LAHORE SECTION

 

Day & Date: FRIDAY JANUARY 09, 2009 AT 3:30 P.M.

 

Venue: Auditorium A-1, LUMS, DHA, Lahore Cantt.

 

Title: Evolution in Wireless Devices: System Design Challenges and Solutions

 

Abstract:

 

Cell phones are a powerful means of evolving the society around us to become more connected and productive. Typical cell-phones are complex systems that contain multiple radios for cellular and non-cellular wireless applications and rely on high levels of integration to achieve cost reduction. Future phones can provide a platform for providing access to emerging technologies such as personal imaging and biomedical devices to mass market. In this talk we will present the challenges in the design of complex systems of the future and address some of these using mixed-domain simulation and digitally assisted designs. Techniques using digital assistance in multi-domain, multi-physical analog and RF design offer practical solutions to the problem of designing competitive system offerings of the future.

 

Biography:

 

Khurram Muhammad received the B.Sc. degree from the University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore, Pakistan in 1990, the M.Eng.Sc. degree from the University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia in 1993 and the Ph.D. degree from Purdue

University, West Lafayette, IN in 1999, all in electrical engineering.

 

From 1990 to 1991 and 1993 to 1994, he worked in the Research and Development section of the Carrier Telephone Industries, Islamabad, Pakistan, where he developed board level designs for rural and urban Telecommunication. He also worked for the Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Science and Technology from 1994 to 1995 as a Research Associate in the Department of Electronic Engineering. In 1995, he developed fast simulation techniques for DS/CDMA systems in multipath fading environment at the Hong  Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

 

Since 1999, he has been working at Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX, earlier in the  advance read channel development group then in communications and control products and currently in the wireless terminal business unit where he co-invented and led digital and mixed signal  designs in fully integrated RF transceiver system-on-chip called Digital Radio Processors. He has published 26 journal papers, 42 conference papers and has presented four tutorials in IEEE conferences. He holds 71 US patents of which 17 have been issued. His main research interests include CMOS mixed signal VLSI system and circuit design, advance multi-domain CAD techniques exploring design tradeoffs at  circuit and  system levels, low-complexity and low-power design, digitally-assisted analog/RF design and next generation of miniaturization of multi-radio solutions with applications to future wireless, personal ranging and imaging devices.

 

 

Regards

 

Ishtiaq A Bhatti

Office Manager

IEEE-Lahore Section

C/o CS Dept., LUMS

DHA, Lahore Cantt.

Pakistan

Ph: +92 42 572 7616