EE Department, I.I.T Bombay

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EE Department, I.I.T Bombay 2002 Current
Activities Strengths
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AIM 2002
Academia Industry Meet 2002, Electrical
Engineering Department

• For us
• To periodically, critically review EE
  departments research
• To present summaries of our work to Academia and
  Industry both in India and abroad and thereby
  invite collaborations, attract visitors, research
  students

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AIM 2002
Academia Industry Meet 2002, Electrical
Engineering Department

• For our Guests
• An opportunity to introduce their
• organizations and the work that they do to
  
• us, our students and other visitors
• A chance to begin collaborations with other
• participants including us.

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AIM 2002
Academia Industry Meet 2002, Electrical
Engineering Department

• The plan for 3 days
• Day 1 (June 22)
• Poster presentations by students in the foyers
• Faculty presentations here (Institute Auditorium)
  summaries of things done and planned

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AIM 2002
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• Day 2 (June 23)
• Visitors presentations meant for general
• audience. (Poster presentations
  continue)
• Day 3 (June 24)
• Informal discussions between participants.

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The Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT
Bombay

• One of the most active in the institute.
• The largest in terms of student strength
• (approximately 320 undergraduates and
• 300 postgraduates)

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Academia Industry Meet 2002, Electrical
Engineering Department
Five main specializations at the post graduate
level

• Communications and Signal Processing
• Control Computing
• Electronic Systems
• Micro Electronics
• Power Electronics and Power Systems.
• Most faculty members in the dept belong to more
  than one specialization
• - cross disciplinary activity being one of the
  main strengths of the dept.

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Communications Signal Processing

• S. Chaudhuri
• U. B. Desai
• S. Dutta Roy
• V. M. Gadre
• A. Karandikar
• G. Kumar
• D. Manjunath

• K.V.V. Murthy
• S.Merchant
• H. Narayanan
• P.C. Pandey
• P. Rao
• S.C. Sahasrabudhe
• G. P.Saraph
• R. K. Shevgaonkar

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Research Areas

• Signal processing
• - Biomedical signal and image processing
• - Speech and Audio Processing
• - DSP (Algorithms HW implementation)
• Computer vision
• Media processing
• Wireless communication
• Antennas and Microwaves
• Communication networks
• Artificial neural networks

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Communication Laboratories

• Antennas and Microwaves
• Fiber Optics
• Communication Electronics
• Information Networks
• SPANN
• Telematics
• TI-DSP

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Funding in Comm. SP

• Funding Over Last 10 years has been
• around Rs 51 mil (5.1 crores)

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Projects from Industry

• Antennas and Microwaves DRDO, AICTE, ARDB, BRNS,
  Hitachi Metals, Aero-Marine, Kleinzaid, ECIL
• Fibre Optics MHRD, AICTE, DOE
• Information Networks DST, MHRD, Tata Infotech,
  Analog Devices, GE, Verifone, TI, Cirrus Logic,
  Switchon
• SPANN Cirrus Logic, Texas Instruments, Tata
  Infotech, CE, Analog Devices, SASKEN, Aquila
• TI-DSP TI, NRB, AICTE

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Laboratory Facilities

• Antennas and Microwaves Vector Network Analyzer,
  Microwave generator, Microwave power meter and
  frequency counter, Antenna pattern measurement
  system
• Fibre OpticsDigital Optical Communication kit,
  Single and Multimode fibre experimental setup,
  Optical Time domain reflectometer
• SPANN 30-strong heterogeneous cluster,laser
  range camera, thermal camera, Bluetooth kit

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Research in Antennas

• Broadband Microstrip Antennas (MSA)
• Circularly Polarized MSA
• Compact and Multi Frequency MSA
• Microstrip Antenna Arrays
• Broadband Antennas
• Microwave Integrated Circuits

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Information Networks Research
Academia Industry Meet 2002, Electrical
Engineering Department

• Teletraffic Modelling
• Multiprotocol Label Switching
• Differentiated Services for Quality of Service
  in Internet
• Multicast for Multimedia over Internet
• Active Networks
• Queueing Models
• High Performance Network Protocols
• Wireless Networks
• Unconventional Algorithms for Packet Routing

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VLSI and Networking

• VLSI design for Packet Classifier and Filters
• Fast Packet Switches
• Convolutional and Turbo Decoders

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Wireless Communication

• Bluetooth and Wireless LAN Design Projects
• Compact and Broadband Antennas
• Wireless Communication Link Set-up
• High Power Microwave Systems Radars

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Control Computing
New Group (2002) Intended to represent theory
computational algorithms within EE The seed is
the present networks control
faculty Judging by present interests of faculty
would be more than half the size of the EE
faculty soon.
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Activities and Interests of Control Computing
Group

• Design of control laws for guidance, active
  vibration control
• Optimal control for satellite orientation and
  control.
• Simulations of large order interconnected
  dynamics for
• various studies such as sensor locations,
  fault and condition
• monitoring, flutter and stability evaluation
  etc.
• Computational aspects of Large scale system
  dynamics
• (eg. eigenvalue and eigenvector computation
  of large
• (million state variables) electrical
  networks
• Partitioning techniques for large system
  problems
• optimization, simulation, sensitivity
  studies.

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Electronic Systems

• New Group (2002)
• Intended to represent System design
  methodologies
• and Hardware implementation within EE
• The seed is the present instrumentation faculty
• Judging by present interests of faculty
• would be more than half the size of the EE
• faculty soon.

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Electronic Systems Current RD Areas
Speech analysis synthesis,enhancement and
encoding Speech processing for adverse
listening conditions Digital measurements and
instrumentation Biomedical instrumentation and
signal processing Instrumentation for
ultrasonic hyperthermia Fluid flow measurement
using ultrasonic techniques.
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Power Electronics Power Systems Group

• M.S.AgarwalV.AgarwalA.N.ChandorkarM.C.Chand
  orkarK.ChatterjeeB.G.FernandesS.A.Khaparde

• A.M.Kulkarni
• S.V.Kulkarni
• K.V.V.Murthy
• H.Narayanan
• S.A.Soman
• V.P.Sundersingh

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Selected Ongoing Projects

• EMI studies
• Induction heating converter design
• 150 kVA DSP-controlled harmonic compensator
• for induction furnaces
• System studies for Indias first thyristor-based
• 400 kV transmission line compensator
• DSP hardware and real-time software for power
• electronics
• High frequency power supply
• Sensorless motor control methods

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Ongoing research activities
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Facilities

• EMI spectrum analyser
• PCs and Sun workstations with system simulation
  software
• Finite Element Modelling software
• Power electronic converter modules
• DSP based control hardware and software for
  power
• electronics
• DSP hardware and software development tools
• Laboratory instrumentation
• Digital storage oscilloscopes, current probes,
  high voltage probes, data acquisition systems

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Microelectronics VLSI at IIT Bombay

• P. R. Apte
• A. N. Chandorkar
• M. P. Desai
• S. Duttagupta
• R. Lal
• S. Mahapatra
• K. V. V. Murthy

• H. Narayanan
• M. B. Patil
• V. Ramgopal Rao
• D. K. Sharma
• J. Vasi

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Areas of R D

• Silicon CMOS physics and technology
• MEMS
• VLSI modelling and simulation
• VLSI design
• VLSI CAD tool development
• Interaction between VLSI technology and design

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Facilities

• Class 1000 clean room
• Excellent characterization facility
• SEM Photoluminescence
• VLSI design workstations
• Simulation workstations
• Intel microelectronics lab
• TCS VLSI design lab

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Sponsored Projects

• Over 40 projects since 1985 totaling Rs. 150
  million
• Projects cover all areas of Microelectronics
  VLSI
• Projects from major government agencies, and
• leading Indian international companies

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Some Ongoing Projects Physics Technology

• Microfabricated silicon sensors (MHRD)
• Silicon sensors for electrophoration (Praman
  Technology)
• Characterization of SiGe HBTs (DST)
• Characterization of vertical MOS transistors
  (Siemens)

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Some Ongoing Projects Modeling Simulation

• Development of a hot-carrier simulator (Motorola)
• Modeling of power semiconductor devices (GE)
• RF MOSFET Models (IME, Singapore)
• Oxide scaling effects on design issues (Intel)

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Some Ongoing Projects VLSI Design CAD Tools

• Interconnect capacitance extraction by Monte
  Carlo (Intel)
• Parallel simulation of large circuits (500,000
  nodes) (NRB)
• Combinatorial optimization by transformation into
  circuit problems (DST,NRB)
• High-speed comparator design (TII)
• Design issues with high-k dielectrics (Intel)
• VLSI Design training (MIT, TCS)

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Industry Collaborations

• Projects with Indian industry TCS,BEL, ITI,
  SASKEN, TI, Cypress, ControlNet, etc
• Projects with international industry Intel,
  Motorola, GE, Siemens, National, NTT, Sun
• Industry sponsorship of students
• Continuing Education Programs for industry

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Custom IC Designs

• Design of Analog, Digital, RF (Radio Frequency)
  and Mixed-Signal chips.
• Design of basic OP AMP blocks to complex high
  frequency Phase Locked Loop (PLL) and low noise
  front-ends of Radio Frequency systems.
• A high-speed comparator design has been
  successfully transferred to industry and a new,
  very fast Analog Viterbi Decorder is being
  designed for industry.
• FLOATING POINT FOURIER-TRANSFORM CHIP

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Technology

• Extensive study on radiation hard Technologies
• Facilities to fabricate and characterize
  Integrated Circuits

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Sensors MEMS

• Current Focus Areas
• Ion Sensitive Field Effect Transistors
• (expertise with the electrolyte-insulator-semico
  nductor systems)
• Cantilever Structures for Bio-MEMS
• Microfluidic structures for single cell
  electrophoration and capillary electrophoresis

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Continuing Education Programmes by EE Dept.

• We can offer in-house training programmes in
  practically all areas of Electrical Engineering
  including
• Communication Networks, DSP, Antennas and
  microwaves, Speech Processing,
• VLSI Design, Nanotechnology, CAD Tools, MEMS,
  Embedded Systems, Emerging Technologies, etc.

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Our alumni have remembered us !
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Girish Gaitonde Lecture Hall Complex will be
ready by December 2002 Donor Girish Gaitonde
(83 BTech, EE) From Jan 2003, this complex will
host the EE dept office all EE classes (total
strength more than 700).
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Wadhwani Electronics Laboratories Donor Ramesh
Wadhwani (69 BTech,EE) This was inaugurated in
early 2000 and includes all undergraduate
Electronic Labs, Design Project Labs and some
research Labs. This occupies more than half the
area of the 3rd floor of the EE dept building and
has equipments ranging from work-horse type to
highly sophisticated. Throughout the year, more
than 800 students use these labs.
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Prof L.R.Gadre Wireless Complex Donor A.M.Gadre
('84 B.Tech,EE) Inauguration Later this
year. Will include within it the Antennas and
uWaves Lab, SPANN lab and the DSP lab.
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Industrial Partnerships
TCS TCS sponsors 20 Masters students every year
in the LSI/Embedded Systems area Has funded the
TCS laboratory for VLSI activity Intel Has
funded and continues to equip the Intel
Laboratory for VLSI activity TI Has funded the
TI DSP lab
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Future

• Strengthen the PhD programme
• Have a strong visitor programme
• Encourage entrepreneurship
• Have more collaborations with
• industry and government organizations

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• PhD programme
• Presently (35 resident,45 external)
• Raise to (130 resident,80 external)
• Admission requirement
• - should be outstanding, basic degree in
  science.
• (willing to scout all over the
  country
• -talent hunting is fun!)

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PhD students

• Treat them well
• Good work space - we have it now!
• Exposure to the world
• Exchange programmes with other universities,
• industries all over the world
• A strong visitor programme (researchers from
• all over the world staying with us, weeks to
  
• several months)

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A strong visitor programme

• 15 visitors at any given time
• Phd students of Senior
  research
• other universities workers
• Academics Practitioners from
  
• 
  industry/RD
• 
  organizations
• Rule - Excellence interaction with our faculty

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Entrepreneurship

• The curriculum would encourage technological
• entrepreneurship
• Design projects taken to product level
  completion
• Dual Degree,M.Tech,B.Tech projects can aim
• towards entrepreneural goals.

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New Partnerships

• We are looking for more partners from industry
  and government organizations
• We can
• train, act as consultants, take up their
  
• research projects in return for funding of our
  
• research programmes

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The Promise

• We will cherish teaching and academic values
• We will reach out
• We will look far ahead
• We will value silence also in the midst of
  clamour.