About

RFIC Design Ideas is a blog run by the creative engineering folks from Kaben Wireless Silicon Inc. And no, this is not meant to be yet another commercial pitch for goods or services! Rather, here is where we share our views, thoughts and comments related to our daily work in wireless semiconductor design. It is meant to be our little engineering playground where we invite like minded folks to voice your ideas, participate, and comment. There will be several authors posting but the ones that you will see most often are:

Mr. Tom Riley, CTO and Founder

Mr. Riley is the Chief Technical Officer at KABEN which he founded in 2000. He has over twenty years of experience, in academia and industry, in analog and mixed-signal IC design with emphasis on wireless applications. As a co-inventor of the fractional-N Delta-Sigma synthesizer, his research helped drive industry wide adoption of this type of frequency synthesis. He also invented a novel advanced filtering technique known as Sampled IF (SIF) which is suitable for widespread adoption, especially in reconfigurable radio front ends. He has published over fifteen papers in the integrated circuits field. He is a prolific inventor and holds many patents in the area of mixed-signal RF design.

Tom’s past career positions include a variety of R&D and advanced engineering functions with companies such as Nortel Semiconductor, Mitel Semiconductor, Gennum, CAL, Conexant (formerly Philsar Semiconductor) and as a research engineer with Carleton University.

Dr. Jim Wight, Chief Scientist

Dr. Wight is an authority in wireless systems, in particular in OFDM based standards such as WiFi and WiMax, in MIMO techniques, and in phase-locked synchronizers. Previously, Dr. Wight has acted as Chief Architect and Co-Founder of AlleWin Technologies, a DSP innovator of MIMO techniques, Principal Architect and Co-Founder of IceFyre Semiconductor, a fabless provider of high performance WiFi RF solutions, and Senior Radio Architect for Philsar Electronics, a fabless innovator of Bluetooth transceivers.

Before migrating to the wireless industry, Dr. Wight held senior positions in several aerospace corporations, including Spread Spectrum Program Manager for CAL Corporation and EMS, and Special Advisor of Advanced Technology for Vistar Aerospace.

At Carleton University in Ottawa, Dr. Wight holds the distinguished title and position of Chancellor’s Professor.