3. Welcome and Introductions	12. Executive Office Report (see Attachment H): Anne O’Neill.
4. Secretary’s report:  Kevin O’Connor (acting)	13. Educational Activities Committee report: Kevin O’Connor.
5. President’s report: Lew Terman.	14. Distinguished Lecturers Program report: Dick Jaeger.
6. Treasurer’s report : Dave Hodges.	15. Publications Committee Report (see Attachment J):  Dick Jaeger.
7. Awards Committee report (see Attachment C): Bruce Wooley	16. Membership Committee report : Steve Kosonocky
8. Three Proposals for IEEE (see Attachment D): Lew Terman.	17. Bylaws  (see Attachment L): Lew Terman
9. IEEE History Center Funding Emerson Pugh	18..Nominations Committee report : Bob Swartz.
10. Chapters Committee report (see Attachment F): Jan Van der Spiegel.	19. The next AdCom meeting will be held Friday, August 27, 1999.
11. Meetings Committee report  Charles Sodini.	20. Sensors Council: Lew Terman.

1. Approved decisions

 Motion 1: To approve the minutes of 8/28/98.
 Motion 2: To give $50K as a lump sum to the IEEE History Center.
 Motion 3: To loan $10,000 to the 1999 Asia Pacific Conference on ASICs and provide Technical Co-sponsorship.
 Motion 4: To provide Technical Co-sponsorship the International Workshop on Memory Technology for 1999.
 Motion 5: To withdraw support of the Rochester’s ASIC Conference in year 2000.
 Motion 6: To increase the JSSC Budget to 2,300 pages for the year 2000.
 Motion 7: To approve up to $85K to support the 1966-88 CD set.
 Motion 8: To approve up to $25K to initiate production of 1966-99 DVD set.
 Motion 9: Endorse the expansion of the Transactions on VLSI Systems to 6 issues/year.
 Motion 10:
(a) To approve SSCS sponsorship of the following IEEE Press books (all approved by IEEE Press):
 Design of Performance Microprocessors
Edited by A. Chandrakasan (MIT), W. Bowhill (Compaq), and F. Fox (Rambus)
Testing of Digital Circuits
By N. Jha (Princeton) and S. Gupta (USC).
 (b) Conditional approval of SSCS sponsorship of the following IEEE Press books subject to review and approval by R. C. Jaeger:
 Advanced Theory of Semiconductor Devices
By Karl Hess (Illinois).
 Motion 11: To fund a personalized welcome letter to all new members. Estimated annual cost $3.3K plus postage.
 Motion 12: To fund for three years, subsidizing IEEE and Society membership for chapter formation in emerging economies. Estimated annual cost $3.5K/year.
 Motion 13: To amend the bylaws as indicated so that the section on Nominations reads in part:
The Nominations Committee Chair shall in time for the ballots to be mailed by September 15th provide names of the nominees and biographical sketches to the IEEE Technical Activities Department for preparation, mailing, and tallying of ballots. A slate of candidates at least 1.5 times the number of vacancies to be filled must be supplied, not including any petition candidates.

2. Action Items

A. The Technical Committee and the Standards Committee will return with their respective proposals at the next AdCom.
B. AdCom members are to keep the new plastic name tags and bring them to future AdCom meetings themselves or return them to Anne O’Neill, the SSCS Executive Director who will bring them to each AdCom meeting for members’ use.
C. AdCom members need to provide to Bruce Wooley names of possible nominees for the following IEEE Technical Awards:
Solid-State Circuits Award for outstanding contributions in the field of solid-state circuits to an individual or team of not more than three.
Cledo Brunetti Award for outstanding contributions in miniaturization in the electronic arts.
Post meeting addition of other relevant IEEE Technical Field Awards:
Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award for important contribution to emerging technologies recognized within recent years to an individual or team of not more than three.
Frederik Philips Award for outstanding accomplishments in the management of R&D resulting in effective innovation to an individual or team of not more than three.
David Sarnoff Award for outstanding contribution in electronics. Preference given to an individual for achievement in the past 10 years; may be presented to a team of not more than three.
D. The SSCS Education Committee will look into the details of donations to the IEEE History Center that could specifically cover SSCS topics.
E. Anne O’Neill, with the advice and support of Stan Schuster and Steve Kosonocky, will develop an email list alias for use in announcing SSCTC Workshops and other meetings to interested members and others.  A progress report is due at the August AdCom.
F. Anne O’Neill will send a message to chapters reminding them of the SSCS Distinguished Lecturers Program.
G. Anne O’Neill will take steps to market the JSSC CDs to libraries
H.  Asad Abidi will review the personalized new member welcome letter
I. Anne O’Neill will develop and assign a WEB link from the SSCS home page about nominations.
J. The Society President will see that a proposal for participation in the new IEEE Sensors Council is brought forward for decision to the AdCom at its August meeting.

3. Welcome and Introductions:

The meeting was called to order by SSCS President Lew Terman.

4. Secretary’s report:

A. Roll Call:
(a) Voting members present:
 Asad Abidi Sergio Bambi Gerhard Fettweis
  Ebby Friedman  Dick Hester Dave Hodges
 Mark Horowitz Dick Jaeger Steve Kosonocky
 Nicky Lu  Chris Mangelsdorf  Toshiaki Masuhara
 Kevin O’Connor Willy Sanson Charlie Sodini
 Bob Swartz Lew Terman Rudy Van der Plassche
 Jan Van der Spiegel  T.R. Viswanathan Eric Vittoz
 Neil Weste Bruce Wooley

(b) Voting members absent:
None
(c) Non-voting members present:
Bob Cordell Steve Lewis Stan Schuster
Ashwin Shah Tim Tredwell John Trnka
Peter Verhofstadt

(d) SSCS Executive Director present:
Anne O’Neill


B. The minutes of the August 28, 1998 SSCS AdCom meeting were submitted by acting Secretary Kevin O’Connor.
Motion 1. To approve the minutes of 8/28/98. The motion passed.

C. The action item from 8/28/98 meeting “Lew Terman – To discuss IEEE USA policies at the next TAB meeting” was reviewed. Lew Terman reported that the IEEE Technical Activities Board itself is concerned about the initiatives of IEEE USA, and this issue will be watched by him in TAB.
 

5. President’s report: Lew Terman.

A. New appointments:
Asad Abidi is appointed SSCS AdCom Secretary. Eby Friedman is Representative from the Circuits and Systems Society.

B. Committee assignments: (see Attachment A):
All AdCom members are now serving on at least one committee. Two new committees were formed.
Action Item A: The Technical Committee and the Standards Committee will return with their respective proposals at the next AdCom.

C. Society and Journal Review:
The Society and Publication Review conducted at the November 12, 1998, Technical Activities Board meeting went very well.  SSCS AdCom members received the Society and the Publication Reviews at the end of last year.  The stated need in the review for long range planning is being addressed with the formation of a new committee with Bruce Wooley as the chair.  The Journal Review was very positive with credit to and justifiable high praise for the recent editor in chief Dick Jaeger.

D. Newsletter:
AdCom members were directed to note the new Newsletter layout.

E. AdCom name tags:
New permanent plastic nametags were distributed for all voting members of SSCS AdCom. AdCom members are encouraged to wear these during SSCS sponsored meetings to raise the identity of the Society and provide the technical public with faces and names to engage in conversation about the Society.
Action Item B: AdCom members are to keep the name tags and bring them to future AdCom meetings themselves or return them to Anne O’Neill, the SSCS Executive Director who will bring them to each AdCom meeting for members use.
 

6. Treasurer’s report (see Attachment B): Dave Hodges.

SSCS closed the 1998 fiscal year with very positive financial results.  With an overall operating budget of about $2M in income and expense, our net operating surplus for the year was $211K, compared with a budgeted deficit of $143K.  The budget did not include long-term appreciation, which is accounted in the year-end actuals. Details are shown in attachment B.
Gains realized on our invested assets added about $140 K to the interest plus appreciation category, well above budget.  Excellent management of meetings resulted in a net surplus of about $230K for that category.  Other categories were close to budget.
After some long delays noted last year by the AdCom, audits were completed for ISSCC 1995-1998 without any surprises.  ISSCC financial results are summarized in graphs in attachment B.  ISSCC represents about 60% of SSCS annual income and expense.
Our second largest financial commitment is to the Journal of Solid-State Circuits, amounting to about 30% of the SSCS annual budget.  Our priority is to publish all finally accepted papers without delay.  For 1998, our actual page count exceeded our budget plans by more than 10% resulting in some reduction in net revenue.  Nevertheless, the JSSC produced a substantial operating surplus.  The surplus is expected to rise in 1999 because we have increased the non-member subscriber rate from $300 to $380 annually.  This was the first increase in several years.
The “Committee/other” category in the two attached spreadsheets includes costs of the executive office (about half the total) as well as the chapters, distinguished lecturer series, awards expenses, and AdCom meeting expenses.  CD-ROM publication adds a big expense for 1999, but preliminary indication is that we will recover most or all of this cost from sales.  We should consider most of these expenses to be discretionary expenses under control of AdCom.  Subsequent discussion indicated that there will be a surplus.
The SSCS remains in excellent financial health, with assets approaching $3M.  The 11-year record is shown in Attachment B as are spreadsheets with additional detail, and the 1999 operating budget.

7.  Awards Committee report (see Attachment C): Bruce Wooley

Awards presented at this meeting of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference are the 1999 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Technical Field Award to Profession Kensall Wise of University of Michigan, 1998-99 Predoctoral Fellowship in Solid-State Circuits to Juoko Vankka of Helsinki University of Technology and 6 IEEE Fellows.  Four of the five Fellow nominations evaluated in 1998 by the SSCS were elected to the class of 1999.

Action Item C: AdCom members need to provide to Bruce Wooley names of possible nominees for the following IEEE Technical Awards:

Solid-State Circuits Award for outstanding contributions in the field of solid-state circuits to an individual or team of not more than three.
Cledo Brunetti Award for outstanding contributions in miniaturization in the electronic arts.
Post meeting addition of other relevant IEEE Technical Field Awards:
Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award for important contribution to emerging technologies recognized within recent years; to an individual or team of not more than three.
Frederik Philips Award for outstanding accomplishments in the management of R&D resulting in effective innovation; to an individual or team of not more than three.
David Sarnoff Award for outstanding contribution in electronics. Preference given to an individual for achievement in the past 10 years; may be presented to a team of not more than three.

8.Three Proposals for IEEE (see Attachment D): Lew Terman.

The IEEE Board of Directors and the Technical Activities Board are discussing three proposals for IEEE: Streamlined Decision Making, Branding, and a New Financial Model.  Future SSCS budgets will have to be evaluated for the impact of any proposed new financial model.

9. IEEE History Center Emerson Pugh

Emerson Pugh explained the goal of the IEEE History Center is to establish an endowment of $10 million. $2.8 million in donations have already been collected. The IEEE Foundation has pledged to match donations up to $1million.  When asked about the History Center’s plans to solicit donations from profit-making corporations and wealthy founders of high tech industries, Dr. Pugh replied that the fund raising message is always strongest when those closest to the effort, such as the Societies internal to IEEE first show their support.  The History Center has evaluated Societies by size and assets and suggests that SSCS contribute $50K over four years, that is $12.5 K per year.  He also mentioned that another society that had received a similar request but decided to give twice the requested amount or $100K in one year.

Motion 2. To give $50K as a lump sum to the IEEE History Center.
16 in favor, 3 opposed, 2 abstained. The motion passed.  Bob Swartz opposed.

Action Item D: The SSCS Education Committee will look into the details regarding donations to the IEEE History Center that could specifically cover SSCS topics.

10.  Chapters Committee report (see Attachment F): Jan Van der Spiegel.

Jan announced the membership of the Chapters Committee: Sergio Bampi (Region  9), Paul Jespers (Region 8), Chris Mangelsdorf (Region 10), Toshiaki Masuhara (Region  10), Eric Vittoz (Region  8).
The Committee’s tasks are to help establish chapters, to find locations to target potential new chapters, and to identify potential new chapter chairs.  Additional tasks are to review subsidy requests to set goals for chapter development and growth, and to provide support for current chapters.  Three new chapters were announced in Benelux, UK and the Republic of Ireland, and Switzerland.  This brings to 13 the total SSCS chapters covering every Region of the world except 3, 5 and 9.
Chapters in development were listed: Atlanta, Dallas, Los Angeles, West Switzerland and Princeton along with the potential of 6 in Canada being formed with the help of Prof. C.T  Salama.
Jan stated the goal of SSCS is to have 40 to 50 chapters in 5 years.  When asked why chapters are important, the replies included: to focus local interest, in particular for graduate students; chapters are a good vehicle for presenting distinguished lecturers and reports of technical conferences; chapters are also excellent sources of new members.

11. Meetings Committee report (see Attachment G): Charles Sodini.

A.  Charlie announced two new members of the meetings Committee, Bob Cordell and Mark Horowitz.
B. Charlie listed the SSCS Technically Co-sponsored meetings in 1999:
 
• Advanced Research in VLSI (AR-VLSI), March 21-24, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
• VLSI Technology, Systems and Applications (VLSI-TSA), June 8 - 10, Taiwan
• Application-Specific Integrated Circuits – System-on-Chip Conference (ASIC/SOC), September  15-18, Washington, DC
• European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC),  September 21-23, Duisburg, Germany
• IEEE Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting (BCTM),  September 26 -28, Minneapolis, MN
• Gallium Arsenide Integrated Circuits Symposium  (GAASIC), October 17-20, Monterey, CA
• International Conference on VLSI and CAD (ICVC), November, Seoul, Korea
• CAS International Workshop on Mixed Signal Integrated Circuit Design (MSICD),  December 1-3, Long Beach, CA


C.   AP- ASIC 99 (see Attachment G1):  The Asia Pacific Conference on ASICs requested SSCS sponsorship. It is scheduled for August 23 – 25, at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. The conference leadership expect the conference to rotate among Asian countries in future alternate years.  Discussion indicated that the AdCom strongly urges that the meeting be held in even numbered years, to avoid conflict with the VLSI Symposia held in Japan and the VLSI TSA meeting held in Taiwan, both in odd-numbered years. Future rotation should be monitored for quality in all countries.  It was favorably mentioned that the scope of the meeting might grow to include circuit design not limited to ASICs.

Motion 3. To loan $10,000 to the 1999 Asia Pacific Conference on ASICs and provide technical co-sponsorship.  The motion passed with 19 in favor and 2 opposed.

D. The International Workshop on Memory Technology requested SSCS sponsorship.  SSCS has been a technical co-sponsor of this workshop from 1995 to 1998. This year’s  MTDT is scheduled for August 9-10, San Jose, CA

Motion 4. To provide technical co-sponsorship the International Workshop on Memory Technology for 1999.  The motion passed without dissent

E. ISSCC: John Trnka presented statistics on ISSCC ‘99 shown in Attachment G2.  Glen Gulak of University of Toronto will serve as Program Chair for ISSCC 2000.

Engineering Times of Japan has requested to reprint in Japanese 50 ISSCC 99 papers.  The IEEE copyright permission fee is $25 per article.  Engineering Times of Japan will contact each author.

F.  VLSI  (see Attachment G3):

G.  Solid-State Circuits and Technology Committee Workshops (see Attachment G4):

Stan Schuster reported on the history of SSCTC workshop topics, finances, and scheduling timeline. Steve Garverick is preparing the speakers and agenda for  MEMS Interface Circuits Workshop for October ‘99. The ISSCC Digital subcommittee is working on a topic for the February 2000 workshop.
Publicity mechanisms used by the SSCTC workshop include the SSCS Newsletter, WEB page, and ISSCC Advance Program.  Stan voiced a need for an e-mail list of our members by their areas of interest.

Action Item E:  Anne O’Neill, Stan Schuster and Steve Kosonocky will develop an email list alias for use in announcing SSCTC Workshops and other meetings to interested members and others.  A progress report is due at the August AdCom.

H. CICC (see Attachment G4):
Bob Cordell reported that the 287 papers submitted for CICC 99 was the greatest number of submissions since 1994.  Acceptance is 48%.  A budget surplus of about 6% or $23.8 K is expected from an overall income of $403.8K. Cain Communications has been hired for publicity.  There is increased use of the WEB site this year with 2,500 hits in the first two months.  CICC 2000 will be Orlando, Florida.

I.  Rochester ASIC meeting:
Tim Tredwell led an evaluation of the planning, quality, and industry conditions for this meeting.  It was reported that the organizational infrastructure is inadequate and is not growing, despite specific needs and milestones being identified.
Motion 5.  To withdraw support of the Rochester ASIC conference in year 2000. The motion passed.  Eby Friedman opposed.
Thanks were accorded to Tim Tredwell for his thorough monitoring and evaluation of the planning for this meeting.
 

12.  Executive Office Report (see Attachment H): Anne O’Neill.

Anne O’Neill reported on three items from the activities of Executive Office.
SSCS conferences may use negotiated airlines discounts provided by IEEE travel.  Details are spelled out in the attachment. A simple survey of AdCom indicates that only 5 have a limited interest.  Most have no interest at all.
Anne reviewed some of the staff among the 500 employees at the Piscataway headquarters who work for the Society.  See Attachment H.

Anne reported that the volunteer IEEE audit committee advises that meetings plan to ameliorate the effects of possible reduced attendance due to Y2K.  Some suggested steps are: budget for reduced attendance, budget larger contingency funds, investigate meeting disruption insurance.

13. Educational Activities Committee report (see Attachment I): Kevin O’Connor.

Kevin welcomed Willy Sansen as a new member of the Educational Activities Committee.

Kevin reported that the Pilot Short Course CD is underway. Production is estimated at 260 minutes of RealAudio plus foils of four presentations.  For a quantity of 400 CDs, Sony estimated a cost of $11K. This suggests a break-even list price of $30 per CD.  Full plans will be provided in August.

Longer-range plans include WEB-Centric Educational Materials and “Independently” developed CD based products. It was suggested that the Education Committee should investigate how better to exploit the expertise of Distinguished Lecturers for use outside of the US.
 

14. Distinguished Lecturers Program report: Dick Jaeger.

Until February 1999, no one had requested an SSCS Distinguished Lecturer, Dick reported.  Now two Distinguished Lectures are planned; a conference in Seoul and Micronet in Canada.
Action Item F:  Anne O’Neill will send a message to chapters reminding them of the SSCS Distinguished Lecturers.
The Distinguished Lecturers Program will move into the Educational Activities Committee still under the responsibility of Dick Jaeger.

15. Publications Committee Report (see Attachment J):  Dick Jaeger.

Motion 6.  To increase the JSSC Budget to 2,300 pages for the year 2000. The motion passed without dissent.

Motion 7. To approve up to $85K to support the 1966-88 CD set.

Action Item G:  Anne O’Neill is to take steps to market the JSSC CDs to libraries.

Discussion indicated interest in having a complete index of all the JSSC issues on a CD. The motion passed.

Motion 8. To approve up to $25K to initiate a DVD production of 1966-99 set. The motion passed.

Motion 9. To endorse the expansion of the Transactions on VLSI Systems to 6 issues/year.
Currently TVLSI receives 240 to 250 papers per year, with a 30% acceptance rate, yielding a publication with 72 papers per year.  The number of pages published has jumped from 492 in 1997 to 744 last year, even as the average pages per paper has dropped from 10.5 to 9.4.  The transaction has a consistent backlog for publication with the March issue 22 pages over budget, the June issue full with 15 papers, and ¼ of papers already selected for the September issue.
The motion passed without dissent.

Motion 10 (a) To approve SSCS sponsorship of the following IEEE Press books (all approved by IEEE Press):

Design of Performance Microprocessors
Edited by A. Chandrakasan (MIT, W. Bowhill (Compaq) and F. Fox (Rambus)

Testing of Digital Circuits
By N. Jha (Princeton) and S. Gupta (USC).

  (b) Conditional approval of SSCS sponsorship of the following IEEE Press books subject to review and approval by R. C. Jaeger:
Advanced Theory of Semiconductor Devices
By Karl Hess (Illinois).
The motion passed.

16. Membership Committee Report  (see Attachment K): Steve Kosonocky.

Steve reported that Nicky Lu has joined the SSCS Membership Committee.
SSCS membership increased 13.6% over 1998, making ours the second fastest growing Society in IEEE after the Communications Society.

Motion 11.  To fund a personalized welcome letter to all new members. Estimated annual cost $3.3K plus postage.
Discussion of a draft of the letter resulted in the suggestion that the letter be reformatted to include more bullet lists and less blocks of text.  Asad Abidi offered to review the letter.  The motion passed without dissent.

Action Item H:  Asad Abidi to review the personalized new member welcome letter.

Motion 12. To fund for three years, subsidizing IEEE and Society membership for chapter formation in emerging economies, up to $3.5K/year.

Eligible chapter sites are where members would already qualify for IEEE minimum income status rates; i.e. their prior year's income did not exceed US $8,600.00 or equivalent. IEEE rules then allow 50% reduction in dues, fees for one society and its optional publications. The motion passed. Chris Mangelsdorf opposed.
Policy changes on member elevation: Steve reported on IEEE wide policy change discussions regarding membership elevation from associate to member and from member to senior member.  There is positive interest in doing away with the requirement for references for elevation from associate to member. There is little support for changing the requirement for references for elevation from member to senior member.

Future Activities: Future activities will focus on gathering member feedback through a WEB based survey and member promotions at select conferences and perhaps a mailing to the IEEE population based on their TIP codes.
 

17. Bylaws  (see Attachment L): Lew Terman.

Motion 13. To amend the bylaws as indicated so that the section 4.2 on Nominations reads in part:

The Nominations Committee Chair shall in time for the ballots to be mailed by September 15th provide names of the nominees and biographical sketches to the IEEE Technical Activities Department for preparation, mailing, and tallying of ballots. A slate of candidates at least 1.5 times the number of vacancies to be filled must be supplied.

The motion passed. Chris Mangelsdorf abstained.
 

18. Nominations Committee report (see Attachment M): Bob Swartz.

Bob announced the membership of the Nominations Committee
 Dave Pricer IBM
Bryan Ackland Lucent
Russ Apfel AMD
Tak Baba  Matsushita
Dave Hodges UC Berkeley
Ernesto Perea  SGS-Thomson
Earl Swartzlander U Texas
Bruce Wooley  Stanford
Bob Swartz chair Vanguard

Bob indicated for the 1998 elections the committee had a starting list of 81 well qualified potential candidates: 16 from the Far East, 16 from Europe and 49 from North America.  There were also two candidate petitions received by May 1, 1998 deadline.  Comparison statistics for the three years the Society has held AdCom Elections are shown in Attachment M.

Action Item I:  Anne O’Neill will develop and assign a WEB link from the SSCS home page about information on nominations.
 

19. The next AdCom meeting will be held Friday, August 27, 1999.

AdCom members requested that future meeting dates be called out for a year in advance.

20. Sensors Council: Lew Terman.

The Sensors Council has been formed. SSCS has an opportunity to join.  Initial funding to support the start up is approximately $2K per Society.
Action Item J: The Society President will see that a proposal for participation is brought forward for decision to the AdCom at its August meeting.

21. Adjournment: Lew Terman.

    The meeting adjourned at 5:50 PM.