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remarks about European projects
and research activities. The event
was made available on the IEEE Volunteer Tools system [7]. Attendees
could participate in a 30-min Q&A
session focusing on use cases and
rollouts of stand-alone NPNs.
Along the lines of getting closer
to industry, the SSCS Switzerland
Chapter held an adhoc vote approving Domenico Pepe as industrial relations coordination officer.
Reach out to Domenico with Chapter queries.

-Mathieu Coustans,
Taekwang Jang, Michel Bron,
and Domenico Pepe,
SSCS Switzerland Chapter

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.org/m/225924

IEEE SSCS Israel Chapter Hosts Online Distinguished Lecture

On 9 September 2020, IEEE SolidState Circuits Society (SSCS) Distinguished Lecturer Dr. Venumadhav
Bhagavatula, a senior staff engineer
at Samsung, San Jose, California, gave
the online seminar " Evolution of Cellular Radio-Frequency ICs (2G to 5G) "
for the SSCS Israel Chapter. In his lecture, Bhagavatula discussed circuit and
architecture-level techniques that enable reconfigurable cellular transceivers
supporting multiple modes (2G, 3G,
and 4G). Every generation has brought
a unique set of hardware design challenges. Bhagavatula introduced a
couple of difficulties associated with
each standard-for example, the phase
noise requirement in 2G, coexistence
in 3G, and counter intermodulation

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Bhagavatula
introduced a couple
of difficulties
associated with
each standard and
then reviewed
radio-frequency IC
techniques to tackle
these problems.

products in 4G-and then reviewed
radio-frequency IC techniques to
tackle these problems. The final
segment of the talk provided an overview
of the challenges in upcoming 5G millimeter-wave systems.
The seminar was hosted and coorganized by the Advanced Circuits
Research Center (ACRC), Technion-
Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa.

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More than 160 participants from the
semiconductor industry and academia
attended the lecture. Bhagavatula's
expertise and in-depth knowledge of the
topic made this conversation interesting
and informative. The presentation
was followed by a Q&A session and
a vibrant and thoughtful discussion.
-Solon Spiegel,
SSCS Israel Chapter
-Shahar Kvatinsky,
associate professor of electrical engineering, Technion-Israel
Institute of Technology; IEEE Circuits
and Systems Society Israel Chapter
-Masha Schuster,
associate director, ACRC,
Technion-Israel Institute
of Technology

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