Co-sponsored by: IEEE YP, Seattle Section, PES, and IAS Societies The Tactical Laser Tag game is the ultimate entertainment experience. It features an ultra-realistic first-person shooter experience on a Hollywood movie-style set using the same equipment and software deployed by SWAT teams and Special Operations teams around the world. Join IEEE YP Affinity Group Members which includes Young Professionals from various backgrounds and experiences working in companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Boeing, Puget Sound Energy, Physio Control, Emerald City Engineers, Seattle City Light, Phillips and others! Take this opportunity to have fun and network! Location: 210 8th st. S suite 2, Kirkland, Washington 98033

Co-sponsored by: IEEE YP, Seattle Section, PES, and IAS Societies The Tactical Laser Tag game is the ultimate entertainment experience. It features an ultra-realistic first-person shooter experience on a Hollywood movie-style set using the same equipment and software deployed by SWAT teams and Special Operations teams around the world. Join IEEE YP Affinity Group Members which includes Young Professionals from various backgrounds and experiences working in companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Boeing, Puget Sound Energy, Physio Control, Emerald City Engineers, Seattle City Light, Phillips and others! Take this opportunity to have fun and network! Location: 210 8th st. S suite 2, Kirkland, Washington 98033

Co-sponsored by: CH06129 IEEE Seattle Chapter of the Solid-State Circuits Society and Circuits and System Society Event Please join us for the first of several SSCS and CAS presentations to be given on the University of Washington campus. 2-hour parking will be provided by the society in a lot near the stadium; parking details are forthcoming. Speaker(s): Dr. Brian Ginsburg, Agenda: Abstract: Millimeter wave frequency operation offers wide bandwidths, precise localization, and rich material interaction and penetration capability.  Meeting consumer demand for enhanced safety, 77GHz automotive radar is one of the fastest growing features in automotive.  Leveraging the dense integration and fast transistor performance of modern silicon processes, emerging MMICs are delivering higher performance in a smaller form factor and are also extending the mm-wave capabilities to other sensing markets, including intelligent infrastructure, robotic navigation, high accuracy displacement and motion sensing, and human interaction.  This talk will cover these application trends and how they are enabled by emerging radar ICs. Location: Room: ECE 105 Bldg: The Electrical and Computer Engineering Building University of Washington Campus 1400 NE Campus Pkwy Seattle, Washington 98195

Join the IEEE SPS Chapter for a technical talk on Natural Language Processing by Microsoft NLP thought leader Dr. Xuedong Huang.  If you are not familiar with Xuedong and his impact on the technical community, please read more here.   If you have trouble with the link, read a portion below: "Xuedong Huang (黄学东) is a Microsoft Technical Fellow in Cloud and AI. He leads Microsoft’s Speech and Language Group. He was on the faculty of School of Computer Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University before joining Microsoft. He received Alan Newell research excellence leadership medal in 1992 and IEEE Best Paper Award in 1993. He was named the Asian American Engineer of the Year (2011), Wired Magazine’s 25 Geniuses (2016), and AI World’s Top 10 (2017). He holds over 100 patents and published over 100 papers & 2 books. He received his PhD, MS, and BS in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh, Tsinghua University, and Hunan University respectively. He has been elected fellow of IEEE and ACM."   Registration is requested for head count and gauging member interest. Speaker(s): Xuedong Huang, Location: Room: 1919 Bldg: 99 14865 NE 36th St Redmond, Washington 98052

Join the IEEE SPS Chapter for a technical talk on Natural Language Processing by Microsoft NLP thought leader Dr. Xuedong Huang.  If you are not familiar with Xuedong and his impact on the technical community, please read more here.   If you have trouble with the link, read a portion below: "Xuedong Huang (黄学东) is a Microsoft Technical Fellow in Cloud and AI. He leads Microsoft’s Speech and Language Group. He was on the faculty of School of Computer Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University before joining Microsoft. He received Alan Newell research excellence leadership medal in 1992 and IEEE Best Paper Award in 1993. He was named the Asian American Engineer of the Year (2011), Wired Magazine’s 25 Geniuses (2016), and AI World’s Top 10 (2017). He holds over 100 patents and published over 100 papers & 2 books. He received his PhD, MS, and BS in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh, Tsinghua University, and Hunan University respectively. He has been elected fellow of IEEE and ACM."   Registration is requested for head count and gauging member interest. Speaker(s): Xuedong Huang, Location: Room: 1919 Bldg: 99 14865 NE 36th St Redmond, Washington 98052

Everyone is welcome, registration is not required. In today’s evolving data center, industrial, and healthcare markets it is more important than ever to seek out and deploy infrastructure that is more Reliable, Efficient and Sustainable in infrastructure solutions for small to hyper-scale mission critical facilities.   Justin Jurek with Piller Power Systems Inc. will lead a technology discussion and presentation focusing on the energy storage within the Uninterruptable Power Supply.  Chemical energy storage (batteries) for 5,10, 15 minutes of runtime, or kinetic energy storage (flywheels), 25 – 60+ seconds of runtime.  The presentation will review the power train of mission critical systems and the benefits of utilizing kinetic energy storage based UPS technology.  The presentation will touch on some field applications utilizing kinetic energy technology integrated into either Static or Rotary UPS.  Justin Jurek is responsible for developing and supporting power protection projects for Piller Power Systems in the mission critical marketplace and to be the field-based sales point of contact.  He provides both sales and application support in the use and implementation of Piller and Active Power battery-free UPS.   Justin has ten years of professional experience in engineering and business development.  During his time with Piller AP, he has interacted with a broad spectrum of professionals including datacenter, healthcare, and industrial end users, electrical design engineers, and property developers.  His background in UPS systems includes rotary and static UPS, various forms of energy storage including batteries and flywheels, LV and MV distribution, and mission critical microgrid system solutions.  Justin holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the State University of New York, at Buffalo (SUNY).   Location: 701 Pike St Suite 1200 Seattle, Washington 98101

Everyone is welcome, registration is not required. In today’s evolving data center, industrial, and healthcare markets it is more important than ever to seek out and deploy infrastructure that is more Reliable, Efficient and Sustainable in infrastructure solutions for small to hyper-scale mission critical facilities.   Justin Jurek with Piller Power Systems Inc. will lead a technology discussion and presentation focusing on the energy storage within the Uninterruptable Power Supply.  Chemical energy storage (batteries) for 5,10, 15 minutes of runtime, or kinetic energy storage (flywheels), 25 – 60+ seconds of runtime.  The presentation will review the power train of mission critical systems and the benefits of utilizing kinetic energy storage based UPS technology.  The presentation will touch on some field applications utilizing kinetic energy technology integrated into either Static or Rotary UPS.  Justin Jurek is responsible for developing and supporting power protection projects for Piller Power Systems in the mission critical marketplace and to be the field-based sales point of contact.  He provides both sales and application support in the use and implementation of Piller and Active Power battery-free UPS.   Justin has ten years of professional experience in engineering and business development.  During his time with Piller AP, he has interacted with a broad spectrum of professionals including datacenter, healthcare, and industrial end users, electrical design engineers, and property developers.  His background in UPS systems includes rotary and static UPS, various forms of energy storage including batteries and flywheels, LV and MV distribution, and mission critical microgrid system solutions.  Justin holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the State University of New York, at Buffalo (SUNY).   Location: 701 Pike St Suite 1200 Seattle, Washington 98101

Co-sponsored by: CN60049 Title: MM-wave propagation channels and their impact on 5G system design   Abstract: Communication in the mm-wave band is an essential part of 5G, allowing to reach the ambitious data rate and throughput goals of IMT-2020. In order to design systems that will work in practice, a thorough understanding – which must be based on measurements in real-world channels - of mm-wave propagation channels is required. This talk provides an overview of such research. After a brief introduction of suitable channel sounders, the talk will concentrate on (i) requirement for street-by-street pathloss models, (ii) dynamics of angular statistics (iii) outdoor-to-indoor propagation in mm-wave bands, and (iv) spatial consistency and the change of second-order channel statistics. The impact of all those channel effects on system design and deployment planning will be elaborated.     Bio:  Andreas F. Molisch is the Solomon Golomb – Andrew and Erna Viterbi Chair Professor at the University of Southern California. His research interest is wireless communications, with emphasis on wireless propagation channels, multi-antenna systems, ultrawideband signaling and localization, novel modulation methods, and caching for wireless content distribution. He is the author of four books, 20 book chapters, more than 250 journal papers, 340 conference papers, as well as 80 patents. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, IEEE, AAAS, and IET, as well as Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and recipient of numerous awards, including the Sumner award of the IEEE and the Armstrong award of ComSoc. Speaker(s): Prof. Andreas Molisch, Agenda: Title: MM-wave propagation channels and their impact on 5G system design   Abstract: Communication in the mm-wave band is an essential part of 5G, allowing to reach the ambitious data rate and throughput goals of IMT-2020. In order to design systems that will work in practice, a thorough understanding – which must be based on measurements in real-world channels - of mm-wave propagation channels is required. This talk provides an overview of such research. After a brief introduction of suitable channel sounders, the talk will concentrate on (i) requirement for street-by-street pathloss models, (ii) dynamics of angular statistics (iii) outdoor-to-indoor propagation in mm-wave bands, and (iv) spatial consistency and the change of second-order channel statistics. The impact of all those channel effects on system design and deployment planning will be elaborated.     Bio:  Andreas F. Molisch is the Solomon Golomb – Andrew and Erna Viterbi Chair Professor at the University of Southern California. His research interest is wireless communications, with emphasis on wireless propagation channels, multi-antenna systems, ultrawideband signaling and localization, novel modulation methods, and caching for wireless content distribution. He is the author of four books, 20 book chapters, more than 250 journal papers, 340 conference papers, as well as 80 patents. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, IEEE, AAAS, and IET, as well as Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and recipient of numerous awards, including the Sumner award of the IEEE and the Armstrong award of ComSoc. Location: Room: 1919 Bldg: 99 14820 Northeast 36th Street Redmond, Washington 98052

Self-confidence is a positive mental state that stimulates the willpower and potential of an individual. It provides the energy and strength to face various challenges, as well as to empower oneself to be recognized. Many women lack self-confidence for their career development for a variety of reasons. To solve this obstacle, women in engineering need to rely on self-motivation. The growth of women cannot be separated from the advancement of the whole society, and so women in engineering need to be encouraged and given more career opportunities. Speaker(s): Dr. Ruomei Li, Agenda: 6:00 – 6:30 – Welcome, Introductions, Networking over Light Snacks 6:30 – 7:30 – Talk and Discussion Location: Room: Bennet Room Bldg: PSE Factoria Facility 13230 SE 32nd St Bellevue, Washington 98005

Co-sponsored by: CN60049 Title: MM-wave propagation channels and their impact on 5G system design   Abstract: Communication in the mm-wave band is an essential part of 5G, allowing to reach the ambitious data rate and throughput goals of IMT-2020. In order to design systems that will work in practice, a thorough understanding – which must be based on measurements in real-world channels - of mm-wave propagation channels is required. This talk provides an overview of such research. After a brief introduction of suitable channel sounders, the talk will concentrate on (i) requirement for street-by-street pathloss models, (ii) dynamics of angular statistics (iii) outdoor-to-indoor propagation in mm-wave bands, and (iv) spatial consistency and the change of second-order channel statistics. The impact of all those channel effects on system design and deployment planning will be elaborated.     Bio:  Andreas F. Molisch is the Solomon Golomb – Andrew and Erna Viterbi Chair Professor at the University of Southern California. His research interest is wireless communications, with emphasis on wireless propagation channels, multi-antenna systems, ultrawideband signaling and localization, novel modulation methods, and caching for wireless content distribution. He is the author of four books, 20 book chapters, more than 250 journal papers, 340 conference papers, as well as 80 patents. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, IEEE, AAAS, and IET, as well as Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and recipient of numerous awards, including the Sumner award of the IEEE and the Armstrong award of ComSoc. Speaker(s): Prof. Andreas Molisch, Agenda: Title: MM-wave propagation channels and their impact on 5G system design   Abstract: Communication in the mm-wave band is an essential part of 5G, allowing to reach the ambitious data rate and throughput goals of IMT-2020. In order to design systems that will work in practice, a thorough understanding – which must be based on measurements in real-world channels - of mm-wave propagation channels is required. This talk provides an overview of such research. After a brief introduction of suitable channel sounders, the talk will concentrate on (i) requirement for street-by-street pathloss models, (ii) dynamics of angular statistics (iii) outdoor-to-indoor propagation in mm-wave bands, and (iv) spatial consistency and the change of second-order channel statistics. The impact of all those channel effects on system design and deployment planning will be elaborated.     Bio:  Andreas F. Molisch is the Solomon Golomb – Andrew and Erna Viterbi Chair Professor at the University of Southern California. His research interest is wireless communications, with emphasis on wireless propagation channels, multi-antenna systems, ultrawideband signaling and localization, novel modulation methods, and caching for wireless content distribution. He is the author of four books, 20 book chapters, more than 250 journal papers, 340 conference papers, as well as 80 patents. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, IEEE, AAAS, and IET, as well as Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and recipient of numerous awards, including the Sumner award of the IEEE and the Armstrong award of ComSoc. Location: Room: 1919 Bldg: 99 14820 Northeast 36th Street Redmond, Washington 98052

Self-confidence is a positive mental state that stimulates the willpower and potential of an individual. It provides the energy and strength to face various challenges, as well as to empower oneself to be recognized. Many women lack self-confidence for their career development for a variety of reasons. To solve this obstacle, women in engineering need to rely on self-motivation. The growth of women cannot be separated from the advancement of the whole society, and so women in engineering need to be encouraged and given more career opportunities. Speaker(s): Dr. Ruomei Li, Agenda: 6:00 – 6:30 – Welcome, Introductions, Networking over Light Snacks 6:30 – 7:30 – Talk and Discussion Location: Room: Bennet Room Bldg: PSE Factoria Facility 13230 SE 32nd St Bellevue, Washington 98005

Co-sponsored by: IEEE YP Seattle Join us for the YP Reception at IEEE GHTC 2019 conference in Seattle's Double Tree Hotel in Seatac. This conference focuses on advancing technology for the benefit of humanity. This cross-disciplinary annual conference provides the perfect venue for those interested in humanitarian projects to join their peers in Seattle (USA) in October 2019.  Carrie Smith will be speaking at the YP Reception. The Registration is only for the YP Reception which will cover Dinner at the Event. The $45 value for only $10 for IEEE Members.  The YP Reception is sponsored by IEEE Seattle Section and YP Affinity Group Location: Double Tree Hotel in Seatac: 18740 International Blvd, Seattle, WA 98188 Speaker(s): Carrie Smith, Location: 18740 International Blvd Seattle, Washington 98188

Abstract: Power management integrated circuits (PMIC) play an important role in almost all electronic systems such as smartphones, tablets, computers, electric vehicles, etc. On-chip loads such as microprocessors cores, memories, and analog/RF blocks require multiple supply voltage domains. Providing these supply voltages from on-chip voltage regulators increases the overall system cost and limits the performance due to the board and package parasitics. Therefore, an on-chip fully integrated voltage regulator (FIVR) is a critical need for high performance digital cores. Modern multicore microprocessors are utilized for real-time computing, coding, modulation, and multimedia processing. consumption demand from on-chip load such as hardware accelerators, and GPU, etc. is also continuing to increase. By adaptively varying both the voltage and frequency with respect to the changing load conditions, the overall power consumption of these processors can be greatly reduced. Also, the voltage needs to adjust at a faster rate to achieve the full advantage of dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS). These multi-core processors require multiple voltage domains to operate with dynamic voltage scaling. In this presentation a topology for a fully integrated power stage in a DC-DC buck converter achieving a high-power density and a time-domain hysteresis based highly integrated buck converter will be introduced. A multi-phase time-domain comparator is proposed in this work for implementing the hysteresis control, thereby achieving a process scaling friendly highly digital design. A higher- order LC notch filter which couples the input and output voltage ripple is developed. The power stage operates at 500 MHz and can deliver a maximum power of 1.0 W and load current of 1.67 A, while occupying 1.21 mm2 active die area, achieving a power density of 0.867 W/mm2 and current density of 1.377 A/mm2. Efficiency obtained is 71% at 780 mA of load current.   Speaker(s): Bertan Bakkaloglu, Location: Room: Room 105 Bldg: Electrical and Computer Engineering Building 185 Stevens Way NE Seattle, Washington 98195

September/October 2019 ExCom Officers meeting. Location: Seattle, Washington 98005

September/October 2019 ExCom Officers meeting. Location: Seattle, Washington 98005