WSI
Adaptive Low-Power Front-Ends for Wireless Communication Systems
Time: Sunday, June 15th, 8am - Noon
Topics & Speakers:
- Low-power Reconfigurable Transmitter Architectures, Prof. Lawrence Larson, UC San Diego
- CMOS power amplifiers for mobile terminals, Prof. Patrick Reynaert, KU Leuven
- Leveraging VCO-based Quantization to Achieve Low Power, Wideband A/D Conversion for Multi-Standard RF Front-ends, Prof. Mike Perrott, MIT
- Low-power Receivers Concepts: An Industrial Example, Dr. Robert B. Staszewski, Texas Instruments
- Integrated Power Management Circuits for Wireless Applications, Prof. Hoi Lee, University of Texas
Organizers:
Dr. Gernot Hueber, DICE GmbH
Dr. Robert Bogdan Staszewski, Texas Instruments
Prof. Stefan Heinen, Infineon Technologies
Sponsors: RFIC
Workshop Abstract:
Current and future mobile terminals are becoming increasingly complex because they have to deal with a variety of frequency bands and communication standards. Achieving multiband/multi-mode functionality poses a unique challenge on the RFtransceiver design due to limitations in terms of frequency agile RF components that meet the demanding cellular performance criteria, at costs that are attractive for mass market applications. The focus of this workshop will be on novel transceiver concepts for low power multimode/multi-band cellular systems from the antenna to baseband. Approaches include novel architectures, highly-configurable analog circuitry, digitally-assisted analog modules and the integration of digital signal processing into the traditionally purely analog front-end. However, the utilization of digital signal processing capabilities is in line with the ongoing trend towards SoCs in minimum-featuresized CMOS. |
