BWRC 2005 Winter Research Retreat

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BWRC 2005 Winter Research Retreat

• Gary Kelson
• January 12-13, 2005
• Portola Plaza Hotel
• Monterey California

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Berkeley Wireless Research Center

• Grant Funding DARPA, AFRL, NSF, ONR, MARCO,
  MURI, CA Energy Com.

• Ericsson Radio Systems
• Cadence Design Systems
• STMicroelectronics
• Intel Corporation
• Atmel Corporation
• Qualcomm Incorporated
• Infineon Technologies
• Hitachi Ltd.
• Philips Research
• NEC Corporation
• Samsung Electronics
• Sun Microsystems
• Conexant Systems
• Xilinx Incorporated
• Cisco Systems
• Agilent Technologies
• Fujitsu Laboratories

Our 12th Retreat
Joined 2004
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2004 Was a Great Year!

• We added 7 new member companies
• Lost only one
• We won 2 best paper awards at 2004 ISSCC
• Jack Kilby award for outstanding student paper
• Yun Chiu, et al, A 1.8V 14b 10MS/s Pipelined
  ADC.
• Jack Rapier award for outstanding technology
  directions paper
• Chinh Doan et al, Design of CMOS for 60GHz
  Applications
• Won ISSCC awards 4 years straight and 6 in the
  last 6 years
• International Symposium on Quality of Electronic
  Design ISQED 2004 Best Paper Award
• Huifang Qin, et al, SRAM Leakage Suppression.

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Retreat Attendees

• BWRC
• Grad Student Researchers
• Post Doc Researchers
• Undergrads
• Faculty
• Staff
• Academic Associates
• Member Companies
• Industrial Guests
• Venture Capital

See Handout
Introductions
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Wednesday Agenda/ Logistics
All presentations will be in the Bonsai Room
900 Welcome, Introductions and Faculty
Overviews 1030 Break 1215 Lunch De
Anza I 115 Advanced Radio Architectures
220 High-End Reconfigurable Computing, HERC
330 Poster Sessions Grad students will be
at their posters to discuss
their project during the session for the
appropriate area 330-445 RF
Circuits, UWB, Cog Radio Cottonwood Room,
445-600 PicoRadio, HERC/BEE2, Third Floor
Digital Circuits, ADC Portola Hotel 600
Adjourn Meeting 630 Dinner De
Anza I 800 Guest Speaker, Jack Welch,
Professor of EE and Astronomy at Berkeley who
will describe the Allen Radio Telescope
Project 
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Thursday Agenda/Logistics
800 Breakfast Portola Room 900 Technologies
for Ubiquitous Ad-Hoc Sensor and Actuator
Networks 1020 Break 1050 RF/mm Wave
Circuits 1215 Lunch De Anza
I 115 Compensating Variations in Analog and
Digital Circuits 220 Break 250 Interest
Group Initiatives 420 Adjourn Meeting
530 Bus departs for BWRC.
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Presentation Access

• Wireless LAN
• 802.11a/b/g access point will be provided
• Address http//www.retreat.bwrc
• Access to http//bwrc.eecs.berkeley.edu/
• Web access will be provided when the retreat is
  not in session

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New Publications Web

• Access 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 available from the
  staff or email accounts_at_bwrc.eecs.berkeley.edu

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BWRC Staff

• Admin Assistants
• Tom Boot, Carol Sitea, Vincent Eng
• Technical Staff
• Kevin Zimmerman, Brian Richards, Sue Mellers,
  Fred Burghardt, Aidan Bauer, Daniel Richards
  
• Grants Administration/Finance
• Elise Mills, Deirdre McAuliffe-Bauer

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Hotel Checkout for BWRC Folks

• Remove your luggage from your room Thursday
  morning and check out before noon.
• If youre ridding the bus back to BWRC
• Store your luggage with the Bellman after
  checkout. The bus will be available for loading
  luggage after the retreat ends.
• If you want a box meal sign up during the lunch
  break today.

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BWRC 2005 Winter Research Retreat
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Wrap Up

• BWRC 2005 Summer Retreat
• Mark your calendars June 6-7, 2005
• Granlibakken Conference Center, Lake Tahoe, CA
• BWRC Mini-Retreat
• February 11, 2005 from 9 am to 3 pm at BWRC
• Tell your colleagues
• Please complete your feedback form

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BWRC Staff

• Admin Assistants
• Tom Boot, Carol Sitea, Vincent Eng
• Technical Staff
• Kevin Zimmerman, Brian Richards, Sue Mellers,
  Fred Burghardt, Aidan Bauer, Daniel Richards
  
• Grants Administration/Finance
• Elise Mills, Deirdre McAuliffe-Bauer