What is...

What is the Microwave Circuit Designer’s Duty for Wireless Systems?

• Designing filters, mixers, amplifiers, oscillators, matching networks, packaging, and system level design of the Analog and Digital Systems
• Designing the antennas and matching networks
• Propagation Affects (multipath, signal diversity)

What are the principal future challenges?

• Miniaturized and low cost microwave circuitry (applies to cellular, PCS, GPS, on-board radar).
• Direct hand held unit communication with low earth orbit and mid earth orbit satellites
• Direct high-speed digital communication with low earth orbit and mid earth orbit with portable computers.
• Miniature high-power amplifiers with low signal to noise ratios, miniature high-Q filters, novel printed antennas, new packaging technology for combining RF and digital circuitry, reducing parasitics, improved modeling and analysis capabilities