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 Ashish.Bhargave@gmail.com

19. Sunil Thamaran - Senior Director of the Asynchronous Memory Business Unit at Cypress

20. Gokul - IAS21. Mr.Raghuraj M. R- IAS