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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. >>
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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. >>
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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. >>
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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. >>
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"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. >>
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"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. >>
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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. >>
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"Computer Memory: New Material Could Dramatically Boost Data
Storage, Save Energy" -
ScienceDaily (October 20, 2009) - North
Carolina State University engineers have created a new material that
would allow a fingernail-size computer chip to store the equivalent
of 20 high-definition DVDs or 250 million pages of text, far
exceeding the storage capacities of today's computer memory systems.
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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.
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