BWRC Winter Research Retreat Sharing What We Have Learned

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BWRC Winter Research Retreat Sharing What We
Have Learned

• January 10-11, 2000
• Monterey, California

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Sharing What We Have Learned

• Second BWRC research retreat - emphasize
  tutorials
• Goals
• Learn from each other
• Share our Point of Views
• Share our progress
• Identify gaps and issues
• Engage industrial members
• Participation
• Feedback
• Posters
• Communications
• Get to know each other and understand what
  everyone is doing
• Critique our work
• How can we do a better job
• Set goals
• Next steps
• Time table

• Discuss issues
• Conclusions
• Next steps
• Feedback

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Berkeley Wireless Research Center

• A partnership of UC researchers, DARPA and
• Ericsson Radio Systems
• Cadence Design Systems
• Agilent Technologies
• Texas Instruments
• STMicroelectronics
• Lucent Technologies
• Intel Corporation

• Center Operational Feb.1999
• Downtown Berkeley, 1 block from campus
• 11,000 sq. feet

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State of the Center - Facilities

• Very Effective Physical Hub
• for Wireless Research
• Excellent and efficient
• working environment
• Cubicle usage reached capacity
• limit in September
• Virtual user mode
• Online reservation system with
• priorities
• Wireless laptops for overflow
• Gamming and turf skirmishes
• at a minimum

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State of the Center - Facilities

• Laboratory
• Usage has ramped up significantly
• recently
• Purchasing Cascade semi-automatic
• probe station, 140K
• Will add approx. 200K for
• instruments over next 2 years

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State of the Center - Computer System

• Computer System
• Windows NT Desktop (50 clients) with Unix
  Compute Servers, GB fiber back plane
• 3 NT Servers
• 3 Unix Servers
• NetApp filer
• Installed SpectraLogic tape backup system
• Installed Lucent WaveLan with Laptops for
  overflow
• DS3 fiber link to campus with T1 backup
  operational
• Migrate to Windows 2000
• NT Compute Server

• Design Tools
• Cadence
• Synopsys
• Mentor
• Viewlogic
• HSPICE
• Telelogic
• The MathWorks
• Tensilica
• Sonics
• Opnet
• Cygnus RTOS
• Sente

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State of the Center

• Resident member researchers
• 60 of companies engaged
• Working to increase involvement
• Finances
• Cumulative Expenses through 9/99
• Facilities TI, architects, rent, maint. 1090K
• Furniture, equipment and supplies 524K
• Services utilities, phones, HW/SW maint. 98K
• Personnel Staff 274K
• Meetings, Travel 39K
• Total cum expenses 2025K
• Cum Income (2 years) 2369K
• Current expense run rate 958K/yr

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Research Groups Leaders

• Transceiver Algorithms-Ada Poon (Brodersen Tse)
• RF and Converter Circuits-David Sobel (Brodersen,
  Gray Meyer)
• Pico Radio-Danny Patel, Josie Ammer (Rabaey)
• Protocol and Two Chip Intercom (TCI)-Julio da
  Silva (Rabaey Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli)
• IC Design Flow-Rhett Davis (Brodersen)
• Test Beds-Greg Wright (Brodersen Rabaey)
• GSRC Coordination-Roberto Passerone (Rabaey
  Newton)

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Faculty

• Bob Brodersen, Co-Scientific Director, EECS
• Jan Rabaey, Co-Scientific Director, EECS
• Paul Gray, Dean of Engineering, UCB
• Richard Newton, Chairman EECS Director GSRC
• Paul Wright, Mechanical Engineering
• Bora Nikolic, EECS
• Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, EECS
• Robert Meyer, EECS
• Davis Tse, EECS
• Kannan Ramchandran, EECS

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Industrial Members

• Agilent Technologies
• Frank, Mike michael_frank_at_agilent.com (510)
  505-5622
• Air Force Research Laboratory
• Wiliamson, Dave williamsond_at_rl.af.mil (315)
  330-7324
• Cadence
• Kundert, Kenith kundert_at_cadence.com (408)
  428-5634
• Scaglia, Patrick scaglia_at_cadence.com (408)
  428-5770
• Sentovich, Ellen ellens_at_cadence.com (510)
  647-2807
• [phone]
• Ericsson
• Forsen, Anders anders.forsen_at_era.ericsson.se 46 8
  7572541
• Ishii, Takashi takashi.ishii_at_eka.eka.ericsson.se 4
  6 8 7574282
• Pahlavan,K Kourosheukhpn_at_am1.ericsson.se (650)
  463-6807
• Signell, Svante svante.signell_at_era.ericsson.se 46
  8 7572422
• Zhao, Yufeng yufeng.zhao_at_era.ericsson.se 46 8
  4048223

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Industrial Members

• FCC
• Newman, Stagg snewman_at_fcc.gov
• Intel / Level One Communications
• Marringa, Menno mmarringa_at_level1.com (415)
  536-2131
• International Computer Science Institute
• Paez, Jose M. paez_at_icsi.berkeley.edu (510)
  642-4274 x 188
• Lucent Technologies / Bell Labs
• Frye, Bob rcf_at_lucent.com [phone]
• Haller, Bruno bhaller1_at_lucent.com [phone]
• Mankiewich, Paul pmm_at_lucent.com [phone]
• Truman, Tom truman_at_lucent.com [phone]
• Williams, Joseph joew_at_lucent.com [phone]
• Wright, Gregory gwright_at_lucent.com (732)
  888-7133

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• ST Microelectronics
• Drakul, Spase spase.drakul_at_st.com 41 22 929 58
  66
• Gupta, Bhusan bhusan.gupta_at_st.com [phone]
• Kramer, Alan cynthia.cadua_at_st.com [phone]
  x 208
• Singh, Yash yash.signh_at_st.com [phone]
• Telliez, Isabelle isabell.telliez_at_st.com 33 4 76
  92 6162
• Texas Instruments
• Bakkaloglu, Bertanbertan_at_ti.com [phone]
• Hewes, Robert hewes_at_ti.com [phone]
• McMahan, Mike m-mcmahan_at_ti.com [phone]

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Monday Agenda/Logistics

• Meeting in Bonsai Ballroom
• 830 BWRC Status Overview and
  Introductions Gary Kelson
• 900 Gigascale Silicon Research Center
  Introduction Richard Newton
•   915 Single Chip Radio Systems Bob
  Brodersen
• 1000 Break
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• 1015 Pico Radios and Protocol Jan Rabaey
• 1100 Algorithms for Universal Spectrum Sharing
  Bob Brodersen
• Student Presentations
• 1215 Lunch Portola Room
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• 100 Pico Radio, Protocol and Two Chip
  Intercom Jan Rabaey
• Student Presentations
• 330 Poster Session I

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Monday Agenda/Logistics

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• 630 Dinner Portola Room
• 730 Guest Speaker - Desperately Seeking
  Efficient Stagg Newman,
• Spectrum Utilization Chief
  Technologist, FCC
• 830 Panel Discussion FCC Spectrum Policies,
  Regulation Processes
• and potential BWRC roles
  
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Tuesday Agenda/Logistics

• 730 Breakfast Lower Lobby Atrium
• Meeting in Bonsai Ballroom
• 830 Radio SOC Design Bob Brodersen et al
• Lucent Design Flow Joe Williams, Lucent
• 1200 Economic and Business Issues
  Bob Brodersen
• in Radio Architectures
  Tim Simcoe, Haas School
  of Business
• 1230 Lunch Lower Lobby Atrium
• 115 Poster Session II
• 230 Research Group Panel Discussions
•   Algorithms for Universal Spectrum Sharing
• Baseband and Radio Frequency Circuits
• Pico Radios
• Protocols and Two-Chip Intercom
• Design Flow for Radio SOC

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Tuesday Agenda/Logistics

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• 430 Feedback and Wrap-up
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• 530 Retreat Ends
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• 630 Bus Departs for Berkeley

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Breakout Groups

• Research Groups Panel Discussions
• Algorithms for Universal Spectrum Sharing
• Baseband and Radio Frequency Circuits
• Pico Radios
• Protocols and Two-Chip Intercom
• Design Flow for Radio SOC
• Turn in Questionnaires before Tuesday lunch

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Welcome to the BWRC Winter Retreat
We hope the next 2 days will be a rewarding
learning experience for you. Our goals are to
share what we have learned, share our
point-of-views and engage everyone in discussions
to apply our best collective knowledge to BWRC
research. The Retreat has been partitioned into
5 themes as listed below. We would like to
solicit any questions or comments you have in
these areas so that we can incorporate them in
our panel discussions on Tuesday afternoon.
Please turn you inputs in before lunch on
Tuesday. We will distribute your inputs to the
panel leaders prior to the discussions.
Algorithms for Universal Spectrum
Sharing Baseband and Radio Frequency Circuits
Pico Radios Protocols and Two Chip
Intercom Design Flows for Radios SOC
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The Future of Wireless