This course is day 4 of the LTE and HSPA Evolution: System Design and Operation  course, and can be taken on its own or as part of the 5-day course.
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• The mobile phone chipset designer’s working environment
  • 2G/ 3G mobile phone hardware evolutions and features
• Description of UMTS transceiver architectures
• HSPA Transmitter design challenges:
  • Adjacent Channel Leakage Ratio (ACLR), output power, power consumption trade-off
• HSPA Receiver design challenges:
  • Receiver sensitivity in full duplex systems
  • Adjacent Channel Selectivity (ACS) test cases
• Talk time and battery technology trends in 3G phones
  • Benchmarking of current solutions
  • Power consumption estimates
  • Improvements with discontinuous transmission and reception (continuous packet connectivity CPC)
• The design constraints of the Multi-Mode, Multi-Band (MM-MB) mobile phone
  • Co-existence issues in MM-MB phones
  • Victims and aggressors in MM-MB phones
  • Design challenges in removing external SAW filters in MM-MB phones
• Some LTE RF design challenges
  • LTE reference sensitivity
  • LTE ADC & ACS requirements
  • Some frequency band specific challenges.