Staff profile

Mr Jim S Whittington

Senior Lecturer

Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering

School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
Department of Electronic Engineering
Cooperative Research Centre for Advanced Automotive Technology

Beth Gleeson Building, Room 436, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BSc Hons, MEng LaTrobe.

Membership of professional Associations

IEEE

Area of study

Electronic Engineering

Brief Profile

Research interests include:

Development of digital systems and techniques for communication, HF radar, automotive safety and control applications. This particularly includes the real-time hardware implementation of digital signal processing structures in FPGA technologies.

Research interests

Communications

- Digital Radar Systems

Electronic design automation

- Smart Hardware and Applications

Teaching Units

ELE3DDE - Electronic Design Automation-Tools and Techniques

ELE4ADD - Advanced Digital Systems Design

ELE4EPA - Engineering Project

ELE4EPB - Engineering Project

ELE5DSD - Digital Systems Design

ELE5MPA - Electronic Engineering Major Project (Masters)

ELE5MPB - Electronic Engineering Major Project (Masters)

ELE5SEL - Special Elective in Microelectronic Engineering

Recent Publications

Salim, T., Devlin J., Whittington J., “FPGA Implementation of a Phased Array DBF using Distributed Arithmetic Method” Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Optimization: Techniques and Applications (ICOTA), pp 91-96, 2005. (E1)

Salim, T., Devlin J., Whittington J., “A Modified Word Serial Bit Parallel Algorithm for FPGA Implementation of Digital Ionospheric Radar” Proceedings of the Asia Pacific Microwave Conference, 2005. (E1)

Salim T, Devlin J, Whittington J, Bhatti I “An Efficient Serial Distributed Arithmetic Algorithm for FPGA Implementation of Digital Upconversion” Complexity, Vol. 18, pp 24-29, 2005. (C1)

Parkinson, M., Devlin J., Whittington J., “Why Do We Need “Digidarn” – A Global Network Of Digital  SuperDARN Radars?” WARS06 (Workshop on Applications of Radio Science) Proceedings, (Ed. P. Wilkinson) National Committee for Radio Science, Australian Academy of  Science,  2006 (E1)

Salim, T., Devlin J., Whittington J., “High Resolution Timing Vector for FPGA Implementation of a Phased Array DBF”, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation 2006 (E1)

Salim, T., Devlin J., Whittington J., “Quantization Analysis for Reconfigurable Phased Array Beamforming”, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation 2006 (E1)

Whittington J., and Devlin J., “A High Performance Digital Radar for Extended Space Weather Investigations”, Proceedings of the Australian Institute of Physics 17th National Congress 2006 (E1)

Gill, T, Devlin, J & Whittington, J (2007) 'A Symbol Synchronization Algorithm for PCC OFDM Systems', M.H. Hamza (ed(s)), Communication Systems and Networks, Phuket, Thailand, 02/04/2007, ACTA Press, http://www.actapress.com, pp.6-10 (E1).

 Whittington, J., Devlin, J., Waters, C. (Editors) Proceedings of the International SuperDARN Workshop and Annual Meeting 2008, La Trobe University, 2008.

J. Whittington, K. Deo, T. Kleinschmidt, and M. Mason, “FPGA implementation of spectral subtraction for in-car speech enhancement and recognition,” Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems, December 2008 (E1).

H, Ye, J. Whittington, I. Himawan, T. Kleinschmidt, and M. Mason, “FPGA Implementation of Dual-Microphone Delay-and-Sum Beamforming for In-Car Speech Enhancement and Recognition” Proceedings of the 2009 AutoCRC Technical Conference, March 2009 (E1).

N. Vu., Ye, H., Whittington J., Devlin, J. and Mason M., “Speech Enhancement and Recognition Front-End Design Using a Novel Small Footprint DFT” Proceedings of the 2009 AutoCRC Technical Conference, March 2009 (E1).

J. Whittington, K. Deo, T. Kleinschmidt, and M. Mason, “FPGA Implementation of Spectral Subtraction for Automotive Speech Recognition” Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Vehicles and Vehicular Systems (CIVVS 2009), April 2009, pp. 72-79. (E1).

N. Vu, H. Ye, J. Whittington, J. Devlin, and M. Mason, “Small Footprint Implementation of Dual-Microphone Delay-and-Sum Beamforming for In-Car Speech Enhancement” Proceedings 2010 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Dallas, USA, 14-19 March, 2010, pp.1482-1485. (E1)

N. Vu, J. Whittington, H. Ye, and J. Devlin, “Implementation of the MFCC Front-End for Low-Cost Speech Recognition” Proceedings 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Paris, France, 30 May-2 June, 2010, pp. 2334-2337. (E1)

 J. Whittington, H. Ye, K. Kamalakkannan, K., N. V. Vu, M. Mason,  T. Kleinschmidt, and S. Sridharan, “Low-cost hardware speech enhancement for improved speech recognition in automotive environments” In Proc. 24th Australian Road Research Board (ARRB) conference, Melbourne 12-15 October, 2010, pp. 1-16. (E1)

Research projects

TIGER - Tasman International Geospace Environment Radars (www.tiger.latrobe.edu.au)

AUTOCRC - Cooperative Research Centre for Advanced Automotive Technology (www.autocrc.com)