SDR'09 Technical Conference and Product Exposition

Program Information

This Year's Conference Will Feature:

Invited Presentation

Requirements and challenges for SDR implementation - Christer Svensson

Abstract: Key requirements of software defined radio receivers are identified from first principles. Several challenges are derived from these requirements, particularly from the blocker requirements. Examples of challenges are the need for passive filter banks or tunable passive filters, the need for highly linear RF front-ends, the need for high performance analog-to-digital converters, and the need for tunable and linear power amplifiers with high efficiency. Each of these challenges is analyzed regarding possible solutions in the context of state-of-the art technology. Finally the results are put into the perspective of the feasibility of the implementation of full software or cognitive radios.

Christer Svensson received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1965 and 1970, respectively. He was with Chalmers University from 1965 to 1978, where he performed research on MOS transistors, nonvolatile memories, and gas sensors. He joined Linköping University, Sweden 1978, where he became Professor in Electronic Devices 1983 and initiated a new research group on integrated circuit design. He pioneered the fields of high-speed CMOS design in 1987, and low-power CMOS 1993. His present interests are high performance and low power analog and digital CMOS circuit techniques for computing, wireless systems and sensors. He has published more than 180 papers in international journals and conferences and holds ten patents. He founded several companies, for example, Switchcore (publ.) and Coresonic where he also serves as director. Prof. Svensson was awarded the Solid-State Circuits Council Best Paper Award for 1988-1989. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and was 2003 awarded Fellow of IEEE.

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