IEEE Topical Symposium on Power Amplifiers for Wireless Communications at Calit2, Sept 14-15

Please join us for the ninth IEEE Topical Symposium on Power Amplifiers for Wireless Communications, which will be held on Monday and Tuesday, September 14-15, 2009, on UCSD campus at Atkinson Hall (Cal IT2 building) in San Diego, California.

The Power Amplifier Symposium is a forum for the presentation and discussion of innovative research and development in the broad area of power amplifiers. Topics of interest include high efficiency design approaches, linearization and pre-distortion, linear & nonlinear characterization, device and system modeling, narrow- and broad-band amplifier architectures, base-station and handset applications, practical PA realizations, and measured techniques.

In the Fall, 2009 Symposium we shall start with the plenary talk:

The Fourth Age of Wireless: Challenges and Opportunities, Prof. Thomas H. Lee, Stanford University

Followed by 6 invited talks:

• "Dual Band, Single Chip SiGe BiCMOS Power Amplifiers for WLAN," Peter Gammel, SiGe Semiconductor, Andover, MA
• "Millimeter-wave CMOS Power Amplifiers," Ali Niknejad, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
• "Envelope Tracking and Polar Modulated Power Amplifiers," Donald Lie, Texas Tech University, Jazz Semiconductor, Lubbock, TX
• "RF-Domain Power Amplifier Linearization," Abhijit Shanbhag, and J. Stevenson Kenney, Scintera and Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
• "Behavioral Modeling and Predistortion," Slim Boumaiza, EmRG Research Group, University of Waterloo, Canada
• "Bias Modulators for Envelope Tracking Basestation PAs," Gerard Wipenny Nujira Ltd., Cambridge, UK
• and 16 additional submitted presentations.

Details of the Advance program can be found at: http://pasymposium.ucsd.edu

For further information, please contact:

Pete Zampardi (Conference Chair) -
peter.zampardi@skyworksinc.com

or

Paul Draxler (Technical Program Chair) -
pdraxler@qualcomm.com