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Integrated Systems Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Art Morris, WiSpry

Talk Title: Programmable RF Solutions for Handsets

Abstract: Emerging air interface standards are accelerating the multiplication of modes and bands that must be supported in mobile devices. While RF transceivers have leveraged Moore’s Law to achieve rapid scaling in capability for wireless communications, the RF front-end has seen limited integration due to the diverse technologies required to meet the stringent performance requirements and poor scaling due to physical power and wavelength limitations. Programmable/tunable RF front-ends that could break this barrier have been considered for many years but the required technologies to provide sufficient performance at low cost were not available. We present a tunable RF technology platform and early products based on that platform along with early design/prototyping efforts toward the realization of fully programmable RF front-ends.

Biography: Dr. Art Morris is a technologist who has focused on physical electronics and fields over the past 30 years. His contributions span a wide range of technologies from traveling wave tubes to HBTs and an array of products for markets from power transmission to broadband communication systems. Art has been CTO at wiSpry since its founding in 2002 leading the development of programmable RF products for high-volume markets utilizing integrated MEMS and CMOS. Dr. Morris is a Senior Member of the IEEE and an adjunct professor at NCSU.

Host: Prof. Hossein Hashemi, Prof. Mahta Moghaddam, Prof. Mike Chen

More Info: http://mhi.usc.edu/activities/integrated-systems/

Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Hossein Hashemi

Event Link: http://mhi.usc.edu/activities/integrated-systems/