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Professor Robert W. Brodersen received his PhD from MIT in 1972 and was with the Central Research Laboratory at Texas Instruments in the ensuing 3 years. He then joined the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Faculty of the University of California at Berkeley, where he is now the John Whinnery Professor of Electrical Engineering. Professor Brodersen is involved in research in new applications of integrated circuits, focusing on low power design and wireless communications and CAD tools necessary to support these activities.
He has won best paper awards for a number of journals and conference papers in the areas of integrated circuit design, CAD and communications, including the W.G. Baker Award for the best IEEE publication in all areas in 1979. In 1982, he became a Fellow of the IEEE. Since 1983, he received numerous distinguished awards in recognition of his achievements. In 1988, he was elected to be a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He received an honorary doctorate from Lund University in Sweden in 1999.
In his talk, Professor Brodersen will focus on the fundamental shift in the implementation of wireless systems. Not only is the underlying technology shifting to mainstream CMOS technology, but the applications and specifications of the supported links are also rapidly evolving. These two trends result in radical shifts in the radio system architectures, which ranges from the implementation issues associated with the analog RF circuitry and the digital baseband processing to the basic techniques for dealing with multi-access and the impairments of the channel. All of these design issues are driven by an ever widening range of requirements from the high bandwidth needs of multimedia internet access to the ultra low power needs of sensor data networks.
The multiple inter-related technologies required for implementation of such wireless system requires a co-design strategy in communication algorithms, protocols, digital architectures as well as the analog and digital circuits required for their implementation. The architectures for implementing these systems and how they scale into the future are critical issues. The conclusion that will be shown is that software based systems, however successful they may be now, will become increasingly inappropriate in the future. A design infrastructure, which supports more appropriate architectures, that has a particular emphasis on methods for high level specification and estimation, and will support a fully automated chip design flow will be described.
Members of the Press and interested party are cordially invited to attend.
Professor of Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley to deliver Lecture at HKU
04 Jun 2001
Professor Robert W. Brodersen of University of California at Berkeley is to deliver a William Mong Distinguished Lecture entitled Wireless Systems-on-a-Chip Design at 5:30pm on Thursday, June 7, at Lecture Theatre A, Chow Yei Ching Building, the University of Hong Kong.
Professor Robert W. Brodersen received his PhD from MIT in 1972 and was with the Central Research Laboratory at Texas Instruments in the ensuing 3 years. He then joined the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Faculty of the University of California at Berkeley, where he is now the John Whinnery Professor of Electrical Engineering. Professor Brodersen is involved in research in new applications of integrated circuits, focusing on low power design and wireless communications and CAD tools necessary to support these activities.
He has won best paper awards for a number of journals and conference papers in the areas of integrated circuit design, CAD and communications, including the W.G. Baker Award for the best IEEE publication in all areas in 1979. In 1982, he became a Fellow of the IEEE. Since 1983, he received numerous distinguished awards in recognition of his achievements. In 1988, he was elected to be a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He received an honorary doctorate from Lund University in Sweden in 1999.
In his talk, Professor Brodersen will focus on the fundamental shift in the implementation of wireless systems. Not only is the underlying technology shifting to mainstream CMOS technology, but the applications and specifications of the supported links are also rapidly evolving. These two trends result in radical shifts in the radio system architectures, which ranges from the implementation issues associated with the analog RF circuitry and the digital baseband processing to the basic techniques for dealing with multi-access and the impairments of the channel. All of these design issues are driven by an ever widening range of requirements from the high bandwidth needs of multimedia internet access to the ultra low power needs of sensor data networks.
The multiple inter-related technologies required for implementation of such wireless system requires a co-design strategy in communication algorithms, protocols, digital architectures as well as the analog and digital circuits required for their implementation. The architectures for implementing these systems and how they scale into the future are critical issues. The conclusion that will be shown is that software based systems, however successful they may be now, will become increasingly inappropriate in the future. A design infrastructure, which supports more appropriate architectures, that has a particular emphasis on methods for high level specification and estimation, and will support a fully automated chip design flow will be described.
Members of the Press and interested party are cordially invited to attend.
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