Thursday **Please note the date** May 31 4:00 - 4:50 PM Kelley 1001
Georg Boeck Department Head Microwave Engineering Lab Berlin University of Technology Design of RF-CMOS Integrated Circuits for Wireless Communications The continuous progress of silicon technology has enabled the emergence of digital mobile broadband communication systems for voice, data, multimedia and position with good quality of service. Data-rate and mobility trade-offs, different standards like 2G, 3G, Bluetooth, WLAN, GPS and digital multimedia broadcasting are leading to multimode requirements. Issues concerning coexistence and inter-working of these different technologies have to be solved. Single chip integration with digital part, high integration density and excellent RF-performance, low power consumption and low cost under mass production aspects are further requirements. First system-on-chip (SoC) demonstrations show that today CMOS technologies seem to be able to fulfil all these requirements. This lecture will review RF-CMOS technologies, RF-architectures and re-configurability principles as well as circuit and system design aspects for mobile multi-mode communication applications. It will consider special requirements on wafer processes like leakage and analogue and RF capabilities and will look to the world of system-level design. In this context, power-levels, form-factors and cost are key requirements for system-in-package and system-on-chip solutions. Of course, new challenges for the future will be considered and explored, too. Biography: Prof. Boeck received the doctoral degree from Berlin University of Technology, Berlin, Germany, in 1984. In the same year he joined Siemens Research Labs in Munich, Germany, where his research areas were on fiber optics and GaAs electronics. From 1988 to 1991, he was a Full Professor for electronic devices and circuits at the University of Applied Sciences Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany. Since 1991, he has been the head of the Microwave Engineering Lab at Berlin University of Technology. His main areas of research are characterization, modeling and design of microwave semiconductor devices, MICs, and MMICs up to the 100 GHz regime. His special interests during the last years have been in the fields of power amplifiers and silicon integrated RF-circuits including the millimeter-wave range. Prof. Boeck has authored or co-authored more than 150 technical papers and one book and holds several patents. He serves at several Technical Program Committees and is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of RF-Engineering and Telecommunications. He is a Guest Professor of the Southeast University Nanjing, Nanjing, China. Prof. Boeck is a Senior Member of the IEEE and an international IEEE Distinguished Microwave Lecturer 2006-2008 in the field of "Design of RF CMOS Integrated Circuits".
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