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The Berkeley Wireless Research Center

The Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC), now in its second decade, addresses the design, conception, and implementation of the next-generation integrated wireless systems in state-of-the-art CMOS (and related) technologies. The focus is on integrated circuit and system advances needed to enable a vision of truly ubiquitous wireless: including the realization of always-connected reliable networks through advanced spectrum utilization techniques, the design of energy-efficient high data-rate links at 60 GHz and above, the investigation of the boundaries of ultra low-energy wireless networks, and the exploration of the leading edge circuit techniques and components that make these systems possible.

To pursue this vision, BWRC is based on a strong university-industry partnership, enabling new technologies to be transferred rapidly to industry and giving university researchers the benefit of industrial experience and long-term needs. Center membership provides access to faculty and graduate students involved in a large interdisciplinary research effort including collaboration in communication theory with the Berkeley Wireless Foundations Center, MEMS technology with the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center (BSAC) and applications for biomedical and environmental engineering with the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) with a modest investment. The critical-mass combination of UC Berkeley researchers, government funding agencies and leading companies has already proven its potential in making truly significant advances possible. This is demonstrated by the Centers’ impact in the areas of millimeter-wave radio, cognitive radio, and ultra wideband and ultra-low power wireless systems.

 

For membership information send email to newaccounts@bwrc.eecs.berkeley.edu

 

 

 

 		 
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The BWRC 2009 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 celebrates its ten year anniversary! - The Berkeley Wireless Research Center commemorated its 10-year anniversary on Wednesday, February 11th, 2009. BWRC faculty, staff, alumni and industry representatives attended a special event at BWRC’s downtown Berkeley office to celebrate the occasion. Hors d'oeuvres and beverages were served and various guest speakers were in attendance including UC Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau, BWRC founding directors Robert Brodersen and Jan Rabaey, former alumni Josie Ammer, now a Senior Staff Engineer at Qualcomm, Shankar S. Sastry, Dean of the College of Engineering and Justin Ratner, Chief Technology Officer at Intel. >>See photos…

"Following the money: Top 10 IC vendors with cash" - EE Times (October 1, 2009) - PHILADELPHIA — The world's biggest semiconductor companies by revenue rank not only among the best in their respective industry segments but are also more likely to have huge piles of cash that can be used to fund acquisitions, R&D and product development, according to a review of financial filings by EE Times. >> Full Story
 

"Low power Bluetooth set to be energized" - EE Times (October 20, 2009) - LONDON — Just over 2.5 billion Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) chipsets will ship in 2014 in a market that will grow at 78 percent CAGR between 2009 and 2014; but less than a third of those shipments will be for the single mode ICs, according to market research group ABI. >> Full Story
 

BWRC Technology Employed in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence - Several students from UC Berkeley and Cornell University, led by BWRC Associate Director Dan Werthimer, recently deployed a new radio astronomy instrument at Arecibo Radio Observatory, Puerto Rico in an experiment designed to search for faint narrow band signals from advanced extraterrestrial civilizations.  This experiment, part of the nearly 30 year old Search for Extraterrestrial Radio Emissions from Nearby Intelligent Populations (SERENDIP) project, will engage in one of the broadest and most powerful searches yet for evidence of intelligent life outside of Earth using the 305 meter Arecibo Radio Telescope - the largest single dish telescope in the world.  The digital spectrometer at the core of the newest SERENDIP instrument system is constructed from three BWRC-developed hardware components, a high speed analog to digital converter card (iADC), an Internet Break-out-Board (iBOB) and a Berkeley Emulation Engine 2 (BEE2) board.  The intricate digital signal processing gateware controlling the instrument was developed using a high-level Simulink-based FPGA design flow also developed at BWRC. >>More

 

Internet Services: Researchers Save Electricity With Low-power Processors And Flash Memory - ScienceDaily (October 15, 2009) - Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Intel Labs Pittsburgh (ILP) have combined low-power, embedded processors typically used in netbooks with flash memory to create a server architecture that is fast, but far more energy efficient for data-intensive applications than the systems now used by major Internet services. >> Full Story

 

"Computer Memory: New Material Could Dramatically Boost Data Storage, Save Energy" - ScienceDaily (October 20, 2009) - North Carolina State University engineers have created a new material that would allow a fingernail-size computer chip to store the equivalent of 20 high-definition DVDs or 250 million pages of text, far exceeding the storage capacities of today's computer memory systems. >> 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!  >>More...

 

 

 

 

 

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