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The Berkeley Wireless Research Center

BWRC is a pioneer in a new wave of university-industry-government partnerships. The Center is focused on forging deep relationships with leading wireless companies so that industry can rapidly transfer new technologies and university  researchers can benefit from industrial experience. BWRC provides an environment for research into the design issues necessary to support next generation wireless communication systems and expand the graduate research program in the wireless segment. The research focus is on highly-integrated CMOS implementations with the lowest possible energy consumption and advanced communication algorithms. Components are fabricated using state-of-the-art processes and evaluated in a realistic test environment. Center membership provides access to faculty and graduate students involved in a large interdisciplinary research effort with a modest investment. The critical-mass combination of UC Berkeley researchers, government funding agencies and leading companies in their respective areas has the potential of making truly significant advances possible.

For membership information send email to newaccounts@bwrc.eecs.berkeley.edu

 

 		 
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The BWRC 2009 Annual Report is here!  Get information on the cutting-edge projects and research at BWRC and get some insight into the faculty, students, staff and supporting organizations that make it all happen.

BWRC celebrates its ten year anniversary! - The Berkeley Wireless Research Center commemorated its 10-year anniversary on Wednesday, February 11th, 2009. BWRC faculty, staff, alumni and industry representatives attended a special event at BWRC’s downtown Berkeley office to celebrate the occasion. Hors d'oeuvres and beverages were served and various guest speakers were in attendance including UC Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau, BWRC founding directors Robert Brodersen and Jan Rabaey, former alumni Josie Ammer, now a Senior Staff Engineer at Qualcomm, Shankar S. Sastry, Dean of the College of Engineering and Justin Ratner, Chief Technology Officer at Intel. >>See photos…

"Obama Promises Massive Commitment To Scientific Research - InformationWeek (4/27/2009) - Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Microsoft strategy officer Craig Mundie among those named to help the administration shape its science policy. In a speech to the members of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), President Obama pledged to commit 3% of the U.S. gross domestic product to scientific research, development, and education, an amount that exceeds scientific funding during the height of the space race with the former Soviet Union in 1964." >>Full Story

VLSI 2009 Conference - Two papers from the Digital Circuit Design research group, one by Renaldi Winoto and the other by Zhengya Zhang, have been accepted for publication at the 2009 VLSI Circuits Symposium. The papers will be presented in Kyoto, Japan on June 17th and 18th. The two papers are available at the following links: Paper 1 and Paper 2.

"Processor architecture not a factor for low-power mobile systems" - DSP DesignLine (04/20/2009) - With all the features and connectivity options on today's handset, including Ethernet, USB, GSM, GPS, MP3, Wi-Fi, WCDMA, displays, audio, it turns out that the choice of processor, whether or not it's an Intel Atom or an ARM Cortex, takes a distant second place to well-optimized code and functional partitioning when it comes to power consumption and managing the power budget. >> Full Story

EDAA Lifetime Achievement Award to Prof. Jan Rabaey
The European Design and Automation Association (EDAA) has awarded their 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award to Prof. Jan Rabaey. The award is given to individuals who have made "outstanding contributions to the state of the art in electronic design, automation and testing of electronic systems in their life." See the EDAA press release.

Upcoming BWRC Seminars - See the BWRC Seminars page for information on upcoming seminars: http://bwrc.eecs.berkeley.edu/seminars/. 

BWRC photo album - Check out photos of our retreats, seminars and more!  >>More...

 

 

 

 

 

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