Ephraim Zehavi received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion), in Haifa, Israel, in 1977 and 1981, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1986. In 1985 he joined QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA, where he was involved in the design and development of satellite communication systems, and VLSI design of Viterbi decoder chips. From 1988 to 1992 he was a faculty member at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and also was a consultant for Qualcomm on CDMA technology. In 1992 he rejoined QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego. California as a Principal Engineer, where he was involved in the design of PCS CDMA systems. In 19