The
BWRC 2012 Annual
Report is here! Get information on the
cutting-edge projects and research at BWRC and get some insight into the
faculty, students, staff and supporting organizations that make it all happen.
BWRC Grad Student Matthew Spencer Receives EEGSA's
Someone Special Award -
The award recognizes
students, staff, and faculty members who bring something special to the
Berkeley electrical engineering community. Matt was nominated for his
effectiveness and willingness to help as a GSI, in addition to his great
sense of humor and positive attitude. Congratulations, Matt!
BWRC Grad Student Rikky Muller Receives Demetri
Angelakos Memorial Achievement Award -
The award
recognizes a student who, in addition to conducting his/her research,
unselfishly takes the time to help colleagues beyond the normal cooperation
existing between fellow students. Congratulations, Rikky!
IEEE Spectrum highlights EECS research in article "MEMS
Switches for Low-Power Logic" - The research is a
collaboration between Professor Elad Alon and Tsu-Jae King Liu from UC
Berkeley, Dejan Markovic from UCLA, and Vladimir Stojanovic of MIT. Click
here for the article.
After over 25 years of service at UC Berkeley, BWRC
staff member Kevin Zimmerman is retiring! We wish him the
best in all his future endeavors. For pictures of our retirement party,
click here.
Upcoming Event: BWRC Open House -
BWRC is hosting an open house on Friday, February 24, 2012 from
8:30am-3:00pm. Come meet our faculty and students, discuss current research,
and see the BWRC facilities. The
agenda can be viewed here.
Berkeley Research Featured in San Francisco Magazine -
The article, which looks at the groundbreaking advances in
brain-computer interfaces taking place at both UCSF and UC Berkeley, features BWRC
Co-Director Jan Rabaey among other top researchers from both institutions. The
full article can be viewed
here.
Research and Faculty Group Meetings Schedule.
Research groups and faculty meet on a weekly basis to review and discuss ongoing research projects at BWRC.
kiosk/calendar/Weekly%20Mtgs%20calendar.htm
Professor Jan
Rabaey elected to Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts
-
Professor Rabaey
has been elected
a Foreign member of the
Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences in Belgium. Composed
of four classes - natural sciences, humanities, arts, and technical sciences -
each comprising only 50 members and 50 associated members, the Dutch-speaking
Royal Academy of Belgium for Arts and Sciences is a distinguished institution.
Congratulations to Prof. Rabaey on this achievement!
CASPER Project and BWRC
Hardware Platforms Featured in MATLAB Digest
–
“Developing
Radio Astronomy Instruments with Simulink Libraries” by Berkeley grad student
Andrew Siemion appears in August MATLAB Digest. Click
here to read
article.
Professor Jan
Rabaey Gives Plenary Presentation at 2011 VLSI Symposium
- "The Swarm at the Edge of the Cloud - A New Perspective" presented in Kyoto,
Japan on June 15, 2011. Click
here for PDF.
The Voices of DAC:
A Chip in Your Brain? with Professor Jan Rabaey -
Professor Jan Rabaey
spoke with Karen Bartleson and Yvette Huygen of Synopsys about the technology of
putting microchips into people's brains. See the video interview
here.
RFIC 2011 Best Paper Award, Second
Place - “A 90GHz Pulsed-Transmitter
with Near-Field/Far-Field Energy Cancellation using a Dual-Loop Antenna” -
Amin Arbabian, Shinwon Kang, Steven Callender, Bagher Afshar, Jun-Chau Chien,
and Ali Niknejad - UCB/BWRC, Broadcom.
Papers Accepted for the 2011
International Solid State Circuits Conference -
“A 0.013mm, 2 5µw
DC-coupled Neural Signal Acquisition IC with 0.5v Supply” -
Rikky Muller,
Simone Gambini, Jan M. Rabaey. "65nm
CMOS 4-Element Sub-34mw/Element 60GHz Phased-Array Transceiver"
- Maryam Tabesh, Cristian Marcu, Ling Kai Kong, Shinwon Kang, Elad Alon, Ali
Niknejad. "A Compact 1v 18.6dBm 60GHz
Power Amplifier in 65nm CMOS" - Jiashu Chen, Ali
Niknejad.
2011 DAC/ISSCC Student Design
Contest winner -
“SRAM Dynamic
Stability Characterization Using Pulsed Word-lines in 45nm CMOS” -
Seng Oon Toh - UC Berkeley / BWRC
ISSCC 2010 Jack Raper
Outstanding Technology Directions -
“Demonstration
of Integrated Micro-Electro-Mechanical Switch Circuits for VLSI Applications” -
Fred Chen et al-MIT, Mathew Spencer, Rhesa Nathanael, Abhinav Gupta, Hei Kam,
Vincent Pott, Jaeseonk Jeon, Tsu-Jae King Liu, Elad Alon-UCB/BWRC, Dejan
Markovic et al-UCLA.
ISSCC 2010 Jack Kilby
Outstanding Student Paper Award -
"A
90GHz-Carrier 30GHz-Bandwidth Hybrid Switching Transmitter with Integrated
Antenna"
-
Amin Arbabian, Bagher Afshar, Jun-Chau Chien, Shinwon Kang, Steven Callender,
Ehsan Adabi, Ali Niknejad-UCB/BWRC and STMicroelectronics, University of Padova.
Intellectual Property Strategies
for New Berkeley Ventures: A Framework - Berkeley, CA
— November 23, 2010 - This report identifies how successful Berkeley
technology entrepreneurs have approached IP decisions and strategies. Intended
primarily as a resource for graduate students and faculty within UC
Berkeley, entrepreneurs in the Silicon Valley and throughout the world may also
find the report's universal themes helpful in building startups. Report by
Christine Ho, Beverly Alexander, Susan Broderick and Ikhlaq Sidhu >>
Link to report
Connectivity Brokerage - Enabling
Seamless Cooperation in Wireless Networks (A White Paper) -
BWRC publication
— October 22, 2010 - The explosive growth in the density of
wirelessly connected devices and their traffic load is raising the interference
level and gradually leading to a severe spectrum shortage. Traditional
approaches to address this challenge (such as spectrum regulation, improvements
in spectral efficiency, and reducing cell sizes) are running out of steam or are
facing operational roadblocks. Fortunately, a number of approaches have been
emerging from the research community that may help to address the looming
spectrum crisis.... >>
Link to
publication
5 Reasons Super Wi-Fi Might Not
Be So Super -
Discover Magazine article
— October 6, 2010 - Andrew Moseman spoke this afternoon to Mubaraq
Mishra from UC-Berkeley,
who studies all kinds of angles about how the white spaces will be used. The
first problem, he says, is that while these newly opened areas could greatly
improve Internet speeds in rural areas, people packed into cities won’t see as
much benefit... >>
Full Story
World-renowned astronomer Donald
C. Backer dies at age 66 -
Berkeley
— July 30, 2010 - Don Backer, a professor in the Department of Astronomy at the
University of California, Berkeley, and a world leader in the field of radio
astronomy, died on Sunday, July 25, after collapsing outside his home. He was
66. Don Backer was a wonderful collaborator of BWRC, and all of us here are
truly saddened by his loss. >>
Full Story
Upcoming BWRC Seminars - See the BWRC Seminars page for information
on upcoming seminars:
http://bwrc.eecs.berkeley.edu/seminars/.
BWRC photo album
- Check out photos of our retreats, seminars and more!
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