4. Name Designation Area of Research
Dr. 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,
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. TOTAL NUMBER OF PUBLICATIONS
Journal : 105
Conference: 170
TOTAL NUMBER OF Ph.Ds AWARDED
16
NUMBER OF ONGOING Ph.Ds
19 + 6 (Internal PT)
14. MAJOR FACILITIES IN TTLMAJOR FACILITIES IN TTL
RESEARCH LABRESEARCH 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
15. 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
17. 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
18. 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
20. 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)
21. MAJOR FACILITIES IN SIGNALMAJOR 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
22.
23. 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
25. 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
27. 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.
28. 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
30. 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.
31. 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
33. CONFERENCE CONDUCTED
2011 International Conference on
Communication and Signal Processing (ICCSP
2011), NIT Calicut, India, 10-12 February 2011
34. 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
35. 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
36. 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
37. 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
38. 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
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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 - IAS
21. Mr.Raghuraj M. R- IAS