TC-16 Meets at ECTC

TC-16, RF and Wireless, was called for a breakfast meeting on Friday during the ECTC week in San Diego. Chair Craig Gaw of Motorola called the meeting to order with about 10 eager members. TC-16 typically gathers papers for one session at ECTC and puts on one short course. The fact that the MTT Society has their big meeting the week following ECTC limits the ECTC support available from RF companies. To contrast with the MTT Society, the CPMT TC-16 must stress RF packaging, manufacturing, and components.
One theme discussed was integration and packaging of RF embedded function including GPS, Wireless LAN, Bluetooth, SAW, VCO, RF power modules, flexible RF circuitry, and integrated passives. Another focus of discussion was how CPMT technologies were being used in the RF identification tag market.
Frank Bachner of TechSearch and Goran Matijasevic of U of California-Irvine agreed to pursue these paths to find a critical mass of interest to support a panel discussion or a session of papers.
It was also agreed to build up a mailing list of those RF developers that had CPMT tendencies so we can communicate quickly to RF peers. To this end, Craig Gaw will draft a letter requesting ideas for presentations, panel discussions, and articles. Dave Palmer agreed to place a call for papers of the sessions developed in the September CPMT Newsletter and negotiate a place in the MTT newsletter as well as other trade publications.

Picture of some of attendees: Koji Nihei (Waseda University), Rao Bonda (Motorola), Lih Tyng Hwang (Motorola), and Goram Matjasevic (University of California-Irvine). Also at meeting were Chair Craig Gaw (Motorola), Shankar Madathil (DeMortfort University), Len Schaper (Univ of Arkansas), Frank Bachner (TechSearch), Manos Tentzeris (Georgia Tech), and Dave Palmer (Sandia Labs).