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Prepared by:Eng. Hossam El-Sayed

2011


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This Presentation gives a simple introduction to theRecent areas of research in the field of Electrical

Engineering with the concentration on the Circuits

and VLSI branch. The Major topics of Research I interest in will also

introduce.


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Areas of Research in Electrical Engineering Major University and its Research Areas

Circuits and VLSI Research topics Open Discussion


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Concerned with the development and manufacture ofprostheses, medical devices, diagnostic devices, drugs,and other therapies.

It includes a mixture of electrical engineering, physics,chemistry and biology, with an emphasis onneurophysiology at the molecular and cellular levels.


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Communications engineering and information theoryare interested in the efficient representation andreliable transmission and/or storage of information.

Signal processing and systems theory is concernedwith theoretical developments that improve ourunderstanding of communication, control, andinformation processing.


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Research activities in computer systems are exploredat various design levels, including VLSI, circuit, logic,microarchitecture, system, and network

architectures. The research addresses aspects of high performance,

low power, mobility, security, and reliability incomputer systems -- including parallel processing,

multiprocessing, embedded systems, and distributednetwork processing architectures.
http://ecee.colorado.edu/research/pictures/comp_board.jpg


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Control techniques are used whenever some quantity,such as speed, temperature, or force must be made tobehave in some desirable way over time.

Dynamics and controls group, research opportunitiesinclude developing controllers for aircraft, spacecraft,information storage systems, human-machine interfaces,manufacturing processes, and power systems.


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The research program in applied electromagneticscovers a variety of topics that address currentcommercial, civil, and military needs.

Interests include active circuits and antennas forcommunications and radar, theoretical and numericaltechniques for analysis of high-frequency circuits andantennas, RF photonics, artificial electromagnetic

materials, electromagnetic remote sensing, etc.


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this field is concerned with design, fabrication andcharacterization of novel materials and devices withsub-micron feature sizes.

The design and fabrication of devices and integratedcircuits are inextricably related to device physics,solid-state materials, and sophisticated processingtechniques.


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The research in optics and photonics deals with thedesign, fabrication, and characterization of materials,devices and systems for the generation, transmission,

amplification, detection, and processing of lightsignals.

These are enabling and pervasive technologiesapplied in fields like communications, sensing, bio-

medical instrumentation, consumer electronics, anddefense.


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Research in VLSI/CAD works toward developing newalgorithms and design methodologies to efficientlydesign VLSI ICs.

VLSI Design: Circuits to speed up on-chip data transfers,alleviate on-chip cross-talk, extreme low power circuits,circuits for low leakage power.

VLSI Design Automation: logic synthesis, layout

synthesis, design automation of datapath circuits,hierarchical logic synthesis, fast delay estimationtechniques for VLSI ICs.


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Harvard University

Computer Engineering and Architecture

Circuits and VLSI Signal Processing

Robotics and Control


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MIT

Systems, Communication, Control and Signal

Processing Computer Science

Electronics, Computers, and Systems

Engineering Physics


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Stanford

Systems Software: OS, compilers, languages

Systems Hardware: architecture, VLSI, embeddedsystems

Network Systems and Science: next gen internet,wireless networks

Communication Systems: wireless, optical, wireline Control, Learning, and Optimization

Integrated Circuit design: MEMs, sensors, analog, RF

For other research areashttp://ee.stanford.edu/research_areas.php
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Stanford


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Pittsburgh Computer engineering

Devices (electronic and optical) Signals and systems (signal processing, image

processing, pattern recognition, and control)

http://www.engr2.pitt.edu/electrical/research/index.html
http://www.engr2.pitt.edu/electrical/research/index.html


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University of Colorado

Biomedical Engineering

Communications and Signal Processing Computer Engineering

Dynamics and Controls

Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves Nanostructures and Devices

VLSI/CAD


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University of Ottawa University of Pennsylvania

University of Chicago University of Toronto California Institute of Technology University of California, Berkeley University of UCLA


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VLSI architectures and algorithms for signal processingand communications, computer arithmetic andreconfigurable architectures.

Circuits and Systems for Signal Processing andCommunications:

This activity involves developing VLSI algorithms,architectures and circuits for digital signal processing,

image processing and wireless communications. Examples: ADPLL, reconfigurable radio, low power digital

filters, low power video decoding for mobile digital videoplatforms, etc.


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Reconfigurable Digital Systems:

Involves design and development of reconfigurablehardware that is suitable for DSP, multimedia applications,

Rapid prototyping of wireless communication systems andsensor network platform .

Reprogrammable Logic / FPGAs

High Speed Digital Design

Interconnect & Packaging


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