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BWRC was opened in
January 1999. The Center is a research unit of the Department of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science and other departments of the University of
California, Berkeley. The Center supports more
than 60 graduate students and 12 faculty engaged in researching future
generations of wireless communications and systems-on-a-chip implementations.
The Berkeley Wireless Research Center was designed by Heller
• Manus Architects, who sought to combine open forum spaces and quiet
personal workspaces in a reconfigurable environment. BWRC is a modern
12,000 square foot state-of-the-art facility containing 41 workstations, a
classroom, conference room, library and open forum for informal discussions. The
facility also contains a fully equipped laboratory for testing integrated
circuit proof-of-concept prototypes. The Center’s infrastructure has extensive
computing resources including over 75 desktop and laptop computers and back-end
servers. The computer network
contains a 9TB Network Appliance RAID filer and is connected to the UCB Campus
through a DS-3 fiber. A rich set of design tools is available for system,
circuit and device modeling and simulation. A complete set of integrated circuit
CAD tools are also available to support the design of radio system-on-a-chip
ASICs. Chips are fabricated by ST Microelectronics, TSMC, UMC and IBM using CMOS
processes. Current designs use 90 nm, 65 nm and 45 nm design rules.
The BWRC laboratory occupies an area of 600 square feet and contains 14
test/measurement benches and 1 soldering/rework station. The laboratory contains
a wide range of instruments including signal generators, spectrum analyzers, network analyzers,
oscilloscopes, a microwave probe system and noise analysis systems operating up
to 110 GHz. Testing is integrated with the design environment through on-line
measurement processing, instrument control, and test reporting using HP VEE.
The EECS Department at UC Berkeley, has an extensive computer network, with over
1000 machines that are professionally managed and supported by a computer user
support group and an infrastructure support group. The PIs as well as their
graduate students have access to high performance workstations and state-of-the-art laptops that are part of this professionally managed network.
The facility also contains two patios, our rooftop gardens.
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