David Vye, MWJ Editor
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David Vye is responsible for Microwave Journal's editorial content, article review and special industry reporting. Prior to joining the Journal, Mr. Vye was a product-marketing manager with Ansoft Corporation, responsible for high frequency circuit/system design tools and technical marketing communications. He previously worked for Raytheon Research Division and Advanced Device Center as a Sr. Design Engineer, responsible for PHEMT, HBT and MESFET characterization and modeling as well as MMIC design and test. David also worked at M/A-COM's Advanced Semiconductor Operations developing automated test systems and active device modeling methods for GaAs FETs. He is a 1984 graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, with a concentration in microwave engineering.

EDI CON 2014 Conference Schedule

January 18, 2014

Last week marked the deadline for final papers to be submitted to the peer-reviewed portion (technical sessions) of the Electronic Design Innovation conference(EDI CON) coming this April in Beijing. This year's crop of papers is an excellent representation of the state of the industry in terms of systems being developed and the advances in technology that will support these systems. Radar, LTE-A, Navigation satellite, 802.11 and MIMO were among the recurring system topics submitted mostly by industry, while GaN, CMOS, SOI and SIW were among the popular technologies submitted for consideration. Overall, we added two specific modeling tracks (one for system-level and the other for EMC/High-Speed Digital) and an additional twelve hours of presentations to the first day in order to accommodate the increase in paper submissions over 2013.

The EDI CON organizers work is now in full swing as we finalize the conference schedule and group the content to best accommodate the specific interests of attending delegates and VIP guests. In the next few weeks we will be announcing details reagrding our opening plenary sessions (which will feature two sets of keynote talks), special expert panel sessions and other conference related activities. For now, here's a brief look at how the program is shaping up.

EDI CON 2014 Conference Schedule

Overview

EDI CON 2014:

3 Day peer-reviewed industry-focused technical conference

86 peer reviewed papers
30 workshops
5 panel sessions
1 Agilent Education forum
8 keynote talks from Industry executives, leading researchers and academics

Technical Papers

Tracks

RF, Microwave and High-speed digital design
RF/mW measurement and modeling
EMC/EMI, High-speed digital measurements and modeling
System-level measurements and modeling
System engineering
Commercial resources

Sessions (2-4 papers per session)

Tuesday, April 8th

TU101 - Envelope Tracking
TU102 - Harmonic Load-pull Techniques
TU103 - Spectrum Management and Analysis
TU104 - Multiple Antenna Test

Wednesday, April 9th

WE101 - RF/MW/HSD Circuit Design I
WE102 - RF/MW Measurement/Modeling I
WE103 - MIMO OTA Testing
WE104 - Global Navigation and Communication Satellite Systems
WE105 - Materials and PCBs
WE201 - Power Amplifier Design and Linearization techniques
WE202 - Device modeling for PA design and stability analysis
WE203 - E-band and mmW System-level measurements, planning and synthesis tools
WE204 - RADAR and LTE MIMO Systems
WE205 - Materials, PCBs and Interconnects

Thursday, April 10th

TH101 - RF/mW passive component and antenna design
TH102 - Noise characterization techniques
TH103 - EMI, high-speed characterization and jitter analysis
TH104 - RADAR, Wide bandwidth systems, MIMO--OFDM and Phase Coherence
TH105 - MIMO wireless test and spatial channel modeling
TH201 - Antennas and antenna array design
TH202 - High power transistor characterization and thermal analysis
TH203 - Signal Integrity and gigabit channel measurements
TH204 - Radio planification, NFC, spectrum emission mask analysis and EMVCo testing
TH205 - Commercial resources 1

Panel sessions