Methodology to Validate and Inter-compare RF Device and Circuit Models

In promoting the Workshop to the 4,000 delegates at the conference, it was emphasized that broadband wireless access will play a dominant role in the development of a mobile information society in the immediate future. Both in the uplink and in the downlink of a wireless access scheme the power amplifier plays a crucial role: it is responsible for leaving the highly dynamic output signal undistorted while converting the battery power to microwave power at an efficiency as close to 100% as possible. The conflicting demands of linearity, efficiency, cost and performance create enormous technical challenges. Of course these challenges form the background to and rationale for TARGET. The Workshop provided an excellent opportunity to promote world-wide awareness of TARGET as well as bringing together a variety of perspectives on this challenging theme including device technology, characterization and measurement, circuit/system level modeling and design, architecture and linearization techniques.