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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)
FACULTY & AREAS OF RESEARCH
Name Designation Area of ResearchDr. P.S. Sathidevi Prof. & Head of
the Dept.Digital Signal Processing, Speech & Audio Processing
Dr. Elizabeth Elias Prof. Digital Signal Processing and Speech Processing, Digital Filter Banks
Dr. Lillykutty Jacob Prof. Communication Networks, Protocol Engineering, Performance model and Analysis
Dr. P.C. Subramaniam Prof. Optical Communication, Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos
Dr. G. Abhilash Associate. Prof.
Signal Theory
Mrs. Lyla. B. Das Associate. Prof Digital System Design using VHDL, Embedded Systems, Microprocessors and Microcontrollers
Dr. C.K. Ali Associate. Prof Digital Communication
Mr. R. Suresh Asst. Prof. Communication and Signal Processing
Dr. A.V. Babu Asst. Prof.Communication Engineering, Wireless Networks
Dr. S.M. Sameer Asst. Prof. Wireless Communication Systems, Telecommunication Networks
Dr. Rama Subrahmaniam Asst. Prof. Microelectronics & VLSI
Mr. Jaikumar M.G. Asst. Prof. Microelectronics
Name Designation Area of Research
Dr. Sreelekha.G Asst. Prof. Image & Video Compression
Dr. Deepthi.P.P Asst. Prof. Channel Coding, Cryptography, Multimedia Security
Mr. Dhanaraj K.J Asst. Prof. Analog and Digital Circuits, Digital and Analog IC Design
Mr. V. Sakthivel Asst. Prof. Signal Processing
Mr. Bhuvan B Asst. Prof. Microelectronics & VLSI Design
Mr. Raghu C V Asst. Prof. Electronic System Design
Mrs. Suja K J Asst. Prof. Microelectronics
Mrs. Bindiya T S Asst. Prof. Signal Processing
Mr. Ameer P M Asst. Prof. Communication Networks
Mr. Jayakumar E P Asst. Prof. VLSI Signal Processing
Mr.Sudhish N George Asst. Prof. Signal Processing, Multimedia Security
Dr.Praveen Sankaran Asst. Prof. Statistical pattern analysis, Image processing, Biometrics
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)
Laboratories
MAJOR FACILITIES IN VLSI LABVLSI 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 licensesBlast Create; Blast Fusion; Blast Plan Pro; Blast Noise; Blast Rail; Blast Power; QuartzRC; Quartz Time; Quick Cap
COWARE tool bundle - 5 licensesSignal Processing Designer; Architect and Model Designer; Processor Designer Generic ILibraries
MENTOR GRAPHICS complete EDA tool set - 50 licenses
XILINX tool set - Site licenseISE; ChipScope Pro; EDK; System Generator
FPGA boardsSpartan 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 SYSTEMSFACILITIES IN EMBEDDED SYSTEMS LABLAB
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 SYSTEMSFACILITIES IN EMBEDDED SYSTEMS LABLAB
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
EMBEDDED EMBEDDED SYSTEMSSYSTEMS LABLAB
MAJOR FACILITIES IN TTL RESEARCH MAJOR FACILITIES IN TTL RESEARCH LABLAB
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 LABMAJOR 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 LABPSOC LAB
PSOC LABPSOC 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 LABDST-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
FIST LABFIST LAB
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 MAJOR FACILITIES IN SIGNAL PROCESSING LABPROCESSING 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 LABLAB
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
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 Subramaniam Komaragiri
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
BOOKS ADAPTED
By Smt Lyla B Das
1. Muhammed Ali Mazidi, Janice Gillispice Mazidi, Rolin D McKinlay, THE 8051 MICROCONTROLLER AND EMBEDDED SYSTEMS Using Assembly and C, Pearson Education, August 2008
2. Barry B.Bray, THE INTEL MICROPROCESSORS Architecture, Programming and Interfacing (8th Edition), Pearson Education
3. 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
CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS & PROJECTS
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
1. Design and Implementation of a Wavelet Analyzer using FPGAs
2. Application of Wavelet Analysis in Speech and Audio Compression
3. Implementation of Multirate Systems and Filter Banks using FPGAs
4. Wavelet based Speech Enhancement Techniques for listeners with
Hearing Loss
5. Design and Development of low bit rate real time applications of Multi
rate systems
6. Design and Implementation of Algorithms for Quality of service
provisioning over IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN
7. QoS and Fairness Issues of Wireless LANs, Ministry of
Human Resource (MHRD) India
INTERNALLY FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS
1. Performance Evaluation of Wireless Information Accessing
and Networking Techniques
2. Authentication in Computer Networks
3. Speech coding for low bit rate communication systems
4. Real Time Voice encryptor on a digital signal processor
5. Fingerprint matching
6. FPGA Implementation of Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems
7. Echo Cancellation Using Adapted Filterbank
8. Wavelet based image compression schemes using human
vision system modelling
9. 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
ALUMNI
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SOME NOTABLE ALUMNI 1. Poornima Mohanachandran, Former Director ( TI, B'lore),
Present Director, i to i solutions, B'lore
2. Dr. Chandra Sekhar - Former Faculty, Princeton Unty, USA. Presently Freelance Technical Writer, USA
3. Siby Abraham – Vice President Operations, Telecom & Product Engineering, WIPRO Technologies, Bangalore, INDIA.
4. Karun Menon, Staff Engineer, Microelectronics group, Sun Microsystems, Santa Clara, California, USA.
5. Dr. Mathews Jacob, Asst Professor, Biomedical Engg, Univ of Rochester, USA
6. Dr. Prabhakar Kudva, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
7. BISWAJIT BANERJEE, Co-founder and Director, Tetra Information service Limited, India
8. JAMES THOMAS, Director, Alliances Asia Pacific, Oracle India Private Ltd., India
9. AMIT SURI, Sr Vice President, Olam International Limited, UK
10. DR. AJAY KUMAR PODDAR, Chief Scientist, Research & Development, Synergy Microwave Corp., USA
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SOME NOTABLE ALUMNI (CONTD..)11. DEBASHIS GHOSH, Senior Director, Product
Development, Alcatel-Lucent. USA
12. SUMEET DHAM, Director, Boston Scientific Corporation, USA
13. Sudeep Palat, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS), Alcatel-Lucent, UK
14. Dr. Arvind Swaminathan (Clemson, SC), TI, Dallas
15. Dr. Jayakrishnan C.M (Wisconsin-Madison) Freescale, Austin
16. Dr. Giby Samson (ASU, Phoenix), AMD, Austin
17. Dr. Nandakishore S Postdoc Associate http://cnls.lanl.gov/External/people/Nandakishore_Santhi.php
18. Dr. Ashish Bhargave Research Scientist at Broadata Communications [email protected]
19. Sunil Thamaran - Senior Director of the Asynchronous Memory Business Unit at Cypress
20. Gokul - IAS21. Mr.Raghuraj M. R- IAS