 11, 2007

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A-SSCC Plan

• 2005 Taiwan , Nov. 1-3, Ambassador Hotel
  Hsinchu
• 2006 China, Nov. 13-15, Hyatt Regency Hangzhou
• 2007 Korea, Nov. 12-14, Ramada Plaza Hotel Jeju
  Island
• Japan, Nov. 3-5, JAL Resort Sea Hawk Hotel
  Fukuoka
• Taiwan, TBA

2008 JAL Resort Fukuoka
2007 Ramada Jeju Island
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Conference/TPC Chairs/Co-Chairs 2005-2008
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2009 A-SSCC TPC Chair in Taiwan
2009 TPC Chair - Dr. Tohru Furuyama General
Manager, Center for Semiconductor Research
Development (CSRD) Toshiba Corporation, Japan
Tohru Furuyama received the Ph.D. degree from the
University of Tokyo. Dr. Furuyama led several
commodity DRAM, Rambus DRAM and embedded DRAM
developments at the Semiconductor Device
Engineering Laboratory, Toshiba Corp. From 1994
to 1996, he was the 64Mb DRAM design manager for
the Toshiba/IBM/Siemens joint DRAM development
project at Burlington, VT. He was then a senior
manager at the System LSI Engineering Laboratory,
Toshiba Corp, where he was responsible for the
developments of Toshibas original Media
embedded Processor (MeP), MPEG-4 codec LSIs for
mobile applications that utilized the eDRAM
technology he had established as a project
leader, and so on. Since 2002, as a general
manager of the SoC Research Development Center
and subsequently the Center for Semiconductor
Research Development, Toshiba Corp., he has
been supervising wide range of RD activities
advanced CMOS technologies, NAND flash memories,
embedded memories, novel memories, embedded
processors (MeP), digital media SoCs and related
softwares Dr. Furuyama is an IEEE Fellow.
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2009 A-SSCC TPC Vice Chair in Taiwan
TPC 2009 Vica Chair - Dr. Mototsugu Hamada
Mototsugu Hamada was born in Nara, Japan, in
1968. He received the B.S.,M.S., and Ph.D.
degrees in electronic engineering from the
University of Tokyo, Japan in 1991, 1993, and
1996, respectively. In 1996, he joined Toshiba
Corp. and has been engaged in wireless and
low-power electronic circuits design. From 2002
to 2004, he was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford
University. He is a member of the technical
program committee of ISSCC and A-SSCC. He is a
member of IEEE and JSAP.
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New A-SSCC Steering Committee Member(Jan. 2007
Aug. 2010)
Steering Committee-Dr. Nam-Sung Woo
Executive Vice
President, System LSI Division Samsung
Electronics, Co., Ltd.
Dr. Woo has led the mobile solutions business of
Samsung Semiconductor's SLSI Division since 2004.
His team develops both chipsets and software for
mobile devices, including application processors,
mobile TV chipsets, wireless communication
chipsets and image sensor chips. Before joining
Samsung, Dr. Woo worked for Texas Instruments as
general manager of a wireless business unit. He
also spent ten years as a research scientist at
ATT/Lucent Bell Laboratories. His area of
expertise includes computer architecture,
parallel processing and VLSI design/synthesis.
He has published more than 50 papers for
journals and international conferences, and has
five U.S. patents. He received the "best paper"
award at an IEEE Design Automation
Conference. Dr. Woo received a BSEE from Seoul
National University, an MSEE from the Korea
Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, and
a Ph.D. in computer science from the University
of Maryland.
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Steering Committee (Sept. 2004 - Aug. 2007)

• Chair Chorng-Kuang Wang, NTU, Taiwan
• Secretary of General Affairs Shen-Iuan Liu, NTU,
  Taiwan
• Secretary of Technical Program Makoto Ikeda,
  Univ. of Tokyo
• International Liaison Members
• Anantha Chandrakasan, MIT, USA
• Willy Sansen, KUL, Belgium
• Members
• Taiwan
• Nicky Lu, Etron Technology, Inc.
• Genda Hu, FocalTech Systems
• Jyuo-Ming Shyu, ITRI
• Japan
• Kunihiro Asada, University of Tokyo
• Kiyoo Itoh, Hitachi Central Research
• Takayasu Sakurai, University of Tokyo
• Katsuhiro Shimohigashi, Semiconductor
• Technology Academic Research Center

• China
• Zhihua Wang, Tsinghua University
• Korea
• Deong-Kyoon Jeong, Seoul National
• University
• Sung Bae Park, Samsung Electronics
• Hoi-Jun Yoo, KAIST
• Nam-Sung Woo, Samsung Electronics
• (Jan. 2007 Aug. 2010)
• India
• Navakanta Bhat, Indian Institute of
• Science

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2006 A-SSCC Summary

• Theme of this year Challenges for THE e-life
  
• held in Nov. 1315 at Hyatt Regency Hangzhou,
  China
• SSCS President Speech
• Chance of sending/collecting information to/from
  Asia
• Student design contest from the regular papers
• Industry program to find out industrial trend
• Tutorials by speakers from all over the world
• 4 Plenary sessions
• Technical papers survived severe selection
• Cooperate with ISSCC (Scholarship to A-SSCC SDC
  winners, ISSCC talks and posters at A-SSCC,
  A-SSCC proceeding archived with ISSCC Technical
  Digset)
• Cooperate with IEEE SSCS (JSSC, SSCS Region 10
  chairs meeting)

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Design Contest Outstanding Award
From the left- Mr. Sungdae Choi(KAIST, Korea),
Mr. Yusaku Ito(Tokyo Institute of Technology,
Japan) , Mr. Simone Gambini (University of
California at Berkeley, USA) , Prof. Hoi-Jun Yoo
(Chair of Design Contest KAIST, Korea)
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Side Events photos (1)
Region 10 chapters meeting (Nov.15, 2006)
Posters 50 Years of ISSCC (Nov.1315, 2006)
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Side Events photos (2)
Region 10 chapters meeting (Nov.15, 2006)
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Side Events photos (3)
SSCS President, Dr. Dick Jaeger gave a speech at
the opening (Nov.14, 2006)
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Side Events photos (4)
ISSCC Program Chair, Dr. Jan Van der Spiegel
talked about How to write a GOOD ISSCC Paper
at A-SSCC (Nov.14, 2006)
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Submissions/Acceptance by Country
Accepted
Submitted
Acceptance Rate32
Total 332
Total 107/332
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Compare with A-SSCC05 Submissions
2005 Submissions 362 2006 Submissions 332
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Compare with A-SSCC05 Acceptance
2005 Acceptance 136 (34) 2006 Acceptance
107 (32)
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Conference/Tutorial Attendance
Conference 335 Tutorial 178
Conference 246 Tutorial 112
2005
2006
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Conference Attendance by Country/region
Conference 246 Tutorial112
Registrants from 14 Countries/regions participate
the A-SSCC 2006
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Compare with A-SSCC05 Conference Attendance
2005 Conference Attendance 335 2006 Conference
Attendance 246
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2006 Budget Report/preliminary
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A-SSCC2007 Organization Structure
IEEE SSCS AdCom Conference Meetings Committee
International
Steering Committee Ck Wang, G. Hu, W. Sansen, A.
Chandrakasan, T. Sakurai, etc
Local
Liaison W. Sansen, (Belgium) A. Chandrakasan,
(USA)
Technical Program Committee Nicky Lu, (Taiwan)
Conference Chair Chong-Min Kyung, (Korea)
Organizing Committee Kwang Sub Yoon, (Korea) Suki
Kim (Korea)
Professional Management Team GENICOM Convention
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2007 A-SSCC Technical Programs

• Paper Sections
• Analog and Data Conversion
• RF
• Wireless and Wireline Communications
• Digital Circuits and Systems (Rename)
• Memory
• Emerging Applications and Technologies
• Mixed-Signal Processing (New)
• Special Programs
• Industry Program
• Educational Program
• Invited Program
• Design Contest

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2007A-SSCC SC, TPC and Local Working Items
Schedule

• Working Items

Paper Submission deadline Mon. June 11, 2007 at
2000
Paper Selection Meeting Sat. July 7, 2007
Acceptance notification Fri. July 31, 2007
Final papers submission Fri. Sept. 1,
2007 at 2000
Author registration deadline Fri.
Oct. 19, 2007
Reduced rate advance by Fri. Oct. 19, 2007
Non-reduced rate On-site, after Fri.
Oct. 19, 2007

• Conference Date Mon.-Wed., November 12-14, 2007