GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE COURSE
Purpose: MEAD Microelectronics, Inc. and the Jack Baskin School of Engineering of the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC-SOE), are jointly offering short courses, to be held at UCSC. These short courses will discuss the most important problems facing mixed-mode, digital and analog IC designers and their solutions on an advanced level.

The lecturers are leading practitioners in the area, from high-technology companies and universities, who teach the most up-to-date information available at the time of the course.

Organization: These courses are part of an ongoing series of courses offered by MEAD Microelectronics, Inc., an IC design company active in Switzerland and in the USA. The organization of these courses is performed with the help of a Technical Committee consisting of Robert Blauschild (Consultant), Michel Declercq (EPFL), Ian Galton (USCD), Barrie Gilbert (ADI), Paul Gray (UC Berkeley), Behzad Razavi (UCLA), Willy Sansen (KUL), Michiel Steyaert, (KUL), Tomas Szepesi (PM Chip), Gabor Temes (OSU), Vlado Valence (MEAD), and Eric Vittoz (Consultant).

For additional information, contact:
MEAD Microelectronics Inc.
7100 NW Grandview Drive
Corvallis, Oregon 97330
USA
Tel: (541) 758-0828
Fax: (541) 752-1405
email: valence@mead.ch (technical) or itemes@peak.org (administrative)

Course Location: All courses will be held at University of California Santa Cruz . The lectures will be given in the university conference rooms.

Direction to the course:

    From Southern & Central California:
          - Take Route 101 North to Route 156 West
          - Follow to Route 1 North 
          - Follow Route 1 North to Santa Cruz
   
    From Northern California:
          - Take Route 5 South to Route 80 West
          - Follow to Route 680 South
          - Follow to Route 280 North.  
          - Follow Highway 17 South
          - Follow to Route 1 to Santa Cruz.

     From San Francisco Airport:
          - Take Route 101 South to Route 85 South
          - Follow to Highway 17 South
          - Follow to Route 1 North to Santa Cruz.

     From San Jose Airport:
         - Take Route 880 South to Highway 17 South
          - Follow to Route 1 North to Santa Cruz.

     From Monterey Airport:
          - Take Route 1 North to Santa Cruz.

    To Campus:
          - Once in Santa Cruz, on Route 1 North, follow the highway as it becomes Mission Street
            through town.  
          - Turn right on Bay Street and follow it to the campus entrance.

COURSE PARKING AND
CHECK-IN INFORMATION:

Please park and purchase a parking permit as indicated here: Parking and Check-in Information
Parking Map
Campus Map


UNIVERSITY LINK:

http://ucenter.ucsc.edu/index.html

MORE DIRECTIONS:

http://maps.ucsc.edu/
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