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Wireless@Virginia Tech SWIM VLSI for Telecommunications The Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science at Virginia Tech supports and promotes cutting- edge research at the intersection of engineering, science, and medicine. Please visit www.ictas.vt.edu. “Our imagination, not the technology, is the only limit in VLSI.” Technical Approach We combine expertise in circuit and system design to create a broad research framework for low power VLSI design. Broad knowledge and ample experience of Wireless@Virginia Tech in wireless system design is a distinctive advantage of the Center, which can be exploited for low power design at the system and architec- tural levels. We also investigate integration of digital circuits into analog/mixed signal and RF circuits, where digital circuits can assist in the reduction of the power for those circuits. The Need for Research Development of low-power circuit and system design is essential for current and future wireless devices. Virtually all wire- less devices include digital, analog/mixed signal and RF circuits, and hence low power design should target all of those circuits. The main focus of the VTVT Group is to address the technical needs. Wireless@Virginia Tech is an ICTAS Center of Excellence. Vision Advancement of Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) technologies is the driving force for next generation wireless communications. Every generation of VLSI technology offers a new opportunity for more powerful and smaller wireless devices, but it also poses a technical challenge to curb ever growing power consumption. Low power VLSI design for wireless devices will remain as a critical research need for future wireless communication devices. Mission Wireless@Virginia Tech’s VLSI for Telecommunications Group’s mission is to develop innovative low-power VLSI designs for industry and academia, while providing a high caliber educational experience for graduate and undergraduate students pursuing careers in VLSI design. Our goal is to become a nationally renowned group in VLSI for wire- less com¬munications through quality publications and sponsored research, and the VTVT group is striving toward the goal through hard work and dedication.
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VLSI for Telecommunications
The Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science at Virginia Tech supports and promotes cutting-edge research at the intersection of engineering, science, and medicine. Please visit www.ictas.vt.edu.
“Our imagination, not the technology, is the only limit in VLSI.”
Technical Approach
We combine expertise in circuit and system design to create a broad research framework for low power VLSI design. Broad knowledge and ample experience of Wireless@Virginia Tech in wireless system design is a distinctive advantage of the Center, which can be exploited for low power design at the system and architec-tural levels. We also investigate integration of digital circuits into analog/mixed signal and RF circuits, where digital circuits can assist in the reduction of the power for those circuits.
The Need for Research
Development of low-power circuit and system design is essential for current and future wireless devices. Virtually all wire-less devices include digital, analog/mixed signal and RF circuits, and hence low power design should target all of those circuits. The main focus of the VTVT Group is to address the technical needs.
Wireless@Virginia Tech is an ICTAS Center of Excellence.
VisionAdvancement of Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) technologies is the driving force for next generation wireless communications. Every generation of VLSI technology offers a new opportunity for more powerful and smaller wireless devices, but it also poses a technical challenge to curb ever growing power consumption. Low power VLSI design for wireless devices will remain as a critical research need for future wireless communication devices.
MissionWireless@Virginia Tech’s VLSI for Telecommunications Group’s mission is to develop innovative low-power VLSI designs for industry and academia, while providing a high caliber educational experience for graduate and undergraduate students pursuing careers in VLSI design. Our goal is to become a nationally renowned group in VLSI for wire-less com¬munications through quality publications and sponsored research, and the VTVT group is striving toward the goal through hard work and dedication.
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Contact
Dong S. HaProfessor
302 Whittemore HallBradley Department of Electrical and Computer EngineeringVirginia TechBlacksburg, VA 24061Office: (540) 231-4942 [email protected]
www.wireless.vt.edu
Areas of Research
Analog, mixed-signal and RF circuit design
Low-power VLSI system and circuit design
Low-power application specific microcontroller units
Power-line communications for vehicles, ships and airplanes
Power conditioning circuits for energy harvesting
Ultra wideband (UWB) circuits
Wireless body area networks
Wireless sensor nodes for structural health monitoring
VLSI circuit design limited only by the imagination.
Using state-of-the-art fabrication to bring our imagination into reality.
A prototype for wireless sensor nodes for structural health monitoring
