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Research activities in the Electronics Group cover the areas of basic materials research, integrated circuit technology, integrated circuit/semiconductor device design, analog and digital circuit design, circuit theory, filter design, VLSI design and applications, optical signal processors, electronic instrumentation, and biomedical electronics.

Research Areas

  • Integrated Circuit Design
    • Analog and digital design including adaptive filtering
    • Integrated digital communication circuits for wired and wireless applications
    • Data converters including oversampling techniques
    • High-voltage integrated circuits
    • RF and high-speed circuits

  • Signal Processors
    • VLSI circuits and systems for personal communication systems
    • Digital signal processing ICs
    • Optical signal processors and architectures

  • VLSI Systems
    • Analog and digital field-programmable array architectures
    • Computer-aided design of circuits and systems
    • High Performance processor and memory architectures

Research Facilities
  • Networked SPARC 10 and UltraSPARC workstations
  • Analog facilities and digital IC test facilities to GHz frequencies
  • Commercial computer-aided design software for device, circuit and systems design
  • Microfabrication laboratory for device and process technology development
  • Optoelectronics laboratories for device design, simulation and measurement
  • Acousto-optic laboratories for development of optical signal processors
  • Materials laboratory for the study of amorphous Si and III-V compounds, and nanofabrication
  • Sensors laboratory for developement and testing of instrumentation in manufacturing.
  • RF/MMIC laboratory for simulation, design and characterization of high-speed/high frequency circuits up to 60 GHz.

Professors in the Electronics Group

 K. Martin
B.A.Sc. (Toronto), M.A.Sc. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Toronto)
Professor; Stanley Ho Professorship of Microelectronics, Chair, Electronics Group
Integrated circuits for signal processing and data communications in CMOS, BiCMOS, and MESFET and HBT GaAs; adaptive digital signal processing; digital filter-banks; audio processing.

K. Phang
B.A.Sc.(Toronto), M.A.Sc.(Toronto), Ph.D.(Toronto)
Assistant Professor
Analog integrated circuits, adaptive signal processing, optical communications systems, and circuit theory.

R. Genov

P.G. Gulak
B.A.Sc.(Windsor), M.Sc.(Manitoba), Ph.D.(Manitoba)
Professor
VLSI design; computer architecture; memory design; ATM switch design; parallel algorithms; VLSI in signal processing and digital communcations.

D.A. Johns
B.A.Sc. (Toronto), M.A.Sc. (Toronto), Ph.D.(Toronto)
Associate Professor
Adaptive filters; analog integrated circuits; intergrated circuits for digital communications.

A.S. Sedra
B.Sc.(Cairo), M.A.Sc.(Toronto), Ph.D.(Toronto), F.I.E.E.E., P.Eng.
Professor, Provost and University Vice-President
Circuit theory; active, passive and digital filters; switched-capacitor circuits; VLSI in signal processing.

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