Professor Eddie Ball

School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Professor of Radio Frequency Engineering

UKRI Future Leaders Fellow (2021-2028)

Eddie Ball
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e.a.ball@sheffield.ac.uk
Sir Frederick Mappin Building

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Professor Eddie Ball
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Sir Frederick Mappin Building
Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD
Profile

I am a Professor in RF Engineering, in the Communications Research Group.

Prior to starting at The University of Sheffield in 2015, my career has been as a practising RF Engineer in industry:-

  • Tunstall Healthcare Ltd (Principal RF Engineer & Radio System Architect) 2011-2015
  • Cambridge Consultants Ltd (Principal RF Engineer, in Wireless Business Unit) 1996 - 2011

My industrial expertise is in building innovative, bespoke, wireless systems that require a balanced and holistic view of RF / Digital / DSP / Protocol aspects to achieve best partitioning for performance vs cost trade-off. I am experienced in adapting COTS radio protocols and creating bespoke protocols.

I am particularly experienced and passionate about hardware design, for both high volume and low volume manufacture.

My reach extends from the pre-specification creation process, through all theoretical aspects of RF design, to the practical lab bench development and field test; all core to the creation of a mass producible item. I’m also experienced at talent identification and selection for developing high capability teams.

Research interests
  • Novel RF circuit design
  • Novel RF system design, including DSP and Software Defined Radio
  • Novel applications of RF and radio technology (including non-communications applications)
  • Future IoT radios
  • Millimetre wavelength radios
  • RF MMIC and RF SiGe design
Publications

Journal articles

Conference proceedings

Professional activities and memberships
  • SMIEE
  • MIET
Other responsibilities
  • Theme Lead for Electromagnetics, Wireless Hardware & RF Devices. 
  • Director of UKRI National mmWave Measurement Facility.
     

Links

Information and Communications Engineering  EPSRC Millimetre Wave Measurement Laboratory   Future Millimetre Wave RF Transceiver Architectures for Communications Systems …