Day One

 Wednesday

October 23

Session

Company

 or

 University

7:00 am – 7:00 pm

Registration Open All Day

 Several Opportunities to Win various Prizes Throughout the Conference Program . . .

Don't Miss Out!

8:00 - 8:15

"Welcome, Opening Remarks, and Conference Updates." Farhad Mafie, SoC Conference Chairman, IEEE OC SSCS & OCEN Chairs. 

SoC Conference

Analog and Mixed-Signal, SOI, and FinFET Technologies, Trends and Challenges for Complex SoC Designs. 

Track Chairman:  Farhad Mafie, SoC Conference Chairman.

8:15 - 8:40

"Adding Mixed Signal flexibility for Horizontal Market Appeal." Keith Curtis, Technical Staff Engineer.

Microchip Technology Inc.

8:40 - 9:05

“Fully Depleted SOI devices for SoC." Bich-Yen NGUYEN, SOITEC.

SOITEC

9:05 - 9:30

“Receiver Architectures for Blocker Tolerant Software Radios.” Dr. Hooman Darabi.

Broadcom Corporation

9:30 - 9:55

“Complex Analog/Mixed-Signal SoCs - Why do more than 50% of the designs fail in the first iteration? Foundry Perspective on first-time-right performance for complex A/MS SoCs.” Charles Hage, Vice President of Business Development. 

X-FAB Semiconductor Foundries AG

(Germany)

9:55 - 10:20

Morning Break

10:20 - 10:45

“Low Cost Front End Module Integration on CMOS: the Era of SOI Technology.” Dr. Fred Gianesello.

STMicro

10:45 - 11:10

“FinFET Technology for SoC Application.” Dr. Chung-Hsun Lin, Manager, Exploratory Device Research. IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.

IBM

T.J. Watson Research Center

11:10 – 11:50

Keynote

Keynote: “Living on the Edge (of the SoC).” Jim Aralis, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), and Vice President of R&D.

Microsemi Corporation

11:50 - 1:00

Lunch

1:00 – 1:40

Keynote

Keynote: "Mobile Computing Mega Trends and Major Challenges." Dr. John Paul Shen, Nokia Fellow, Founding Head of Nokia Research North America Lab.

Nokia

1:40 – 2:05

“Recent Advances in FPGA Design Security Reduce Insider Threats.”  Dr. Richard Newell, Senior Principal Product Architect, SoC Products Group, Microsemi Corporation.

Microsemi Corporation

2:05 - 2:45

Keynote

Keynote: "Seeing the Unseen: From polarization-sensitive eyes in nature to system-on-chip sensing and imaging devices."  Dr. Nader Engheta, H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering..

University of Pennsylvania

2:45 - 3:00

Afternoon Break

Emerging & Leading-Edge Communication ICs, Wireless, High-Speed I/Os & NoC Optical Communications.

Track Chairman:  Professor Luca Ramini, Università di Ferrara (Italy)

3:00 - 3:25

“Revisiting High-Speed Interconnect Channel Modeling.” Professor Byungsub Kim.

Pohang University of Science and Technology

(Korea)

3:25 – 3:50

“Low-Frequency Equalizer for High-Speed I/O.” Dr. Yasuo Hidaka is a senior researcher in Platform Technology Innovation Group at Fujitsu Laboratories of America.

Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc.

3:50 – 4:15

“Coherent Dispersive Fourier Transform for Real-time Digitization and Processing of Ultrahigh Bandwidth Optical Communication.” Dr. Brandon Buckley. 

UCLA

4:15 – 4:40

"Wireless Links in 3-D ICs – The On-Chip Wide-Band Microbump Antenna Way."  Dr. Byunghoo Jung, Associate Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University.

Purdue University

4:40 – 5:05

“OPEN Alliance: Supporting the Standardization of Automotive Ethernet.” Dr. Ali Abaye, Senior Director of Product Marketing for the Infrastructure & Networking Group.

Broadcom Corporation

5:05 – 5:30

"Optical Interconnect Technology for 3D Stacked Multi- and Many-Core Systems: When, Where and How". Professor Luca Ramini.  

Università di Ferrara

(Italy)

3:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Tabletop

Exhibit & Reception

Conference Tabletop Exhibit & Reception Open

(Free Exhibit Pass, Many Door Prizes, etc.)

Including IEEE-OC Student Design Contest

 Day TWO Oct 24, 2013 - SoC Conference Program Agenda*

Day Two

 Thursday

October 24

Session

Company

or

 University

7:00 am – 7:00  pm

Registration Open All Day

 Several Opportunities to Win various Prizes Throughout the Conference Program . . .

Don't Miss Out!

8:00 - 8:05

"Welcome, Opening Remarks, and Conference Updates." Farhad Mafie, SoC Conference Chairman, IEEE OC SSCS & OCEN Chairs. 

SoC Conference

 Leading-Edge Technologies and Design Methodologies & Approaches for Emerging Complex SoCs. 

Track Chairman:  Dr. Nader Bagherzadeh, University of California, Irvine (UCI)

8:05 - 8:30

“Efficient and Accurate Frequency Synthesizer Model for SoC Processors.” Dr. Amr Fahim, Principal Design Engineer.

Semtech Corporation

8:30 - 8:55

“Advancement in Charge-Trap Flash Memory Technology.” Shiva Shetty, Director of R&D Product Engineering Group at Spansion.

Spansion Inc.

8:55 - 9:20

“Ultimate Solution for 3D-IC Technologies.” Dr. Mario M. Pelella.

SP3 Diamond Technologies

9:20 - 9:45

“Securing the Internet of Things,” Jauher Zaidi, Chairman & CTO, Palmchip.

Palmchip

9:45 - 10:10

“Beyond-CMOS Devices for Low-Power System Design.” Dr. An Chen, Senior Member of Technical Staff.

GLOBALFOUNDRIES

10:10 - 10:20

Morning Break

10:20 - 10:55

“FPGA+C-based HLS" can outperform GPGPU (SIMD processors) from the view point of compiler and architecture.” Dr. Wakaba K. Wakabayashi.

NEC

ALDEC

10:55 - 11:20

“Exascale and Embedded Systems Have Common Goals?" Dr. Nader Bagherzadeh. 

University of California, Irvine

(UCI)

11:20 – 12:00

Keynote

"SoC Platform Opportunities and Challenges in the Big Data Economy.” Dr. Jeff Parkhurst, Program Director, Intel Science and Technology Centers.

Intel

12:00 - 1:00

Lunch

1:00 – 1:40

Keynote

Keynote:  "The future of Programming the Zynq SoC platform." Dr. Kees Vissers, Xilinx R&D Center.

Xilinx

 Analog and Mixed-Signal SoC Solutions, Tools, Verification Methodologies & Challenges.

Track Chairman:  Dr. Kaushik Sengupta,  Princeton University.

1:40 – 2:05

Synopsys

2:05 – 2:30

"Powering Wireless Devices from the Biologic Battery in the Inner-Ear.” Dr. Patrick Mercier, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

2:30 – 2:50

Afternoon Break

2:50 – 3:15

“Terahertz and mm-Wave Power Generation and Amplification: Reaching the Fundamental Limits.” Dr. Omeed Momeni, Assistant Professor.

University of California, Davis

3:15 – 3:40

“Electromagnetic and Circuit Co-Design." Dr. Kaushik Sengupta.

Princeton University

3:40 – 4:05

“Platform Coherency and SoC Verification Challenges.” Pankaj Singh, Chethan-Raj M , Prakash Raghavendra, Tony Tye, Dibyendu Das, Anindyasundar N, AMD India Pvt Ltd, Bangalore, India.

AMD

(India)

4:05 - 4:30

Breker Verification Systems

4:30 - 4:55

"GaN Spintronics.” Dr. Vladimir Litvinov, Principal Scientist.

Sierra Nevada Corporation

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Reception &  Networking

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Open To Everyone

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5:00 – 6:00

Panel

"FREE"

Panel:  

“Technology & Entrepreneurship: Dreams, Realities & Opportunities.” 

Moderator:  Farhad Mafie, SoC Conference Chairman, IEEE OC SSCS & OCEN Chairs.

Panelists:

1. Charlie Baecker, Lecturer, Entrepreneurship and Strategy, Administrative Director,  The Don Beall Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship The Paul Merage School of Business.

2. Jarom Kesler, Partner in the Orange County office of Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP. 
3. Dr. Goran Matijasevic is Senior Assistant Vice Chancellor, Alumni and Constituent Relations and the Executive Director of the Chief Executive Roundtable at the University of California, Irvine.
4. Ray Chan Managing Partner, K5Launch.

5. Richard W. Henson, Entrepreneur, Former CEO, Source Scientific, LLC.

6. TBD.

 This Panel Is Open To Everyone . . .  Register Online for FREE Panel Pass

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Several Opportunities to Win various Prizes During this Panel Discussion . . .

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Panel

K5Launch

SoC Conference

UCI

Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

6:00 – 7:00

Open To Everyone

Reception &  Networking

Savant Company Inc.

11th International SoC Conference Closed.