Month: January 2018

Arjuna Madanayake and Viduneth Ariyarathna attended DARPA Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) Proposer’s Day on the mm-wave digital arrays (MIDAS) program.

A poster titled “Analog Approximate-FFT Multibeam Algorithms, Architectures and Space-Time Noise Shaping Circuits for mmW Arrays” was presented. Co-authors include Arjuna Madanayake, Viduneth Ariyarathna, Nilan Udayanga, Diego Coelho (University of Calgary), Leonid Belostotski (University of Calgary), Renato Cintra (UFPE), Soumyajit Mandal (CWRU), Jifu Liang (CWRU), Yingying Wang (CWRU) and Vishal Saxena (University of Idaho).

Two papers have been accepted for publication at IEEE 2018 International Microwave Symposium (IMS).

1. An 8-Beam 2.4 GHz Digital Array Receiver Based on a Fast Multiplierless Spatial DFT Approximation, Vitor Countinho, Viduneth Ariyarathna, Diego Coelho, Renato Cintra, and Arjuna Madanayake.
2. A 16-Element 2.4-GHz Digital Array Receiver using 2-D IIR Spatially-Bandpass Plane-Wave Filter, Sravan Pulipati, Viduneth Ariyarathna and Arjuna Madanayake.
   
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The following papers have been accepted for publication at IEEE 2018
International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) to be held in Florence, Italy.

1. Low-Complexity 4-D IIR Filters for Multi-Depth Filtering and Occlusion Suppression in Light Fields, Namalka Liyanage, Chamith Wijenayake, Chamira Edussooriya, Arjuna Madanayake, Pan Agathoklis, Eliathamby Ambikairah, and Len T. Bruton
2. Continuous-Time Analog Computing Circuits for Solving the Electromagnetic Wave Equation, Nilan Udayanga, Arjuna Madanayake, S.I. Hariharan, and Nathaniel Hawk.
3. Multiport ADCs for Microwave Focal Plane Array Dish Receivers, Najath Akram, Arjuna Madanayake, Soumyajit Mandal, Suranga Handagala, and Leonid Belostotski.
4. An Offset-Canceling Approximate-DFT Beamforming Architecture for Wireless Transceivers, Haixiang Zhao, Soumyajit Mandal, Viduneth Ariyarathna, Arjuna Madanayake, and Renato Cintra.

Congratulations, everybody!

Dr. Arjuna Madanayake attended the NSF sponsored mmW Research Coordination Network (RCN) workshop at the University of Arizona, 18-19 January 2018. Two posters were presented.

1) Arjuna Madanayake, Jin Wei, Vishal Saxena (University of Idaho), Dimitra Psyhogiou (UC Boulder), Soumyajit Mandal (Case Western Reserve University), Renato Cintra (UFPE, Brazil), Leo Belostotski (University of Calgary), Gihan Mendis, Viduneth Ariyarathna, Nilan Udayanga, and Yingying Wang (Case Western Reserve University), “Attention, Saliency, and Contextual Adaptation in RF Machine Learning Array Receivers”.

2) Arjuna Madanayake, Renato Cintra (UFPE, Brazil), Dimitra Psychogiou (UC Boulder), Soumyajit Mandal (Case Western Reserve University), Leo Belostotski (University of Calgary), Viduneth Ariyarathna, Diego Coelho (University of Calgary), Vitor Coutinho (UFPE visiting student at University of Akron), Najath Akram, and Nilan Udayanga, “Co-Design of RF Front-Ends and O(N) Approximate-DFTs for Low-SWaP SDR Receivers”.

Congratulations to Vítor Coutinho, Renato Cintra, Fábio Bayer, Paulo Oliveira, Raíza Oliveira, and Arjuna Madanayake for the new paper titled “Pruned Discrete Tchebichef Transform Approximation for Image Compression” accepted for publication at Springer Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing (CSSP).