Professor Jan Rabaey receives award from Agilent Technologies Foundation - Berkeley, CA – May 27, 2010 – Agilent Technologies Foundation has confirmed that Professor Jan Rabaey will receive a $40,000 gift to support his proposal “Energy Neutral Wireless Links for Microscopic Biosensors”. Agilent Technologies funds the Agilent Technologies Foundation in an effort to give back to the communities in which they do business and to support the advancement of math and science education around the world.

Jiashu Chen - First place winner 2010 IEEE RFIC Symposium Student Paper Contest - Anaheim, CA – May 23, 2010 – Jiashu Chen and Ali M. Niknejad, “A Stage-Scaled Distributed Power Amplifier Achieving 110GHz Bandwidth and 17.5dBm Peak Output Power,” University of California, Berkeley. >> Full Story

Amin Arbabian & Maryam Tabesh Winners of 2010 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship - Berkeley, CA – May 18, 2010 – BWRC graduate students Maryam Tabesh and Amin Arbabian are among the winners of the 2010 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship. The Fellowship competition asked for research proposals developed by teams of two graduate students from UC Berkeley, Stanford, UCLA, UCSD and USC. Their proposal, “Millimeter-wave Dual-Band Passive RFID using Antentronics” was one of the six winning proposals selected among 80 submissions. The winning teams are awarded a $100,000 fellowship for submitting the most innovative ideas. >> Full Story

Best Student Paper award at the ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS'10) - Berkeley, CA – May 4, 2010 – BEE-based collaboration with Stanford, led by John Wawrzynek and Garry Nolan, has won the Best Student Paper award at the ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS'10) for a paper entitled: "ParaLearn: A Massively Parallel, Scalable System for Learning Interaction Networks on FPGAs" by Narges Bani Asadi (Stanford University), Christopher W. Fletcher, Greg Gibeling (University of California, Berkeley), Karen Sachs, Eric N. Glass, Zoey Zhou (Stanford University), Daniel Burke, John Wawrzynek (University of California, Berkeley), Wing H. Wong, Garry P. Nolan (Stanford University). This effort utilized the BWRC Berkeley Emulation Engine to rapidly learn Baysean networks in systems biology, as described by Garry in a recent lunchtime seminar, and demonstrated at the last BWRC retreat. >> Link to conference

Semiconductor Industry Honors Professor Jan Rabaey and Professor Reinhold Dauskardt - WASHINGTON, D.C. – March 18, 2010 – The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today announced the recipients of its 2010 University Researcher Awards, Professor Reinhold Dauskardt of Stanford University and Professor Jan Rabaey of the University of California at Berkeley. The awards were presented at the SIA annual Washington conference. >> Full Story

"Following the money: Top 10 IC vendors with cash" - EE Times (October 1, 2009) - PHILADELPHIA — The world's biggest semiconductor companies by revenue rank not only among the best in their respective industry segments but are also more likely to have huge piles of cash that can be used to fund acquisitions, R&D and product development, according to a review of financial filings by EE Times. >> Full Story
 

"Low power Bluetooth set to be energized" - EE Times (October 20, 2009) - LONDON — Just over 2.5 billion Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) chipsets will ship in 2014 in a market that will grow at 78 percent CAGR between 2009 and 2014; but less than a third of those shipments will be for the single mode ICs, according to market research group ABI. >> Full Story
 

BWRC Technology Employed in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence - Several students from UC Berkeley and Cornell University, led by BWRC Associate Director Dan Werthimer, recently deployed a new radio astronomy instrument at Arecibo Radio Observatory, Puerto Rico in an experiment designed to search for faint narrow band signals from advanced extraterrestrial civilizations.  This experiment, part of the nearly 30 year old Search for Extraterrestrial Radio Emissions from Nearby Intelligent Populations (SERENDIP) project, will engage in one of the broadest and most powerful searches yet for evidence of intelligent life outside of Earth using the 305 meter Arecibo Radio Telescope - the largest single dish telescope in the world.  The digital spectrometer at the core of the newest SERENDIP instrument system is constructed from three BWRC-developed hardware components, a high speed analog to digital converter card (iADC), an Internet Break-out-Board (iBOB) and a Berkeley Emulation Engine 2 (BEE2) board.  The intricate digital signal processing gateware controlling the instrument was developed using a high-level Simulink-based FPGA design flow also developed at BWRC. >>More

Internet Services: Researchers Save Electricity With Low-power Processors And Flash Memory - ScienceDaily (October 15, 2009) - Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Intel Labs Pittsburgh (ILP) have combined low-power, embedded processors typically used in netbooks with flash memory to create a server architecture that is fast, but far more energy efficient for data-intensive applications than the systems now used by major Internet services. >> 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.

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.

Prof. Jan Rabaey presents at Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium (BEARS) on February 12, 2009 - view PDF.

Can Tires Talk? - Get a unique glimpse from Prof. Jan Rabey into system-level technology under development at the Berkeley Wireless Research Center. >>See video..