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Communications Society [COM-19]
Microwave Theory and Techniques Society and Communications Societies
9:20 AM, June 10th, 2009
Current Status and Future Trends for Si and Compound MMICs in Millimeter-wave Regime and Related Issues for System on Chip (SOC) and/or System in Package (SIP) Applications
Dr. Huei Wang
Director, Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering (GICE)
Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and GICE
National Taiwan University,
No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Rd.
Taipei, Taiwan, 10617, ROC
Tel: +886-2-3366-3075
Fax: +886-2-2368-3824
E-mail: hueiwang@ntu.edu.twAbstract:
The anticipated presentation will cover the current status and future trends of millimeter-wave MMICs, including those using III-V compound (GaAs, InP, GaN, etc.) and Si-based (CMOS, SiGe HBT and BiCMOS) MMIC technologies. Millimeter-wave MMICs used to be applied to military and astronomy systems for long time and started to be utilized for civil applications in the decade, such as communications and automotive radars. The evolution of IC technologies has enabled the performance of Si-based MMICs over 100 GHz, even in standard bulk CMOS processes. This is believed to have a major impact in the future development of millimeter-wave systems. Since low-cost mass-production potential pushes forward the technology, a very high integration of circuit functions on a chip, such as RF, base-band circuitry, automatic-control for a steady operation, and maybe even the antenna, etc. should be included, and thus the system on chip (SOC) issues should be addressed, especially in MMW regime. Moreover, millimeter-wave packaging cost always dominated in the module development. In order to simplify the assembly and reduced cost, the concept of system in package (SIP) has been proposed. This presentation will also survey the current technologies for SOC and SIP and discuss related issues and challenges.
Biography:
Huei Wang (S’83-M’87-SM’95-F’06) was born in Tainan, Taiwan, on March 9, 1958. He received the B. S. degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 1980, and the M. S. and Ph. D. degrees in electrical engineering from Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan in 1984 and 1987, respectively.
During his graduate study, he was engaged in the research on theoretical and numerical analysis of electromagnetic radiation and scattering problems. He was also involved in the development of microwave remote detecting/sensing systems. Dr. Wang joined Electronic Systems and Technology Division of TRW Inc. since 1987. He has been an MTS and Staff Engineer responsible for MMIC modeling of CAD tools, MMIC testing evaluation and design and became the Senior Section Manager of MMW Sensor Product Section in RF Product Center. He visited the Institute of Electronics, National Chiao-Tung University, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, in 1993 to teach MMIC related topics and returned to TRW in 1994. He joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering of National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, as a Professor in February 1998. He is currently the Director of Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering of National Taiwan University.
Dr. Wang is a member of the honor society Phi Kappa Phi and Tau Beta Pi. He received the Distinguished Research Award of National Science Council, Taiwan, at 2003. He was the Richard M. Hong Endowed Chair Professor of National Taiwan University in 2005-2007. He was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2006, and has been appointed as an IEEE Distinguished Microwave Lecturer for the term of 2007-2009. Dr. Wang received the Academic Achievement Award from Ministry of Education, Taiwan, in 2007, and the Distinguished Research Award from Pan Wen-Yuan’s Foundation in 2008.
This is a joint meeting sponsored by MTT and Communications Societies.
The meeting will be held at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center in Boston, MA, during the International Microwave Symposium in Room 103. Refreshments will be served at 9:00 am; the talk will begin at 9:20 am. The talk is open to the general public. A pass to attend the talk as well as the IMS2009 Exhibition is free to local attendees on Wednesday. See www.ims2009.org for more details on the exhibition, and http://www.ims2009.org/transportation.htm for details on how to get to the BCEC. Parking is $10 at the BCEC.
For more information contact: Jeremy Muldavin, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, email: Muldavin@ll.mit.edu
Communications Society
7:00 PM, Thursday, 11 June
Convergence becomes reality, triggering a world war over wireless and the web: what does this mean?
Michael Davies; Senior Lecturer MIT/Sloan and London Business School, Chairman of Endeavour Partners, and Founder and CTO of EquuSys, Inc.
Four key developments have now made convergence a reality. They are:
the rapid rise and impending dominance of smart phones
the disruptive shift to 'cloud computing'
content becoming digital and consumer electronics becoming not so dumb
the accelerating ascent of Internet and mobile advertising
We now know what convergence looks like. It is unlike earlier preconceptions, which now seem to have been rooted in incremental evolution of legacy infrastructure and business models.
This shift now presents major players from across mobile devices, mobile and broadband services, consumer electronics and content, personal computing and the Web with huge new opportunities. But there are also enormous competitive challenges.
In particular, there are several huge global businesses that have very different and fundamentally incompatible business models. They variously make money from devices, services, content, software or search and advertising. Each of these titans has revenues of many tens of billions, capitalization in excess of $50 billion, and further war chests of billions ready to deploy. The key players that will vie for supremacy in the evolving area of convergence include Microsoft, Google, Nokia, Apple, Verizon, Vodafone and Sony.
This war is underway; its outcome will determine the leaders for the many years into the future.
This presentation will lay the groundwork for and hopefully stimulate an interactive and thought-provoking discussion of what the future scenarios are for many of the business areas and technology innovation within which IEEE members work, as well as for us all as individual consumers.
Michael Davies has a portfolio career that spans the worlds of academia, consulting and new technology ventures. This includes:
Senior Lecturer (part time) at MIT Sloan School of Management where he teaches Technology & Strategy, a core course in the Systems Design and Management program
Responsible for and teaches New Technology Ventures at London Business School. This unique program brings together engineers, scientists and managers to evaluate novel ideas and inventions and turn them into new technology ventures.
Founder and Chairman of Endeavour Partners, a boutique consulting firm that works with top management of leading high-tech businesses such as Nokia, Deutsche Telekom, Sony Ericsson and Smith & Nephew
Chief Technology Officer of an angel-backed equine telemetry and informatics start-up EquuSys, Inc. http://www.equusys.com) that he co-founded to commercialize one of his patented inventions
Michael has an MBA with Distinction from London Business School, and two Masters degrees in Engineering, from the Universities of Cambridge and Durham in the UK. In early 2007, Michael Davies was recognized as a World Class New Zealander. He has served on the research or advisory boards of both large and small high-tech companies, such as Mitsubishi Electric, Motorola Research, and Smith & Nephew.
He is also a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), of the Academy of Management, of the Strategic Management Society, of INFORMS and of the Product Development Management Association (PDMA).
The meeting begins at 7 p.m. and the presentation soon after at the Verizon Labs, 117 West Street, Waltham. The meeting is preceded by dinner with the speaker at Bertucci's, Winter St, Waltham, at 5:30 p.m. Directions follow.
Directions to Bertucci's restaurant in Waltham: Take Exit 27B on I95/128, heading west on Winter Street. After exiting, stay all the way to the right and take the first right turn into the shopping plaza. Bertucci's is at the far end of the plaza. Please let Paul Zorfass know if you plan to attend the dinner at Bertucci’s. Paul can be contacted at paul.zorfass@embeddedtrade.com.
Directions to Verizon Labs, 117 West Street, Waltham, MA 02451 (the Sylvan Road entrance is now closed): Take Exit 27B on I95/128, heading west on Winter Street. Stay all the way to the right. Verizon Labs is 1/2 mile ahead. At the second traffic light, turn left onto WEST ST. and then take the first right (at the Verizon sign) which leads into the Verizon campus. The building and entrance for the meeting are on your right. After parking come into the building and follow the IEEE signs into the IEEE meeting area.
Communications Society
10:00 AM, Saturday, 13 June
Tour of the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Laboratory
The IEEE Communications Society is hosting a tour of the University of New Hampshires Interoperability Laboratory. The 40,000 square foot facility is located near the UNH main campus in Durham, NH. For 20 years it has been the home to a facility testing manufacturers products and confirming interoperability for all emerging communication technologies: Wi-Fi, hard drive interfaces, Fibre Channel, Power Over Ethernet, DSL, IPv6, iSCSI and routing protocols. New test bays are devoted to emerging standards for Data Center Bridging, Audio Video Bridging, Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE ), 10-, 40-, and 100 Gigabit Ethernet, Backplane, and TRILL.
The tour will begin at 10 AM with coffee, networking and an introduction to the lab. Then we will break into groups for the tour of the specialized test bays. The tour should finish around 12:30 PM. The follow-up Q & A session will allow plenty of time for you to talk with the lab staff specializing in your favorite technology. For more information about the lab, see: www.iol.unh.edu.
The lab is located adjacent to the UNH campus in Durham, NH. You must reserve a place on the tour in advance. For security reasons, it will not be possible to accommodate unreserved walk-ins, and photography is not permitted. Please send your name, phone number (cell preferred) and company affiliation to John Nitzke at rf@ieee.org no later than June 11th.
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