Sunday Workshop - WS3

Frequency Agile and Software Defined Radio
Sunday, September 19, 2004
10:00 AM – 5:30 PM

Organizers:

Robert Weigel, University Erlangen, Germany
Clemens Ruppel, EPCOS AG, Germany
Linus Maurer, DICE GmbH & CoKG, Austria
Georg Fischer, Lucent Bell Labs Europe, Germany

Speakers:

• Thomas Müller, DaimlerChrysler, Germany
  Software Defined Multiple Standard Tuner Platform
• Patrick Scheele, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
  Frequency Agile Passive Microwave Components Based On Tunable Dielectrics
• Jörg Brakensiek, Nokia, Germany
  Software Reconfigurable Digital Baseband from an End-to-End Perspective
• Linus Maurer, DICE, Linz, Austria
  SDR Compliant RF Frontend Concepts for Cellular Terminals
• Clemens Ruppel, EPCOS, Germany
  Frontend Integration Technologies for Multistandard Cellular Terminal
• Patrick Morgan, Silicon Laboratories
  Radio Architectures for Multi-Mode (3G) Handsets
• Geoff Dawe, BitWave Semiconductor
  Design Issues for RF/MS Components for Multi-Band, Multi-Standard SDR

Abstract:

Interest in Reconfigurability with terminals, basestations and also whole networks is significantly rising. Various research projects look at reconfigurability from an end to end perspective of a communication link. This implies that reconfigurability is reflected with the baseband signal processing part as well as with the RF part of a communication device. The workshop therefore addresses aspect of reconfigurability with RF through offering frequency agility with the radio and with baseband processing through reconfigurable digital signal processing. Frequency agility is therefore understood as one aspect of a general view on software radio to realize Multimode devices that are Multistandard and Multiband capable. A great challenge with reconfigurable devices is the optimization for the right balance between analog and digital signal processing and the way how imperfections of the hardware are compensated. The level of reconfigurability further depends on the tuneability of the used materials, the components and the architectural choices made. For cost efficient implementations of reconfigurable devices, integration techniques play a key role.