DEPARTMENT OF

ELECTRONICS &
COMMUNICATION
ENGINEERING

National Institute of Technology

Calicut

DEPARTMENT PROFILE

B. Tech. in ECE (1980) - under EED

ECE Department formation in 1997-

M. Tech.
Electronics

Design & Technology (2001): Intake 21

Microelectronics

& VLSI Design (2006):

Telecommunication
Signal

Intake : 153

(2008) : Intake 14

Processing (2008) : Intake 14

Ph.D (Full Time, QIP and Part Time)(2002)

Intake 21

FACULTY
& AREAS OF RESEARCH

Name

Designation

Area of Research

Dr. P.S. Sathidevi

Prof. & Head

Digital Signal Processing, Speech &

Dr. Elizabeth Elias

of the Dept.
Prof.

Audio Processing
Digital Signal Processing and Speech

Prof.

Processing, Digital Filter Banks

Communication Networks, Protocol

Dr. Lillykutty Jacob

Engineering, Performance model and

Prof.

Analysis
Optical Communication, Nonlinear

Dr. G. Abhilash

Associate.

Dynamics and Chaos

Signal Theory

Mrs. Lyla. B. Das

Prof.
Associate.

Digital System Design using VHDL,

Prof

Embedded Systems, Microprocessors

Dr. C.K. Ali

Associate.

and Microcontrollers
Digital Communication

Mr. R. Suresh

Prof
Asst. Prof.

Communication and Signal

Dr. A.V. Babu

Asst. Prof.

Processing
Communication
Engineering,
Wireless Networks

Dr. S.M. Sameer

Asst. Prof.

Wireless Communication Systems,

Dr. Rama Subrahmaniam

Asst. Prof.

Telecommunication Networks
Microelectronics & VLSI

Mr. Jaikumar M.G.

Asst. Prof.

Dr. P.C. Subramaniam

Microelectronics

Name

Designation

Area of Research

Dr. Sreelekha.G

Asst. Prof.

Dr. Deepthi.P.P

Asst. Prof.

Channel Coding, Cryptography,

Asst. Prof.

Multimedia Security
Analog and Digital Circuits,

Mr. V. Sakthivel

Asst. Prof.

Digital and Analog IC Design

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

Mr. Dhanaraj K.J

Image & Video Compression

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 gainbandwidth 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 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 licenses
Blast Create; Blast Fusion; Blast Plan Pro; Blast Noise; Blast Rail; Blast Power;
QuartzRC; Quartz Time; Quick Cap

COWARE tool bundle - 5 licenses

Signal Processing Designer; Architect and Model Designer; Processor Designer Generic I
Libraries

MENTOR GRAPHICS complete EDA tool set - 50 licenses

XILINX tool set - Site license

ISE; ChipScope Pro; EDK; System Generator

FPGA boards

Spartan 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 SYSTEMS LAB

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 SYSTEMS

LAB
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
SYSTEMS LAB

MAJOR FACILITIES IN TTL

RESEARCH 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

MAJOR 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 LAB

PSOC LAB

Jointly developed by Cypress Semiconductors and ECED, NITC

Facilities
PSoCEVAL1
PsoC3

Evaluation board

First Touch Kit

Project-specific
PC

kits

workstations

Software packages :
PSoC

Designer 5.0

PSoC

Creator

DST-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 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
- COVENTORWARE (MEMS design)
- Intellisuite (MEMS Process simulation)

campus)

MAJOR FACILITIES IN SIGNAL

PROCESSING 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 Devices DSP Starter Kit for BF533

Texas Instruments DSK6713 Kit.

Audio Evaluation Module - TI DSP based

High End Workstations

Arbitrary Waveform Generators

80 MHz Oscilloscopes

MAJOR FACILITIES COMMUNICATION

LAB

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 Coefficients 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

in PCRAM

Local

voltage improvement of the array access thyristor

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 MicroprocessorsArchitecture ,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

SOME NOTABLE ALUMNI

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

8.
9.
10.

Poornima Mohanachandran, Former Director ( TI, B'lore),

Present Director, i to i solutions, B'lore

Dr. Chandra Sekhar - Former Faculty, Princeton Unty, USA.

Presently Freelance Technical Writer, USA

Siby Abraham Vice President Operations, Telecom & Product

Engineering, WIPRO Technologies, Bangalore, INDIA.
Karun Menon, Staff Engineer, Microelectronics group, Sun
Microsystems, Santa Clara, California, USA.

Dr. Mathews Jacob, Asst Professor, Biomedical Engg, Univ of

Rochester, USA

Dr. Prabhakar Kudva, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA

BISWAJIT BANERJEE, Co-founder and Director, Tetra
Information service Limited, India

JAMES THOMAS, Director, Alliances Asia Pacific, Oracle India

Private Ltd., India

AMIT SURI, Sr Vice President, Olam International Limited, UK

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

Sunil Thamaran - Senior Director of the Asynchronous

Memory Business Unit at Cypress
20. Gokul - IAS
21. Mr.Raghuraj M. R- IAS
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19.