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Speaker: Rhonda Franklin
Affiliation: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Department of ECE
Topic: "Holding It All Together: Methods for Advancing the Integration of Complex Integrated Systems"
Abstract
Mobile communication growth rates have increased at unprecedented levels to accommodate a variety of applications (e.g. personal communications, health care, and the environment). Its popularity exists in part to advances in computing and communications now used to sustain the Internet and wireless technology. Moving forward, both technologies are expected to be available in most mobile devices.
The tremendous interest from commercial, consumer and government drives the demand for handheld devices to have many functions. As a result, single function devices are slowly being replaced with multi-function ones such as smart phones, PDAs and even eReaders. These devices offer a variety of communication modalities like texting, tweeting, posting (i.e.Facebook or Flickr), navigating (i.e. GPS), etc. The traditional role of Internet and communication – wired and wireless- as information access and voice providers, respectively, is also now changing. Either service may be interchangeable as the distribution mechanism for information in the form of text and voice as well as images and video from imagers like cameras and video. In either case, to achieve and manage this level of complex information types, complex integrated systems have emerged and will remain part of future mobile systems.
Physically, these and future advanced mobile systems are still expected to be as small, compact and lightweight as possible. Performance metrics and size requirements are driven by the end-user application area typically from space, military, commercial or consumer electronics. Central to all is on-going questions of how to develop effective design solutions in the various technogies that work well alone and in combination with each other. The answer lies in our ability to create appropriate individualistic designs and integration design approaches that address the emerging problems hindering successful development of complex systems in a cost effective manner.
This presentation will highlight efforts by the Microwave Packaging and Circuit Technology (MPACt) group to advance the integration capability of high-speed systems and support miniaturization of critical components needed to achieve small form factors. The talk will present core concepts related to interconnect, components and circuits as well as integration in 2D and 3D architectures that support the development of future complex integrated systems with multi-function capability. Signature techniques that provide ultra-broadband bandwidth (100+GHz) operation for narrowband analog and broadband digital signals transmission will also be highlighted.
