Tunable RF Components and Circuits

Jeffrey L. Hilbert is the president and founder of WiSpry, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company utilizing CMOS-integrated radio frequency microelectromechanical systems (RF-MEMS) technology to develop tunable RF products for the cellular communications and wireless consumer electronics markets. He has more than 35 years of executive management and technical experience in a number of leading semiconductor and MEMS companies, including LSI Logic, Compass Design Automation, AMCC, Motorola, Harris, and Coventor. He received a BS in chemical engineering from the University of Florida and an MS in computer science from the Florida Institute of Technology, and has done course work toward a PhD in computer engineering from North Carolina State University.

• Tunable RF Market Overview. RFSOI Technologies on HR Silicon Substrates for Reconfigurable Wireless Solutions. BST Technology for Mobile Applications. Tuned Antennas for Embedded Applications. Tunable and Adaptive Antenna Systems. Effective Antenna Aperture Tuning with RF-MEMS. RF-CMOS Impedance Tuners: Performance Metrics and Design Trade-Offs. Handset Antenna Tuning Using BST. Aperture-Tunable Antennas: Handset OEM Perspective. Power Amplifier Envelope Tracking. MEMS Switching in the Handset RF Front-End. Case Study of Tunable Radio Architectures. Network Operator Perspectives. Testing Wireless Devices in Manufacturing.