Design Technology for Building Wireless Systems
Prelude:
The progress in IC technology is making chips that incorporate all the
elements of a complete wireless radio system on a chip a real
possibility. Such an ``antenna-to-network'' chip would incorporate an
RF front end, baseband digital signal processing, link layer coding
functions for error, compression, and encryption, and medium access
control and other network protocols. This requires intergration of
analog circuits, high performance custom signal processing datapaths
and cores, customized logic, embedded processor, and complex software
environments on the same chip. The design, simulation, implementation,
and testing techniques required for such chips are complex, as are the
metrics to evaluate the performance. The current effort in
standardization of pre-designed macromodules, often referred to as
"core cells," is expected to play a major role in making it possible
for designers to build complete and customized wireless systems on a
chip. However, the diversity of macromodules required in such wireless
systems on a chip represents a special challenge in almost all aspects
of IC/System design. In this tutorial we present the state of the art
in designing such systems, focusing on both the CAD problems that arise
from such chips as well as on the tools and design techniques. The
presentation is roughly divided into three parts: basics of wireless
systems; VLSI design issues for wireless systems; design tools and
techniques for hardware and software for wireless systems.
Presenters:
- Rajesh K. Gupta,
Information and Computer Science, UC Irvine, 444 Computer Science,
Irvine, CA 92697.
(714) 824-8052 / (714) 824-4056 (fax) gupta@uci.edu
- Mani B. Srivastava,
Electrical Engineering Department, University of California,
56-125B Engineering IV Bldg., Box 951594, Los Angeles, CA 90095.
310 267 2098 / 310 825 7928 (fax)
mbs@janet.ucla.edu
Tutorial Outline and Slides
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Outline
- Welcome
- Introduction to Wireless Communication Systems
- Wireless Systems Design
- VLSI Circuits for Wireless Systems
- Design Technology for Wireless Systems
- Pre-designed Core Blocks and IP Issues
- Future Outlook and Conclusions
Wireless Bookmarks
On-chip architectural strategies and circuit structures
- Transceiver structures
- low-noise amplifiers
- modulators, mixers
Tools for wireless system design
- antennae design
- mobile networks design
- network protocols
- on-chip systems design and validation
Pre-designed, pre-verified IP blocks for wireless systems
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Last updated: Thu Oct 16 00:20:01 PDT 1997