IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS)

Calling all IC innovators and educators! 🚀💡 Nominations are officially open for the IEEE SSCS James D. Meindl Innovators Award! Established in 2021, this annual award recognizes SSCS members who create innovative projects that build excitement about solid-state circuits for future generations, expand access to technology, or engage underrepresented groups in circuit design. Award Benefits: • A development grant of up to $20,000 to support your project proposal • A $5,000 honorarium • A commemorative plaque presented at ISSCC Who can apply? Current SSCS members in good standing who have been members since at least the previous calendar year. Self-nominations are accepted! Nomination Requirements: 1. One-page summary of accomplishments and involvement in solid-state circuits 2. One-page plan detailing how the grant will support a project to engage the next generation of IC designers 3. Two letters of recommendation Nomination Window: June 1 – October 15, 2026 (11:59 PM ET) Read full details and submit your nomination via OpenWater: https://bit.ly/4qbyqjV #IEEESSCS #SolidStateCircuits #STEMEducation #CircuitDesign #Semiconductors #IEEE #EngineeringAwards #InnovationInSTEM

Attending ESSERC 2026 in Palma de Mallorca? Connect with peers, gain valuable career insights, and expand your network! 🌴✨ Join IEEE SSCS Young Professionals for our Mentoring and Networking Event designed for students, early-career engineers, and researchers. Event Details: 📅 Date: September 9, 2026 ⏰ Time: 6:20 PM – 7:20 PM CEST 📍 Venue: Coffee Break Area, Auditorium de Palma de Mallorca (Palma, Spain) 🥤 Complimentary refreshments will be served! Why Attend? • Expert Insights: Discuss career trajectories and industry trends with leading executives, professors, and experts. • Direct Q&A: Get honest advice about academia, research, and navigating the job market in a casual setting. • Global Networking: Meet fellow young professionals and graduate students passionate about semiconductors and circuit design. Call for Mentors: Experienced professionals, senior researchers, and faculty members—consider sharing your knowledge with the next generation of engineers. Learn more and view full conference details at https://bit.ly/4oZzuH3 #IEEESSCS #ESSERC2026 #YoungProfessionals #Mentorship #Networking #CircuitDesign #Semiconductors #Microelectronics #STEM

🎨 Calling All Student Creators: The SSCS Shirt Design Contest is Live! Got a vision for the future of chip design? The annual IEEE SSCS Student & Graduate Student Shirt Design Contest is officially accepting submissions! This is your chance to showcase your creativity to the entire global solid-state community. The winning artwork will be printed on the official student shirts distributed worldwide to peers at ISSCC 2027. 🚀 The 2027 Theme & Slogan This year's contest mirrors the theme of the upcoming 74th International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC): “Trusted Sustainable Silicon Intelligence from Edge to Cloud.” Your design should visually illustrate how modern integrated circuits and system-on-chip (SoC) developments enable secure, energy-efficient, and trustworthy intelligent innovations across the entire computing continuum. 💰 Prizes 🥇 1st Place Grand Prize: A $1,000 USD cash prize (perfect for conference travel or academic development), 3 custom shirts featuring your design, and global recognition on SSCS web and social channels. 🥈🥉 2nd & 3rd Place Finalists: $500 USD cash prize each, plus a custom shirt featuring the winning design. 📋 Quick Submission Rules Before you start sketching your vector art, keep these strict guidelines in mind: Eligibility: Exclusive to active IEEE SSCS Student and Graduate Student Members (Valid ID required). Format: PDF format only (under 15MB). If selected, you must provide .eps vector art with fonts converted to outlines. Design Canvas: Use the BACK of the shirt only. The shirt base color will be a shade of grey, and you may use up to 5 colors in your graphic. Slogan: The complete phrase “Trusted Sustainable Silicon Intelligence from Edge to Cloud” must be integrated into the design text. Limits: You can submit up to three (3) distinct design entries. ⏰ Deadline: September 25, 2026, at 11:59 PM EST. No late entries or emailed submissions will be accepted. 👉 https://bit.ly/4vsJ8E0

Discover the top 3 most popular articles in the IEEE Journal on Exploratory Solid-State Computational Devices and Circuits (JxCDC) for July 2026! 📚⚡ 1. 3-D Stacked HBM and Compute Accelerators for LLM: Optimizing Thermal Management and Power Delivery Efficiency By Janak Sharda, Madison Manley, Jungyoun Kwak, Chinsung Park, Muhannad Bakir, and Shimeng Yu An open-access study exploring 3-D integration of High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on logic dies for LLM accelerators. It proposes hybrid memory configurations, disaggregated power TSV clusters, and active backside power delivery networks (BSPDN) to overcome severe thermal resistance and IR drop bottlenecks, achieving a 4x throughput boost over 2.5-D integrated systems. 👉 Read here: https://bit.ly/4dcP8ey 2. Beyond Backside Power: Backside Signal Routing as Technology Booster for Standard-Cell Scaling By Anup Ashok Kedilaya, Sirish Oruganti, Nishant Gupta, Xiuhao Zhang, Ilya Karpov, and Mark A. Anders This paper extends backside metal (BSM) networks beyond power delivery to clock and signal routing using ultrafine-pitch backside contacts (BSCs) in sub-3-nm GAAFET nodes. By enabling 4-track standard-cell height scaling, this design methodology delivers up to 35% area savings, 15% performance improvement, and a 32% reduction in worst-case IR drop across CPU, GPU, and SoC benchmarks. 👉 Read here: https://bit.ly/4dKqlOQ 3. A Full-Stack View of Probabilistic Computing With p-Bits: Devices, Architectures, and Algorithms By Shuvro Chowdhury, Andrea Grimaldi, Navid Anjum Aadit, Shaila Niazi, Masoud Mohseni, and Shun Kanai A comprehensive full-stack review on energy-efficient probabilistic computing using p-bits (binary stochastic neurons). It covers low-barrier stochastic nanomagnets (sMTJs), pseudo-asynchronous and truly asynchronous Gibbs sampling architectures, and practical applications spanning energy-based AI models, combinatorial optimization via invertible logic, and quantum simulations. 👉 Read here: https://bit.ly/4ba29BH Stay connected with the latest exploratory research pushing the boundaries of next-generation computing hardware! #IEEESSCS #JxCDC #AIHardware #Semiconductors #3DIntegration #GAAFET

As prevailing digital AI compute trajectories hit scaling limits, can analog computation unlock the next major leap in energy efficiency? 🧠⚡ Join us for the IEEE SSCS September Technical Webinar featuring Prof. Naveen Verma (Princeton University / Co-Founder of EnCharge AI) as he explores practical circuit architectures for scalable, next-generation AI systems. Talk Overview: While low-precision neural networks create an ideal opening for analog computing, a significant gap remains between fundamental circuit operation and the demands of scaled systems. Prof. Verma will discuss how analog pathways—specifically In-Memory Computing (IMC)—can drive major efficiency inflection points, addressing key architectural, software, and industry-integration challenges. Event Details: 📅 Date: September 28, 2026 ⏰ Time: 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT 👉 Register now: https://bit.ly/3UagOt4 About the Speaker: Naveen Verma is the Ralph H. and Freda I. Augustine Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University. His research focuses on advanced sensing systems, energy-efficient computing circuits, and ML algorithms. He is also the Co-Founder of EnCharge AI and a former SSCS Distinguished Lecturer. #IEEESSCS #InMemoryComputing #AIHardware #AnalogCircuits #Semiconductors #CircuitDesign #Microelectronics #MachineLearning

Missed our live webinar with Dr. Chris Mangelsdorf? The full replay is now available on the IEEE SSCS YouTube channel! 🎥⚡ In "How to be a Corporate Hero," Dr. Mangelsdorf shares invaluable career insights for early- and mid-career engineers navigating the IC industry. He breaks down two essential (and often surprising!) skills that every engineer must master to stand out and build a thriving, impactful corporate career. About the Speaker: Dr. Chris Mangelsdorf holds 18 patents, has won the ISSCC Best Evening Session Award 10 times, and currently authors the popular "Shop Talk" series for IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine. Watch the full talk and live Q&A session now: https://bit.ly/3UiNDE8 #IEEESSCS #YoungProfessionals #EngineeringCareers #Semiconductors #CircuitDesign #Microelectronics #IEEE

Discover the top 3 overall most-cited articles in the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC) for July 2026! 📚⚡ 1. A 128x128 120 dB 15 µs Latency Asynchronous Temporal Contrast Vision Sensor By Patrick Lichtsteiner, Christoph Posch, and Tobi Delbruck (2008) The landmark paper on the Dynamic Vision Sensor (DVS) "silicon retina" introduced event-based asynchronous vision with a 120 dB dynamic range and sub-millisecond latency. 👉 Read here: https://lnkd.in/ekW6Qkyd 2. Eyeriss: An Energy-Efficient Reconfigurable Accelerator for Deep Convolutional Neural Networks By Yu-Hsin Chen, Tushar Krishna, Joel S. Emer, and Vivienne Sze (2017) A pioneering paper introducing the Row-Stationary (RS) dataflow to minimize off-chip DRAM accesses in energy-efficient deep learning hardware. 👉 Read here: https://lnkd.in/e_4gWrWX 3. Design of an Image Edge Detection Filter Using the Sobel Operator By N. Kanopoulos, N. Vasanthavada, and R.L. Baker (1988) A classic 1988 paper demonstrating one of the earliest real-time hardware implementations of image edge detection using a highly pipelined CMOS architecture. 👉 Read here: https://lnkd.in/eH7sngBQ Stay connected with foundational breakthroughs and historical innovations in circuit design! #IEEESSCS #JSSC #SolidStateCircuits #VisionSensors #AIHardware #ComputerVision #Microelectronics #CircuitDesign

Join IEEE SSCS Women in Circuits (WiC) and IEEE EDS Women in Electron Devices (WiED) at ESSERC 2026 for an exciting afternoon workshop! Breaking Frequency Barriers: From RF to mmWave Circuits and System Design 📡✨ Explore the frontier of high-frequency circuits, energy-efficient transceivers, and novel system architectures with four leading experts in the field. Event Details: • Date: September 10, 2026 • Time: 14:00 – 17:30 CEST • Location: AUDITORIUM de Palma de Mallorca (Palma de Mallorca, Spain) Featured Speakers & Topics: • Rabia Yazicigil — Secure, Energy-Constrained Wireless Systems: Cross-Layer Optimization of RF Architectures & Algorithms • Anna Piacibello — Recent Trends and Open Challenges in Microwave and MM-Wave Power Amplifiers • Dovilė Čibiraitė-Lukenskienė — The RF World Above the Cut-Off Frequencies • Florence Podevin — N-Path Systems for RF Transceivers in an IoT World Connect with top researchers, gain valuable technical insights, and expand your professional network! Learn more and view full conference details on the ESSERC 2026 website: https://lnkd.in/d84BMnNp #IEEESSCS #IEEEEDS #WomenInCircuits #WomenInSTEM #RFIC #mmWave #ESSERC2026 #Semiconductors #CircuitDesign #WirelessCommunications

Calling all undergrads attending ESSERC 2026! 🎯🌴 The SSCS Student Outreach Committee is hosting an interactive Undergrad Scavenger Hunt throughout the conference in Palma de Mallorca! Explore the venue, engage with cutting-edge solid-state electronics research, and win an exclusive prize. How It Works: • Hunt: Find the color-coded QR codes hidden around the venue • Scan: Complete all 6 interactive checkpoints during the event • Win: Claim your prize! Event Details: 📅 Dates: September 7–10, 2026 📍 Venue: AUDITORIUM de Palma de Mallorca Get ready to explore, connect, and win! Learn more about the conference program: https://lnkd.in/d84BMnNp #IEEESSCS #ESSERC2026 #StudentOutreach #UndergradResearch #CircuitDesign #Semiconductors #PalmaDeMallorca #IEEE

Call for Nominations: Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Data Descriptions (2027–2028 Term) Are you a technical leader passionate about reproducible science and data discoverability? The IEEE Data Descriptions Steering Committee is seeking its next Editor-in-Chief. As the only publication sponsored by every single IEEE Technical Activities Society and Council, IEEE Data Descriptions is a unique peer-reviewed journal that publishes short articles on all aspects of data, including data descriptors, data collections, and metadata. Its overarching purpose is to promote publicly available datasets while providing insights into data collection methods and quality, creating a foundation for future data science tools such as auto-discovery and mashups. Help shape this landmark IEEE publication. Learn more about candidate qualifications and submit your application or nomination by 31 August 2026. Please note you may need to copy and paste this link into your web browser: https://bit.ly/3TodJoP #IEEE #DataScience #DataDescriptions #OpenData #TechLeadership #CallForNominations