 Welcome to Think Tech on OC16, Hawaii's weekly newscast on things that matter to tech. And to Hawaii. I'm Raya Salter. And I'm Elise Anderson. In our show this time, we'll cover the International Microwave Symposium, IMS 2017, at the Hawaii Convention Center. When we say microwave, we're not talking about your oven, we're talking about your cell phone. We'll walk the floor, check out the exhibits, talk to the engineers, and hear about the remarkable new 5G technology. The IMS is an annual meeting for engineering and business professionals involved in microwave theory and application. The IMS is organized by the Microwave Theory and Technique Society of the IEEE. This is the 60th year of the symposium and the second time it was held in Hawaii. IMS 2017 was co-located in Hawaii with two other IEEE conferences, the RFIC, the Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Symposium, and the ARFTG, the Automatic Radio Frequency Techniques Group, and what is known as Microwave Week, covering synergies among RF, Microwave, Millimeter Wave, and Terahertz Frequency Technologies. The symposium was huge, 8,000 attendees came to Hawaii, many, if not most, with their families. Estimates are these attendees and families pump more than 30 million dollars into our economy in the 10 days they were here. This year's agenda was ChakaBlock and included some new events, including a three-minute thesis competition, 3MT, where contestants have three minutes to present their ideas to the public. There was also a 5G summit showcasing next-generation wireless technologies, an RF boot camp on Microwave Basics, workshops for exhibitors to present the technologies behind their products, and a hackathon to see who are the best RF hackers. The IMS exhibition was also huge and featured 500 exhibitors displaying the state-of-the-art in materials, devices, components and subsystems, as well as in design, simulation, and testing software and equipment. To prepare for IMS 2017, ThinkTech had two talk shows with its organizers in the week before the conference. The first was with Monty Watanabe, Chair of Marketing, and Lee Wood, Exhibit Manager. What kind of exhibits are they? Can you describe some of them? What do they look like? Well, so you have everything from 10 by 10 companies with every kind of component to build a microwave system you can imagine on up to large thousand-square-foot booths from testing measurement companies. This conference is largely about 5G, though, isn't it? That's what we're focusing on this year is one of our themes, yeah. The decision. Everybody wants to know about 5G. Can you take a moment and tell us what 5G is? I do not have 5G in my Samsung. Yeah, nobody does. Yeah, nobody. Okay. But they will soon. They will eventually. Yeah. So 5G is actually the fifth-generation mobile cellular phone technology. It's a standard that is evolving as we speak. It's set to be released in the 2020 timeframe, but at this point in time, we're really looking at the core technologies, the protocols, the actual microwave devices that allow us to get these signals across. So we're really at the forefront as far as developing this. Sounds like it. But does 5G exist now, or is it still sort of aspirational? It's aspirational at this point because there's no standard. The second talk show was with Kevin Miyashiro, co-chair of the conference, and who has been one of its organizers over the past 10 years. We first hosted this show, the International Micrographic Symposium, here in Honolulu for the first time. It ever left the continent of the U.S. here in 2007. So I was 10 years younger, a little bit less wise and a little bit more open-minded about things. And so we had such a good time. We said, hey, why don't we do this again? So we put in a bid in 2008. You're a founder of the show, then. Wings Roma deserves really the lion's share of the credit. He's the one that made the first move to bring it here in 2007. The joke that we all have is Wayne was 30 in 1998 when we first bid it. When the show came, he was 40, in 2007, I was 30. And so it was sort of my turn to kind of come help do things. So I served as the pitch man to convince the deciding committee to bring it here. Wayne really is the brains behind the operation. So he helps make everything happen. I am now in my 40s, so to speak. And so now it's our turn to kind of pass the baton to the next generation to find the next young, unsuspecting person in the 30s to go bring it back again. And then every 10 years, it'd be beautiful to have this cycle repeat over and over and over again. Thinktex J. Fidel was a judge in the three-minute competition on the Monday afternoon schedule for the show. The elevator pitch, they get your idea across in a short time. You've got Pecha Kucha, you've got Ignite, and here we have the three-minute thesis. But I think that this is a very important exercise for anyone in science, because at this point, it's not a matter of just doing good science, you need to tell your story. So that's what we're about to see. How do we have something really happy to see? Imagine that we are going to the bloke to say the name of the leader. So I'll do it for you, and I'll do it for one form here. And then I'll do it for you. So why do you feel like that's normal, that's the idea of a security? Just to tell you something really lovely about this event. Imagine that there's a conference. You may sound like a book. I wonder if you agree. How do we do it? Imagine you come up here. Every time you're gone, pop. I'm pretty happy. I wonder if you agree. It's about forgiveness. Today, I'm going to come up here. Well, it's something that I think is important, that I have to tell you. Today, I want to come up here. I think we have a system. The benefits of dying are diseases and how easy it is to resist. Especially if you have to decide quickly. These are stupid rumors. A lot of people have heard of my presentation, which is about Doing good work and doing good science isn't enough. And if you want to shape public policy and change the world, you have to be able to tell that story. So please keep doing that. On Tuesday, we went down to the show when it opened. And we walked the floor and talked with some of the engineers, executives and attendees there. You know, this is the biggest conference that the state of Hawaii has this year. This is the second time in the 60-year history that the International Microwave Symposium has gone off of the North American continent. So we're really proud to have it come to Hawaii. Hawaii, after all, is a hotbed for wireless research. In 1941, the O'Pana radar station on the North Shore was the first demonstration of radar. And that was used, of course, to detect the enemy airplanes as they were en route to Pearl Harbor. And then in 1971, Norm Abramson and his cohorts developed the Aloha system, which is the first packet radio wireless network. And here we are, 30 years later, talking about the latest advances in wireless research. Think about where we were 40 years ago when we didn't have the internet. You had to use a dial-up phone to call your mom in Kansas. And things with the internet, now you can have instant chatting. Grandparents can be talking with their grandkids halfway around the world. So we can do this faster, better, cheaper, and in things, in ways that we can't even imagine 20 years from now when everything becomes a reality. As another example, driverless cars. Everyone is excited about that. Lower fatality rates, more efficient highways, and microwaves will help make that become a reality. Science is global, and research knows no boundaries. So scientists need to collaborate. And that's why Hawaii is the perfect venue for international scientific gatherings. And so we leverage our relationships with the faculty at the university who are globally renowned to attract these technical conferences. This conference is all around the College of Engineering, but we also have great contributors from SOEST, and Japson, and CTAR, the College of Social Sciences, the College of Education. So throughout the UH campus, they're all contributing to the LLA program. I am the vice chair of operations, so I deal with all the operations and the local arrangements for this conference. I was an electrical engineering student under Wayne when I was doing my graduate studies at the university. It's playing out great. There's just so much stuff going on on the meeting room floor, on the show floor, in the networking events. It's exciting just seeing everything that's going on at the conference in general. I think a lot of them are just very excited to be in Hawaii and being able to interact and network with everyone else from around the world. It's just amazing to see all those discussions that are being had in anywhere that it can be had, whether it's the meeting rooms in the concourse outside or any of the events that we have going on through the week. Microengineering in and of itself is a very broad field. So me specifically, I'm doing a paper on Wednesday, and it's on a submillimeter wave power generation. So that's very niche, but I think something that resonates with everyone is what you have in your cell phone, Wi-Fi, etc. So that is, I think, really the market driver at least. I would consider a lot of the stuff that we do disruptive. I mean, 20 years ago, the concept of Wi-Fi, it wasn't ubiquitous. Now it is, and I think it's thanks to conferences like these that help drive innovation and pushing that aspect forward. I would say at the heart of it, it's really competition. Human nature is one that's competitive. People like to one-up one another. I think that's a big driver in kind of pushing things forward. And then I think there are individuals that truly want to see the future happen now. So that is definitely a driver as well. I am part of the steering committee and I am specifically in charge of the student paper competition here at the conference. Sure, it's in the main forum out here outside of all the technical session meeting rooms. There were 391 entrants in the student paper competition this year. Of them, the TPRC, the technical program review committee, selected about 60 to be considered for finalist status. And of those, we picked 24. So this is the cream of the crop for what student research and not just the country but the globe right now. So from 10.30 to noon on Wednesday, you'll be able to walk up and see some really amazing research that they're doing, interact with them, talk with them. They'll be judged by a panel of experts and then we will award the winners tomorrow at the student award lunch. It is a really wide range of subjects and we try to make sure that we're covering all of the different technical areas of competency here at IMS. So we've got some that are chip to chip communication with summer field waves. I know we've got a lot of internet of things, entries, power amplifiers, very high efficiency, wearable electronics that are woven right into clothing. It's really a very wide range of really interesting subjects. So actually I'm part of the MDT community and I'll have the pleasure to do it. This is my first year to work on the microwave stuff. I'm doing my PhD in the University of Hyatt-Manoa and luckily my advisor is Professor Wayne Charoma. So I'm here participating in the IMS, working on the genealogy project, tracking the schoolers' scientific roots back to the legends. So for example, so Professor Wayne Charoma, when his academic genealogy is traced, could be traced back to Thomas Edison and another scholar that can be traced to Newton or Galileo. And I'm not working alone, I'm working with an amazing guy, Paul Univaro, who's had tremendous effort in this work and because he did it for his advisor and we are trying to replicate his model, what he did for his advisor. And he went back to Newton actually when he did it for his advisor. My name is Paul Univaro and we have Karim here and the main thing that we try to put together is a way to highlight the rich legacy that we have with all our previous professors. So it's basically started this maybe six months ago for my advisor, Kai Cheng. And he has like 37 PhD students, some of them are here. I'm like number nine. We came out of Texas A&M University. My advisor, Kai Cheng, is retiring this year so we wanted to do something special for him so I researched his background. He graduated from University of Michigan in 1976 under a professor, Peter J. Kahn, University of Sydney. So with that we kind of try to follow to his advisor, Acheson and then Bailey, Townsend, Thompson, and all the way back to Galileo and Tartaglia. I gave him a poster so that he could have this and our students, we presented it to him. So I put down the 1500, 1600, 1700s all the way down. So it's something that he will take on his retirement but it's also a good idea because we discussed this with Wayne and he also wants to highlight. So the second one we did, here's Wayne and he's a student of Zoya, okay? And then we also have Gabrielle who's all over the place and we have Compton, his students, and I'm sure there's more but that's all we put together at least for this because it's a start. Welcome to Corvo Spooth at IMS 2017 in Hawaii. Corvo is one of the leading RF solutions provider in the world. We provide solutions from everything from mobile handsets to infrastructure and defense applications. So today we're featuring our solutions for Wi-Fi, IoT, for wireless infrastructure, for defense as well as for solid state technology. Corvo is a leader in gallium nitride on silicon carbide technology and we use that technology from everything from defense systems to the solutions for wireless infrastructure base stations for 5G as well as for EW comms and other defense solutions. We are developing solutions for 5G. We work with our customers to develop a lot of the infrastructure. We've been involved in over 20 field trials for 5G so we're developing solutions from everything for 28 gigahertz to 39 gigahertz frequency bands for 5G. We are a foundry company and we have been in the RF for a long time and effectively this is a global foundry's booth here and we are showcasing our latest and greatest technologies. 5G is happening right now as we speak. Pathfinding is going on right now. The specs are going to be solidified in the next couple of years but the initial effort is ongoing and that's what we saw in the plenary as well on IMS. I think time is going to save because there's a lot of speculation on exactly how the rollout is going to happen so we are very excited about the rollout and we look forward to seeing how it's going to all happen. Really what we bring to the table is the synchronization of high speed pulsed measurements with changing the state of the DUTs and the TR modules so synchronizing the digital control words with the module running at full speed of what the radar would run at. The application is in the TR module test manufacturing. All the modules as they're built they have to go through the manufacturing test process to prove that the modules are changing phase state, changing attenuation state. There can be upwards of hundreds of states per module per frequency and that tends to take the test time and really expands it out so if you're not doing it at full speed these tests could be 10, 15 minutes per module. The test platform is really a combination of rack and stack instrumentation from Keysight, national instruments and other vendors. We write software that goes around that and the computer science part of it being able to handle large amounts of data, stream that data, get it where it needs to go and have quick and easy access to it is a big part of it. Aerospace defense companies send their engineers. Here in Hawaii it's a little bit less attractive of a proposition for us. We'll do much better in Philadelphia and Boston in the next coming years. Hi my name is Sirius and I'm a product manager of the International Instruments. I'm showing here today a demonstration using our millimeter wave software to find radio. We're running the new radio specification that's been proposed for 5G in an over-the-air communications link. So this is all running at 28 gigahertz over the air. So if you look at our system we have our base station emulator E-node B here on the left-hand side and we have our cell phone emulator here on the right-hand side and if I stick my hand in the middle between the transmission you'll see that my signal goes away and my video streaming ends. And this is showing some of the new technology that's being talked about for 5G. New radio is to 5G as LTE is to 4G. So when I say that this is just the new spec that's being proposed and we can show that we get about 10 times more data throughput with this new radio specification as we do for 5G. So if we look at our link throughput we're getting about 2.8 gigabits per second worth of data. And I am streaming this 4K video here but if you look at the 4K throughput we're only using about 10 megabits per second so we're using a very, very small amount of our total data throughput. So that just shows some of the power and potential that 5G has to offer. Hi I'm Shivanshan, engineer at National Instruments. We're here at IMS 2017 where we've just introduced the baseband vector signal transceiver. This is the world's first baseband vector signal transceiver with 1 gigahertz of complex IQ bandwidth. What we're showing here is how you can perform advanced power amplifier test techniques such as envelope tracking and digital pre-distortion using PXI vector signal transceiver and LabView. In the hardware setup I have an RF vector signal transceiver and a PXI baseband vector signal transceiver which can be tightly synchronized with each other to sub nanosecond accuracy. Now the alignment of the RF and baseband signal is a core requirement of envelope tracking test techniques. In addition to that I also have an RF LTE power amplifier with ET and DPD enabled and I'm controlling the power amplifier using NIDP digital pattern instrument and source measurement unit. Now let's take a look at the software. So in the software I can begin with a delay sweep for envelope tracking and what I can do is I can perform a delay sweep where I'm relatively sweeping the RF and baseband signal with respect to each other to figure out the minimum delay at which I'm getting the best EVM and ACP measurements which in this case is around 20 nanoseconds and at that delay I've seen the scope trace that the RF and the baseband signal is tightly synchronized and aligned with each other. In addition to that you can also perform digital pre-distortion because of the 1 GHz instantaneous bandwidth on the RF vector signal transceiver. The centerpiece technology of the conference and microwave industry was 5G. 5G will be available in the next 2 or 3 years and will make microwave communications and thus data transmission over cell phones and devices 10 times faster than they are now. So 5G is definitely worth following. Since these speeds will enable fabulous new functionality we cannot yet even imagine. This functionality will change the way our devices work and that in turn will change the way the world works. Let your imagination fly. The simultaneous editing of documents and video Skype calls of perfect quality and fast enough to enable interactive exchange of data to and from any place in the world this will change the meaning of global communication and collaboration. All in all this was a great conference for the organizers who worked so hard to make it happen for the participants who came and shared their knowledge for the business professionals who networked up a storm and made deals for the convention center and the hotels for the students who can aspire to a new identity in science and engineering and for all of us who may now be able to enjoy a new chapter in a more sustainable economy. Yes we want to bring lots of conferences like this to Hawaii. Not only for them to pay the rent at the convention center in their hotels but to see Hawaii as a hub for science and engineering. It's a natural and a huge opportunity for us. Let's bring more conferences like this to Hawaii to make us famous not only for our hospitality but for our excellence. Let's seize the day. So that's why IMS 2017 is so important. It's a commitment that Hawaii can be and to some extent already is a hub for scientific meetings and deals. It's a new source of revenue and a new reputation for the state. One that will bring many new visitors, companies and investments to our shores. Hawaii, the tech center we have always wanted it to be. Or the automatic radio frequency techniques group conference see a R F T G dot org. Want to know more about microwave transmission and the disruptive new 5G technology that will soon be making its way into cell phones and devices around the world. Just Google 5G and you'll see what we mean. And now let's take a look at our think tech calendar of events going forward. There's so much happening in Hawaii. Sometimes things happen under the radar and we don't hear much about them. But think tech will take you there. Remember you can watch think tech on OC 16 several times every week to stay current on what's happening in government, industry, academia and communities around the islands and the world. 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