Smart Design is an independent design/consultation operation started in 2001 to explore the opportunity in the area of growing radio integrated circuits applications. The operation is intended to provide the following service to the radio development / manufacture industry

   1/       Provide consultation in the R.F integrated circuits design.

   2/       Take on R.F./radio IC/module design/evaluation project.

   3/       Provide radio integrated circuit solution for the wireless radio systems.

Starting from 2003, Smart Design had been focused on the feasibility of implementing a single chip radio tuner integrated circuit for the newly proposed European DRM digital broadcast system as well as operating as a  traditional AM/FM radio receiver, also with the possibility of extending the design  as an universal tuner integrated circuit for the worldwide terrestrial digital audio broadcast system. 

Chief Designer:                     Kin-wah Kwan

Kin-wah Kwan completed the Ph.D. in Southampton University in 1982. His main research interest was in the area of bipolar integrated circuit design. After a brief period working in the semiconductor manufacturing industry in Hong Kong (82-85, process manager, Elcap Electronics) and design support in university environment (85-88, senior research fellow, Microelectronics Fabrication Center,  Southampton University) , he joined Orbital Mobile  Communication, Basingstoke (88-96) to work in the RF integrated circuit design of the 1st generation of  GSM  handset.  He  was exposed  to  the   fully   integrated   RF transceiver  integrated  circuit  design  of   DECT  European wireless  phone in Pacific Communication System Incooperation, Swindon (96-98). He joined Panasonic UK, Thatcham to carry out system performance study of GSM phone in 1998-2000. Starting from 2001, Kin-wah Kwan works as an independent designer/consultant for radio integrated circuits.