This workshop will cover SiGe HBT technologies as well as SiGe enabled mm-wave and THz applications. In fact, nowadays SiGe technologies have passed the 600 GHz barrier in terms of maximum oscillation frequency and the 700 GHz barrier is foreseen to fall in 2015. Intrinsic advantages of SiGe HBTs such as co-integration with CMOS permit to design compact, reliable and cost efficient systems for ...

The goal of this tutorial is to present our original methodology of Full Software Radio system design. The diversity of communication standards implies the use of multi-band and multi-mode radios. That is why Full Software Radio proposes to challenge a new way of integrating RF circuits and systems by tackling the main issue: transceiving concurrently any RF signal within a very wide band of in...

Filters and multiplexers are key building blocks in science, navigation, and earth observation and telecommunication applications. Satellite systems are in constant evolution to answer to new and changing needs in terms of throughput, coverage, flexibility, RF performances ... The following bullet points offer an overview of some of the different approaches to respond to the new system requirem...

We describe two participatory workshops conducted to support design decisions in the making of the audio display for an ambient intelligent game platform. The workshops discussed here explore specific issues of players’ interactions with sound and auditory display design. The workshops helped move our design process forward by specifying the role of narrative and sound ecologies in our design. ...