Expertise

 

     Radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) designs
     Monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) designs
     Digital, analog and mixed signal integrated circuit (IC) designs

Specialties

 

     VLSI circuits for digital, analog and mixed-signal applications
     RFIC designs for wireless and radar applications
     Ultra-high frequency synthesis
     Analog and mixed signal built-in self-test (BIST)

   For details visit Auburn RFIC Design and Testing Laboratory and other centers:
      Alabama Microelectronics Science and Technology Center (AMSTC)
      Wireless Engineering Research and Education Center (WEREC)
      Wireless Internet Center for Advanced Technology (WICAT)
      Center for Advanced Vehicle Electronics (CAVE)





Applications

 

  Wireless, Wire-line, Radar and Satellite Applications

Research Funding

 

  Multi-million-dollar research contracts on integrated circuit designs sponsored by   National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), US Army Research Lab (ARL), National Science Foundation (NSF), US Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) and other government and industrial funding agents.


Industrial Experiences

 

      Hughes Network Systems
     Analog and digital application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for wireless and
     satellite communication system, leading role in frequency synthesizer IC designs
     for broadband communications.


    YAFO Networks Inc.
     Leading role in high-speed IC designs for OC-192 10Gb/s and OC-768 40Gb/s  
     fiber communications.


     Cognio Inc. (Acquired by Cisco Systems)
     RFIC design for wireless local area networks (WLAN), leading role in frequency
     synthesizer IC designs for integrated WLAN transceivers.

Book and Book Chapters


Green Flower2
Integrated Circuit Design for High-Speed Frequency Synthesis

ARTECH HOUSE PUBLISHERS, INC. February 2006.
ISBN: 1-58053-982-3
Green Flower2 Chapter 15 Frequency Synthesis for Multi-band Wireless Networks

Wireless Technologies: Circuits, Systems and Devices

CRC Press, October 2007.
ISBN:978-0849379963
Green Flower2 Chapter 15 Analog and Mixed-Signal Test Architectures

System-on-Chip Test Architectures: Nanometer Design for Testability

Morgan Kaufmann, November, 2007.
ISBN: 978-0-12-373973-5