BWRC 2002 Winter Research Retreat

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BWRC 2002 Winter Research Retreat

• Gary Kelson
• January 7-8, 2002
• Monterey Conference Center Monterey,California

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Berkeley Wireless Research Center

• A partnership of UC Berkeley researchers,
  industry, and government
• Members
• Ericsson Radio Systems
• Agilent Technologies
• Cadence Design Systems
• Texas Instruments
• STMicroelectronics
• Intel Corporation
• Atmel Corporation
• Qualcomm Incorporated
• Infineon Technologies
• Hitachi Ltd.
• Grant Funding DARPA, AFRL, NSF, ONR, MARCO, MURI

• Operational since Feb.1999
• Downtown Berkeley, 1 block from campus
• 11,000 sq. feet

Were 3 Years Old
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2001 - A Year of Challenge and Change

• 9/11/01 Changed Everything
• Many new opportunities for technology that can
  benefit all people peacefully
• The world of technology has always been changing
• NASDAC lost Trillions of ,
• but its rebounding
• Many companies heavily impacted
• We lost Lucent Technologies
• University research increasing valuable
• Faculty application are up
• The FUTURE is here

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Recent Developments

• Exciting Research Results
• New Initiatives
• New and pending grants
• Website
• Available by WLAN http//bwrc.eecs.berkeley.edu
• Major Facelift
• Enhanced Publications Page
• Retreats
• Slides plus Video
• Ali Niknejad has joined UCB EECS Faculty and BWRC
  
• RF Circuits
• Won another (3 in last 4 years) ISSCC Best Paper
  Award
• A 1.75 GHz Highly-Integrated Narrow-Band CMOS
  Transmitter with Harmonic-Rejection Mixers by
  Jeff Weldon et al, ISSCC, 2001
• CITRIS approved by the California Legislature

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The CITRIS Model

• Distributed Info Systems
• Micro sensors/actuators
• Human-Comp Interaction
• Prototype Deployment

• Quality-of-Life Emphasis
• Initially Leverage Existing
• Expertise on campuses

• Energy Management
• Transportation Systems
• Natural Disaster Mitigation
• Distributed Education
• Distributed Biomonitoring

Societal-Scale Information Systems (SIS)
Foundations

• Security, Policy
• Probabilistic Systems
• Formal Techniques
• Data management
• Simulation

350 Million Program
Fundamental Underlying Science
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Retreat Themes

• Three Year Accomplishments and Bob Brodersen
  Jan Rabaey Future Visions
• Pico Networks Jan Rabaey
• Radio Architectures Bob Brodersen
• Digital Circuits Bora Nikolic
• and Design Methodology
• 3G and Wireless LANs Evening Presentation and
  Panel
• The Future of Research Tuesday Afternoon Panel
• in Industry

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Research Groups

• Group Leader Advisor
• Pico Radio Mike Sheets Jan Rabaey, Alberto
  Sangiovanni-Vincintelli,
• Paul Wright, Ed Ahrens
• Multi-Carrier/ Haiyun Tang Bob Brodersen,
• Multi-Antenna David Tse
• RF Circuits Johan Vanderhaegen Bob Brodersen
• Ultra-Wideband Ian ODonnell Bob Brodersen
• Design Methodology, Tina Smilkstein Bob
  Brodersen (SSHAFT) Bora Nikolic,

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Research Groups

• Group Leader Advisor
• Digital Circuits Socrates Vamvakos Bora
  Nikolic
• Design
• BEE Chen Chang Bob Brodersen
• Multi-Standard Cheol-Woong Lee Paul Gray
• Transceivers

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Monday Agenda/ Logistics
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Monday Evening Agenda/Logistics
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Tuesday Agenda/Logistics
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New Publications Web

• Access to for member company employees
• Early releases of presentations, publications,
  most recent retreat, etc
• After 6 months will be moved to Public Web
• web account applications are in the information
  packets

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BWRC 2002 Winter Retreat Best Poster Ballot
We would like to recognize best efforts by our
researchers. Please help us by voting for the
best poster. Consider technical content,
technical impact, presentation clarity and
overall appearance. Pick up to 3 posters and
rate them from 1-5 in each category. Please
return this form to one of our admin staff before
you leave.
Poster Author/s Technical content 1
2 3 4 5 Originality
1 2 3 4 5 Presentation clarity
1 2 3 4 5 Overall appearance 1
2 3 4 5 Comments
Poster Author/s Technical content 1
2 3 4 5 Originality 1
2 3 4 5 Presentation clarity 1
2 3 4 5 Overall appearance 1 2
3 4 5 Comments
Poster Author/s Technical content 1
2 3 4 5 Originality 1
2 3 4 5 Presentation clarity 1
2 3 4 5 Overall appearance 1 2
3 4 5 Comments
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BWRC 2002 Winter Retreat Feedback Form
We hope the next 2 days will be a rewarding
learning experience for you. Our goals are to
share what we have learned, share our
point-of-views and engage everyone in discussions
so we can apply our best collective knowledge to
BWRC research. We would like to solicit your
feedback on what you liked, what you feel could
be improved, what should be deleted and what we
should consider adding. Please drop off these
forms with one of our admin. staff before you
leave or email/FAX your comments to Tom Boot at
tmb_at_eecs.berkeley.edu, FAX [phone]
Introductions, Monday AM PicoNetworks, Monday
AM Poster Session, Monday PM Monday
Evening Program Radio Architectures and RF
Circuits, Tuesday AM Digital Circuits and
Design Technology, Tuesday PM Panel Discussion
, Tuesday PM
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