Press Release
Plextek helps put wireless broadband in the spotlight
Liam Devlin, director of RF integration at electronics design consultancy
Plextek, will join speakers from around Europe at the second annual
Wireless Broadband Forum being held in Cambridge, 25-26 November 2003.
The event, organised in collaboration with the Broadband Wireless Association
(BWA), combines three conference streams, with a hands-on demonstration
area.
Liam will present a paper called "How to Design Low-cost mm-wave
Equipment" during the Design Forum conference stream on 25 November.
The paper will provide guidelines for the design and implementation
of low-cost mm-wave equipment. Techniques suggested will be described,
with time allowed to discuss with their benefits compared to alternative
approaches.
This session is targeted at engineers and design managers actively
involved in designing the basic building blocks (components, subsystems
and radios) for broadband wireless access, wireless LAN and ultrawideband
systems.
Commenting on his upcoming presentation, Liam Devlin said: "The
paper gives guidelines that should allow significant cost savings to
be made for the production of high-volume mm-wave equipment. All of
the techniques and processes required to produce low cost, high volume
mm-wave equipment are available today. The remaining stumbling block
is having a product that will be required in sufficiently high volumes
to allow the engineering development and volume deployment to go ahead.
Automotive radar is a promising candidate. But, whatever the application,
it is ultimately only a matter of time until low cost mm-wave equipment
is a commercial reality".
The keynote address at this session will be given by Pertti Jauhiainen
of the European Commission, with Helen Duncan, Editor of Microwave Engineering
Europe as chair.
The Broadband Wireless Forum will be held at the De Vere University
Arms Hotel in Cambridge, 25-26 November.
Issued 12/11/2003
