April 08, 2008 Meeting

TOPIC:     "The Wireless Revolution Continues: Can Technology Keep Up with the Challenge?”

DATE:      Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
                  Lunch/Chapter business:  11:30 AM - 11:45 P.M.
                  Program:  11:45 - 12:45 P.M.

LOCATION:   Holiday Inn Select, Richardson
                     1655 N. Central Expressway (US 75),
                     (Southbound frontage road, south of Campbell)
                     Richardson, TX 75080

SPEAKER:  Dr. Bill Krenik, Chief Technical Officer, Wireless Business Unit, Texas Instruments.

DOOR PRIZES
 

Abstract:

The exploding market for consumer electronics is creating diverse product opportunities, with many products demanding unique technology features to enable successful performance, power-efficiency, size and cost. The wireless market is a high-growth market, and a critical driver of technology innovations. Whether creating a cutting-edge mobile phone with the hottest features or a modest handset required for high-growth emerging economies, a mobile designer is increasingly more challenged to satisfy product goals with existing technology. Bill Krenik will address the critical technology, process and packaging challenges and solutions required to meet mobile market requirements for today and tomorrow.

Biography:

As Chief Technical Officer, Dr. Bill Krenik is head of TI’s advanced wireless research team. He oversees the study and development of emerging wireless technologies and system architectures, and shapes the impact they will have on the future of wireless communications.  He also defines and launches new research initiatives, supports advanced wireless product developments, and manages activity related to wireless industry standards. 

 Dr. Krenik has played an instrumental role in the design of TI’s silicon and software technologies, optimizing them in view of the critical technology requirements of mobile handset manufacturers and mobile operators. He is widely respected for his strategic vision and contributions to the development of the industry’s first single-chip mobile phone solutions, now shipping in high volume production in many phone models. Known as TI’s LoCosto™ family of single-chip solutions, the popular platform employs the company’s one-of-a-kind DRP™ technology that applies digital techniques to formerly analog functions to achieve substantial size, power and cost reductions.  Dr. Krenik is also closely involved in the development of technologies for advanced silicon integration, power management and control, data processing, analog and RF circuit design, communications systems, wireless applications and services, and wireless system architectures.

 Dr. Krenik serves on several academic and professional boards and was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2005. He is a registered professional engineer in the state of Texas and holds more than 40 U.S. patents.  He speaks frequently at professional industry and technical events and has published numerous articles and technical papers. A well-respected industry expert, he also is frequently quoted in top U.S. trade and business publications, including USA Today, EE Times and IEEE Spectrum.

Dr. Krenik has been employed by TI since 1984. He received a doctorate in electrical engineering from the University of Texas, Dallas, in 1993. He also holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Southern Methodist University and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota.