Staff profile

Professor John C Devlin

Head of Department of Electronic Engineering, Professor

Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering

School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
Department of Electronic Engineering

Beth Gleeson Building, Room 434, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BE UMELB., PhD LaTrobe.

Area of study

Electronic Engineering

Brief Profile

The research interests of Professor Devlin lie in the area of Communications  and 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.

Research interests

Communications

- Channel of HF communication links.

- Digital receiver design, HF receivers.

- Dynamic protocol formats to improve integration with terrestial networks.

- HF radar systems: 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.

- Microwave.

- Performance studies of digital communication satellite links.

- Radar and data transmission, frequency synthesis techniques, high linearity phase receivers.

- Satellite communication gateways.

- Switching and control of SSTDMA systems.

Teaching Units

ELE2MDD - Microprocessor and Digital Design

ELE3EMB - Embedded Processors

ELE4RFD - Radio Frequency Design

ELE4ATB - Advanced Topics B

ELE5NDE - Network Design Exercise