Modern Wireless System Design: From Circuit to Web-based Apps – Spring 2015
15 Middlesex Canal Park Drive
Woburn, MA 01801
USA
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Speaker: Henry Lau, Lexiwave Technology
Date & Time: 9:00AM – 4:30PM, Thursday & Friday, June 18 & 19
Registration Fees:
By June 5
Members $415
Non-Members $435
After June 5
Members $435
Non-members $455
Decision (run/cancel) date is Monday, June 8
Location: Crowne Plaza Hotel, 15 Middlesex Canal Park Rd, Woburn, MA
Course Summary:
Nowadays, as the features of wireless communication products and systems are getting more in number and sophisticated to stay competitive, the products have to contain both hardware and software. It is thus beneficial for an engineer or manager to acquire a broad understanding on how a modern wireless communication product or system works with both hardware and software components.
This course is aimed to provide an opportunity for participants to acquire technical insights on the vital aspects of Modern Wireless System Design from an industry and practical perspective. It is an introductory level for circuit, software, system engineers and mangers who would like to acquire an overview on the vital aspect and design considerations on complete wireless system design. Various functional blocks of wireless systems and products will be discussed and analyzed with practical examples on commercial products. The software development will also be addressed to provide a comprehensive understanding of the development of complete wireless systems. The course will be conducted by a wireless design expert with rich industrial experience. Interactive and open discussions between speaker and participants are encouraged and facilitated to make the whole course more interesting and thought stimulating.
Audience:
System engineers, wireless product designers, software engineers, RF and microwave circuit design engineers, field application engineers, business development engineers and managers involved in wireless products and systems.
Benefits:
Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:
1. understand the key functional blocks of Modern Wireless Products/Systems and their characteristics and specifications
2. understand how the key component blocks interact and the implications on overall system performance
3. compare and evaluate different types of receiver and transmitter architectures
4. comprehensive understanding on the embedded software development as well as web-based and app-based software development
5. acquire practical design techniques from case studies on commercial wireless products
OUTLINE
Receiver
• System Characteristics
• Signal and Noise
• Noise temperature, noise bandwidth, noise figure, sensitivity
• Linearity
• Dynamic Range, one dB compression point, intermodulation, automatic gain control
• Critical Circuit blocks
• LNA, local oscillator, mixer, IF amplifier, demodulator, baseband amplifier
• System Architectures and design considerations
• Heterodyne, Direct Conversion, Image-reject and Low-IF Receiver
• Sample Receiver Designs
Transmitter
• Circuit blocks: oscillator, modulator, buffer amplifier, frequency multiplier, power amplifier, output filter
• Major issues: C/N, modulation depth, voltage gain, power gain, power efficiency, harmonic prevention and suppression
Wireless Modules
• Types: GPS, Bluetooth, GSM/GPRS, RFID
• Applications
• Electrical parameters
Miniature Antennas for Portable electronics
• Antenna Fundamentals
• Radiation mechanism
• Source of radiation
• Characteristic of radiation
• Parameters and specifications
• Radiation pattern, antenna eficiency, aperture concept, directiviy and gain
• Types of antenna and performance
• Dipole
• Loop
• miniature antennas – patch, inverted-L, inverted-F, meandered line
• Practical design considerations and techniques for portable electronics
Software Development
• Embedded device
• Type of MCU
• Characteristics, functions and features
• Design considerations
• Web database development
• MySQL
• Website development
• Software – HTML, Javascript and PHP
• Web server
• Smartpone Apps Development
• Android development tool
• Phonegap
• IOS
Speaker Bio:
Henry Lau received his M.Sc. and MBA degrees from UK and USA respectively. He has more than 23 years of experience in designing wireless systems, products and RFICs in both Hong Kong and US. He worked for Motorola and Conexant in US as Principal Engineer on developing RFICs for cellular phone and silicon tuner applications. Mr Lau holds five patents and has one patent pending, all in RF designs. He is currently running Lexiwave Technology, a wireless company in Hong Kong and US designing and selling RFICs, RF modules and wireless solutions. He has also been teaching numerous RF-related courses internationally.