Workshop Background:

The IWPC has organized more than 15 handset related workshop over the past 8 years.

France Telecom Research Laboratory in Grenoble France has the responsibility to look out 3-5 years to explore new handset use cases and a wide range of technologies needed to support these use cases, for their customers, worldwide.

As a global wireless services supplier, with networks worldwide, France Telecom is faced with managing the development and deployment of many different handset models.  How can these costs be reduced while meeting the needs of its diverse customer base?

Workshop Goals:

The Goal of this workshop is to bring together the best minds in the industry, from the entire supply chain, to share and explore new and old ideas to meet these needs for 2G and 3G handsets.

We wish to obtain a snapshot of the state of the art in 3 specific areas:

• reconfigurable handset radio technology - for both RF and Digital sections of the handset

• handset power management technologies

• advanced handset user interfaces

and identify what areas need further development and investment by the handset industry.

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

7:00 PM

Social Reception

At Hotel

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

7:00 AM

Registration and Breakfast

8:00 AM

Opening Remarks

IWPC

8:15 AM

Self Introductions

Each person is asked to introduce him/herself and what he/she is hoping to learn in the next 2 days.

9:00 AM

Keynote Presentations

• What are the issues that the France Telecom Research Laboratory and Orange France are looking at for handsets in the next 3-5 years?

   

• What are future handset use cases?

  • High speed data

  • Mobile TV - broadcast or video-on-demand?

  • Cameras - how many mega pixels are needed?

  • Gaming

  • Commerce

  • Other?

• What is desired for future multi-modal smart user interfaces, for whom, for which added values in the operator perspective.

• What feature sets are expected in future ultra low-cost handsets?

• What role is seen for reconfigurable and/or smart radios in future handsets?

  • How many different radios are needed for future handsets?

  • What are the implications for these multiple radios?

  • What are the operator interests?

• What handset technologies need further development?

• What changes, if any, are needed in the mobile phone infrastructure to support future handsets?

• How important is power management to future handsets?

Device Innovation Challenge for Operator

Anh Vo Viet

Device Program Director

France Telecom Research & Development Laboratory

SDR Handset Use Cases

Stephen Hope

Senior Consultant

France Telecom

10:20 AM

Networking Break

10:50 AM

Panel - Service Providers

• What are the issues that are being looking at for handsets in the next 3-5 years?

  • What is the impact of the next 1 billion users on feature sets and cost targets?

• What are future handset use cases?

  • High speed data

  • Mobile TV - broadcast or video-on-demand?

  • Cameras - how many mega pixels are needed?

  • Gaming

  • Commerce

• What is desired for future multi-modal smart user interfaces?

  • man-to-machine and machine-to-machine interfaces?

• What feature sets are expected in future ultra low-cost handsets?

• What role is seen for reconfigurable and cognitive radios in future handsets?

• What handset technologies need further development?

• What changes are needed in the mobile phone infrastructure to support future handsets?

• How important is power management to future handsets?

• How many different radios are needed for future handsets?

  • What are the implications for these multiple radios?

Confirmed

• France Telecom

• Orange

• Sprint

• Verizon Wireless

11:50 AM

Lunch

12:50 PM

Panel - Handset Maker's and ODMs

• What are future handset use cases for different global markets?

• Does reconfigurable radio technology meet the needs of future handset use cases?

• What are the power consumption requirements for future use cases?

• What is the state of the art of handset reconfigurable radios?

• What are the tradeoffs of fixed hardware vs flexibility?

• What architectures and platform changes are needed?

• Given the continuing cost reduction of hardware centric radios, what cost advantages do reconfigurable radios offer, if any?

• What radio front end technologies are needed to support these reconfigurable radios?

  • wideband antennas?

  • wideband power amplifiers

• What power management issues do reconfigurable radios pose?

• How will reconfigurable radios effect the handset industry business models?

Confirmed

• Celestica

• Motorola TTPCom Product Group

• Nokia

• RIM

1:40 PM

Reconfigurable and Smart Radios Session

RF Front End Technologies Available Now and Needed to Support the Wide Band Requirements

• RF Section

  • Transceivers

  • Power Amplifiers

  • Antenna(s)

  • Filters

  • Switches

for Multi-Band, Multi-Air Interface Applications (xG, WiMAX, WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth, etc. for licensed and unlicensed frequencies, worldwide)

• Voice

• High Speed Data

• Fixed Mobile Convergence

• Mobile TV

• Gaming

• GPS

• others...
  
   

• What design platforms are being developed which include reconfigurable and cognitive radios?

Digitally Controlled Broadband PAs Enabling Future Reconfigurable Radios

Mathias Merkler

Business Dev/Technical Mktg: Manager

M/A-COM - Tyco Electronics

Novel Miniaturized Antennas for Reconfigurable Radios

L. Pierre de Rochemont

Founder & Chairman

Giga Circuits

2:40 PM

Networking Break

3:10 PM

Reconfigurable and Smart Radios Session

RF Technologies Required

(continued)

Compact Tunable RF Filter Technologies

Dr. Robert B. Hammond

Senior Vice President & Chief Technical Officer

Superconductor Technologies, Inc.

RF Reconfiguration in the Wireless Handset

Mel Miller

Emerging Technologies Department Manager

Freescale Semiconductor, Inc

4:10 PM

Reconfigurable and Smart Radios Session

Digital and OS Technologies Required

• Digital Section

  • Memory

  • Baseband

  • Application Processor

• Operating Systems

  • for secure and evolutive solutions

  • for control and tele-loading solutions

for Applications

• Voice

• High Speed Data

• Fixed Mobile Convergence

• Mobile TV (unicast, multi-cast mode)

• Gaming

• GPS

• others...
   

• What design platforms are being developed which include reconfigurable and cognitive radios?

• What is required in a handset for providing an always best connection and seamless hand-overs within multi-accesses?

The Future of Mobile Computing

Professor Ulrich Ramacher

Sr. Director, Senior Principal

Infineon Technologies AG

SDR for Mobile Terminals: A CMOS Softransceiver

Russell J. Cyr

Chief Marketing Officer and Co-Founder

BitWave Semiconductor

5:10 PM

Adjourn for Day

Leave Hotel from Lobby

6:30 PM

Cocktails at the "Cave" - sponsored by France Telecom Research Laboratories

and

Dinner -- Grenoble Style

Thursday, October 26, 2006

7:00 AM

Handset Autonomy Model Project Breakfast Meeting

Preliminary Agenda

• How will we work with the model in an open source environment?

  • discuss how the model will be updated on an ongoing basis

    • version control

    • release control

    • integration of test data

    •  etc.

• Who will take responsibility for the GSM/WCDMA sections?

8:00 AM

Power Management Session

• Progress report of the IWPC/Verizon Wireless
  "Handset Autonomy Model Project"

• Power saving technology for:

  • power amplifiers

  • display technology

  • memory

  • dynamic matching technology - transceiver/antenna

  • processor technologies

• Specific case of WiFi in converged phones

• New power management technologies

Handset Autonomy Model

John Seeman,

Member Technical Staff

and

Ron Borsato,

Member Technical Staff

Verizon Wireless

New Power Management Technologies

Laurent Jamet

New Technology & Bus. Development Director

STMicroelectronics, Inc.

9:00 AM

Panel Session - power management

Industry Challenges to Achieve Cost and Power Effective Reconfigurable and Smart Radios

Confirmed

• Avago

• Enpirion

• M-A/COM

• Micron Technology

• Millennium Cell

• RFMD

• Sion Power

• ST Micro

• TriQuint

10:00 AM

Break

10:30 AM

"Smart" User Interfaces (voice, vision, writing, haptic) for the best overall user experience

• Interfaces for ALL users  -- handicapped persons, hearing impaired, easy user interface
   

  • Context Sensitive (conversion to text)

    • Intelligent keypads and touch-screens

    • Voice recognition

    • Retinal/Iris scanning

    • Fingerprint recognition

    • Motion detection

    • Pressure detection

    • Interfaces required for the Handicapped

  • Connectivity with objects

• Multi-modal intelligent interfaces  

Title to be confirmed

Mark Connon

CEO

Digit Wireless

Advanced Handset Input Devices

Tim Schnitzler

Business Development Manager

Avago Technologies

Networking Lunch

11:30 PM

Handset Autonomy Model Project Lunch Meeting

Preliminary Agenda  (continued from breakfast meeting)

• How will we work with the model in an open source environment?

  • discuss how the model will be updated on an ongoing basis

    • version control

    • release control

    • integration of test data

    •  etc.

• Who will take responsibility for the GSM/WCDMA sections?

1:00 PM

"Smart" User Interfaces (voice, vision, writing, haptic) for the best overall user experience

(continued)

Motion Sensing for Handsets

Christoph Wagner

Applications Engineer

Analog Devices

Putting Feeling Back into the Digital Interface

Terence Warmbier

Head of European Business Development, Mobility

Immersion Corporation

2:00 PM

Panel - Smart User Interfaces

Cost, Size, Weight and Power Implications of Smart User Interfaces for Improved Overall User Experience

Confirmed:

• Analog Devices

• Avago

• Digit Wireless

• Immersion Corp.

• SavaJe

3:00 PM

Networking Break

3:30 PM

Host Closing Panel

• Did the workshop meet the Host's expectations?

• What is required by the industry to further meet the Host's expectations?

• What are the next steps?

• What can the IWPC do to assist?

4:45 PM

Take Aways and Closing Remarks

• Each workshop attendee is asked to share what they learned at the workshop.

• What can the IWPC to help move this process forward?

5:30 PM

Adjourn

7:00 PM

Dinner

Good food, good friends, good wine and Really Bad jokes.

Dinner cost is not included in registration fee.

Friday, October 27, 2006

9:00 AM

Tour - France Telecom R&D Division Laboratory -

Centre d’études sur les Technologies, Grenoble

and

Tour - ST Microelectronics Laboratory

Bus transportation will be provided from/to Tour Location

DEADLINE FOR HANDOUT MATERIALS:

Deadline for electronic version of handout materials: 

Monday, October 9, 2006

COSTS/REGISTRATION FEE:

ALL Hosts, Speakers, Panel Members and Attendees will be asked to cover out of pocket workshop costs such as conference room costs, food (Social Reception plus First Day breakfast/lunch/dinner plus Second Day breakfast/lunch plus 4 Breaks), booklet copying, audio/visual costs, bus transportation to dinner and tour.

These costs are $724. (USD) per person. (For IWPC Members, only.)

ALL Hosts, Speakers, Panel Members and Attendees will be asked to pay this fee in advance with either Visa, Mastercard, American Express, cash, personal check or business check.

Make checks payable to IWPC.

HOTEL:

Novotel Grenoble Nord Voreppe

1625 Route de Veurey

38340 Voreppe, France
Phone: 33-4-76-50-5559
Fax:  33-4-76-56-7626

Email:  [email protected]

Please contact the hotel directly for reservations. Mention the IWPC room block rate of 90,05 Euros.

Cut-off date for reservations is October 9, 2006. After that date rooms cannot be guaranteed at the IWPC rate.

TRAVEL OPTIONS FROM PARIS AIRPORT TO HOTEL

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AUDIO VISUAL:

A Computer Projector will be available for the speakers.

In addition, we audiotape all presentations and the interactive discussions. Post workshop, presentations are made available to IWPC Members on the IWPC WEB site, along with “movies” of all presentations and panel sessions.

BUSINESS CARDS:

Business cards will be collected at the door from all attendees. We will make copies of these cards, which will be available to all who provided a business card.

DRESS:

Business casual suggested. No ties, please !!

HANDOUT MATERIALS:

IWPC prepares a handout binder with ALL presentation materials delivered to the IWPC on or before the deadline.

For ALL IWPC members:

All IWPC members are invited to submit a maximum of 4 pages of materials to include in this handout binder. These pages should NOT BE SALES MATERIALS. Rather, we suggest it contain technical information about your technology as it relates to the workshop topics.

For all companies who will be making a presentation at the Workshop:

You are invited to submit an advance copy of your presentation, complete with graphics and illustrations.

These materials will be copied and handed out at the workshop and included in the IWPC Web site.

Please submit these materials either by email, as a Word for Windows file, Power Point files or PDF files.

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