WSB:
Receiver Design for 4G

Date & Time: Sunday, June 6; 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Location: Fort Worth Convention Center, Room 204A

Topics & Speakers:

• Cellular and WLAN Interoperability,
  Malcolm Smith, Intel Corporation
  
• Overview of UMTS Test Cases and Their Impact on Receiver Specifications,
  Linus Maurer, DICE
  
• GSM Receiver System Design,
  Daniel B. Schwartz, Motorola SPS
  
• WCDMA Receiver Design,
  Kenji Itoh, Mitsubishi Electric
  
• WLAN Receiver Design,
  Srenik Mehta, Atheros
  
• Synthesizer Design,
  Abdellatif Bellaouar and Paul Fontaine, Texas Instruments
  
• Baseband Mixed Signal Circuits for Cellular and WLAN,
  Ramin Poorfard, Silicon Labs

Organizers:

Sayfe Kiaei, Arizona State University
Malcolm Smith, Intel Corporation

Sponsors:

MTT-6: Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Integrated Circuits
MTT-23: RF Integrated Circuits
2004 RFIC Symposium

Although there is no official definition of the term “4G Wireless Network,” there is somewhat of a consensus emerging that 4G will be a cooperation of present wireless standards rather than a new definition of a radio system. The two main protocols that are being considered central to 4G are WWAN systems built around the cellular standards, in particular UMTS, and WLAN systems built around IEEE 802.11.

The speakers in this workshop will consider the interoperability of WLAN and UMTS receivers, as well as the unique system and circuit design challenges for the receiver for the EGPRS, W-CDMA, and the IEEE 802.11 protocols.