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BiCMOS and Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuits and Technology Symposium. (BCICTS) is usually in October, at a site near the west coast or the east coast to accommodate European and Asian travelers. This year it is in Phoenix, the dates are 16-19 October. Here is the website.
BCICTS was formed as a merger of CSICS (Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Symposium) and BCTM conference (Bipolar and BiCMOS Circuits and Technology) a few years ago. These conferences were designed to be way smaller than the International Microwave Symposium. You can expect to meet ~150 experts in the field, and have a good time while
Here are links to an official (and free!) IEEE history article on CSICs and an article on BCTM.
We decided to tabulate the venues, dates and symposium chairs for BCICTS and its CSICS heritage (maybe we can add in the BCTM data later). CSICS started life as the GaAs IC symposium, way back in 1978, and at one point during the heyday of DARPA's MIMIC program it had close to 1000 attendees. When other compound semi's popped up they decided to change the name to be more inclusive, a lesson that we should all take to heart.
Much of this data was generated by playing with the Wayback Machine. In case you are not old enough to know this, the Wayback machine was a feature in a cartoon that ran from 1959 to 1961. Here Sherman and Mr. Peabody assist in the British surrender to the Continental Army... In case you are not aware, Mr. Peabody is the World's Smartest Dog and graduated from Harvard at the age of three.
The Original Wayback Machine
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Unfortunately, the world-wide web was not really a thing for the first years of the GaAs IC symposium. It may take some digging to get the early data. What sucks is that we threw out the conference proceedings of at least two of these events...
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1988 Nashville, TN, 6-9 November
1989 San Diego, CA, 22-25 October
1990 New Orleans, LA, 7-10 October
1991 Monterey, CA, 20-23 October
1992 Miami, FL, 4-7 October
1993 San Jose, CA, 1-013 October
1994 Philadelphia, PA, 16-19 October
1995 San Diego, CA, 29 October-1 November
1996 San Jose, CA, 10-13 October
1997, Anaheim, CA, 12-15 October, Phil Wallace
1998 Atlanta, GA, 1-4 November, Bill Stanchina
1999 Monterey, CA, 17-20 October, Mark Wilson
2000, Seattle, WA , 5-8 November, Jim Komiak
2001 Baltimore, MD, 21-24 October, John Sitch
2002 Monterey, CA, 20-23 October, Tim Henderson
2003 San Diego, CA, 9-12 November, Chris Bozado
------------------2004... conference becomes CSICS
2004 Monterey, CA, 24-27 October, Kevin Kobayashi
2005 Palm Springs, CA, 1-2 November, Brad Nelson
2006 San Antonio, TX, 12-15 November, Mitchell Schifrin
2007 Portland, OR, 14-17 October, Mohammad Madihian
2008 Monterey, CA ,12-14, October, William Pentman
2009 Greensboro, NC, 11-14 October, Marko Sokolich
2010 Monterey, CA, 3-6 October, Dave Halchin
2011 Waikoloa, HI,16-19 October, Dan Scherrer
2012 La Jolla, CA 14-17 October, Sorin Voinigescu
2013 Monterey, CA, 13-16 October, Francois Colomb
2014 La Jolla, CA, 19-20 October, Doug McPherson
2015 New Orleans, LA, Charles Campbell
2016 Austin TX, 23-26 October, Harris (Chip) Moyer
2017 Miami, FL, 22-25 October Jim Carroll
Conference was helld right after Hurricane Irma.... the city was a mess.
-----------------2018 is first year after CSICS merges with BCTM
2018 San Diego, CA, 14-17 October, Peter Magnee and Brian Moser (Co-Chairs)
2019 Nashville, TN, 3-6 November, Peter Zampardi and Sorin Voinigescu, (Co-Chairs)
2020 Virtual (was supposed to be Monterey), Bruce Green
2021 Virtual, Craig Steinbeiser
2022 Phoenix, AZ 16-19 October, Robert Howell