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SUMMARY:MEMS-based Radio
DTSTART:20131104T112000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Christian Enz (EPFL/IMT)\nEPFL/IMT - Peking University w
 orkshop on MEMS and related technologies\nTransceivers for wireless sensor
  networks (WSN) and wireless body area networks (WBAN) require both extrem
 e miniaturization and ultra-low-power dissipation in order to be seamlessl
 y integrated virtually everywhere and enable ubiquitous connectivity among
  persons\, objects\, machines and the environment. The miniaturization cha
 llenge can be addressed with a combination of system-on-chip (SoC) and sys
 tem-in-package (SiP) approaches to build an ultra-compact transceiver. The
  confined space is also limiting the available energy\, which raises sever
 al design and system issues that could severely affect the radio robustnes
 s to interferers\, the link budget and the autonomy. This talk presents ho
 w innovative narrowband radio architectures devised to take advantage and 
 circumvent the limitations of a few well-chosen MEMS devices can address t
 he above issues and go beyond the existing solutions both in terms of mini
 aturization and power dissipation reduction.\nAbout the speaker :\nChistia
 n Enz\, PhD\, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)\, 1989. He is c
 urrently Professor at EPFL and Director of the Institute of Microengineeri
 ng (IMT) and head of the Integrated Circuits Lab (ICLAB). Until April 2013
  he was VP at the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM) 
 in Neuchâtel\, Switzerland where he was heading the Integrated and Wirele
 ss Systems Division. Prior to joining CSEM\, he was Principal Senior Engin
 eer at Conexant (formerly Rockwell Semiconductor Systems)\, Newport Beach\
 , CA\, where he was  responsible for the modeling and characterization of
  MOS transistors for RF applications. His technical interests and expertis
 e are in the field of ultralow-power analog and RF IC design\, wireless se
 nsor networks and semiconductor device modeling. Together with E. Vittoz a
 nd F. Krummenacher he is the developer of the EKV MOS transistor model and
  the author of the book "Charge-Based MOS Transistor Modeling - The EKV Mo
 del for Low-Power and RF IC Design" (Wiley\, 2006). He is the author and c
 o-author of more than 150 scientific papers and has contributed to numerou
 s conference presentations and advanced engineering courses.
LOCATION:Vittoz http://plan.epfl.ch/?lang=fr&room=bp1122
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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