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- 23rd IEEE International SOC Conference (2010)
- SOC Conference, IEEE International (since 2003, except 2010)
- ASIC/SOC Conference, Annual IEEE International (1999 - 2002)
- ASIC , Annual IEEE International Conference and Exhibit (1991-1998)
- ASIC , Annual IEEE Seminar and Exhibit (1989 - 1990)
Distinguished Speakers History
SOCC 2016 - Seattle, Washington, USA |
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| Keynote: | Jeannette M. Wing | Corporate Vice President Microsoft Research "Crashing Drones and Hijacked Cameras: CyberTrust Meets CyberPhysical" |
| Keynote: | Mircea Stan | Professor, Charles L. Brown Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering (ECE) University of Virginia "SoX at the Edge: the Heterogeneous, Highly Integrated IoT Systems of the future" |
| Plenary: | Edward A. Lee | Robert S. Pepper Distinguished Professor Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) U.C. Berkeley "The Internet of Important Things" |
| Plenary: | Ram Krishnamurthy | Senior Principal Engineer & Director of High Performance and Low Voltage Circuits Research Group Circuits Research Lab Intel Corporation "Energy Efficient and Ultra Low Voltage SoC design in Nanoscale CMOS Technologies" |
| Banquet: | Art Swift | President prpl Foundation "Hardware backed security framework for the IOT" |
| Forum Keynote: |
Wolf Richter | President EPIC Semiconductors "IoT: No more Moore? Let's break the law!" |
SOCC 2015 - Beijing, China |
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| Keynote: | Jason Cong | Chancellor's Professor, UCLA Computer Science Department, and Director, Center for Domain-Specific Computing University of California, Los Angeles "High-Level Synthesis and Beyond – from Datacenters to IoTs" |
| Keynote: | Chris Rowen | Fellow and CTO, Design Group Cadence Design Systems, Inc. "Five Forces Shaping the Silicon World: Advanced sensing and intelligence in IoT and vision" |
| Plenary: | Rui Hou | Vice President Processor Design Suzhou PowerCore, and Associate ProfessorInstitute of Computing Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences "Venice: A Cost-effective Architecture for Datacenter Servers" |
| Plenary: | Gavin Stark |
Chief Scientist Netronome "Unicorns and Centaurs: Architecting SOCs for Software Defined Networking" |
| Banquet: | Yervant Zorian |
Chief Architect and Fellow Synopsys "Ensuring Robustness in Today's SOCs" |
SOCC 2014 - Las Vegas, Nevada |
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| Keynote: | Tom Beckley |
Senior Vice President of R&D Cadence Design Systems, Inc. "The Internet of Every-Thing: EDA Perspectives" |
| Keynote: | J. Thomas Pawlowski |
Fellow and Chief Technologist Micron Technology, Inc. "The Future of Memory/Logic Technologies and Computing System Architectures" |
| Plenary: | Scott Runner | VP of advanced methodologies and low-power design Qualcomm "SoCs for Mobile Applications: Systems from 0 MPH to over 100 MPH" |
| Plenary: | Jeffrey D. Brown |
Distinguished Engineer, Emerging Product Development and Hardware Architect, SoC IBM "The Next Generation of Scale-Out Server Architecture : Building the OpenPOWERTM Eco-System" |
| Banquet: | Paul Eremenko | Director, Project Ara "Democratizing the mobile hardware ecosystem: Google's Project Ara" |
SOCC 2013 - Erlangen, Germany |
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| Keynote: | Ronald M. Martino | Vice President, Product Development and Hardware R&D Freescale Automotive MCU Product Group "The Roadway to Innovation" |
| Plenary: | Carsten Elgert | Product Marketing Director IP-Group Cadence Design Systems Inc. “The pig in the poke? – Strategies to avoid unpleasant surprises with IP on your SoC” |
| Plenary: | Volker Politz | Vice President of Business Development Imagination, Inc., USA “Visions of future SoC Design: Why Heterogeneous Architectures and Power Matter” |
| Plenary: | Bill Huffman | Chief Architect Tensilica, Inc. “Processor-to-Memory Interface Design Methodologies for Energy and Performance Efficiencies” |
| Plenary: | Jonathan Young | Director Design Consulting Synospys Inc. “Power-Centric Timing Optimization for Low Power CPU Hardening” |
| Banquet: | Juergen Herre | Chief Scientist, Audio/Multimedia Activities, Fraunhofer IIS, Professor at University Erlangen-Nuernberg and International Audio Labs Erlangen "The MP3 story and more: Perceptual Audio Coding from its Beginnings to the Present" |
SOCC 2012 - Niagara Falls, USA |
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| Keynote: | Bernard S. Meyerson | IBM Fellow Vice President, Innovation & Global University Relations IBM Systems and Technology Group “Driving Innovation in the "Post-Silicon" World” |
| Plenary: | Richard Grisenthwaite | ARM Fellow, VP of Technology, ARM “ Low power solutions for a smarter future” |
| Plenary: | Raj Yavatkar | Intel Fellow, Director, System-on-Chip Architecture Intel Architecture Group “Era of SoCs: What is next?” |
| Plenary: | Robert E. Geer | Vice President for Academic Affairs and Chief Academic Officer Professor of NanoScience College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE), University at Albany, SUNY “Connectivity Driven Systems: On-Chip, Off-chip and In-between” |
SOCC 2011 - Taipei, Taiwan |
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| Keynote: | Yale N. Patt | Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Ernest Cockrell, Jr. Centennial Chair in Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin “The Future Microprocessor: Return of the ASIC” |
| Plenary: | Giovanni De Micheli | Professor and Director, Institute of Electrical Engineering, Integrated Systems Centre, EPF Lausanne, Switzerland “Nanosystems: technologies and architectures for sensing and computing” |
| Plenary: | Chih-Kung Lee | President, Institute for Information Industry, Taipei, Taiwan, Lifetime Distinguished Professor, Institute of Applied Mechanics, and Lifetime Distinguished Professor, Department of Engineering Science and Ocean Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan “From Global Telecare Development Trends to Taiwan's Biomedical Electronic System: Opportunity and Outlook” |
| Plenary: | Gideon Intrater | VP of Product Marketing and Applications, MIPS Technologies “Boosting performance efficiency in multiprocessor systems through multi-threading” |
| Luncheon: | Laung-Terng (L.-T.) Wang | President & CEO SynTest Technologies, Inc. “Introduction to SoC Testing” |
SOCC 2010 - Las Vegas, Nevada, USA |
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| Keynote: | Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli |
Professor, University of California at Berkeley, and Chief Technology Advisor, Cadence Design Systems “SoC Design as an Example of Component-Based Design of Distributed Systems” |
| Plenary: | Michael Keating | Fellow, Synopsys Inc. ”Third Revolution: The Search for Scalable Code-Based Design” |
| Plenary: | Sandra Woodward | Senior Technical Staff Member, PowerEN Processor Chip Technical Lead, IBM Corp. ”The IBM Power Edge of Network™ Processor: A wire-speed System-on-a-Chip (SOC): Technical Overview and Challenges for a Large Complex SOC used in Next-Generation Systems” |
| Plenary: | Jo Dale Carothers | Partner, Covington & Burling LLP “What You Need to Know About Patent Litigation” |
| Luncheon: | P.R.Mukund | President and CEO, NanoArk Corp. “From Film to Silicon: The Migration of Document Archiving Technology” |
SOCC 2009 - Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK |
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| Keynote: | Hermann Eul | Member of the Management Board, Executive VP Sales, Marketing, Technology and R&D, Infineon “The future of mobile broadband internet – powered by the semiconductor industry” |
| Plenary: | James O’Riordan | Chief Technology Officer & VP Corporate Development, Silicon & Software Systems Ltd. “What are the Real Innovations that Fabless Companies should be looking at?” |
| Plenary: | Liang-Gee Chen | Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University “Toward neocortical computing with tera-scale SOC” |
SOCC 2008 - Newport Beach, CA |
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| Keynote: | Nick Ilyadis | VP and CTO of Enterprise Networking Group, Broadcom “SOC Challenges in the Terabit Networks Era” |
| Plenary: | Alexander D. Peleg | Vice President, Mobility Group Director, Intel Architecture Strategic and Platform Planning Intel Corporation “Future Trends in PC Computing and their Implications to SoC” |
| Plenary: | Kamran Eshraghian | President, Eshraghian Laboratories Pty Ltd., and Ferrero Family Chair in Electrical Engineering, University of California, Merced. “Surfing the iSoC Multitechnology Platform: Volumetric Growth beyond Moore's Law” |
| Luncheon: | David F. Doody | Flight Operations Lead, Cassini Mission Support & Services, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab “Cassini-Huygens at Saturn” |
| “Hot Topic” Plenary: |
Iain Richardson | Director, Centre for Video Communications, The Robert Gordon University, UK “Dynamic Configuration: Beyond Video Coding Standards” |
SOCC 2007 - Hsinchu, Taiwan - 20th Anniversary |
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| Keynote: | Jackson Hu | Chairman and CEO, United Microelectronics Corporation ”Will Moore’s Law continue ?” |
| Plenary: | Dave Holt | President and CEO, Lightspeed Logic, Inc. ”Beyond Standard Cells” |
| Plenary: | Heinrich Meyr | Director, Institute for Integrated Signal Processing Systems, Aachen University of Technology ”A future of heterogeneous many processor SoCs: Nightmare or a necessary paradigm change?” |
| Luncheon: | Sheng-Chun (Paul) Lo | Sr. VP and GM, Analog/Mixed-Signal Group, Synopsys |
SOCC 2006 - Austin, TX |
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| Keynote: | Gene Frantz | Principal Fellow, Texas Instruments “How the Shrinking System is creating an Expanding Market” |
| Plenary: | Jan Rabaey | Donald O. Pederson Distinguished Professor, University of California at Berkeley “Curing the ailments of nanometer CMOS through self-healing and resiliency” |
| Plenary: | Jim Kahle | IBM Fellow and Director of Technology, STI Design Center for Cell Technology, IBM Corporation |
| Luncheon: | Dean Cubley | Director and Chairman, ERF Wireless Director, Eagle Broadband Inc. “The Wild West Days of NASA” |
SOCC 2005 - Washington, DC |
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| Keynote: | Hans Stork | Senior VP & CTO, Texas Instruments, Inc. “Advanced CMOS Technology for Digital Communication Systems“ |
| Plenary: | Ivo Bolsens | Vice President and CTO, Xilinx “FPGA, The Heart of Embedded Systems” |
| Plenary: | Jacques Benkoski | Entrepreneur in Residence, US Venture Partners “The Evolving Silicon Infrastructure: Issues and Opportunities” |
| Luncheon: | Rajesh Galivanche | Principal Engineer, Intel “Test Challenges for Nanometer Designs” |
SOCC 2004 - Santa Clara, CA |
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| Keynote: | Paul E. Jacobs |
Executive VP and President, |
| Plenary: | Kiyoo Itoh | Fellow, Hitachi Ltd. “Review and Prospects of Low-Voltage RAM Circuits” |
| Plenary: | James D. Meindl | Director, Microelectronics Research Center, Georgia Institute of Technology “The Interconnect Era of ASIC/SOC Technology” |
| Banquet: | Michael Riordan | Adjunct Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz “The Roots of Silicon Valley” |
| Luncheon: | Jürgen Koehl | Distinguished Engineer, IBM Systems and Technology Group “IBM ASIC Design TAT Reducton” |
SOC 2003 - Portland, OR |
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| Keynote: | Hyung Kyu Lim | President, System LSI Business, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. “Expanding Mobile Space: Challenges and Opportunities” |
| Plenary: | Mi-Chang Chang | Director of Design Service Division, TSMC |
| Plenary: | Dennis Buss | Vice President, Silicon Technology Development, Texas Instruments “CMOS SoC Technology For Personal Internet Products” |
| Banquet: | Gene Frantz | Principal Fellow, Texas Instruments “A History of Speak-and-Spell and How DSP Evolved” |
ASIC/SOC 2002 - Rochester, NY |
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| Keynote: | Hirokazu Hashimoto | Senior Vice President, NEC Electron Devices, NEC Corporation Chairman, NEC Electronics Inc. |
| Plenary: | Tom Bednar | Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM Microelectronics |
| Banquet: | Kumar Krishen | Fellow, Society for Design And Process Science (SDPS) “New Technologies that can Support Human Exploration of Space” |
ASIC/SOC 2001 - “SoC in a Networked World” - Arlington, VA(This conference was cancelled because of Sept. 11 attacks) |
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| Keynote: | Hirokazu Hashimoto | President and CEO, NEC Electronics Inc. |
| Plenary: | Behzad Razavi | University of California, Los Angeles, and Transpectrum Technologies “Challenges in IC Design for Optical Communication Systems” |
| Plenary: | Peter Robinson | API NetWorks “HyperTransport Technology for Networking” |
| Banquet: | John Tanner | President & CEO, Tanner Research Inc. “Low Volume Manufacture of Chips, Boards, and Enclosures” |
ASIC/SOC 2000 - “System-on-Chip in the Internet Age” - Arlington, VA |
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| Keynote: | John E. Kelly, III | Senior Vice President & Group Executive, Technology Group, IBM Corp. "Communications System-on-a-chip - Opportunity and Challenges" |
| Plenary: | Wolfgang Roethig | NEC Electronics "Design for Signal Integrity on SoC" |
| Luncheon: | James Urquhart | Chief Operating Officer and Director, ARM Holdings plc. |
ASIC/SOC 1999 - “The Road to System-on-Chip (SOC)” - Arlington, VA |
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| Keynote: | Wilfred J. Corrigan | Chairman and CEO, LSI Logic Corporation "System-on-a-chip in the Internet Economy" |
| Plenary: | James D. Meindl | Director, Microelectronics Research Center, Georgia Institute of Technology "Opportunities and Persistent Limits on a GSI System-on-a-Chip" |
| Plenary: | Yervant Zorian | Chief Technology Advisor, LogicVision, Inc. "System-on-Chip Test Strategies" |
| Plenary: | Kensall D. Wise | Director, Center for Integrated Microsystems, University of Michigan “INTEGRATED MICROSYSTEMS: Merging MEMS, Micropower Electronics, and Wireless Communications” |
| Banquet: | Leon Chua | Director of Nonlinear Electronics Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley "Nanostructures and Cellular Neural Networks" |
| Luncheon: | Juri Matisoo and Ram Krishnamurthy |
Vice President of Technology, Silicon Industry Association Intel Corp. "SIA’s International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors" |
ASIC 1998 - “ULSI - Making it Real” - Rochester, NY |
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| Keynote: | Raul Camposano | Chief Technical Officer, Senior Vice President & General Manager Design Tools, Sysopsys Inc. "Design Technology for System on a Chip" |
| Banquet: | James F. Bell III | Cornell University Dept. of Astronomy "NASA Mars Rovers and Orbiters: Imaging the Geologic History of the Red Planet" |
| Luncheon: | Vic Kulkarni | Head of Library Business Unit, Avant! Corporation "Silicon Intellectual Property: The Passport to System-on-a-Chip" |
ASIC 1997 - “Portable Solutions” - Portland, OR |
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| Keynote: | Eli Harari | President & CEO, SanDisk Corporation "Flash Memory-the Universal Digital Storage Medium for the Coming Age of Consumer Electronics" |
| Banquet: | John Tanner | President & CEO, Tanner Research Inc. "The Future of EDA: An Alternative View" |
| Luncheon: | Levy Gerzberg | President & CEO, Zoran Corp. "Entrepreneurship in the U.S." |
ASIC 1996 - “VLSI Systems Solutions” - Rochester, NY |
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| Keynote: | Walter Davis | Senior Vice President and Director of Strategic Semiconductor Operations for the Messaging Systems Products Group, Motorola, Inc "The Role of VLSI in Wireless Communication" |
| Banquet: | Irwin Federman | Senior Partner, US Venture Partners “Venture Capital Perspectives on the Information Technology Revolution” |
| Luncheon: | Charles (Bob) Hewes | Texas Instruments “The Convergence of DSP and ASIC” |
ASIC 1995 - “Implementing the Information Superhighway with Emerging Technologies” - Austin, TX |
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| Keynote: | Peng H. Ang | Vice President and General Manager Consumer Products Division, LSI Logic Corporation “ASIC Technology: The Driving force behind the Information Superhighway” |
| Banquet: | Brad Cox | George Mason University "Taming the Electronic Frontier" |
| Luncheon: | David M. Williams | Director of Home Media Lab, Intel “The Soul of a New Medium - Musings on the Information Superhighway” |
ASIC 1994 - Rochester, NY |
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| Keynote: | Ron Smith | General Manager PCI Components Division, Intel Corporation “Performance Issues for PCs in the Consumer Market” |
| Banquet: | Robert A. Pease | National Semiconductor "What's All This Feedback Stuff?" |
| Luncheon: | Arpad G. Toth | Imaging Research Laboratories, Eastman Kodak “Image Enabled Multimedia Communications” |
ASIC 1993 - Rochester, NY |
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| Keynote: | Aart J. de Geus | President, Synopsys, Inc. “One Million Gate ASIC? Not with Present EDA Tools and Methodology!” |
| Banquet: | V. Michael Bove, Jr. | MIT Media Laboratory "Hardware and Software Implications of Representing Scenes as Data" |
| Luncheon: | Richard S. Wolff | Director, Personal Communications Applications Research, Bellcore “Personal Communications Applications: New Opportunities and Challenges for ASIC Designers” |
ASIC 1992 - Rochester, NY |
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| Keynote: | Hal Alles | Chief Architect, Mentor Graphics Corp. “ICs and ASICs at Thirty-Something” |
| Keynote: | S. Samuel Liu | President, Silicon Integrated Systems Corp., Taiwan R.O.C. ”ASICs in the 90's -- an Asia Pacific Perspective” |
| Banquet: | Bruce R. Bourbon | President and CEO, Vertex Semiconductor Corp, a Toshiba Subsidiary "The Design Gap" |
| Luncheon: | Michael J. Barry | CD Imaging Development, Eastman Kodak Company “The Photo CD Imaging System” |
ASIC 1991 - Rochester, NY |
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| Keynote: | Frederick T. Tucker | Senior Vice President, General Manager Automotive and Industrial Group, Motorola Inc. “ASICs in the Automotive Industry” |
| Keynote: | Tommy Ng | General Manager of ICCAD Advanced Design Automation, Mentor Graphics Corp. ”Design Methodology in High Complexity ASIC Design” |
| Keynote: | Douglas B. Boyle | Director, Hardware Engineering, Sun Microsystems Engineering “CAD Requirements for High-Volume, High Performance, Low Cost Designs” |
| Banquet: | David G. Richardson | Vice President, Integrated Components, Northern Telecom Electronics, Ontario, Canada "ASICs and High Performance Telecommunication Systems" |
| Luncheon: | Bruce McWilliams | Senior Vice President, Chief Technical Officer, nCHIP, Inc. “Multichip Modules Today and Tomorrow” |
ASIC 1990 - Rochester, NY |
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| Keynote: | Rajinder Khosla |
Director, Microelectronics Technology Division Research Labs, |
| Keynote: | Robert Walker | Vice President, Technical Marketing, LSI Logic Corp. “ASIC Tests in the Nineties” |
| Keynote: | James A. Rowson | Fellow, VLSI Technology Inc. “1990's ASIC CAD: Getting the System Right” |
| Keynote: | Robert B. Johnson | Vice President, ASIC Division, National Semiconductor Corp. "Single Vendor Solution" |
| Banquet: | Charles P. Holt | Vice President, Systems Reprographic Development Unit, Xerox Corp. "The Document Processing Explosion of the 90s" |
| Luncheon: | Walter Kleinfelder | Senior Research Manager, IBM Watson Research Center “Research Parallel Processor Prototype” |
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