Research and Development Projects
In order to make the teaching and research to be industrially relevant and to meet their requirements, a number of research and development projects have been carried out by the department. The list of these projects are given below:
Sponsored Projects
| S. No. | Project Title | Funding (in Lakhs) | Funding Agency | Duration (From-To) | PI &Co-PI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Technology Incubation and Development of Enterpreneurs (TIDE) in the Areas of Electronics & ICT – CEDI | 155 | Deity | 2015 – Till | Dr B Venkataramani Dr G Lakshminarayanan |
| 2 | Centre for SoC Design and Fabrication | 188.5 | Mr. Raj Shanmugaraj Alumnus – 1979 Batch | 2022-2026 | Dr. G. Lakshminarayanan Head Members: Dr.P.Muthuchidambaranathan Dr.M.Bhaskar Dr.B.Rebekka Dr.R.Thilagavathy Dr.R.K.Kavitha Dr.Varun P.Gopi |
| 3 | Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence (ML/AI) Hardware/Software Framework for Vyomnoids | 49.55 | Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) | 2022-2025 | Dr. Varun P. Gopi Dr G. Lakshminarayanan |
| 4 | Deep Learning-Based Reconfigurable and Multifunctional Nanophotonic Interconnects for Hyperscale Data Centers and 6G Backhaul Networks | 25.13 | CRG, SERB-DST | 2022-2025 | Dr. G. Thavasi Raja Dr. D. Sriram Kumar |
| 5 | Orthogonal Time Frequency Space Modulation based Index Modulation for 6G Communication Systems | 16.06 | SERB | 2022-2024 | Dr. P. Maheswaran |
| 6 | Design and development of a millimeter wave based road condition detection radar for automotive application | 58 | SERB | 2021-2023. | Dr. Sriram Kumar |
| 7 | Modeling and Simulation of Multigate In Sb/AlInSb based High Electron Mobility Transistors (HEMTs) for 5G Applications | 18 | SERB | 2020-2023 | Dr. Sriram Kumar |
| 8 | Design of Digital Signal Processor using SCL foundry | 12.8 | RESPOND, ISRO-STIC | 2021- 2023 | Dr. G. Lakshminarayanan |
| 9 | Self-Energised UAV-assisted Communications for 5G Wireless Networks | 73.23 | MHRD-SPARC | 2019-2023 | Dr.P.Muthuchidambaranathan Dr.G.Lakshminarayanan Dr.G.Thavasi Raja |
| 10 | Efficient Modulation Format Recognition and Optical Performance Monitoring for Intelligent Management of Future Optical Communication Networks | 50.21 | SERB, DST | 2019 - 2023 | Dr. R.K. Jeyachitra |
| 11 | Design and development of MIMO-GFDM systems for 5G eMBB services | 20.88 | SERB, DST | 2019 -2023 | Dr.V.Sudha |
| 12 | Design of Substrate Integrated Waveguide Band Pass Filter for Ku Band Applications | 10.32 | CSIR-HRDG (Extra Mural Research Division) – SRF Direct category | 2021-2023 | - Dr.N.Gunavathi (Project Supervisor) |
| 13 | Performance Analysis of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces in High Altitude Platform Stations with Orthogonal Time Frequency and Space | 10 | SEED Grant, NIT-Trichy | 2021-2023 | Dr. P. Maheswaran Dr. P. Sudharsan |
| 14 | Design and Development of Low-Cost Planar Broadband Antennas | 4.4 | SEED Grant, NIT-Trichy | 2021-2023 | Dr. Hemant Kumar |
| 15 | Design and Development of Ferrite Dielectric Based Microstrip Isolator for X –Band Application | 32.09 | ISRO | 2021-2023 | Dr. S S Karthikeyan Dr N.Gunavathi |
| 16 | Design and Development of X-band & Ka-band Passive Device | 16.15 | ISRO- STIC | 2020-2023 | Dr.R.Pandeeswari Dr. S. Deivalakshmi Dr G Thavasi Raja Dr S S Karthikeyan |
| 17 | Development of Dense Deployable Massive MIMO antenna systems for 5G Wireless Communications with reduced correlation / Mutual Coupling | 21.74 | DST – SERB | 2019-2022 | Dr D Sriram kumar Dr P Gunavathi |
| 18 | Performance Analysis and Characterization of Si/ZnO Heterojunction diode as Pressure Sensor | 18.30 | TARE – SERB | 2019-2022 | Dr D Sriram Kumar |
| 19 | Design and development of a dual band RF Energy Harvester for Wireless Sensor Networks using Aerosol Jetting Technology | 53.06 | DST-IMPRINT | 2019-2022 | Dr S S Karthikeyan |
| 20 | Development of 3D printed Wearable Button Antenna for Soldier Performance Monitoring Applications | 50.53 | DST-IMPRINT | 2019-2022 | Dr S S Karthikeyan |
| 21 | Development of Efficient Traffic Monitoring Analytics & Under Vehicle Scanning Inspection System | 40.0 | VANDI TECHNOLOGIES PTE LIMITED SINGAPORE | 2019-2022 | Dr P Palanisamy Dr Varun P Gopi |
| 22 | Automated Prediction of Aizherimer’s disease from Optical Coherence Tomography Images of Retina using artificial Intelligence | 19.48 | SERB | 2019-2022 | Dr Varun P Gopi |
| 23 | Hunting representative sensors and constructing regression model between sensor outcomes using ML | 19.82068 | DRDO, GTRE | 4-02-2021 to 3-8-2022 | Dr.E.S.Gopi |
| 24 | LC Band Pass Filter for Space Technology | 48.44 | ISRO (Space Technology Incubation Center) | 2021-2022 | Dr. S S Karthikeyan Dr.N.Gunavathi |
| 25 | 4D Trajectory-based Air Traffic Flow Management System using System Wide Information Management (4DADFMS) | 11.5 | Airport Authority of India | 2020-2022 | Dr. P. Palanisamy Dr. Varun P. Gopi |
| 26 | Analysis of aerial intelligent reflecting surfaces for application in 6G wireless systems | 10 | Shastri Indo Canadian Institute (SICI) | 2020-2022 | Dr.P.Sudharsan |
| 27 | Metamaterial – Based Low Profile LTCC Balanced Antipodal Vivaldi Antenna for 5G eMBB | 48.6 | SPARC-MHRD | 2019-2021 | Dr R Pandeeswari Dr V Sudha Dr S Deivalakshmi |
| 28 | Self-Energised UAV-assisted Communications for 5G Wireless Networks | 73.23 | SPARC-MHRD | 2019-2021 | Dr P Muthuchidambaranathan Dr G Lakshminarayanan Dr G Thavasi Raja |
| 29 | Adaptive Telemetry System for Launch Vehicle – demonstration of Proof of Concept | 23.66 | ISRO – RESPOND | 2018-2021 | Dr G Lakshminarayanan |
| 30 | In depth investigation on corrosion and tribological studies on expandable engine | 98.84 | DRDO | 2018-2021 | Dr G Lakshminarayanan |
| 31 | Energy efficient implementation of Multi-modular Exponential techniques for Public-key Cryptosystems | 35.0 | DST | 2018-2021 | Dr G Lakshminarayanan |
| 32 | Networked airborne base stations for disaster management | 10.8 | DST | 15.06.2017 to 15.06.2020 | Dr.P.Muthuchidambaranathan |
| 33 | Highly Compact Very Large Mode-Area Hybrid Multi-Trench Optical Fiber for High-Power Industrial Lasing Applications | 20.89 | SERB | 2017-2020 | Dr G Thavasi Raja Dr D Sriram Kumar |
| 34 | Full Duplex and Cognitive Radio Architectures for Spectrally Efficient Communications | 107 | UGC – UKIERI | 2017-2020 | Dr G Lakshminarayanan Dr B Venkataramani |
| 35 | Management of entities in a distributed NFV marketplace using Blockchain | 6 | INTEL | 2018-2019 | Dr B.Malarkodi Dr.B.Rebekka Dr N.Gunavathi |
| 36 | Special Manpower Development Program for Chips to System Design (SMDP-C2SD) | 79.76 | Meity | 2014-2019 | Dr B Venkataramani Dr M Bhaskar Dr G Lakshminarayanan |
| 37 | Design & Implementation of Digital Modules of On Chip Speech Recognition System | - | Meity | 2014-2019 | Dr G Lakshminarayanan |
| 38 | Wireless transceiver for low data rate applications (Institute Project) | - | Meity | 2014-2019 | Dr M Bhaskar |
| 39 | Wireless System Design laboratory | 60.0 | FIST/DST | 2012-2017 | Dr G Lakshminarayanan Dr P Muthuchidambaranathan Dr B Venkataramani |
| 40 | Design & Implementation of baseband modules for wireless sensor networks | 3.2 | BROADCOMM FOUNDATION USA | 2015-2017 | Dr B Venkataramani |
| 41 | Design and Implementation of Low power analog front end modules for Wireless Sensor Networks | 39.0 | Deity | 2012-2015 | Dr B Venkataramani Dr M Bhaskar |
| 42 | Low Complexity Energy efficient Transceiver for Cognitive Radio System | 34.0 | UKIERI | 2012-2014 | Dr G Lakshminarayanan |
| 43 | Partner for the project on Rural and Remote Ubiquitous Broadband Wireless Access | 34.0 | UKIERI | 2012-2014 | Dr G Lakshminarayanan |
| 44 | Embedded systems development using Intel atom 56XX processor | 3.6 | Intel-Bangalore | 2011-2012 | Dr B Venkataramani |
| 45 | Development of signal processing systems for core temperature measurements | 15.0 | IGCAR, Kalpakkam | 2009-2011 | Dr B Venkataramani |
| 46 | Special Manpower Development Program for VLSI (SMDP-II) | 109 | DeitY | 2006-2011 | Dr B Venkataramani Dr G Lakshminarayanan |
| 47 | Design and Implementation of MB-OFDM UWB Transceiver Modules using Asynchronous Pipelining | 33.5 | MeitY | 2008 - 2011 | Dr. G. Lakshminarayanan Dr.B.Venkataramani |
| 48 | Optimization Techniques for the FPGA implementation of Software Defined Radio | 19.2 | DST | 2006-2009 | Dr B Venkataramani Dr M Bhaskar |
| 49 | SOC based target recognition system | 11.64 | DST | 2005-2007 | Dr B Venkataramani |
| 50 | RF MEMS component (Reconfigurable Antenna) | 11.0 | MHRD | 2004-2007 | Dr D Sriram Kumar Dr S Raghavan |
| 51 | Design of FPGA based Polyphase Coded Waveform Generator | 2.5 | LRDE, Ministry of Defence, Bangalore | 2003-2004 | Dr B Venkataramani |
| 52 | Design & Analysis of FPGA based wave pipelined structures for DSP applications | 25.0 | MeitY | 2001-2003 | Dr B Venkataramani |
| 53 | Setting up VLSI laboratory | 6 | MHRD, New Delhi | 2000-2002 | Dr.B.Venkataramani |
| 54 | Development of Optimal Passive Tracking Algorithms for Multiple Maneouvering Targets | 9.99 | Naval Research Board Govt. of India | 3 Years and 6 Months (Mar 1998 - Sept. 2001) | |
| 55 | Development of Active Beam forming and Passive DOA Estimation for a Fast | 9.99 | Department of Electronics, Govt. Of India & Naval Science Technological Lab (NTSL), Visakapatnam | 3 Years (Mar 1998 - Sept 2001) | |
| 56 | Digital library | 8 | AICTE, New Delhi | 1998-2000 | Dr.B.Venkataramani |
| 57 | Telematics Laboratory | 11.00 | AICTE, New Delhi | 2 Years (1995-1997) | Dr.B.Venkataramani |
| 58 | Sonar Echo and Signal Processor Simulators | 10.00 | Department of Electronics, Govt. Of India | 2 Years (Oct 1992 - Dec 1994) | |
| 59 | Bearing Estimation and Source Identification using High Resolution Spectral Estimation Techniques | 7.00 | Department of Electronics, Govt. Of India | 4 Years (May 1985 - June 1989) |
Consultancy Projects
| S. No. | Project Title | Funding (in Lakhs) | Funding Agency | Duration (From-To) | PI &Co-PI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Algorithmic Approach to Achieve Maximum Functional Coverage Using Constrained Random Verification Platform | 2.7 | MAXVY Technologies Pvt Ltd, Bangalore | 2020 -2022 | Dr. G. Lakshminarayanan |
| 2 | Development of AI Based Weapon Logistics Module | 38.00 (Earned:2.5) | Ministry of Defense, Government of India | 20/02/2020 to 31/12/2021 | Dr. S. Devilakshmi |
| 3 | Design of FPGA-Based Polyphase coded RADAR waveform generator | 2.5 | Electronics and RADAR Development Establishment (LRDE) | 2003-2004 | Dr.B.Venkataramani |
| 4 | Analysis and Design of Coplanar Waveguide filters | 7.00 | AICTE | 2 Years (from Dec 1999) | |
| 5 | Equalizers for Wireless Communication | 0.80 | Hello Soft Inc., Hyderabad | One Year (July 2000 - Jul 2001) | |
| 6 | Development of Voice Activity Detection and comfort noise Generation for 7xx Audio codes | 0.40 | Hello Soft Inc., Hyderabad | 6 Months (Nov 1999 - Mar 2000) | |
| 7 | Passive Synthetic Aperture Sonar | 18.00 | Naval Physical & Oceanographis Lab, Kochi | 3 Years (Aug 1994 - July 1997) | |
| 8 | Sonar Signal Synthesis for Active and Passive Sonar | 10.00 | Naval Physical & Oceanographis Lab, Kochi | 2 Years (Aug. 1992 - July 1994) | |
| 9 | Sonar System Simulation | 22.55 | Naval Physical & Oceanographis Lab, Kochi | 3 Years (May 1989 - July 1992) |