| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/M91501/01 |
| Title: |
(JREI) MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS FACILITY FOR BROADBAND RECONFIGURABLE RF ARCHITECTURE |
| Principal Investigator: |
Beach, Professor M |
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| Department: |
Electrical and Electronic Engineering |
| Organisation: |
University of Bristol |
| Scheme: |
JREI |
| Starts: |
28 June 2000 |
Ends: |
27 June 2001 |
Value (£): |
149,035
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| RF & Microwave Technology |
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The current demand for mobile communications is forecast to intensify in the future, with a European user population of 120 million expected by the end of this year. A major emphasis for future technological development in this area is the provision of Re-configurable platforms, which allow not only world-wide roaming between different standards but upgrading hardware to support future services. The European Commission, through its IST programme, is promoting Re-configurable Radio Systems and Networks as a key action-line within the first call for proposals. The University of Bristol, through its work in the ACTS Sunbeam project, helped launch this new European initiative, and thus is well placed to address this evolving area of technology through this activity.In order to ensure that the UK remains as a dominant player within this European initiative this proposal requests enhancements to our laboratory infrastructure as detailed above.Recent advances in RF semiconductor technology offer the potential of system-level integration of broadband linear architectures. This therefore requires access to measurement equipment capable of characterising both broadband linear and non-linear performance, as well as the ability to directly probe RF signals on integrated systems. Wafer probing avoids the expense inherent in packaging experimental semicondutor devices for RF front end circuitry (incorporating broadband antenna, associated feed networks, broadband linear amplifiers, tunable filters and agile frequency translation sub-systems), as well as assessment and optimisation of packaging and interconnects.
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http://www.bris.ac.uk |