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Overview

This course is day 4 of the LTE, LTE-Advanced and HSPA Evolution: System Design and Operation course and can be taken on its own or as part of the 5-day course. For details of the full 5-day LTE, LTE-Advanced and HSPA Evolution: System Design and Operation course click here.

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Programme details

Course content

• The mobile phone chipset designer’s working environment
  • 2G/ 3G mobile phone hardware evolutions and features
• Description of UMTS transceiver architectures
• HSPA Transmitter design challenges:
  • Adjacent Channel Leakage Ratio (ACLR), output power, power consumption trade-off
• HSPA Receiver design challenges:
  • Receiver sensitivity in full duplex systems
  • Adjacent Channel Selectivity (ACS) test cases
• Talk time and battery technology trends in 3G phones
  • Benchmarking of current solutions
  • Power consumption estimates
  • Improvements with discontinuous transmission and reception (continuous packet connectivity CPC)
• The design constraints of the Multi-Mode, Multi-Band (MM-MB) mobile phone
  • Co-existence issues in MM-MB phones
  • Victims and aggressors in MM-MB phones
  • Design challenges in removing external SAW filters in MM-MB phones
• Some LTE RF design challenges
  • LTE reference sensitivity
  • LTE ADC & ACS requirements
  • Some frequency band specific challenges.

First day registration from 8.30am when course materials will be distributed.
Refreshments from 8.30am on the first day plus two 30 minute breaks during the day and a one-hour lunch break.
The course will begin at 9.00am and end at approximately 5.00pm on each day.

Staff

Mr Laurent Noël

Role: Speaker

(Formerly) System Architect ST-NXP Wireless

Until recently Laurent Noel was an RF-BB system architect at ST-NXP Wireless,...more France. He worked on reconfigurable multi-mode, multi-standard, digital RF solutions for LTE, FDD-WCDMA, EGPRS, GPS and TD-SCDMA projects.

Throughout 2007 and 2008 he also actively participated in the definition of the DigRF SM v4 standard within the MIPI alliance. Prior to that he worked at BT Laboratories (Martlesham Heath, UK) where he was involved in 3G testing activities and in research on high speed digital optical systems, including millimetre wave radio systems over fibre.

He received a degree in mathematics and physics from the University of Montpellier II, France, in 1991, and a degree as a microelectronics engineer at the "Institut des Sciences de l'Ingenieur" (ISIM), Montpellier, France, in 1994.

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Certification

Participants who satisfy the course requirements will receive a Certificate of Attendance. The pdf sample above is an illustration only, and the wording will reflect the course and dates attended.

Level and demands

This course is aimed at those who have already basic understanding of WCDMA technology and wish to get themselves up to date with the latest technology development.

The course is intended for engineers, those involved in RF systems design, radio planners, service developers and operators, equipment designers, telecoms consultants and 3G applications developers.

In addition, the course will appeal to technical managers, analysts and strategists wishing to increase their technical understanding of the key subject area currently in the limelight of the telecoms world.

Accommodation

Accommodation is available at the Rewley House Residential Centre, within the Department for Continuing Education, in central Oxford. The comfortable, en-suite, study-bedrooms are rated 3-star, and come with free high-speed internet access and TV. Guests can take advantage of the excellent dining facilities and common room bar, where they may relax and network with others on the programme.

Payment

Fees include course materials, tuition, refreshments and lunches. The price does not include accommodation.

All courses are VAT exempt.

Fee options

Programme Fee

Standard Course Fee: £395.00

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Programmes including this module

This module can be studied as part of these programmes:

• Telecoms and mobile technologies