DRAGON

Design methods for Radio Architectures GOing Nanoscale

Coordinatore	TECHNIKON FORSCHUNGS- UND PLANUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH    more  Organization address address: BURGPLATZ 3A city: VILLACH postcode: 9500 contact info Nome: Sonia Cognome: Pichler Email: send email Telefono: +43 4242 23355 76 Fax: +43 4242 23355 77
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Austria [AT]
Totale costo	5˙088˙435 €
EC contributo	3˙480˙000 €
Programma	FP7-ICT Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies
Code Call	FP7-ICT-2009-4
Funding Scheme	CP
Anno di inizio	2010
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2010-02-01   -   2013-05-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	TECHNIKON FORSCHUNGS- UND PLANUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH  Organization address address: BURGPLATZ 3A city: VILLACH postcode: 9500 contact info Nome: Sonia Cognome: Pichler Email: send email Telefono: +43 4242 23355 76 Fax: +43 4242 23355 77	AT (VILLACH)	coordinator	0.00
2	ERICSSON AB  Organization address address: TORSHAMNSGATAN 23 city: STOCKHOLM postcode: 164 80 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Fredrik Cognome: Tillman Email: send email Telefono: +46 10 7154072 Fax: +46 10 7154100	SE (STOCKHOLM)	participant	0.00
3	FTW FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM TELEKOMMUNIKATION WIEN GMBH  Organization address address: DONAU CITY STRASSE city: WIEN postcode: 1220 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Sue Cognome: Ivan Email: send email Telefono: +43 1 5052830 80 Fax: +43 1 5052830 99	AT (WIEN)	participant	0.00
4	INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRIA AG  Organization address address: SIEMENSSTRASSE 2 city: VILLACH postcode: 9500 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Marlis Cognome: Stifter-Lindner Email: send email Telefono: +43 5 1777 2984 Fax: +43 3020 2984	AT (VILLACH)	participant	0.00
5	INTERUNIVERSITAIR MICRO-ELECTRONICA CENTRUM VZW  Organization address address: Kapeldreef city: LEUVEN postcode: 3001 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Christine Cognome: Van Houtven Email: send email Telefono: +32 16 281 613 Fax: +32 16281812	BE (LEUVEN)	participant	0.00
6	KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN  Organization address address: Oude Markt city: LEUVEN postcode: 3000 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Maria Cognome: Vereeken Email: send email Telefono: +32 16 326504 Fax: +32 16 326515	BE (LEUVEN)	participant	0.00
7	LUNDS UNIVERSITET  Organization address address: Paradisgatan city: LUND postcode: 22100 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Viktor Cognome: Öwall Email: send email Telefono: +46 46 2229469 Fax: +46 46129948	SE (LUND)	participant	0.00
8	TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET GRAZ  Organization address address: Rechbauerstrasse city: GRAZ postcode: 8010 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Karin Cognome: Karner Email: send email Telefono: +43 316 873 4374 Fax: +43 316 873 104374	AT (GRAZ)	participant	0.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

The driving idea behind DRAGON is to research and use new design methodologies and architectural innovation based on reconfigurability and state-of-the-art digital CMOS technology to break the barriers imposed by the lacking scaling properties of analog components. Radio transceivers serve as an exemplary case with high impact value. With this concept we seek to achieve distinct reductions in cost, size and energy consumption for multi-standard cellular handsets, and other products employing similar technology, while meeting higher demands on data rate.nIncreased data rates require the energy consumption per transmitted or received data bit to be reduced, both to save energy and to avoid thermal problems. When successful, wireless data services become an attractive low-cost alternative for novel applications. Always connected should be an option for everyone. With increased integration levels and with a low thermal and energy budget, both system-in-a-package and system-on-a-chip become reality and, SMEs and other non-wireless European industries will be able to develop radio-based products and services.nIn DRAGON we will develop a design platform comprising multi-standard (EDGE, WCDMA, LTE, and, 4G) transceiver specifications and novel flexible architectures as a tool to meet them. The number of required external components, like analog filters, will be reduced by the use of reconfigurable digital CMOS circuitry; and critical building-blocks will be implemented to demonstrate proof of concept, both of the architecture and design methodology, including: a highly linear combined channel filter and receive ADC, RF digitisation receiver, a transmitter DAC, a switched-mode PA with adaptive digital predistortion and adaptive matching networks. All critical building-blocks will be fabricated, tested, and demonstrated in state-of-the-art CMOS technology. The project results will also be provided to standardisation bodies to allow alignment of requirements to technology limits.