International Solid-State Circuits Conference is a global forum for presentation of advances in solid-state circuits and Systems-on-a-Chip. The conference is held every year in February at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis in downtown San Francisco. ISSCC is sponsored by IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society.

According to The Register, "The ISSCC event is the second event of each new year, following the Consumer Electronics Show, where new PC processors and sundry other computing gadgets are brought to market."

History of ISSCC

Early participants in the inaugural conference in 1954 belonged to the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) Circuit Theory Group and the IRE subcommittee of Transistor Circuits. The conference was held in Philadelphia and local chapters of IRE and American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) were in attendance. Later on AIEE and IRE would merge to become the present-day IEEE.

The first conference consisted of papers from six organizations: Bell Telephone Laboratories, General Electric, RCA, Philco, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania. The registration was $4 (early registration was $3) and 601 people registered. International attendees arrived from Canada, England and Japan. With subsequent conferences came many more international participants with the first international presentation in 1958. By 1965, the number of overseas program committee members increased to 8 and in 1970 the overseas members began meeting separately in both Europe and Japan. Selected members of these regional program committees would attend the final program meeting in America.

The name of the 1954 Conference appears in various publications and documents as: "The Transistor Conference", "The Conference on Transistor Circuits", "The Philadelphia Conference", or "The National Conference on Transistor Circuits". The current name "International Solid-State Circuits Conference" was settled by the organizers in 1960.

While ISSCC was founded in Philadelphia, in the mid-1960s the center of semiconductor development in the United States was shifting west. In 1978, the conference was held on alternate coasts with New York soon substituting for Philadelphia. In 1990, San Francisco became the Conference's permanent home.

In 2013, ISSCC celebrated its 60th anniversary and will had several special programs to celebrate 60 years of circuit and SoC innovation.

Technical Program Committee The Technical Program Committee (TPC) in early years was extremely fluid in order to deal with the constantly changing topics in the industry. By 1968 the list of subcommittees had settled to Digital, Analog (Linear), Microwave and Other, where the subcommittee members in Other would address the one-of-a-kind papers. In the 80's, the Microwave Subcommittee was dropped from the program as the overlap between the topics and attendees was diminishing. In addition, Digital split into Digital, Memory and Signal Processing subcommittees. In 1992, Emerging Technologies was launched and chartered to seek out the one-of-a-kind applications which may find a home in ISSCC. Today there are 10 subcommittees: Analog, Data Converters, Energy Efficient Digital (EED), High-Performance Digital (HPD), Imagers, MEMs, Medical and Displays (IMMD), Memory, RF, Technology Directions (formerly Emerging Technologies), Wireless and Wireline.

TPC chairs

Year Technical Program Chair Affiliation Year Technical Program Chair Affiliation Year Technical Program Chair Affiliation 1954J. LinvillBell Labs 1955H. TompkinsBurroughs Corp 1956H. WollRCA Labs 1957G. RoyerIBM 1958R. BakerMIT Lincoln Labs 1959A. SternGeneral Electric 1960T. FinchBell Labs 1961J. SuranGeneral Electric 1962R. AdlerMIT 1963S. GhandhiPhilco Scientific Lab 1964P. MyersMarietta Corp 1965G. HerzogRCA Labs 1966G. HerzogRCA Labs 1967R. BakerMIT 1968R. PetritzTexas Instruments 1969R. EngelbrechtBell Labs 1970T. BrayGeneral Electric 1971R. WebsterTexas Instruments 1972S. TriebwasserIBM Research 1973V. JohannesBell Labs 1974H. SobolCollins Radio 1975W. PricerIBM 1976J. WuorinenBell Labs 1977D. HodgesUniv. of California 1978J. HeightleySandia Labs 1979W. KosonockyRCA Labs 1980J. PlummerStanford Univ. 1981B. WooleyBell Labs 1982P. GrayUniv. of California 1983L. TermanIBM Research 1984P. VerhofstadtFairchild uProc. Div. 1985H. BollBell Labs 1986A. GrebeneMicro Linear Corp 1987R. BaertschGeneral Electric 1988W. HerndonFairchild Research Ctr. 1989H. MussmanAT&T Bell Labs 1990C. GwynSandia Labs 1991J. TrnkaIBM 1992A. ShahTexas Instruments 1993R. JaegerAuburn Univ. 1994D. MonticelliNational Semiconductor 1995T. TredwellEastman Kodak 1996F. HewlettSandia Labs 1997R. HesterTexas Instruments 1998J. CresslerAuburn Univ. 1999S. TaylorTriquent Semiconductor2000R. CrispRambus, Inc.2001G. GulakUniv. of Toronto2002W. SansenKU Leuven2003A. ChandrakasanMIT2004A. KanumaToshiba2005I. YoungIntel2006J. SevenhansConsultant2007J. Van der SpiegelUniv of Pennsylvania2008Y. HagiharaSony2009W. BowhillIntel2010A. TheuwissenHarvest Imaging/ Delft Univ2011W. GassTexas Instruments2012H. HidakaRenesas Electronics2013B. NautaUniv of Twente

European Committee Chairs

Year European Chair Affiliation Year European Chair Affiliation Year European Chair Affiliation 1971–1974 J. C. van Vessem Philips 1975–1976 O. Folberth IBM 1977–1979 N. C de Troye Philips Research 1980–1983 H. H. Berger IBM 1984–1985 J. Borel Thomson EFCIS 1986–1988 J. Lohstroh Philips Research 1989–1994 K. Hoffman Univ. der Bundeswehr 1995–2002 R. van de Plassche Philips Research 2003–2004 J. Sevenhans Alcatel 2005–2006 A. Theuwissen DALSA BV 2007–2008 R. Koch Infineon Technologies 2009–2010 Q. Huang ETH Zurich 2011 B. Nauta Univ. Twente 2012–2013 A. Pärssinen Renesas Mobile

Far East Committee Chairs Year Far East Chair Affiliation Year Far East Chair Affiliation Year Far East Chair Affiliation 1971–1972 T Sugano Univ. of Tokyo 1973–1974 S Hamada NTT 1975–1976 Y. Tarui Electrotechnical Lab 1977–1978 M. Uenohara Nippon Elect Co 1979–80 M. Watanabe NTT 1981–1982 K. Kurokawa Fujitsu 1983–1984 M. Nagata Hitachi CRL 1985–1986 Y. Takeishi Toshiba 1987–1988 H. Sasaki NEC 1989–1990 T. Sudo NTT 1991–1992 T. Nakano Mitsubishi 1993–1994 H. Ishikawa Fujitsu 1995–1996 G. Kano Matsushita 1997–1998 M. Kubo Hitachi 1999–2000 Y. Unno Toshiba 2001–2002 H. Watanabe NEC 2003–2004 Y. Hagiwara Sony 2005–2006 K. Iizuka Sharp 2007–2008 J. Chung Pohang Univ of Science & Tech 2009–2010 T. Kawahara Hitachi 2011–2012 H-J Yoo Kaist 2013 M. Ikeda Univ of Tokyo

Executive committee ISSCC is a strictly non-profit organization run by the executive committee. From formative years through 1980 the Conference chair was usually filled by the previous year's Program Chair. To provide needed continuity, the term of Conference Chair was extended to at least 5 years.

Conference Chairs Year Conference Chair Affiliation Year Conference Chair Affiliation Year Conference Chair Affiliation 1954I. WolfRCA 1955D. FinkPhilco 1956G. HallerGeneral Electric 1957A. SamuelIBM 1958J. Mulligan JrNew York University 1959J. MortonBell Labs 1960A. SternGeneral Electric 1961T. FinchBell Labs 1962J. SuranGeneral Electric 1963F. BlecherBell Labs 1964E. JohnsonRCA 1965J. AngellStanford Univ. 1966, 1969J. MeindlUS Army Electronics Cmd., Stanford Univ. 1967–1968J. MayoBell Labs 1970R. EngelbrechtBell Labs 1971, 1980–1987J. RaperGeneral Electric 1972R. WebsterTexas Instruments 1973S. TriebwasserIBM Research 1974V. JohannesBell Labs 1975H. SobolCollins Radio 1976, 1988–1996W. PricerIBM 1977J. WuorinenBell Labs 1978D. HodgesUniv. of California 1979J. HeightleySandia Labs 1997–2001J. TrnkaIBM2002-2007T. TredwellEastman Kodak, Carestream Health2010-2018A. ChandrakasanMIT2019-2020J. Van der SpiegelUniversity of Pennsylvania2021-K. ZhangTSMC

See also Custom Integrated Circuits Conference Hot Chips International Electron Devices Meeting Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits

References

W. David Pricer, "ISSCC: Sixty Years of Innovative Evolution", 2013 Commemorative Supplement to the Digest of Technical Papers, ISSCC 2013 (to be published)

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