Workshop on low power integrated circuits dedicated to 3G mobile phones

EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, February 25-26, 2004

This workshop has been organized by the Electronics Laboratories (LEG) of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, in the frame of the IST European project MuMoR on 3rd generation mobile phones.

 

Workshop objectives:

This workshop aims to bring together researchers, developers and potential users concerned with advanced low-power design solutions applicable to the design of RF, analog, digital or mixed-signal front-ends dedicated to enhanced 3rd generation mobile phones. It will reflect European activities with state-of-the-art / innovative aspects in the RF field. The talks will be given by international speakers from industry and the academic world.

Low-power design of microelectronic circuits is becoming increasingly important as chips become larger, more complex and faster, and as a consequence of the drive towards portable high-performance products for wireless communications. The design effort for the analog parts and front-ends of these products is high, especially when the power consumption needs to be kept minimal. Low-power design and reconfigurability of the analog and digital parts have to be addressed both at the architectural level and at the circuit level.

 

Organizers of the workshop:

Technical organization:

Dr. Catherine Dehollain, EPFL, STI, IMM, LEG, ELB Ecublens, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Tel: +41 21 693 69 71.   Fax: +41 21 693 36 40.
E-mail: catherine.dehollain@epfl.ch

Local organization, secretary:

Mrs. Isabelle Buzzi, EPFL, STI, IMM, LEG, ELB Ecublens, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

Tel: +41 21 693 39 75.    Fax: +41 21 693 36 40.
E-mail: isabelle.buzzi@epfl.ch

 

Workshop program

Wednesday, Februray 25, 2004

At 8.35 a.m.: Welcome address

  • Catherine Dehollain (EPFL, Electronics Laboratories, Lausanne, Switzerland)

At 8.45 a.m.: Session 1: General aspects for mobile communications

  • Jean-Baptisite David  (CEA, LETI, Grenoble, France)

    IST European project MuMoR - Understanding Film Bulk Acoustic Resonator and Looking for a Filter design methodology

At 11.15 a.m.: Session 2: Trade-offs between power efficiency and linearity of power amplifiers

  • Solon Spiegel (RIO-System AG, Zurich, Switzerland

    Power saving techniques for the 3rd generation of mobile systems

At 1.50 p.m.: Session 3: Part 1-RF front end architecture for wireless mobile terminals

At 4.30 p.m.: Session 4: Part 2-RF front end architecture for wireless mobile terminals

 

Thursday, February 26, 2004

At 8.30 a.m.: Session 5: Frequency synthesizers for enhanced 3G mobile phones

At 11.15 a.m.: Session 6: Analog to Digital Converters for Telecom Applications

At 2.00 p.m.: Session 7: Reconfigurability for enhanced 3G mobile phones