|
The Semiconductor SIG Presents...
RF Silicon: Roadmaps, Realities, and Reconciliation
Tuesday - December 5, 2006
7:00 AM - Registration
7:30 AM - Introductions
7:45 AM - Presentation
8:45 AM - Audience Q&A
9:00 AM - End
LOCATION:
Motorola Auditorium
6450 Sequence Dr., San Diego
(See Directions Below)
COST:
$10.00 - Pre-Registration
$20.00 - At the Door
Click Here to View Slides from This Event
PROGRAM OVERVIEW:
The CommNexus Semiconductor SIG is back!! At this event we will empanel representatives from some of the world's leading foundries to provide an update on their roadmap for RF silicon, discuss technical and economic challenges specific unique to the RF silicon market, and offer some thoughts and guidance to the companies who use (or are considering the use of) these technologies. Also, representatives from the design arms of San Diego-area companies will be there to offer real-world perspectives on the current state of RF Silicon, discuss how they're working around any current limitations, and will offer their suggestions about ways the foundries could improve their offerings.
PANELISTS:
Dr. Marco Racanelli Ph.D., VP of Technology & Engineering, Jazz Semiconductor
Dr. Marco Racanelli is the Vice President of Technology and Engineering at Jazz Semiconductor, an independent pure-play wafer foundry focused primarily on optimized specialty CMOS process technologies. His responsibilities include leading technology development, modeling, design automation and design service teams. Before joining Jazz in 2002, Dr. Racanelli held technology and engineering positions at Conexant Systems. He also held management positions with Rockwell Semiconductor Systems prior to the Conexant spin-off in January 1999.
He joined Rockwell in 1996 and has since held several posts of increasing responsibility in the area of technology development. In these positions, Dr. Racanelli helped establish industry leadership in SiGe and BiCMOS technology, and was instrumental in building a strong design support organization for Jazz Semiconductor. Prior to joining Rockwell, Dr. Racanelli worked at Motorola, Inc., where he contributed to bipolar, SiGe and SOI development for Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector. He has authored or co-authored more than 50 technical publications and holds 30 U.S. patents. Dr. Racanelli received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University.
Dr. James S. Cable Ph.D., CEO, Peregrine Semiconductor
Dr. Cable serves as Peregrine's Chief Executive Officer, and has held positions as Chief Operating Officer and Vice President of Technology and Engineering since joining Peregrine in 1996. Dr. Cable has over 25 years of experience in semiconductor research, development and production, including Technology and Manufacturing Operations management for Hughes Microelectronics Center and Hughes Technology Center; and Technology Integration management at TRW. Dr. Cable received his B.S. from the University of California at Riverside and his Ph.D.
from UCLA.
Dr. Li-Wu Wang, Technical Fellow, SMIC
Dr. Li-Wu Yang joined SMIC in September, 2005 to lead the development of RF capabilities in Design Services. He has established a team effort to provide technical support to worldwide customers in analog, mixed-signal and RFIC design. The SMIC RF Design Service team has been working on PDK enhancement, validation of RF modeling, RF ESD and I/O, substrate noise analysis and modeling, as well as the reference design IPs for broadband wireless access and RFID. Prior to SMIC Dr. Yang worked over 20 years in the U.S. in semiconductor and aerospace radar/communications electronics, including CMOS and III-V compound semiconductors. He's worked for Motorola, Ford Aerospace, GE/Lockhheed Martin Electronics Lab, and TRW Space and Electronics Group. Dr. Yang invented carbon doping-based AlGaAs/GaAs and InGaP/GaAs HBTs using liquid carbon source and was actively in HBT MMIC development for radar and communications applications from 1989 - 1996 at Ford Aerospace and GE Electronics Lab.
He was a core member of technical staff at TRW during 1996 - 2000 doing InP HBT linear power amplifier development for space communications.
Roberto Aielo, Founder and CTO, Staccato Communications
Dr. Aiello is a co-founder and CTO at Staccato Communications, he served as Staccatos' CEO for the first two and a half years. He was previously founder, president and CEO at Fantasma Networks, a UWB product company where he led the fundraising, business planning and operations. Prior to Fantasma, Dr. Aiello joined Interval Research, Paul Allen's research laboratory, in 1996 to work on advanced wireless technologies where he led the wireless research and built the first documented UWB network. (Fantasma Networks was a spin-off of Interval.) He previously held senior positions at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) and the National Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory in Texas.
He is a recognized leader in the UWB community, and is actively involved in regulatory and standards-setting committees. Dr. Aiello has contributed to the spectrum regulations since 1996, and his efforts were instrumental in getting UWB spectrum allocated in the United States. He has currently turned his attention to worldwide regulations. He is a founding member of several standards committees, such as the UWB Working Group, the MultiBand Coalition, the MultiBand OFDM Alliance (MBOA) and now serves as an officer on the board for WiMedia. Dr. Aiello holds a Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of Trieste. He has served and serves on several advisory boards, such as iPASS, and is the author of more than 20 patents on UWB technology.
Bert Fransis, Director of RFIC Engineering, RF Magic
Mr. Fransis has more than 12 years of industry experience in product design and R&D. Most recently he was at Conexant, where he was in charge of IC development for satellite tuners. Previously he was at PCSI and Rockwell Semiconductor Systems, where he designed many ICs including Sigma-Delta A/D converters, GSM receivers, PHS transceivers, PDC and CDMA high efficiency PAs, satellite and terrestrial broadband tuners, some of which are still in high volume production today. Mr. Fransis holds four patents, with several more pending. He received BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Katholieke Universiteit of Leuven in Belgium.
SEMICONDUCTOR SIG CO-CHAIRS:
Anton Monk, CTO, Entropic Communications
Rory Moore, CEO, CommNexus San Diego
David Witkowski, Business Development Manager, Cadence Design Systems
Ann Buckingham, Associate, Latham & Watkins LLP
DRIVING DIRECTIONS:
From the 805 Freeway, go east on Mira Mesa Boulevard.
Turn left on Genetic Center Drive, then turn right on Sequence Drive.
The Motorola office is located at 6450 Sequence Drive, at the intersection of Genetic Center Drive and Sequence Drive. (The building sits back off the road slightly.)
To view map: http://tinyurl.com/y7apr2
**The meeting will be held inside Motorola Auditorium
|
|
|
|
