Tuesday, June 3, 2003, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM | Room: AB

   SESSION 6
  Special Session: Emerging Design and Tool Challenges in RF and Wireless Applications
  Chair: Georges Gielen - Katholieke Univ., Leuven, BEL
  Organizers: Limor Fix

  RF/wireless applications have emerged as important markets, driven by cellular and high-speed wireless data communications (e.g. 802.11 WLAN), but with other applications such as 4G communications, ambient intelligence and ubiquitous ad-hoc sensor networks looming on the horizon. This special session will address the challenges in terms of design capabilities, technology choices and design tools that are ahead of us to materialize these applications. Starting from the system requirements, an overview will be given of technology choices and design challenges that await the designers at both the system architectural level and the circuit level. Also new modeling and simulation tools for these systems will be discussed.

  6.1   Seamless Multi-Radio Integration Challenges
  Speaker(s): Uri Barkai - Intel Corp., Petach-Tikva, Israel
  Author(s): Uri Barkai - Intel Corp., Petach-Tikva, Israel
  6.2RF Front End Application and Technology Trends
  Speaker(s): Pieter Hooijmans - Philips Research Labs., Eindhoven, The Netherlands
  Author(s): Pieter Hooijmans - Philips Research Labs., Eindhoven, The Netherlands
  6.34G-Terminals: How are We Going to Design Them?
  Speaker(s): Jan Craninckx - IMEC, Leuven, Belgium
  Author(s): Jan Craninckx - IMEC, Leuven, Belgium
Stephane Donnay - IMEC, Leuven, Belgium
  6.4New Techniques for Non-Linear Behavioral Modeling of Microwave/RF ICs from Simulation and Nonlinear Microwave Measurements
  Speaker(s): David E. Root - Agilent Technologies, Santa Rosa, CA
  Author(s): David E. Root - Agilent Technologies, Santa Rosa, CA
John Wood - Agilent Technologies, Santa Rosa, CA
Nick Tufillaro - Agilent Labs., Palo Alto, CA