Santa Clara Valley chapter report

In the fall of 1996 a colleague, Jonathan David, came into my office at Cadence Systems. He said the Solid-State Circuits Council would become a society next year and he thought a local SSCS chapter would be appropriate. I was involved in activities of other Santa Clara Valley IEEE chapters (Magnetics Society, Communications Society, and Microwave Theory and Technics Society). We discussed my experiences and I told him: “This is the place for an SSCS chapter.” After 40 years, Santa Clara Valley is still the heart of the IC design industry.