WSB:
RFICS FOR ULTRA-WIDEBAND SYSTEMS

Date & Time: Sunday, June 11; 8:00 AM to 5:10 PM

Location: Moscone Convention Center, TBD

Topics & Speakers:

• UWB High-speed Personal Area Network System Standards and RFIC Design Implications, Roberto Aiello, Staccato Communications
• Low Noise Ultrawideband Receivers, Domine Leenaerts, Philips Res.
• UWB Transmitters and Pulse Generators, Cam Ngyuen, Texas A&M
• Frequency Synthesizers for High Data UWB Systems, Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio, Texas A&M
• Design of Performance-Optimized Distributed RFICs for UWB, Payam Heydari, UC Irvine
• System Architectures and Circuit Techniques for Integrated RF Transceivers for UWB Localization and Sensing, K. Dufrene, Univ. of Erlangen-Nuremberg
• Silicon-Based UWB Radar Sensor Chipsets, Ian Gresham, M/A-COM

Organizers:

Sanjay Raman, Virginia Tech., Electrical and Computer Engineering
A. Wang, Illinois Institute of Technology

Sponsors: MTT-23: RFIC

This workshop will focus on RFIC design and implementations for Ultra-wideband system applications, such as high-speed personal area networks, sensor networks, RFID, radar systems, etc. Topics will include low-noise receivers, transmitters/pulsegenerators, distributed circuits, baseband/signal-processing circuits, and system level issues for proposed UWB standards and other applications such as RFID and radar sensors. Particular attention will be focused on silicon-based IC implementations, and progress towards single-chip solutions. Attendees will be exposed to current issues facing RF/mixed-signal IC designers in the UWB space, and state-of-the-art IC implementations of UWB transmit, receive and backend functions.