Description
Electronic Circuits and Systems (ECS) in the ECE Department is a division of study which involves the analysis, design and synthesis of electronic circuits and systems, with emphasis on analog and digital integrated circuits, Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) systems, Digital Signal Processing (DSP) implementation, and multiprocessor algorithms and architectures.
ECS includes the following areas: analog, digital, and microwave electronic circuits and systems, parallel and multiprocessor computing, electronic neural networks and associative memories, VLSI and Algorithmic or Application-specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) design, Microwave and Millimeter Wave Integrated Circuits (MMIC), Ultra-High Speed Integrated Circuits and Devices (UHSIC), algorithms and architectures for signal processing, asynchronous circuits and systems, high-speed HBT based technology for digital communication electronics, computer arithmetic and numerial analysis of finite word length processors, fault-tolerant VLSI systems, design for testability Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) of DSP and communications systems.
The ECS faculty participate in the NSF sponsored Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) in Ultra-High-Speed Integrated Circuits and Systems (ICAS) resident at UCSD's ECE Department.
The research facilities include VLSI and CAE design laboratories with modern computer workstations and the latest in CAD tools. Hardware platforms include HP and Sun Unix Workstations, Macintosh, and IBM-PC Microcomputers. A variety of both commercial (Mentor, Cadence, Synopsis, Comdisco, etc.) and academic software are available. Supporting hardware such as PostScript and Imagen laser printers, HP color pen plotters and a Calcomp color electrostatic plotter are used for output, while a variety of electronic instrumentation equipment (HP, Tektronix, etc.) are available for hardware testing. Specialized DSP boards in tandem with personal computers are used for signal processing.
Affiliated Faculty
| (research group: High Speed Devices Group ) | |
| (research group: Mobile Embedded System Design and Test Laboratory) | |
| (research group: Center for Wireless Communications) | |
| (research group: Radio Freqency Integrated Circuit Research) | |
