ISCAS Origins and History

The first annual symposium of the IEEE Circuit Society was held in Miami Beach, Florida, in December 1968. Prior to that the Circuit Theory Group had co-sponsored (apparently without financial involvement) several meetings in the Circuit Theory field: the Midwest Symposium on Circuit Theory, the Allerton Conference on Circuit Theory, etc. A decision was taken to concentrate on supporting only one event per year soon after the Miami Beach event.

The conference went international from the very early days – a characteristic of the Circuit Theory Group. This can be judged from the decision to hold the 4th edition of the conference in London, England as early as 1971. A decision in principle to do so must have been taken no later than 1969.

Although the Society has sponsored and co-sponsored many different series of conferences and continues to do so, the primary annual conferences is the International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS).

The following list gives the date, location and general chair(s) of ISCAS since its inception:

Date Venue General Chairman
1968 Miami Beach, FL Omar Wing
1969 San Francisco, CA unavailable
1970 Atlanta, GA H.E. Meadows
1971 London, England George S. Brayshaw
1972 Los Angeles, CA Sydney R. Parker
1973 Toronto, Canada Kenneth C. Smith
1974 San Francisco, CA Sanjit K. Mitra
1975 Boston, MA John Logan
1976 Munich, Germany Rudolf Saal
1977 Phoenix, AZ William Howard
1978 New York City, NY H.E. Meadows
1979 Tokyo, Japan Yosiro Oono
1980 Houtson, TX Rui J.P. de Figureido
1981 Chicago, IL Benjamin J. Leon; M.E. Can Valkenburg
1982 Rome, Italy Antonio Ruberti
1983 Newport Beach, CA George Szentirmai
1984 Montreal, Canada M.N.S. Swamy
1985 Kyoto, Japan Toshio Fujusawa
1986 San Jose, CA George Szentirmai
1987 Philadelphia, PA Samuel Bedrosian
188 Helsinki, Finland Yrjo Nuevo
1989 Portland, OR Tran Thong
1990 New Orleans, LA Anthony Michael; Michael Sain
1991 Singapore J.C.H. Phang
1992 Sand Diego, CA Stanley A. White
1993 Chicago, IL Wai-Kai Chen
1994 London, England Robert Spence
1995 Seattle. WA Robert J. Marks II
1996 Atlanta, GA Philip E. Allen
1997 Hong Kong Tony T.S. Ng; Ming Liou
1998 Monterey, CA Sherif N. Michael
1999 Orlando, FL Wasfy B. Mikhael
2000 Geneva, Switzerland Martin J. Hasler
2001 Sydney, Australia Graham R. Hellestrand; David J. Skellern
2002 Phoenix, AZ David J. Scott; Sethuraman Panchanathan
2003 Bangkok, Thailand Sitthichai Pookaiyaudom; Chris Toumazou
2004 Vancouver, Canada Andreas Antoniou
2005 Kobe, Japan Nobuo Fuji
2006 Kos, Greece Thanos Stouraitis
2007 New Orleans, LA Magdy Bayoumi
2008 Seattle, WA David Allstot
2009 Taipei, Taiwan Jhing Fa Wang
2010 Paris, France Amara Amara
2011 Rio De Janeiro, Brazil Paulo Diniz
2012 Incheon, Korea Myung Sunwoo
2013 Beijing, China unavailable
2014 Melbourne, Australia unavailable
2015 Lisbon, Portugal unavailable
2016 Montreal, Canada unavailable
2017 Baltimore, MD unavailable
2018 Firenze, Italy Franco Maloberti; Gianluca Setti
2019 Sapporo, Japan Hiroshi Tsutsui
2020 Sevilla, Spain (Virtual) Angel Rodriquez-Vasquez; Manuel Delgado-Restituto; Edward Alacron
20201 Daegu, South Korea (Virtual) Jinwook Burm; JinGyun Chung; Myung Hoon Sunwoo
2022 Austin, TX (Hybrid) Sung-Mo (Steve) Kang; Randall Geiger
2023 Monterey, CA Jan Rabaey; Boris Murmann
2024 Singapore unavailable
2025 London, UK unavailable
2026 Shanghai, China unavailable