PhD

Smart Systems and Energy Technology

• DNA analysis with a nanopore
• Reconfigurable biosensor arrays
• 3D-SOC integration by stacking heterogeneous IC technologies
• Technology aware design research
• Analog and RF circuit design for 45nm CMOS Cognitive Radio t
• CMOS design for mm-wave applications
• Cognitive radio processor architecture and platform
• Cognitive radio functionality
• Miniaturized Hyperspectral Vision System for the Embedded Do
• Multi-View Video
• Run-time resource management for dynamic Embedded Software
• Solar Cell Technology
• Organic electronics
• Wireless autonomous transducer solutions
• Ultra-high frequency communication with thin-film oxide elec

Cognitive radio processor architecture and platform

To realize the dream of Ambient Intelligence, there is a need for higher communication data rates and more efficient usage of the specturm.This has necessitated the need for Cognitive Radio and Software Defined Radio. The CRAFT or Coginitive Radio Architecture and Functionality Team is a cross disciplinary team which bridges the gap from funtionality down to technology. The main objective of our group is to build digital flexible processor architectures and platform solutions to enable a cost-efficient implementation of Cognitive Radio and Software Defined Radio. However to address this digital architecture problem two key issues need to be kept in mind: technology and functionality to reach a high performance and low energy consumption. The CRAFT team researches on scalable, flexible and low power processor architectures for such a software defined radio platform.

Responsible scientists: Praveen Raghavan, Liesbet Van der Perre