Clint will discuss how students can benefit from completing relevant circuit designs using state of the art technologies. Further, proven solutions utilizing FPGA-based trainers, ranging from entry to graduate level, will be presented, together with examples illustrating how easy it is for professors to adopt and students to design, simulate, and implement all types of digital circuits using FPGA-based platforms.

Model-Based Design is changing how systems as diverse as automobiles, cellphones, robots, washing machines, and wind turbines are developed. Mathematical models, formerly the province of research, are now used to analyze, design, implement, and test these increasingly complex systems, addressing the competitive need to innovate while reducing development costs and time-to-market. In education, these same approaches are providing students with a stronger systems perspective, while enabling more engaging and hands-on learning. This talk discusses the increasingly important role of Model-Based Design in educational instruction, research, and industry.

There's no need to wait. Start designing today! AWR is gifting to all new 2010 engineering graduates a free one-year license of its high-frequency design software, which includes its popular Microwave Office® software for MMIC, RF PCB, and module design, as well as Visual System Simulator^TM for communication system design.

How do we grow America' innovation capabilities despite dwindling funds for laboratory equipment? Pool several engineering departments' resources to create fewer but far better, more adaptable laboratories that teach students broader skills. Systems have simply become too complex for engineers to work alone, or for students to study a single subject without wider context. Cross-disciplinary problem solving dependencies mandate collaboration by sharing space and resources. Find out how educators can captivate more engineering students with cutting edge equipment and hands-on learning in a multi-disciplinary lab that is shared by several engineering departments.

Using Agilent's Nonlinear Vector Network Analyzer (NVNA) measurement capabilities, active-device designers can accurately measure and model nonlinear device characteristics, providing measurements such as calibrated amplitude and cross-frequency phase of frequency spectrum, vector corrected time domain waveforms, X-parameters, and pulse multi-envelope domain for analysis of long term memory effects.