September 1999

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The September meeting of the Wireless Communications Alliance (WCA) took place Tuesday, September 21, 1999, at 4:00 PM at Hewlett-Packard in Santa Clara. The WCA, a nonprofit corporation, is dedicated to the mutual benefit of area companies and organizations involved in wireless communications technologies. The program is:

Gary Kelson Executive Director, Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC) University of California and several of his students presented: "Towards the Generation-after-Next Wireless".

This month we had the privilege of hosting Gary Kelson Executive Director of the  Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC)  and several student research assistants in the program, who will highlighted the concepts behind the Center and the focus of its main research, "Towards the Generation-after-Next Wireless."

  "Berkeley Wireless Research Center" Gary Kelson Executive Director, BWRC

  "Analog and RF Circuits" Johan Vanderhaegen, BWRC

  "Pleiades: Ultra Low-Power Hybrid and Reconfigurable Computing" Marlene Wan, BWRC

  "Wireless Communications Systems Trends" Ning Zhang, BWRC

The Berkeley Wireless research center was founded last year at the University of California at Berkeley, around a consortium of seven companies. The research focus of the Center is on the enabling technologies for low-energy, low-cost, integrated CMOS radios, and includes research in communications, protocols, RF, digital architectures, and design methodologies. Two exciting "beyond-state-of-the-art" driver applications, "Universal Spectrum Sharing Radio" and 'PicoRadio," have been selected to coalesce and integrate the different research areas. The presentations, given by Gary Kelson and some of the students involved in the effort, will highlight the concepts behind the Center and its research efforts.