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Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering. National Institute of Technology Calicut. DEPARTMENT PROFILE. B. Tech. in ECE (1980) - under EED ECE Department formation in 1997- Intake : 153 M. Tech. Electronics Design & Technology (2001): Intake 21
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Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering National Institute of Technology Calicut
DEPARTMENT PROFILE • B. Tech. in ECE (1980) - under EED • ECE Department formation in 1997- Intake : 153 • M. Tech. • Electronics Design & Technology (2001): Intake 21 • Microelectronics & VLSI Design (2006): Intake 21 • Telecommunication (2008) : Intake 14 • Signal Processing (2008) : Intake 14 • Ph.D (Full Time, QIP and Part Time)(2002)
MAJOR AREAS OF RESEARCH • Image Coding – Image compression using HVS models • Secure Communication – Design of Hardware efficient Secure communication systems • Speech Recognition – Audio-visual speech recognition • Bio-signal Analysis – Analysis of epileptic spikes in EEG signals etc. • Filter banks/Multi-wavelets – Theory & Construction • Wireless LAN, Mesh Networks, Sensor Networks – QoS, Security, Cross-layer design, Localization • Semiconductor Device Modeling – quantum modeling of nanoscale MOSFETs
MAJOR AREAS OF RESEARCH • High-speed /low power Digital Logic Design – Adiabatic logic, asynchronous design • Mixed signal circuit design – 24 bit ADC with low OSR. • Analog IC design – Opamps for large slew rate and large gain-bandwidth product with low noise • RF circuit design – LNA design, MOS distributed amplifiers, integration of AF components on RF ICs. • Multicarrier and MIMO communication systems • Synchronization and Channel Estimation issues in wireless systems
TOTAL NUMBER OF PUBLICATIONS • Journal : 105 • Conference: 170 • TOTAL NUMBER OF Ph.Ds AWARDED • 16 • NUMBER OF ONGOING Ph.Ds • 19 + 6 (Internal PT)
MAJOR FACILITIES IN VLSI LAB • CADENCE tool bundle - 10 licenses • Full custom/Analog/Mixed signal/RF IC design flow; Formal verification; • HDL based design flow; DFM and DFT/ATPG • SYNOPSYS complete SOC tool bundle - 5 licenses • MAGMA tool set - 5 licenses • Blast Create; Blast Fusion; Blast Plan Pro; Blast Noise; Blast Rail; Blast Power; • QuartzRC; Quartz Time; Quick Cap • COWARE tool bundle - 5 licenses • Signal Processing Designer; Architect and Model Designer; Processor Designer Generic I • Libraries • MENTOR GRAPHICS complete EDA tool set - 50 licenses • XILINX tool set - Site license • ISE; ChipScope Pro; EDK; System Generator • FPGA boards • Spartan 3E starter kit; Virtex – II Pro boards; Virtex – 4 boards • Tanner EDA tool set - 2 licenses • SYNOPSYS T CAD device, process and mixed mode simulation tool -3 licenses
Facilities in Embedded SystemsLab • VIRTEX – 4: Processor NO. XC4VLX25 • VIRTEX – II PRO: DSP Development kit ; Processor NO. 2V4000 – 4; Release version 0102; MULTIPRO; MICROBLAZE & MULTIMEDIA Demonstration board; XC2V2000 • ALTERA NIOS: STRATIX II EP2S60 FPGA; Complete EMBEDDED Development suit; DDR , SD RAM; 32 BIT PIC MEZZANINE Connector • ALTERA SLS DEVELOPMENT BOARD (UP3): Processor CYCLONE EP1C6/EP1C12 FPGA; 16 X 2 Character LCD Module; BYTE BLASTER II cable; RS 232 serial cable; SLS Software • ALTERA DSP DEVELOPMENT KIT: Processor STRATIS; STRAT II EP2S60 FPGA • XILINX ISE EMBEDDED DEVELOPMENT KIT: VIRTEX 4; VIRTEX 2PRO; VIRTEX 2; SPARTAN 3; SPARTAN 3E; MICROBLAZE; CHIP Scope pro; Modelsim; ISE Software package • PROJECT KIT: 80C186 , 80C196; 89C51 Development kit; PIC Development kit; ARM Development kit Supplied by TRIOZTECH
Facilities in Embedded SystemsLab • ROBOTIC KIT • FIREBIRD III – MOBILE ROBOT PLATFORM: ATMEGA 16 L 128 MICROCONTROLLER (With full accessories) • SPARK III ROBOTIC RESEARCH PLATFORM: 8952 ROBOTICS (With full accessories) Supplied by NEX Robotics IIT BOMBAY • VX WORK STATION ( with full accessories ) • TORNADO • MATHEMATICA 5 • UNIVERSAL PROGRAMMER: SUPERPROIII (parallel) Supporting 3000 ICs; SUPERPRO 280U(USB) Supporting 30000 ICs • ADDON CARD: 89C51 CPU; 8 Bit ADC; 8 Bit DAC; Stepper Motor Driver; Stepper Motor Controller; 8255 Interface card; HEX Keyboard; 12V Stepper Motor; Torque 3 Kg • SUPPORTING ACCESSORIES: Digital CRO (Yokogawa) - Model No.1620 - 200MHZ; Digital Storage Oscilloscope - 200MHZ - TDS 2022B 2 Channel
MAJOR FACILITIES IN TTL RESEARCH LAB • MATLAB Software, Simulink and Tool Boxes • MICA (Crossbow) Hardware Platforms for Wireless Sensor Network Testbed • 802.11g APs, PDAs, Cisco Routers, etc for Network Testbed • High End Desktop Computers
MAJOR FACILITIES IN SPCOM LAB • Hardware • Desktop PCs/ workstations – 14 Nos • Texas Instruments DSP Kits – 7 Nos • 100 MHz Oscilloscopes - 7 Nos • Function Generators- 7 Nos • Power Supplies - 7 Nos • Software • Matlab • Latex for document preparation • Code Composer Studio for programming with TI DSPs • TI DSP tools
PSoC Lab Jointly developed by Cypress Semiconductors and ECED, NITC Facilities PSoCEVAL1 Evaluation board PsoC3 First Touch Kit Project-specific kits PC workstations Software packages : PSoC Designer 5.0 PSoC Creator
DST-FIST LAB Sponsored by Department of Science and Technology Facilities HP make DL385G5 Rack Servers: 2 Nos TelosB mote – 10 Nos Easy Sen Wireless Sensor Nodes -10 NI IF Transceiver kit- 1 HP make XW 4550 Professional Work- stations: 19 Nos RF Circuit Simulation Software Sonnet EM module Network Simulation Software (NS2) OPNET MATLAB Computing environment
SIMULATION LAB • 40 node simulation with multiple OS environments • MEMS Design Facility (under NPMASS Programme) - COMSOL (multi-physics) simulation 40 number (networked, available on entire campus) - COVENTORWARE (MEMS design) - Intellisuite (MEMS Process simulation)
MAJOR FACILITIES IN SIGNAL PROCESSING LAB • Software Tools: • MATLAB • LAB VIEW • Multisim (Circuit simulation software) • CCS (code Composer Studio for programming with TI DSPs) • VisualDSP++ for programming with ADSPs • Hardware: • Analog Device’s DSP Starter Kit for BF533 • Texas Instrument’s DSK6713 Kit. • Audio Evaluation Module - TI DSP based • High End Workstations • Arbitrary Waveform Generators • 80 MHz Oscilloscopes
Major Facilities – Communication Lab • Arbitrary waveform generators-80MHz • Synthesised AM/FM signal generators-1GHz • AM/FM generators-2 channel-25 MHz • Digital osciloscopes-500MHz • Function generators-10 MHz • Desk top computer-printer • Microwave bench with Klystron and Gunn oscillator • Microwave communication system with all types of antennas • Optical communication kits • Logical analysers • Oscilloscopes • Matlab software, Simulink and tool boxes • DSP kits
Electronic Work shop, Electronic Circuits and Linear Integrated Circuit Labs
Electronic Work shop, Electronic Circuits and Linear Integrated Circuit Labs Facilities: Trainer Kits/Discrete Components Oscilloscope Function Generator Power supply Multimeter Soldering station etc. Major Activities Conducting labs as part of B.Tech curriculum
PATENTS FILED • Sameer S. M. and Thafasal Ijyas V. P., “A Method for Determining Jointly the Carrier Frequency Offset (CFO), Timing Offset, and Channel Co-efficients in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) Uplink Wireless Communication System”. Indian Patent Application No.2819/CHE/2011 dated 18-08-2011. • Sameer S. M. and R. V. Raja Kumar, "A low complexity bandwidth efficient carrier frequency offset estimation technique for OFDMA uplink transmissions," US Patent Application No. 12/550087 dated 28 August 2009 and Indian Patent Application No.1503/KOL/2008 dated 29 August 2008. • S. M. Sameer and R. V. Raja Kumar, "An efficient system and method for carrier frequency offset estimation and correction for MIMO-OFDM system," PCT Application No. : PCT Application No. PCT/IN2009/000246 dated 22 April 2009 and Indian Patent Application No. 762/KOL/2008 dated 23 April 2008.
PATENTS FILED • By Rama SubramaniamKomaragiri • Floating body 4F2 memory cell • Breakdown voltage improvement of the array access thyristor in PCRAM • Local SOI isolation by lateral oxidation • Novel Isolation scheme for array isolation in well by ion implantation • Retention time improvements and write performance improvement in capacitor less DRAM technologies • Improvement of off state leakage current and sub-VT characteristics in surface channel MOSFET by reducing parasitic BJT leakages • Introduction of recombination centres to improve the leakage current performance in the array access device in PCRAM cell
BOOKS ADAPTED • By SmtLyla B Das • Muhammed Ali Mazidi, Janice GillispiceMazidi, Rolin D McKinlay, THE 8051 MICROCONTROLLER AND EMBEDDED SYSTEMS Using Assembly and C, Pearson Education, August 2008 • Barry B.Bray, THE INTEL MICROPROCESSORS Architecture, Programming and Interfacing (8th Edition), Pearson Education • A.V. Babu and Lillykutty Jacob, Maximizing Aggregate Saturation Throughput in IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN with Service Differentiation, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) on Distributed Computing and Networking, Vol. 4904, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, pp 503-514, 2008.
BOOK PUBLISHED • Ms. Lyla B.Das “The x86 Microprocessors- Architecture ,Programming and Interfacing (8086 to Pentium)” Publishers: Pearson Education , India, 2010 ISBN : 978-81-317-3246-5
CONFERENCE CONDUCTED • 2011 International Conference on Communication and Signal Processing (ICCSP 2011), NIT Calicut, India, 10-12 February 2011
RECENT SHORT-TERM COURSES/WORKSHOPS CONDUCTED • Faculty Development Program on “VLSI and Embedded System”, 15-28 June 2008, Ramkumar & Raghu C.V • AICTE Staff Development Program on “Cryptography and Embedded System”, 11-23 June 2007, Deepthi P.P & Sathidevi P.S • STTP on “Nanoelectronics - Physics & technology”, 8 -13 May 2006, P C Subramaniam. • AICTE Sponsored Faculty Development Programme on Analog IC Design during June 2009, P.C. Subramaniam & Bhuvan.B. • AICTE Sponsored Faculty Development Programme on Advances in Wireless Communication and Networking during June 2009, Sameer.S. M & A.V. Babu • Faculty Development Programme on Advanced Microprocessors and Microcontrollers, 12th – 17th July 2010 - Ms. Lyla B. Das
RECENT SHORT-TERM COURSES/WORKSHOPS CONDUCTED • MHRD sponsored Faculty Development Program on "Advances in Wireless Communications and Networking Technologies" during 13 to 24 June 2011 - Dr. A.V. Babu, Dr. Sameer S.M., • 1-week FDP on Advances in VLSI Technology: May 2011 - Dr. Rama Komaragiri • AICTE Sponsored FDP on Advanced Digital Signal Processing, June 28- July 9 2010: - Dr. Sreelekha G., Dr. Deepthi P.P. • AICTE sponsored SDP on ‘Nanoelectronics’. 10th to 21st May 2010 - Dr. Rama Komaragiri & B. Bhuvan • Technical workshop on VLSI Design July 16th & 17th 2010, - Dr.Elizabeth Elias & B.Bhuvan • 2 day workshop on Programmable System On Chip (PSOC) training : June 2010. :Dr. Rama Komaragiri • National Workshop on CMOS Analog Circuit Design during 12-13 November 2011 under SMDP-II project and IEEE Malabar.: Dr.Sameer S.M., B.Bhuvan • 2 days Workshop on LABVIEW by National Instruments Ltd. At NIT Calicut, during 12-13 November 2011 : Dr. Lillykutty Jacob
MHRD - SPONSORED PROJECTS • Design and Implementation of a Wavelet Analyzer using FPGAs • Application of Wavelet Analysis in Speech and Audio Compression • Implementation of Multirate Systems and Filter Banks using FPGAs • Wavelet based Speech Enhancement Techniques for listeners with Hearing Loss • Design and Development of low bit rate real time applications of Multi rate systems • Design and Implementation of Algorithms for Quality of service provisioning over IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN • QoS and Fairness Issues of Wireless LANs, Ministry of Human Resource (MHRD) India
INTERNALLY FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS • Performance Evaluation of Wireless Information Accessing and Networking Techniques • Authentication in Computer Networks • Speech coding for low bit rate communication systems • Real Time Voice encryptor on a digital signal processor • Fingerprint matching • FPGA Implementation of Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems • Echo Cancellation Using Adapted Filterbank • Wavelet based image compression schemes using human vision system modelling • Power semiconductor device optimization
RESEARCH PROJECTS • DST-FIST - Strengthening Post Graduate Teaching and Research in the Department, Department of Science & Technology (DST), Rs. 43.70 Lakh, 2008-2013 • SMDPII for VLSI (Dept of Info Tech) : Rs. 100 lakhs • MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems) and MOEMS (Micro Opto Electro Mechanical Systems) through NPMASS
Some Notable Alumni • PoornimaMohanachandran, Former Director ( TI, B'lore), Present Director, i to i solutions, B'lore • Dr. Chandra Sekhar - Former Faculty, Princeton Unty, USA. Presently Freelance Technical Writer, USA • Siby Abraham – Vice President Operations, Telecom & Product Engineering, WIPRO Technologies, Bangalore, INDIA. • Karun Menon, Staff Engineer, Microelectronics group, Sun Microsystems, Santa Clara, California, USA. • Dr. Mathews Jacob, Asst Professor, Biomedical Engg, Univ of Rochester, USA • Dr. PrabhakarKudva, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA • BISWAJIT BANERJEE, Co-founder and Director, Tetra Information service Limited, India • JAMES THOMAS, Director, Alliances Asia Pacific, Oracle India Private Ltd., India • AMIT SURI, Sr Vice President, Olam International Limited, UK • DR. AJAY KUMAR PODDAR, Chief Scientist, Research & Development, Synergy Microwave Corp., USA
Some Notable Alumni (Contd..) • DEBASHIS GHOSH, Senior Director, Product Development, Alcatel-Lucent. USA • SUMEET DHAM, Director, Boston Scientific Corporation, USA • Sudeep Palat, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS), Alcatel-Lucent, UK • Dr. Arvind Swaminathan (Clemson, SC), TI, Dallas • Dr. Jayakrishnan C.M (Wisconsin-Madison) Freescale, Austin • Dr. Giby Samson (ASU, Phoenix), AMD, Austin • Dr. Nandakishore S Postdoc Associate http://cnls.lanl.gov/External/people/Nandakishore_Santhi.php • Dr. Ashish Bhargave Research Scientist at Broadata Communications Ashish.Bhargave@gmail.com • Sunil Thamaran - Senior Director of the Asynchronous Memory Business Unit at Cypress • Gokul - IAS • Mr.Raghuraj M. R- IAS