IC Monday Seminar - Algorithm and Hardware for wireless Communications: a Marriage made in Heaven
Event details
| Date | 13.12.2010 |
| Hour | 16:15 |
| Speaker | Prof. Heinrich Meyr, RWTH Aachen and visiting professor at EPFL, invited by Giovanni De Micheli |
| Location |
INM 202
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Abstract : This talk is concerned with the algorithm and hardware for advanced wireless communication systems emphasizing their close dependency.
In earlier days the communication engineer traded energy vs. bandwidth to achieve a desired performance. With the tremendous progress of semiconductor technology it has become possible to implement ultra complex signal processing algorithm. We first systematically derive digital receiver structures by solving a ML optimization problem and discuss their communication performance. We discuss in detail the implementation of the decoder and the MIMO detector as these two components, together with the FFT, consume the lion share of area and energy on a chip.
We finish this talk by conjecturing that the future architecture of chips for wireless communications will be implemented as heterogeneous many core systems on chip and by speculating on future avenues of research.
Bio : Dr. Meyr received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He spent over 12 years in various research and management positions in industry before accepting a professorship in Electrical Engineering at Aachen University of Technology (RWTH Aachen) where he founded the Institute for Integrated Signal Processing Systems. In 2007 he has assumed the rank of emeritus. He continues to work as a key investigator in the UMIC research cluster (www.umic-rwth.aachen.de) and teaches courses in the doctoral program.
During the last thirty years, Dr. Meyr has worked extensively in the areas of communication theory, digital signal processing and CAD tools for system-level design. He has published numerous IEEE papers and holds many patents. He is a Life -Fellow of the IEEE and has received three IEEE best paper awards. In 2000, Dr. Meyr was the recipient of the prestigious Vodafone prize for his outstanding contribution in the area of wireless communications.
Dr .Meyr has a dual career as entrepreneur. He was a co-founder of CADIS GmbH (acquired in 1993 by Synopsys), a company which commercialized the tool suite COSSAP. He has cofounded AXIS which has been acquired by ARM in 2004. In 2001, he has co-founded LISATek Inc., a company with breakthrough technology to design application specific processors. The company merged with CoWare in February 2003 and was acquired by Synopsys in spring 2010. From 2003 until 2010 Dr.Meyr held the position of Chief Scientific Officer of CoWare. He has also served on the board of large international companies.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Contact
- Christine Moscioni