Mobile Units

Components
Subsystems
Applications

This session will cover Mobile Units and the new infrastructure required. All from central components to the communication parts to new communication nodes and practical applications.

Presentations will be made by:

Johan Falk Intel

"Building a Smart Network to support 15 Billion Smart Connected Devices"

Extreme growth in the number of connected devices will generate new challenges and new opportunities. The infrastructure that supports them will need to evolve to optimally enable the best experience for consumer, business, and M2M applications alike whilst also enabling new services and revenue streams for Service-, Network- and Application Providers. In this session Intel Corporation will explore the opportunities to evolve the infrastructure through the deployment of standard-based technologies and high-performance compute centric network solutions.

Johan Falk is heading Market Development/Strategic Relationship Management for telecom at Intel, based in Sweden.
Prior to joining Intel in February 2006, Johan have had various senior positions in the Mobile Communications/IT industry – both in large companies and innovation companies. From year 2000 – 2006, he was responsible for Wireless Enterprise Solutions within LogicaCMG, and prior to that held VP Product Management positions within Enea and CellPoint.

Before that, Johan held various positions within Ericsson between 1989 and 1999, lately managing the Global Portfolio for Value Added Services. This included driving up the Pre-paid business successfully as well as managing Messaging, Intelligent Networks and IP services businesses. Prior to that he also worked with business development and strategy, for Ericsson executive management. He was also co-founder and board member of BaltCom Eesti, sold to Metromedia Inc. and is inventor of +15 patents within the mobile communications area.

Dake Liu Coresonic

“Challenges of digital radio baseband for multi-modes mobile.”

Abstract: A programmable radio baseband signal processor ‎is one of the essential enablers of future mobile unit. As wireless standards evolve, the processing power needed for baseband processing increases dramatically and the underlying hardware needs to cope with various standards or even simultaneously maintaining several radio links. Meanwhile, the maximum power consumption allowed by mobile terminals is still strictly limited. These challenges require both system and architecture level innovations. This talk introduces a design methodology tutorial for radio baseband processors. Challenges and implementations of radio baseband signal processors for future mobile units will be discussed. The LeoCore architecture is presented here as an example of a baseband processor design aimed at reducing power and silicon cost while maintaining sufficient flexibility.

Dake Liu is Professor and the Director of Computer Engineering Division at the Department of Electrical Engineering of Linköping University, Sweden. He got technology doctor degree from Linköping University Sweden in 2005. He is IEEE senior member. The focus of his research is high performance low power ASIP (application specific instruction set processors) and integration of on-chip multi-processors for communications and media signal processing. Dake has experiences also in design of communication systems, design of Radio frequency CMOS integrated circuits. Dake Liu is the co-founder and CTO of FreehandDSP AB Stockholm Sweden. FreehadDSP was acquired by VIA technologies in 2001. Dake Liu is currently the co-founder and chief scientist of Coresonic AB Linköping Sweden. Dake Liu was a senior ASIC designer and low power design specialist in Ericsson Microelectronics Stockholm.

Hectronic Daniel Skaborn

“Development of embedded telemetry systems based on COTS using wireless modules and a ready-to-go Linux computer platform”

The strategy to use a standard COM module on a custom made carrier board is well known. It's often the fastest route to the latest standardized computer technology and a way to focus development resources on product specific functions on the carrier board.

This strategy can be combined with ready-made hardware modules for wireless communication like GPRS, GSM, GPS, WLAN and possibilities with Linux ready to be implemented. The combination enables wireless embedded systems to be developed cost-efficiently and fast in order to achieve shorter time-to-market.

This presentation is based on experience from development of distributed transponder systems for automotive applications where hardware modules and off-the-shelf embedded Linux functionality are used for data communication and remote node software upgrades.

Daniel Skaborn believes that beauty lies in simplicity when finding solutions to challenging technical problems. He has studied courses in subjects like programming, computer science and electronics for three and a half years at Uppsala University. He has been a technical consultant at Devex and a Development engineer at the Swedish Space Corporation. Today Daniel Skaborn is a Project Manager and Development Engineer at Hectronic AB.

Norbert Hauser Kontron

“Base Stations and Wireless Control Nodes on Commercial-Off-the-Shelf Hardware”

Telecom infrastructure for wireless communications has high demands on compact, yet powerful computer technology. Among the applications are base stations for 3G, LTE, Tetra and WiMAX, as well as the corresponding radio control nodes (RNC, WiMAX-AC) or media servers (incl. DVB). IP based media implies high demands on processor capacity. Placing systems outdoor needs rugged designs. Whenever power efficiency in a space constrained environment is required, embedded computer technology is the right choice. Commercial-off-the-shelf solutions at box level allow to speed-up own developments and focus on core wireless technologies, while getting the latest in processor technologies off-the shelf. The presentation shows the latest designs of a rugged conduction cooled MicroTCA system for wireless base stations, and a compact system for indoor applications as radio control node or media server.

Biography: Norbert Hauser is responsible for global marketing activities of Kontron as Vice President Marketing. His emphasis is to intensify the presence of Kontron in regional and vertical markets as worldwide leader in embedded computing and rugged computer technology. Before, Norbert Hauser has been leading marketing in EMEA.