2012 25th International Conference on VLSI Design

Tutorial T8B

Wireless System Design and Systems Engineering Challenges

Kameswara Rao B, HCL, India Muralidhar Reddy B, HCL, India Ravi Kishore B, HCL, India

Abstract
Pervasiveness of wireless technology is impacting every aspect of the society and is becoming a de facto feature of any electronic product. This tutorial provides a comprehensive overview of wireless system design and brings out the systems engineering issues through real-life design case studies. It begins with an overview of a typical wireless system and the underlying RF technology. Next, a detailed view of wireless system design with mathematical underpinning of concepts and design of sub-systems will be presented; it highlights systems engineering issues in wireless product development. Subsequently, the tutorial presents the relevant system design case studies, for various wireless applications viz; medical electronics, consumer electronics, defense, telecommunications etc., and explains the methodologies to address the systems engineering issues. Finally, the tutorial explains the trends in future wireless systems design and the associated challenges. The last session concludes the tutorial, followed by a discussion.

Speaker Biographies
Kameswara Rao B is Project Manager at HCL Technologies Limited, Chennai, India. He handles RF/wireless Projects and is responsible for design and delivery of RF and Microwave products / systems. He has had extensive experience of around 10 years in RF/Microwave Circuit & System Design across various domains like Wireless Infrastructure, Defense, Consumer Electronics and Industrial. He has a Bachelors Degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Institute of Engineers (India).

Muralidhar Bandi is Project Manager at HCL Technologies Limited, Chennai, India. He is responsible for developing complex wireless systems to address the Telecom and Defense market needs. He has worked on 2G/3G Base stations, multiband repeaters, optical wireless circuits to meet the Indoor & outdoor Distribution Antenna System requirements. Prior to the current assignment in HCL Technologies, he had worked with Bharat Electronics Limited on analog and digital television transmitters He has over 12 years of experience in RF and Microwave circuit designs and developing wireless transceivers for 2G/3G and 4G requirements. He had Bachelors in Technology Degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Nagarjuna University.

1063-9667/12 $26.00 Information Unrecognized Copyright2012 IEEE DOI 10.1109/VLSID.2012.37

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Dr. B. Ravi Kishore is Associated General Manager at HCL Technologies Ltd., Chennai. He had completed his Ph.D. from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo in the area of fault-tolerant computing and design for testability for asynchronous circuits, in March, 1998. He had worked with Texas Instruments (Japan) from 1998 to 2002 in design automation group for analog and mixed-signal design. He worked in the area of power analysis, design for manufacturability of mixed-signal circuits. Since 2003, he has been working with HCL Technologies, Chennai, India. From 2003 to 2006, he was responsible for the defining and implementing the system level reliability process for various highintegrity applications in medical, avionics and networking. He successfully initiated several large customer engagements in the areas of wireless infrastructure, consumer electronics, defense & security and headed the product development teams to build end-to-end solutions. Currently, he heads the Centre of Excellence (CoE) team for RF Systems Engineering since 2009. As a part of CoE activities, the team is responsible for new technology initiatives and developing wireless solutions for RF Systems Engineering, in the application areas of wireless infrastructure, consumer electronics, medical electronics, defense & security, industrial electronics etc.

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