Electronic Design Automation

New developments in the field of electronics continue to appear at a dramatic rate. An immense amount of processing power can be provided by tiny microprocessor chips.

Electronics, and in particular microprocessors are having an impact on our everday lives. Intelligent control systems and entertainment systems are becoming an ever increasing part of our everyday lives, in the office and factory, at home and with our leisure.

Areas addressed in this course include distributed control systems, fuzzy systems, neural networks, signal processing, image processing, advanced computer architecture and hardware, parallel computing and instrumentation.

 

Research

The Department supports modern electronic design automation (EDA) methodologies. The computing resources of the Department support the lastest industry standard and hardware EDA software tools for efficient implementation of complex digital systems. These facilities provide the opportunity for research students to bring theory and concepts together for the efficient demonstration and visualisation of their research activities. This is particularly pertinent in the areas of communications, hardware signal processing and signal processing systems.

The staff members whose research interests lie in this area are;

Prof John Devlin, Professor
BE(Elec) Melb , PhD La Trobe.

Performance studies of digital communication satellite links. Switching and control of SSTDMA systems. Dynamic protocol formats to improve intergration with terrestial networks. Satellite communication gateways. Channel quality of HF communication links. Design of microwave circuits for satellite applications. Antennas and receiver for satellite communication. Mobile communication via satelite. Microwave. Digital receiver design, HF receivers and data transmission, frequency synthesis techniques, high linearity phase receivers. Radar systems: HF radar systems (SuperDARN): HF ionospheric phased array backscatter, real time systems design, data storage, transmission and analysis techniques. Microwave ultra wideband Chirp radars, non invasive testing and imaging, microwave ISAR systems.

Mr Jim whittington, Senior Lecturer
BSc(Hons) La Trobe , MEng La Trobe.

Safety & Intelligent Vehicle Systems - AUTOCRC (www.autocrc.com) Digital Radar Development (www.tiger.latrobe.edu.au) Development of DSP hardware in FPGAs for advanced communication and control applications..

 

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