FPGA Central

You are invited to attend the following talk hosted by IEEE SCV Signal
Processing Society

Location: National Semiconductor Credit Union Building, (Bldg 31), 955
Kifer Rd., Sunnyvale (Near the intersection of Lawrence and Central
Expressway).

Date: Dec 12th 2005

Title: Mobile WiMAX: True Broadband Wireless Enabled

Speaker: Aditya Agrawal, Director of Marketing, Beceem Communications

Abstract: The IEEE 802.16e standard which enables standards-based true
mobile broadband wireless will be formally ratified by the IEEE in
December this year. 802.16e is also popularly known as Mobile WiMAX.
This talk will give an overview of the standard, how WiMAX Forum is
working to make this standard a globally pervasive technology, and
technical information on what makes this standard exciting including
the fact that this is the first wireless access standard that is based
on OFDMA, has support for multiple antenna techniques like MIMO and
beamforming and has advanced MAC layer options to support many users
with QoS.

Biography: Aditya Agrawal is Director of Marketing for Beceem
Communications that is focused on semiconductor solutions for Broadband
Wireless market. Aditya was one of the early members of the WiMAX Forum
and is currently Chair of the Certification Working Group (CWG) that
runs the WiMAX Certification program. Aditya has previously served on
the WiMAX Forum's board of directors. He has also been involved with
IEEE 802.16 for over 4 years..

Aditya has more than 15 years of engineering and business experience in
the communications and semiconductor industries and has previously
worked at Texas Instruments, Level One Communications (now Intel) and
Fujitsu Microelectronics. He received his BS degree from IIT Kanpur, MS
from the University of Louisiana, and MBA from the Haas School of
Business at the University of California, Berkeley.


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