Speaker:
Mohammed Ismail
Founding Director, The Analog VLSI Lab,
Ohio State University
Columbus, OH, USA
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http://www.ece.osu.edu/~ismail/

Date: Sunday July 20 to Tuesday July 22, 2008
Time: 2:00 – 4:00 pm
Location: Main NU Building (B2) – Auditorium.

Abstract
As we move from third generation ( 3G ) to 4G wireless and beyond and as we strive to meet the demands for higher data rates and short distance wireless applications, a debate has ensued on whether cellular and WLAN/WiMAX are seen as complementary or competing technologies. In either case, wireless services beyond 3G (B3G) are moving to all-IP, always-best-connected, convergent wireless solutions requiring access to different wireless infrastructures from the same wireless device, be it a cell phone, a laptop or a PDA for a multitude of services including voice, data and multimedia applications. For future handheld wireless devices, this requires low power, low cost multi-standard multi-band chipsets, the radio part of which will be increasingly complex with stringent demands on power consumption and cost as the two main differentiators.
We will present radio design IPs at the system, architectural and block levels for emerging always-best-connected wireless applications and with focus on smart power, first-pass-silicon radio transceiver design in deep sub-micron and nanometer CMOS. We will highlight both the challenges and the opportunities for innovation in this area. The lectures will cover the following topics:
-Wireless systems and cellular chipset evolution
-Multi-band radio architectures and IPs
-DC offset modeling and compensation in multi band Zero-IF receivers
-A multi-band WLAN/WiMAX and LTE Radio Architecture
-BIST and digital self-calibration of RFICs.
This tutorial is intended for chipset and wireless communications design engineers, graduate students and researchers in the field as well as project managers. Newcomers to this field are also welcome as the material will be covered at an introductory level.

Biography
Mohammed Ismail has over 20 years experience of R&D in the fields of analog, RF and mixed signal integrated circuits. He has held several positions in both industry and academia and has served as a corporate consultant to nearly 30 companies in the US, Europe and the Far East. He is The Founding Director of the Analog VLSI Lab at Ohio State University, USA. His current interest lies in research involving digitally programmable/configurable fully integrated radios with focus on low voltage/low power first-pass solutions for 3G and 4G wireless handhelds. He publishes intensively in this area and has been awarded 11 patents. He has co-edited and coauthored several books including a text on Analog VLSI Signal and Information Processing, (McGraw Hill). His last book (2007) is entitled Radio Design in Nanometer Technologies, Springer. He advised the work of 43 PhD and of over 80 MS students. He co-founded ANACAD-Egypt (now part of Mentor Graphics, Inc.) and Spirea AB, Stockholm (now Firstpass Technologies Inc.), a developer of CMOS radio and mixed signal IPs for handheld wireless applications.
Dr. Ismail has been the recipient of several awards including the US National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, the US Semiconductor Research Corp Inventor Recognition Awards in 1992 and 1993, The OSU Lumley Award, 1992, 1997, 2002 and 2007, and a Fulbright/Nokia Fellowship Award in 1995. He is the founder of the International Journal of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Springer and serves as the Journal's Editor-In-Chief. He has served as Associate Editor for many IEEE Transactions and on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. He obtained his BS and MS degrees in Electronics and Communications from Cairo University, Egypt, and the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Manitoba, Canada. He is a Fellow of IEEE.