IEEE Microwave Magazine - May 2017 - 96

Kevin Kobayashi
RFIC 2017 general
chair

Stefano Pellerano
RFIC 2017 Technical
Program Committee
cochair

Walid Ali-Ahmad
RFIC 2017 Technical
Program Committee
chair

Figure 1. The RFIC 2017 general chair and Technical Program Committee chair and cochair.
TABLE 1. The RFIC 2017 program at a glance.
Saturday
3 June

Sunday
4 June
RFIC
workshops

Morning

Evening

RFIC
workshops

Registration

Registration

Afternoon

Registration

Lunch

* RFIC Plenary

Monday
5 June

Tuesday
6 June

5G-focus
RFIC technical
sessions

RFIC
technical
sessions

5G
panel

Game/quiz
panel

RFIC technical
sessions/
*5G Summit

Registration

Date/
Time

*5G Summit

*5G
Executive
Forum

Session
* RFIC reception

* Joint Industry
Showcase and
Interactive Forum

*The 5G Summit is a separate conference with 5G overview presentations.

* Efficiency Enhancement Techniques for Linear and High-Bandwidth Power Amplifiers
* Energy-Efficient RF Transceiver
IC and System Design for HealthCare Applications
* Frequency Synthesis and Clock
Distribution for Massive MIMO
and Phased Arrays in 5G Communication Systems and Beyond
* High-Performance, Power-Efficient
Clock Generation for Internet of
Things Applications
* Highly Digital CMOS Transmitters
with Embedded Power Amplifiers
* Microwave Through Sub-Terahertz Imaging and Sensor Array

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Technology for Security, Industrial, Commercial, and Medical
Applications
* Millimeter-Wave for 5G: Which
Systems with Which Frequency
Band? 5G RF Transceiver Design
and System Aspects
* Polar, Envelope Tracking, Outphasing, Doherty, Predistortion:
Which One Survives at Millimeter-Wave Frequencies?
* RFIC Design Challenges for the
Internet of Things at Scale
* RFIC Design for Automotive Radar
* RFIC Desig n in CMOS FinFET
and FD-SOI
* RF-Inspired Silicon Photonic

* The Many Flavors of CMOS/Bipolar RF Harmonic Oscillators.
Following the full day of Sunday
workshops, the RFIC Plenary Session
will be held in the evening, beginning
with conference highlights and followed
by the presentation of the Student Paper
Awards and the Industry Best Paper
Award. The Plenary Session will conclude with focused talks on 5G, beginning with Dr. Seizo Onoe, chief technology office and executive vice president
of NTT Docomo, who will enlighten us
on the "Deployment Realities of 5G."
The second talk will be given by Wireless
Communications Industry Chair Professor
at the University of California, San Diego,
and National Academy of Engineering
member Prof. Gabriel Rebeiz, who will
share his vision for "RFIC/Silicon-based
Phased Arrays and Transceivers for 5G."
Immediately following the Plenary Session will be the "interactive" RFIC reception, which will highlight our Industry
Showcase and Interactive Forum papers
in an engaging social and technical evening event supported by the RFIC 2017's
corporate sponsors. You will not want to
miss the RFIC reception this year!
On Monday and Tuesday, RFIC 2017
will have multiple tracks of oral technical
paper sessions. Two entertaining panels
will be featured during lunchtime on
both days. The Monday panel session is
titled "5th Generation Wireless: Where
Is That Going, and What's in It for Me?"
The Tuesday panel session will be a
game-show quiz titled "Who Wants to
be a Millimeterwavionaire?"; make sure
to bring your opinions and questions,
and come prepared to answer technical trivia at the Tuesday panel to win
prizes. Afternoon 5G Summit technical
sessions will provide high-level 5G overview presentations that will complement
the 5G-focused RFIC morning technical
sessions. A separate registration will be
required for the 5G Summit sessions.
On behalf of the RFIC Steering and
Executive Committees, we welcome you
to  join us at RFIC 2017 in Honolulu,
Hawai'i! Please visit the RFIC 2017 website (http://rfic-ieee.org/) for more details
and updates.

May 2017
http://www.rfic-ieee.org/
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