Most Complex Silicon Phased Array Chip in the World Developed at UC San Diego A team led by professor Gabriel Rebeiz has developed the world`s most complex "phased array", or radio frequency integrated circuit. It`s the first 6-element phased array chip that can send at 30-50 Hz, and its size - just 3.2 by 2.6 square millimeters - is fraction of today`s billboard-sized phased arrays used by the military. The compact beamforming chip may enable a breakthrough in size, weight, performance and cost of next-generation phased arrays for millimeter-wave military sensor and communication systems. "DARPA has funded us to try to get everything on a single silicon chip, which would reduce the cost of phased arrays tremendously," says Rebeiz. "In large quantities, this new chip would cost a few dollars to manufacture." The chip - the UCSD DARPA Smart Q-Band 4x4 Array Transmitter - is strictly a transmitter, but the researchers are working on a chip that is also a receiver. In addition to its potential use in defense satellite communication and radar systems, the chip`s design will likely spill over into commercial applications, such as automotive satellite systems for direct broadcast TV, and new methods for high-speed wireless data transfer. Meantime, Rebeiz is working with professor Ian Galton and ECE chair Larry Larson on a project funded by Intel and a UC Discovery Grant to create silicon CMOS phased array chips that could be embedded into laptops and serve as high-speed data transfer tools. |
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November 6, 2009 | | 11:00am - 12:00pm | Wen-Hann Wang |
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November 11, 2009 | | 11:00am - 12:00pm CANCELED | Kannan Srinivasan |
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November 12, 2009 | | 11:00am - 12:00pm | Sharad Agarwal |
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November 13, 2009 | | 03:00pm - 04:00pm | Pulkit Grover |
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November 18, 2009 | | 11:00am - 12:00pm | Kannan Srinivasan |
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ECE Alumni News Spring 09
  Gert Lanckriet and his Ph.D. student, Brian McFee, have been awarded a Best Presentation Award by the International Society for Music Information Retrieval for their paper “Heterogeneous Embedding for Subjective Artist Similarity.” Their paper was presented at the Society`s annual flagship conference, ISMIR 2009, and published in the Proceedings. |
 Brendan Morris, an ECE student working with Prof. Mohan Trivedi, is the winner of the 2009 Student Essay Competition by the Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS America). Brendan`s paper deals with video based trajectory analysis for traffic pattern and vehicle classification, for safety enhancement. It shows how machine learning and vision algorithms can be used for predicting potentially dangerous situations in real-time. This research is sponsored by NSF, Volkswagen and UC Discovery. The award is the most prestigious recognition given to a student involved in the field of Intelligent Transportation and Intelligent Vehicles. |
 ECE students recently shined in the IEEEXtreme 24 Hour Online Competition. The Department was represented by two teams, which were ranked in the top 20 out of 700 entrants worldwide. Team `The Bagpipe Lubricators`, which placed 4th out of 130 in 2008, placed 16th overall (6th from United States), and team `XYZZY` placed 19th (7th from United States). The two teams ranked 1st and 2nd among all teams from IEEE Region 6. Congratulations to the ECE Extreme Programmers: Jordan Rhee (captain), Rene Claus, Eric Levine; and Elliott Slaughter (captain), Chris McFarland. |
 Congratulations to the UCSD Student Branch of IEEE for being selected to receive IEEE Region 6 Southwest Area (SWA) 2009 Outstanding Student Branch Award! The UCSD branch was chosen amongst all branches in San Diego, Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico. The award will be presented on Saturday, October 10th, 2009 at IEEE Region 6 Southwest Area (SW) Fall, 2009 meeting... |
 Electrical engineering professor Ian Galton is the featured innovator in the September 2009 issue of “invent@UCSD” — the newsletter of the UC San Diego Technology Transfer Office. Galton leads the Integrated Signal Processing Group within the Jacobs School’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. |
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