3G Handset Hardware

HANDSET HARDWARE

For engineering and marketing teams with an interest in handset hardware design and development policy.

The programme is the first day of a 4 day series of programmes covering handset hardware, handset software, network hardware and network software.

Day 1 Objective

* To review present and future voice, imaging, video, audio, text and data capabilities in cellular handsets and related handset hardware design implications.
* To study the impact of cellular radio layer and MAC layer developments on handset hardware design..
* To analyse how WiFi hardware will evolve and the implications for cellular handset hardware.
* To assess present and possible future Bluetooth and UWB hardware functionality and related cellular handset hardware integration issues.
* To review DAB/DMB/DVB and DVB-H functionality and the impact on cellular handset hardware design.
* To review GPS and related positioning technologies and the impact on cellular handset hardware design.

Day 1 Scope

Day 1 is directly relevant to design engineers, product managers and technology and market research team leaders working on present and future handset hardware development projects. The programme draws on over 20 years of research and active involvement in handset hardware design and will be of direct interest to engineers and product and market managers with responsibility for defining wide area, local area and personal area user device hardware design policy. Typical delegate organisations include component vendors, handset manufacturers, third party OEM and ODM hardware development houses and test equipment vendors with an interest in future cellular handset hardware performance trends and related user expectations. The programme is of parallel interest to network engineers wishing to qualify the impact of handset hardware on network hardware and software design and network operator product and market managers wanting to qualify new (handset hardware based) revenue and margin opportunities.

Timed Agenda

09.00 - 10.30
Voice, imaging, video, audio, text and data handset hardware
A review of the hardware components that determine uplink bandwidth - AMR narrow band and wide band voice codecs, CMOS and CCD imaging, JPEG and MPEG encoders, solid state microphones and audio encoders, text input capabilities (wireless keyboards) and data input functionality, how user expectations are changing, future device capabilities, impact of See What I See (SWIS) and Hear What I Hear (HWIH) POC(Press To Talk) applications on handset hardware. A review of the components that determine downlink bandwidth - speaker and display technologies, audio and display drivers, JPEG and MPEG decoders, data management bandwidth, future device capabilities. A review of the components that determine/constrain uplink/downlink bandwidth - memory bandwidth, memory cost, memory performance, DSP and microcontroller clock speeds and architectures, bus bandwidths and architectures, RF power, signal processing and channel coding overheads, address and protocol overheads, battery bandwidth, typical platform power requirements of present and future cellular handsets, how platform power determines uplink and downlink offered traffic and uplink and downlink revenue and margin expectations, handset hardware KPI's (Key Performance Indices), the role of KPI's in handset hardware product differentiation and future competitive positioning implications.

10.30 - 11.00 Coffee

11.00 - 12.30
Radio Layer and MAC functionality
Source adaptation and link adaptation, how EDGE dual transfer mode changes future handset hardware, Class 4, Class 6, Class 10, Class 12 handset capabilities, how HSUDPA/EUDCH changes handset uplink functionality, longer term impact of 5 code, 10 code and 15 code handsets, PHY and MAC efficiency benchmarks, flexible PHY versus flexible MAC, power control versus bandwidth control, commonalities between the HSDPA MAC and WiFi MAC, downlink capabilities, the uplink/downlink balance and related implications for handset processor loading, the traffic balance (conversational, streamed, interactive, best effort) and related implications for handset hardware, impact of PHY and MAC functionality on phone hardware form factor, 40 Series, 60 Series , 80 Series and 90 Series PHY and MAC comparisons, how Release 5 /Release 6 and Release 7 will change handset hardware functionality.

W-CDMA/CDMA 2000 Integration

The CDMA 2000 radio layer, code domain(Walsh code), time domain and frequency domain structure of CDMA 2000, PHY and MAC processing and implementation commonalities with W-CDMA, 3GPP1/3GPP2 work items including 1X Release 0 and Release 1, 1X EV-DO and 1X EV-DV (CDMA2000 Release C and Phase 2 data and voice), FDD/TDD system options including TD-SCDMA, CDMA 2000 handset hardware differentiation.

12.30 - 13.30 Lunch

13.30 - 15.00
WiFi/Cellular Integration
Practical issues of 802.11 a and g radio and baseband integration with existing cellular phones, future WiFi PHY and MAC developments including handover, power control, measurement reporting, MIMO and mesh networking work items, asymmetric coding proposals and possible impact on processor loading, the WiFi PAN proposition, issues of WAN/LAN/PAN integration, roaming and access/admission control, Universal Mobile Access(UMA)proposals and the SIM/USIM access proposition, US vendor positioning on future standards and related handset hardware implications, practical hardware issues of WiFi based IP voice and video, WiFi/cellular consumer product hardware profiles, professional product hardware profiles, specialist product hardware profiles.

Bluetooth/UWB Integration

How Bluetooth 1.2 EDR (enhanced data rate) and 2.0 (PHY flexibility) changes existing handset form factor, overlaps with 802.15 high rate PAN proposals, VoWLAN overlap with Bluetooth voice profiles, WiFi HiFi and the Bluetooth audio profiles, UWB product and standards review, the UWB PAN proposition, data rates and PHY/MAC functionality, longer term impact of UWB on cellular handset hardware.

15.00 - 15.30 Tea

15.30 - 17.00
DAB/DMB/DVB/DVB-H and GPS Integration

The DAB/DMB multiplex, typical link budgets, processor budgets and power budgets for audio, image and data downloading, present chip set availability and user functionality, practical issues of radio(receiver) and baseband integration, the DVB/DVB-H multiplex, typical link budgets and power budgets for audio, video and data downloading, typical trigger effects of free to air broadcasting and related implications for uplink processor loading, present chip set availability and user functionality, practical issues of radio(receiver) and baseband integration.

GPS and related Positioning Platforms (Cell ID,TDOA, TDOA/AOA, E-OTD, Glonass, Galileo, A-GPS), receive sensitivity and related integration and performance issues, potential integration with DMB/DVB datacasting, UWB and possible future PAN positioning functionality, related implications for handset hardware functionality.

Mechanical Design Considerations

Volume, weight and duty cycle limitations, RF issues of multi PHY phones, antenna design options, battery technology options, present practical constraints.

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