Jayasimha Prasad
The EDS Santa Clara Valley Chapter, held a half day Symposium on the emerging area of Bluetooth technology on March 16, 2001. Over 130 IEEE members and interested people attended this program which had several invited speakers from various organizations active in this field, who covered technology trends, devices and fabrication technologies and applications of Bluetooth products.
The program started with a talk by Benjamin Thompson, Senior Analyst at Dataquest Gartner Incorporated, who covered the current industry status and future trends in this emerging application area. Over 20 companies, including major players in the wireless communication arena are actively providing products for application to notebook, cellular phones and digital set top boxes for short range communications. Mr. Thompson concluded by showing business projections for growth of market approaching $2 billion dollars in the year 2005.
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Jayasimha Prasad
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Several speakers, including Paul Kempf of Conexant Technology, Marshall Wang of Signia Technologies and Willie Lu of Infineon Technologies, described VLSI technology trends applicable to Bluetooth products, including SOCs manufactured with integrated RF CMOS technologies. The role of SiGe BiCMOS technology with deep trenches, SOI technologies, and other advanced CMOS technologies were described for many of the requirements and applications of Bluetooth products.
Jayasimha Prasad, An IEEE/ EDS Distinguished Lecturer, covered SiGe Technology for wireless applications and showed specific device and material parameters which must be optimized for wireless applications.
Bernard Xavier from National Semiconductor compared Bipolar and CMOS technologies for implementation of a Bluetooth Radio Modem IC with specific requirements, and Michael Current of Silicon Genesis provided insights to use and advantages of SOI substrates in many applications.
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Xing Zhou
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The seminar concluded with a talk on Hetero-Material Gate Field-Effect Transistors by Xing Zhou of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, on the unique features of the HMGFET device. Xing Zhou is an IEEE/ EDS Distinguished Lecturer. The seminar provided an excellent opportunity for our members to learn a great deal about this emerging technology from experts in the Bluetooth Technology area.