Development of Next-Generation Microwave/Millimetre-wave Wireless Systems

无线设备现在是我们日常生活的一部分：蜂窝电话和寻呼机、无线计算机外围设备、安全系统、汽车和飞机的定位系统、远程设备，以及许多其他设备。事实上，没有人能想象没有无线宽带通信系统的生活。性能、功耗或包装等问题对设计师来说非常重要，而成本和附加服务(如短信、电子邮件、互联网、照片和摄像机等)的可获得性等参数对潜在客户来说至关重要。将这么多不同的方面集成到一个系统中，导致了同时考虑技术和可靠性标准的多任务设计。因此，开发下一代微波/毫米波无线系统是帮助加拿大高科技公司保持其在这一信息技术战略领域的领导地位的一个迫切目标。不断增长的对无线设备的需求要求更先进的研究，以进一步改善互操作性，并在更高的工作频率、更小的尺寸、更低的成本、更低的功耗、更低的噪声、更高的线性度等方面增强性能。然而，如果不为设计者提供可靠的计算机辅助设计(CAD)工具(在建模、分析和优化方面)和改善现有的电路性能，上述目标就无法实现。本提案旨在通过提出高性能电路、改进器件建模/表征和电路分析能力、量化/最小化电磁(EM)影响(多径、寄生耦合……)以及设计小型印刷天线来扩展下一代无线通信系统的研究和开发活动。它还将为扩大学术界、产业界和研究机构之间的合作提供机会。

Wireless equipment is now part of our daily life: cellular phones and pagers, cordless computer peripherals, security systems, positioning systems for cars and airplanes, remote devices, and many others. In fact, no one could imagine life without wireless broadband communication systems. Issues like performance, power consumption, or packaging, are of major importance for designers, while parameters like cost and accessibility to additional services such as text messaging, email, Internet, photo and video camera etc., are crucial for potential customers. Integrating so many different aspects in a single system leads to multi-task design with simultaneous consideration of technical and reliability criteria. As such, developing next-generation Microwave/Millimetre-wave Wireless systems is an imperative target to help high-tech Canadian companies maintaining their leadership in this strategic area of information technology. The ever-increasing demand on wireless equipment requires more advanced research to further improve interoperability and enhance performance in terms of higher frequency of operation, smaller size, lower cost, lower consumption, lower noise, higher linearity, etc. However, the above objectives cannot be reached without providing designers with reliable computer-aided design (CAD) tools (in modeling, analysis and optimization) and improving existing circuit performance. The present proposal is aimed to extend research and developmental activities on next generation wireless communication systems by proposing high-performing circuits, improving device modeling/characterization and circuit analysis capabilities, quantifying/minimizing electromagnetic (EM) affects (multipath, parasitic coupling ...), and designing small printed antennas. It will also give the opportunity to extent collaboration between academia, industry, and research agencies.