ABSTRACT
As we move from third generation ( 3G ) to 4G to meet the demand for higher data rates and shorter distances at  "hotspots" , a debate has ensued on whether cellular and WLAN are seen as complementary or competing technologies. In either case, wireless services are moving to all-IP, convergent wireless solutions requiring access to different wireless infrastructures from the same wireless device, be it a cell phone,
a laptop or a PDA for a multitude of services including voice, data and multimedia applications. This scenario requires development of complex multi-standard multi-mode chipsets. This tutorial will discuss chipset technologies for wireless applications with focus on radio transceiver design .we will fist review the evolution of radio technology for 2G and 3G.We will then discuss multi-standard radio design solutions for 4G convergent WLAN/UMTS handhelds .The material will be covered at an introductory level. Students and newcomers are particularly welcome to participate.

BIOGRAPHY
Mohammed Ismail is Professor and Founding Director of the Analog VLSI Lab at the Ohio State University, Columbus, USA .He serves as a corporate consultant to semiconductor companies in the US, Europe and the far East. Recently he co-founded Spirea AB, Stockholm ,a leading developer for Radio-on-CMOS technology for the wireless market and serves as the company's Chief Technology Officer .He is a fellow of IEEE.

T3: MEMS and Their Applications
 

Topics to be covered:

MEMS Fundamentals, Design and Fabrications.

Introduction, examples of commercial MEMS, MEMS classes, Infrastructure needed.

Access to Fabrication Facility, what is in fabrication facility needed.

Pprocedure for design, Comparison to standard VLSI, MEMS CAD tools.

Micromachining techniques, Bulk Micromachining, Surface Micromachining, examples of silicon Sensors, brief description to varieties of silicon sensors.

Applications of MEMS

MEMS Classifications. Examples of MEMS applications in Transportation, Medical,  and Communication. RF-MEMS concepts, examples of design and prospect in RF-Communications.

BIOGRAPHY

Her main research interests are in the areas of digital and analog design of VLSI circuits, VLSI systems applications, design and implementation of microelectromechanical devices (MEMS) and RF-MEMS. She consults at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where she is actives with the MEMS Project and collaborates with the   IC Technology Group in the Semiconductor Electronics Division. She has  published over 160 technical papers in the general Areas of Circuits and Systems, Microelectronics systems design,VLSI circuits design, and MicroElectromechanical systems. She has also contributed to several books. She is the director of the Institute of MEMS and VLSI Technologies at the School of Engineering and Applied Science, George Washington University.

The video coding standards to date have not been able to address all the needs required by varying bit rates of different applications and the at the same time meeting the quality requirements. An emerging video coding standard named H.264/MPEG-4 part 10 (IS in May 2003) aims at coding video sequences at approximately half the bit rate compared to MPEG-2 at the same quality. It also aims at having significant improvements in coding efficiency, error robustness and network friendliness. It makes use of better prediction methods for Intra (I), Predictive (P) and Bi-predictive (B) frames. Arbitrary Block-size Transform (ABT) is used which is a simplified transform that avoids the mismatch error (DCT/IDCT) observed in the motion compensation hybrid coding adopted in MPEG-1 and MPEG-2. All these features along with others such as CABAC (Context Based Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coding) have resulted in having a 2:1 coding gain over MPEG-2 at the cost of increased complexity. Other parts of this standard such as file format, verification testing, reference software, conformance bitstreams , standardizing example encoding description and potential extensions are being finalized soon. The seminar highlights the various functionalities of the encoder, points out the differences between this new standard and the existing standards and describes the state-of-the-art development by the industry. ftp and web sites related to documents, software, databases, conformance bitstreams, meeting schedules, vendors, file formats, research groups etc are provided. This standard opens up several research areas based on software/hardware implementations, improvements etc. Also projects at the undergraduate and graduate levels can be assigned.

BIOGRAPHY

K.R. Rao received the Ph. D. degree in electrical engineering from The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque in 1966.  Since 1966, he has been with the University of Texas at Arlington where he is currently a professor of electrical engineering.  He, along with two other researchers, introduced the Discrete Cosine Transform in 1975 which has since become very popular in digital signal processing. He is the co-author of the books “Orthogonal Transforms for Digital Signal Processing” (Springer-Verlag, 1975), “Fast Transforms: Analyses and Applications” (Academic Press, 1982), “Discrete Cosine Transform-Algorithms, Advantages, Applications” (Academic Press, 1990). He has edited a benchmark volume, “Discrete Transforms and Their Applications” (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985). He has co edited a benchmark volume, “Teleconferencing” (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985). He is co-author of the books, “Techniques and standards for Image/Video/Audio Coding” (Prentice Hall) 1996 “Packet video communications over ATM networks”(Prentice Hall) 2000 and “Multimedia communication systems” (PrenticeHall) 2002. He has co edited a handbook “ The transform and data compression handbook,” ( CRC Press, 2001). Some of his books have beentranslatedinto Japanese, Chinese Korean and Russian. He has conducted workshops/tutorials on video/audio coding/standards worldwide. He has supervised several students at the Masters and Doctoral levels. He has published extensively in refereed journals and has been a consultant to industry, research institutes and academia. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

ABSTRACT

This tutorial will present techniques for the embedding of analog blocks in mixed-signal VLSI systems. Aspects covered include both circuit design challenges and emerging tool/methodology solutions. Focus will be on data converters. Systematic design approaches for deep-submicron converters will be described. Also the effects of embedding the blocks in digital systems, such as substrate noise coupling, will be handled and solutions will be described.

BIOGRAPHY

Georges G.E. Gielen is a Professor in Electrical Engineering at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven , Belgium. His research interests are in analog and mixed-signal design and design automation. He is responsible for many industrial projects in this area, he has published more than 150 papers in books, journals and conference proceedings, and is invited regularly for program committees of conferences and for presenting tutorials and invited speeches on analog and mixed-signal design and CAD. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. He was the 1997 Laureate of the Belgian National Academy of Science, Literature and Arts in the category of engineering sciences, and he received the 2000 Alcatel Award for innovation in telecommunications from the Belgian National Fund of Scientific Research.

Magdy S. Abadir
Manager, High Performance Tools and methodology
Somerset Design Center, NCSG, SPS
Motorola Inc., Austin Texas
Phone: 512-996-4906

ABSTRACT
Verification and Test of Complex Designs: Challenges and Solutions This tutorial aims to provide an overview of key verification and test challenges faced in today's complex designs and describes the methodologies used to overcome those challenges. A survey of state-of-the-art techniques will be presented together with experience on how these techniques are adopted in practice. The discussion will be focused on key areas including functional verification, equivalence checking, symbolic simulation, and design for test. Emphasis will be given to the relationship between verification, validation and test. Promising techniques and research directions for the future will also be presented and discussed.

BIOGRAPHY
Magdy S. Abadir Received the B.S. degree with honors in Computer Science from the University of Alexandria, Egypt in 1978, the M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, in 1981, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in 1985.
Currently he is with Motorola working as the Manager of the High Performance Tools and Methodology Group at the PowerPC Design Center, Austin Texas. Prior to that he was the General Manager of Best IC Labs in Austin Texas. From 1986 to 1994 he worked at the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC). He is also an adjunct faculty member of the Computer Engineering Department at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Abadir has published over 100 technical journal and conference papers in the areas of microprocessor test and verification, test economics, expert systems, and design for test. He founded and chaired three workshops on microprocessor test and verification. He  also co-chaired five workshops on the economics of design, test and manufacturing. He co-edited three books on the subject of test economics.He is a senior member of the IEEE.