{"id":2,"date":"2013-08-06T19:58:40","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T19:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/aspc-lab\/?p=1"},"modified":"2013-08-22T20:35:41","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T20:35:41","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/aspc-lab\/2013\/08\/06\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"New website for ASPC Lab comes online."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello and welcome to Dr Arjuna Madanayake\u2019s research homepage. Old news items for the period December 2009 &#8211; August 2013 is given below.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">August 2013<\/span><br \/>\nThe paper \u201cReconfigurable Phase-Linearizer for 2-D IIR RF-to-Bits Antenna-Array Digital Beam Filters\u201d is accepted at IEEE ICICS\u20182013 to be held in Taiwan. Congrats Sewwandi, Len and Hari!<\/p>\n<p>The paper with Chamith, Mohammad, Leo, Vijay, Rimesh and Len titled \u201cElectronically Scanned RF-to-Bits Beam Aperture Arrays Using 2-D IIR Spatially Bandpass Digital Filters\u201d, has been accepted at Multi-Dimensional Systems and Signal Processing. Congratulations!<\/p>\n<p>Two invited talks given by Roberto Gomez Garcia, U. of Alcala (Spain), (slides) and Firas Hassan, ONU (slides).<\/p>\n<p>The paper\u00a0 \u201cSpace-Time Spectral White Spaces in Cognitive Radio: Theory, Algorithms and Circuits\u201d has been accepted at IEEE JETCAS. Congratulations to John, Chamith and Len!<\/p>\n<p>Professor Roberto Gomez-Garcia from Alcala University, Spain, visits the research group for 1 week.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">July 2013<\/span><br \/>\nOur paper \u201cA 2-D Signal Processing Model to Predict the Effect of Mutual Coupling on Array Factor\u201d has been accepted for publication at IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters (AWPL). Congratulations to Chamith, John, Leo and Len.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Shiva, Dale, Renato and Vassil for the paper \u201cAlgebraic Integer Architecture With Minimum Adder Count for the 2-D Daubechies 4-tap Filters Banks\u201d, which has been accepted for publication at Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing (MSSP).<\/p>\n<p>The paper titled \u201cSystolic Architectures for RF Antenna Apertures using Integral-form 2-D IIR Beam Filters\u201d by Soumya Kondapalli, Arjuna Madanayake and Len Bruton, is accepted at IEEE PACRIM&#8217;2013.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Makarand Deo (NSU) gives a seminar on bioelectromagnetic modeling of the human heart.<br \/>\nUma Potluri and Soumya Kondapalli have defended their masters. Many congratulations ladies!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">June 2013<\/span><br \/>\nArjuna and Chamith attends the 2013 Ohio Innovation Sensor Summit in Dayton, Ohio to present a poster on digital steerable aperture algorithms.<br \/>\nRandeel Wimalagunaratne defends his thesis. Congrats!<\/p>\n<p>Organized and delivered a 1-day seminar for high school seniors from under represented groups at Norfolk State University, Virginia, as part of our NSF-EARS broader impacts plan.<br \/>\nConducted a 1-week electronics workshop for high-school girls in Akron area.<\/p>\n<p>The paper \u201cVLSI Architecture for 4D Depth Filtering\u201d has been accepted for publication in the journal Signal, Image and Video Processing. Congratulations to Randeel, Don, Len and Renato.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">May 2013<\/span><br \/>\nElizabeth Hammel joins as an undergraduate research student as part of our NSF EARS project. Welcome!<\/p>\n<p>Arjuna Madanayake attends IEEE ISCAS\u20182013 and the IEEE CAS Education Workshop in Beijing. The ASPC group published two papers at this meeting.<br \/>\nArjuna Madanayake speaks at the 2013 Communications Gathering at NRL in Washington, DC as part of the progress review for his ONR grant.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Sewwandi and Len for the paper titled \u201cFFT-Based Phase Compensation of 2-D Beam Digital Filters for Electronically Steerable\u00a0RF Arrays\u201d and congratulations to Leo and his Calgary based team for our joint paper titled \u201c10GHz Current-Mode 1st order and 2nd-Order Allpass Filters on 130nm CMOS\u201d. Both papers are accepted at IEEE MWSCAS\u20182013 to be held in Columbus, Ohio, this year.<\/p>\n<p>The paper titled \u201cA Single-Channel Architecture for Algebraic Integer Based 8\u00d78 2-D DCT Computation\u201d has been accepted at IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. Congratulations Amila, Nilanka, Renato and Vassil.<\/p>\n<p>Arjuna Madanayake and Chamith Wijenayake attends SPIE Defense Security + Sensing in Baltimore, MD, to<br \/>\ngive two papers on EARS\/cognitive radio and radar sensor technologies.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">April 2013<\/span><br \/>\nThe paper titled \u201cApproximate Realization of Fractional-Order 2-D IIR Frequency-Planar Filters\u201d with Jay Adams and Len Bruton has been accepted for publication at IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and<br \/>\nSystems (JETCAS) Special Issue on Fractional Order Systems.<\/p>\n<p>The paper titled \u201cIntegral Form 4-D Light Field Filters using Xilinx FPGAs and 45 nm CMOS Technology\u201d is accepted for publication in Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing (MSSP). Congratulations to Randeel, Don, Chamith and Len.<\/p>\n<p>The SDP advised by Dr Arjuna Madanayake is featured in local media. Congratulations to Team \u201cPrecision Pool Aid\u201d. See\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/www.uakron.edu\/engineering\/about-us\/news-detail.dot?newsId=5cbe4e33-ad37-4daf-b908-8bf062dba36e&amp;pageTitle=Recent Headlines&amp;crumbTitle=Learning to swim with the pool sharks\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uakron.edu\/engineering\/about-us\/news-detail.dot?newsId=5cbe4e33-ad37-4daf-b908-8bf062dba36e&amp;pageTitle=Recent%20Headlines&amp;crumbTitle=Learning%20to%20swim%20with%20the%20pool%20sharks\">here<\/a>\u00a0 for the news story and video and click\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/www.wkyc.com\/video\/2308296598001\/0\/Watch-A-Moment-with-Jim-Tressel-April-17-edition\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wkyc.com\/video\/2308296598001\/0\/Watch-A-Moment-with-Jim-Tressel-April-17-edition\">here<\/a>\u00a0for the TV interview with Jim Tressel, Vice President Strategic<br \/>\nDevelopment.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">February 2013<\/span><br \/>\nArjuna Madanayake attends the DARPA SSPARC conference in Arlington, VA.<\/p>\n<p>Judith, Uma, Soumya and Sewwandi present at the Ohio Celebration for Women in Computing (OCWiC\u20182013).<br \/>\nCongratulations to Uma for winning Best Graduate Poster for her masters work on \u201cField Programmable Custom Computing Machines for DCT\/DST and DFT\/FFT Algorithms\u201d. Click\u00a0<a title=\"Home_files\/OCWiCuma.pdf\" href=\"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/4457078\/draft1\/Site_2\/Home_files\/OCWiCuma.pdf\">here<\/a>\u00a0for the winning poster!<\/p>\n<p>The paper by Nilanka, Amila, Arjuna, Renato, Ihab, Denis, and Vassil titled \u201cAsynchronous Realization of Algebraic Integer based 2-D DCT using Achronix Speedster SPD60 FPGA\u201d has been accepted for publication at the Hindawi Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering Special Issue on Hardware Implementation of DSP Algorithms.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">January 2013<\/span><br \/>\nTwo papers are accepted at the SPIE defense conference to be held in Baltimore in 2013.<br \/>\nCongratulations to Chamith, Judith, Uma and Dale a on the accepted paper titled \u201cLow-complexity algorithms for RF source localization and spatio-temporal directional spectrum sensing with applications in cognitive radio\u201d, at the &#8220;SPIE Wireless Sensing, Localization, and Processing VIII&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Chamith, Thushara, Leo, Yonhsheng and Len for the paper titled \u201cRejection of interference and near-field coupled LNA-noise on FPA-fed multibeam dish antennas using 3-D analog filters\u201d at the \u201cSPIE Radar Sensor Technologies XVII\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Amit Rai and Sewwandi Wijeratne joins the research group. A warm welcome to them both.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">December 2012<\/span><br \/>\nThe following papers have been accepted for lecture presentation at the IEEE 2013 Intl. Symp. on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS\u20182013) to be held in Beijing, China. The papers are<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDOA-Estimation and Source-Localization in CR-Networks Using Steerable 2-D IIR Beam Filters\u201d with Chamith, Len and Vijay Devabhaktuni, and<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Steerable DC-1 GHz All-Pass Filter-Sum RF Space-Time 2-D Beam Filter in 65 nm CMOS\u201d with Chamith, Len, Leo and Yongsheng Xu. Congratulations!<\/p>\n<p>The paper entitled \u201cMultidimensional (MD) Circuits and Systems For Emerging Applications Including Cognitive Radio, Radio Astronomy, Robot Vision and Imaging\u201d with Chamith Wijenayake, Len Bruton, Thushara Gunaratne, Don Dansereau and Stefan Williams has been accepted for publication in the IEEE CAS Society Magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Three posters and a talk are accepted for presentation at the Ohio Celebration of Women in Computing, to be held in February 2013. Congratulations Soumya, Uma, Judith and Sewwandi!<\/p>\n<p>Arjuna Madanayake attends the AHEAD working group workshop on Autonomy in Dayton, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>Amila Edirisuriya defends his Masters thesis. Congratulations Amila!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">November 2012<\/span><br \/>\nDr Yves Pauchard from Robarts Research Institute, Canada, visits the ASPC Group and gives a talk.\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/imaging.robarts.ca\/~pauchard\/\" href=\"http:\/\/imaging.robarts.ca\/~pauchard\/\">Slides.<\/a><br \/>\nDr Cintra gives an invited speech for the research group on SAR image processing.\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/axmaq9x\" href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/axmaq9x\">Slides.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Professor Renato Cintra from UFPE, Brazil joins the ASPC Group as a visiting scholar. Warm welcome!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">October 2012<\/span><br \/>\nThe kick-off meeting for our NSF EARS research is held at Norfolk State University in Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>Our proposal to ONR Communications Division Code 312 on Advanced Aperture-Array Beamformers based on MD Signal Processing has been recommended for funding. We thank our program managers Santanu Das and Douglas Crowder for their support.<\/p>\n<p>Microwave Office, Analog Office, and MEEP operational in the lab.<\/p>\n<p>The paper entitled \u201cTowards RF analog IC realization of wave-discrete filters on 65nm CMOS\u201d with Nilanka, Yongsheng, Len, Leo, and Amila, as well as the paper entitled \u201cA Multiplication-free Digital Architecture for 16&#215;16<br \/>\n2-D DCT\/DST Transform with Applications in H.265 Reconfigurable Video Codecs\u201d with Amila, Renato and Fabio, have been accepted for publication at the IEEE-Israel conference 2012. Congratulations all!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">September 2012<\/span><br \/>\nJudith Amarasekera joins as an undergraduate research intern. She will be investigating digital hardware filter algorithms for low-complexity spectrum sensing with applications in cognitive radios. Welcome Judith!<\/p>\n<p>Rob Green from the University of Toledo visits to give a seminar on \u201cCentral Force Optimization\u201d from a computer science perspective.<\/p>\n<p>The paper with Leo Belostotski and Len Bruton titled \u201cWideband LNA with active -C element\u201d has been accepted for publication at IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters. Congratulations!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">August 2012<\/span><br \/>\nAwarded! Our first NSF grant through the\u00a0Enhancing Access to the Radio Spectrum (EARS) Program\u00a0via the EECS directorate. We are grateful to the NSF, our program director Dr. G. Haddad and the American taxpayer for this valuable opportunity for exploring basic science. Click\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1247940\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1247940\">here<\/a>\u00a0for details.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Uma, Renato and Fabio, for their accepted paper \u201cMultiplier-free DCT approximations for RF multi-beam digital aperture-array space imaging and directional sensing\u201d, to appear in IoP Measurement Science and Technology.<\/p>\n<p>Arjuna Madanayake will be offering Embedded Systems Interfacing for the first time, and Advanced Array Signal Processing (graduate level) for the third time, this fall.<\/p>\n<p>Arjuna, Chamith, Soumya and Nilanka drive down to NRAO Green Bank, WV to attend the 2012 CASPER workshop. See our outreach page for slides.<\/p>\n<p>The paper entitled \u201cVLSI Architectures for the 4-tap and 6-tap 2-D Daubechies Wavelet Filters using Algebraic Integers\u201d has been accepted for publication at IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems-I:Regular Papers. Congratulations Shiva, Renato, Dale and Vassil!<\/p>\n<p>Arindam Senguptha and Bill Miller join the ASPC group. Welcome guys!<\/p>\n<p>Dezarae Holman and her team\u00a0wins the student paper award\u00a0at IEEE MWSCAS\u20182012 in Boise, Idaho, for their undergraduate research paper on direct digital amplifiers for ESLs. Many congratulations!\u00a0<a title=\"Home_files\/MWSCAS2012_conf_new.pdf\" href=\"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/4457078\/draft1\/Site_2\/Home_files\/MWSCAS2012_conf_new.pdf\">Slides.<\/a>\u00a0The project was advised by Arjuna Madanayake and Malik Elbuluk as part of their efforts to integrate research with undergraduate teaching of design.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">July 2012<\/span><br \/>\nThe invited paper \u201cA digital hardware fast algorithm and FPGA-based prototype for\u00a0a novel 16-point approximate DCT for image compression applications\u201d was accepted for publication at IoP Measurement Science and Technology (MST). Congratulations to Amila, Fabio and Renato!<\/p>\n<p>The paper \u201cBroadband Multiple Cone-Beam 3D IIR Digital Filters Applied to Planar Dense Aperture Arrays\u201d with Chamith and Len is accepted for publication at IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation (TAP). Congratulations!<\/p>\n<p>John Kota gives a seminar on his summer research on broadband antenna array mutual coupling effects.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Sean Hum, from the University of Toronto, Canada, visits the research group.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">June 2012<\/span><br \/>\nThe paper titled \u201cDigital Architectures for UWB Beamforming using 2-D IIR Spatio-temporal Frequency-Planar Filters\u201d authored with Soumya Kondapalli and Len Bruton is accepted for publication at Hindawi Intl. Journal of Antennas and Propagation Special Issue on Beamforming Networks.<\/p>\n<p>The ASPC Group hosts 4 female students from high schools (K-12) for a 4-day summer program on the design of an\u00a0 audio power amplifier. See the Outreach page for photos!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">May 2012<\/span><br \/>\nCongratulations to DT-06 team John, Dezarae, Kyle, Eric and Malik, for the paper \u201cHigh-Voltage Class-D Direct-Drive Audio Amplifier for Electrostatic Loudspeakers\u201d that has been accepted for publication at IEEE 2012 Mid-West Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS\u20182012).<\/p>\n<p>Arjuna and Chamith attends IEEE 2012 Intl. Symp. on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS\u20182012) in Seoul, South Korea, to give five papers.<\/p>\n<p>Arjuna gives a talk at the Office of Naval Research (ONR) in Washington,DC, titled \u201cUltra-Wideband Aperture Arrays using Multi-Dimensional DSP\u201d at the ONR 2012 Communications Gathering. Invited by Dr Santanu Das.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">April 2012<\/span><br \/>\nNilanka Rajapaksha wins best RA award and Soumya Kondapalli wins a best TA award.<\/p>\n<p>Senior design team \u201cDT06 Digital Amplifier for ESL\u201d is placed 3rd place in this years SDPs. Congratulations to all. Winners announced this Faraday Evening.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Design Team 06, Digital Amplifier for ESLs make LaunchTown Finals. Congratulations to Dezarae Holman<br \/>\nJohn Kota, Kyle Wilson and Eric Matas. The project is supervised by Dr Arjuna Madanayake and Dr Malik Elbuluk. The graduate student mentor is Chamith Wijenayake. Well done.<\/p>\n<p>New paper! Our submission titled \u201cContinuous-time 2D IIR Beam Filters\u201d has been accepted for publication at<br \/>\nIEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems-II:Express Briefs. Congratulations to Mona, Chamith and Len.<\/p>\n<p>Our paper at IEEE CORAL 2012 titled \u201cDirectional Spectrum Sensing using Tunable Multi-D Space-Time Discrete<br \/>\nFilters\u201d has been accepted for publication. Congratulations Chamith, Nghi, Sean, Len and Todor.<br \/>\nNew: paper was nominated for a best paper award!\u00a0<a title=\"Home_files\/CORAL_2012_v1.pdf\" href=\"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/4457078\/draft1\/Site_2\/Home_files\/CORAL_2012_v1.pdf\">Slides.<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080\">March 2012<\/span><br \/>\nCongratulations to Amila, Renato, Vassil and Jithra. Our paper entitled \u201cVLSI Architecture for 8-Point AI-based \u00a0Arai-DCT having Low AT Complexity and Power at Improved Accuracy using 40 nm FPGA and 65 nm Standard\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cells\u201d is accepted for publication at the Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications, Special Issue on Recent Developments.<br \/>\nThe paper titled \u201c2D Space-time Wave-Digital Multi-fan Filter Banks for Signals Consisting of Multiple Plane Waves\u201d with Nilanka and Len Bruton has been accepted for publication at Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing (CSSP). Congratulations!!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">February 2012<\/span><br \/>\nOur paper entitled \u201cBlock-Parallel Systolic-Array Architecture for 2-D NTT-Based Fragile Watermark Embedding\u201d<br \/>\nhas been accepted for publication at Parallel Processing Letters (PPL). Congratulations to Renato, Vassil and Len.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">January 2012<\/span><br \/>\nCongratulations to Nilanka for passing his doctoral qualifier.<\/p>\n<p>The graduate-course Fast Algorithms and VLSI for Digital Signal Processing is offered for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>The following five papers are accepted at the IEEE Intl. Symp. on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS\u20182012) to be held in Soul, Korea next May. Many thanks and congratulations!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Teaching Freshmen VHDL-Based Digital Design&#8221;, with Chamith, Rimesh, Jay Adams, Joan Carletta, Jim Grover, Tom Hartley and Tokunbo Ogunfunmi (Santa Clara University, CA).<br \/>\n\u201cA Combined Approach to Research and Graduate-Level Teaching of Multidimensional Signal Processing, Circuits and Systems\u201d with Len Bruton.<br \/>\n\u201cError-Free VLSI Architecture for the 2-D Daubechies 4-Tap Filter Using Algebraic Integers\u201d with Shiva, Renato, Dale, and Vassil.<br \/>\n\u201cA Systolic-Array Architecture for First-Order 4-D IIR Frequency-Planar Digital Filters\u201d with Randeel, Don and Len.<br \/>\n\u201cDiscrete Space Continuous Time 2D Delay Block Using 2D All-Pass Frequency Planar Networks\u201d with Chamith, Yong Sheng, Leo and Len.<\/p>\n<p>December 2011<br \/>\nAn invited paper based on our published work at IEEE ISCAS\u20182011 is accepted for publication at IEEE TCAS1 Special Issue on ISCAS\u20182011. The paper is titled \u201cRF Analog Beamforming Fan Filters Using CMOS All-pass Time Delay Approximations\u201d. Congrats to Chamith, Yongsheng, Leo and Len!<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations Rimesh, for the successful defense of your Masters thesis. The thesis has lead to 2 published IEEE conference papers and an accepted paper in IEEE Tran. on VLSI systems. Great job!<\/p>\n<p>November 2011<br \/>\nComputer Simulation Technology (CST) Microwave Studio, a distributed parallel processing EM Simulator, is up and running in the ASPC lab.<\/p>\n<p>The paper with Renato, Nilanka, Amila, Denis, Len and Vassil titled \u201cA Row-parallel 8\u00d78 2-D DCT Architecture Using Algebraic Integer Based Exact Computation\u201d has been accepted for publication at IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology [5-year impact factor = 3.012]. Congratulations on your achievement !<\/p>\n<p>October 2011<br \/>\nThe paper with Rimesh, Len and Jithra titled &#8220;Synthesis and Array Processor Realization of a 2D IIR Beam Filter for Wireless Applications\u201d is accepted for publication at IEEE Trans. on VLSI Systems [5-year impact factor=1.5].<br \/>\nCongratulations to the team!!<\/p>\n<p>Our blog goes online at\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/www.aspcgroup.net\/view\/magazine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aspcgroup.net\/view\/magazine\">http:\/\/www.aspcgroup.net<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>September 2011<br \/>\nThe paper with Thushara Gunaratne and Len Bruton titled \u201cReducing The Multiplier-Complexity of Massively-Parallel Polyphase 2D IIR Broadband Beam Filters\u201d\u00a0 is accepted for publication at Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing (CSSP). Impact Factor=0.752.<\/p>\n<p>The graduate-course Advanced Array Signal Processing is offered for the second time at the University of Akron.<\/p>\n<p>August 2011<br \/>\nRimesh attends the IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems to give 4 presentations.<\/p>\n<p>July 2011<br \/>\nChamith and Rimesh attend the 6th NAIC\/NRAO summer school on single-dish radio astronomy. See<a title=\"http:\/\/www.nrao.edu\/meetings\/sds6\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nrao.edu\/meetings\/sds6\/\">http:\/\/www.nrao.edu\/meetings\/sds6\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A paper with Vijay Devabhaktuni et al is accepted for publication at the International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering (Wiley-Blackwell).<br \/>\nThe paper titled \u201cA New Class of Spatially-Discrete Time-Continuous 2D IIR Filters Based on Wave-Digital-Filter Theory\u201d with Len,\u00a0Leo, Nilanka, Chamith and\u00a0Kye-Shin is accepted at IEEE PACRIM\u20182011.<\/p>\n<p>June 2011<br \/>\nNilanka Rajapaksha delivers a review seminar on 2D wave-digital filters at the University of Moratuwa.\u00a0<a title=\"Home_files\/pres.pdf\" href=\"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/4457078\/draft1\/Site_2\/Home_files\/pres.pdf\">Slides<\/a><\/p>\n<p>May 2011<br \/>\nThe following papers are accepted for publication at IEEE N-Dimensional Systems Conference, to be held in France, 2011:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRecent Progress on Analog\/Digital VLSI 2D Filter Circuits For Beamforming Antenna Arrays\u201d with Chamith, Len and Leo.<br \/>\n\u201cDiscrete-Space Continuous-Time Analog Circuits for Spatially-Bandpass 2D IIR Beam Filters\u201d with Rimesh, Mona Maini and Len Bruton.<br \/>\n\u201cModeling The Effects of Electromagnetic Inter-Element Coupling in Broadband Antenna Arrays using Multidimensional DSP\u201d with Leo, Michael Petersson, and Len.<\/p>\n<p>Arjuna Madanayake gives 4 papers at IEEE Intl. Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS\u20182011) in Rio, Brazil.<br \/>\nJithra Adikari speaks on the topic of \u201cHigh speed computer arithmetic hardware for elliptic curve cryptography\u201d.<a title=\"Home_files\/akron.pdf\" href=\"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/4457078\/draft1\/Site_2\/Home_files\/akron.pdf\">Slides<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The following papers have been accepted for publication at IEEE MWSCAS\u20182011 to be held in Korea, this August:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn Asynchronous Array Architecture for 16&#215;1 DCT-4\/DST-4 on a 65nm Achronix SDP60 FPGA\u201d with Dale Mugler and Nilanka Rajapaksha.<br \/>\n\u201cAn Architecture for a 7&#215;7-bit Multiple-Radix Multiplier Building Block\u201d with Jithra Adikari, Amila Edirisuriya, and Vassil Dimitrov.<br \/>\n\u201cA 2D IIR Spatially-Bandpass Antenna Beamformer on a 65nm Achronix SPD60 FPGA\u201d with Rimesh Joshi and Len Bruton.<br \/>\n\u201cDesign and FPGA-Implementation of 1st-Order 4D IIR Frequency-Hyperplanar Digital Filters\u201d with Randeel Wimalagunaratne, Don Dansereau, and Len Bruton.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Jithra Adikari, PDF at Dept. of ECE, University of Waterloo, Canada, is visiting the ASPC Group for 1-week.<br \/>\nWelcome to UAkron, Jithra.<\/p>\n<p>April 2011<br \/>\nDr Vijay Devabhaktuni from the University of Toledo visits the research group and gives an invited talk on<br \/>\n\u201cMultidisciplinary and Sponsored Graduate Research Program at the Computer Aided Design and Simulation Lab\u201d.<br \/>\nRimesh Man Joshi wins the Faraday TA of the year! Congratulations!!<br \/>\nRimesh and Chamith are selected for the 2011 NRAO Summer School in single-dish radio astronomy,<br \/>\nChamith Wijenayake wins the university-wide CUGSR graduate student research award.<br \/>\nCongratulations on your achievements.<\/p>\n<p>February 2011<br \/>\nDr Todor Cooklev, Director of the Wireless Technologies Center at Purdue-Indiana, delivers a research seminar on \u201cModern Wireless Systems\u201d as well as a guest lecture in Dr Madanayake\u2019s digital logic design class.<\/p>\n<p>Our joint paper with Sean Hum at the University of Toronto and Len Bruton at the University of Calgary, Canada, entitled<br \/>\n\u201cEffects of Quantization in Systolic 2D IIR Beam Filters on UWB Wireless Communications\u201d\u00a0 has been accepted for publication<br \/>\nat the Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing (CSSP). Congratulations Sean and Len!<\/p>\n<p>January 2011<br \/>\nChamith Wijenayake delivers an invited seminar and paper at the Department of Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, entitled \u201cAnalog\/Digital VLSI 2D Beam\/Fan Filter Circuits For UWB Smart Antenna Arrays: A Review\u201d. The paper is co-authored by Arjuna Madanayake, Leo Belostotski, and Len Bruton.<\/p>\n<p>The ASPC group completes one year of existence.<br \/>\nUma, Randeel, Amila and Shivakumar join as Masters students.\u00a0 Welcome to the team !<\/p>\n<p>December 2010<br \/>\nThe following papers have been accepted for publication at the next<a title=\"http:\/\/www.iscas2011.org\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iscas2011.org\/\">\u00a0IEEE Intl. Symposium on Circuits and Systems ISCAS\u20182011<\/a>, the flagship conference in the circuits area, to be held in Rio, Brazil next May.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnalog 2D Fan Filters from Discrete Domain Transfer Functions\u201d with Leo, Chamith and Len.<br \/>\n\u201cAsynchronous-QDI 2D IIR Digital Filter Circuits\u201d with Nilanka.<br \/>\n\u201cAntenna-Array 2D-IIR Digital Filters for Carrier-Modulated Frequency-Agile and Cognitive Wireless<br \/>\nSystems\u201d with Hamid and Len.<br \/>\n\u201cAlgebraic Integer Based 8&#215;8 2-D DCT Architecture for Digital Video Processing\u201d with Renato, Vassil, Denis and Len.<\/p>\n<p>Well done! and thanks for all your hard work!<\/p>\n<p>Nilanka attends IEEE ICM\u20182010 in Cairo, Egypt to give two papers. See September news for details.<\/p>\n<p>November 2010<br \/>\nArjuna Madanayake delivers an invited seminar at the Department of EECS, University of Toledo, Ohio.<br \/>\nTopic: Fast Spacetime Algorithms and VLSI Circuits for Wideband RF Array Processing. Invited by Professor Vijay Devabhaktuni.<\/p>\n<p>Arjuna Madanayake is appointed as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Department of ECE, University of Calgary, Canada, starting January 2011.<\/p>\n<p>October 2010<br \/>\nThe Cadence VLSI tools with Mosis CMOS kit, Mentor Precision, and Xilinx ISE is up and running on our Linux server.<br \/>\nChamith attends IEEE SIPS\u20182010 in California and gives a paper.\u00a0<a title=\"Home_files\/SIPS_2010.pdf\" href=\"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/4457078\/draft1\/Site_2\/Home_files\/SIPS_2010.pdf\">Slides<\/a><\/p>\n<p>September 2010<br \/>\nArjuna and Renato visit the\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/www.ipfw.edu\/wtc\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ipfw.edu\/wtc\/\">Wireless Technology Center<\/a>\u00a0at Indiana University &#8211; Purdue University, Fort Wayne, IN.<\/p>\n<p>Renato delivers a guest lecture on trigonometric transforms, fast algorithms, and number-theory for the graduate course \u201cAdvanced Array Signal Processing\u201d. Thanks for the excellent lecture!<\/p>\n<p>The joint paper with Dr. Len Bruton titled \u201cSystolic-Array 3D Wave-Digital Beam Filters\u201d is accepted for future publication at the IEEE 2010 Asia Pacific Symposium on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS\u20182010) to be held in Malaysia, in December 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Nilanka\u2019s paper on &#8220;Raster-Scanned Wave-Digital Filter Architectures for Multi-Beam 2D IIR Broadband Beamforming&#8221; (with Chamith and Len Bruton) is accepted for presentation at IEEE ICM\u20182010 in Cairo, Egypt this December. Great job, Nilanka and Chamith!<\/p>\n<p>The joint paper with our collaborators Ranga Rodrigo, Len Bruton, and 4 undergraduate researchers at the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, titled &#8220;Scanned-Array Audio Beamforming using 2nd- and 3rd-Order 2D IIR Beam Filters on FPGA&#8221; is accepted for presentation at IEEE ICM\u20182010 in Cairo, Egypt. Well done, team.<\/p>\n<p>Renato Cintra (with Vassil Dimitrov as co-author) delivers an invited lecture on his recent contribution on \u201cAn Arithmetic Method for the Discrete Fourier Transform\u201d. Slides are available\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/4433507\/slides-ACT.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/4433507\/slides-ACT.pdf\">here.<\/a>n<\/p>\n<p>The paper \u201cMassively-parallel systolic-array architectures for 2D IIR polyphase space-time plane-wave beam digital filters\u201d\u00a0 (with Thushara Gunaratne and Len Bruton) has been accepted for future publication at the International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications (CTA) [Impact Factor =2.011].<\/p>\n<p>Professor Renato Cintra, Professor Adjunto at the Department of Statistics Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil, joins the group for the month of September. A warm welcome to Akron Renato!<\/p>\n<p>August 2010<br \/>\nArjuna Madanayake delivers invited seminar and paper titled \u201cMultidimensional-DSP Algorithms and Hardware Architectures for Widefield Aperture-Arrays Aimed at The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) Project\u201d, at the Department of Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>Chamith presents a paper at IEEE 2010 MidWest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS) in Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>July 2010<br \/>\nProfessor Luidthardt Wolfram visits the Swiss students in Akron. Welcome Wolfram!<\/p>\n<p>June 2010<br \/>\nDavid Zanella and Adrien Chassot from Switzerland start their internship at the University of Akron. Adrien will be working on a custom board for multidimensional-DSP using Achronix FPGA technology. David will work on a client-server interface to our filter algorithms database using Matlab NE.<\/p>\n<p>Chamith\u2019s paper \u201cFPGA Prototypes of Differential-Form 2D-IIR Systolic-Array DSP Architectures for Multi-Beam Plane-Wave Filters\u201d has been accepted for publication at IEEE SIPS\u20182010 to be held in California. Congratulations Chamith!<\/p>\n<p>May 2010<br \/>\nArjuna Madanayake presents a paper at ISCAS\u20182010 in Paris, France.<\/p>\n<p>The group is visited by Achronix Semiconductor FAE Sujata Mahidhara for a 1-day training session.<\/p>\n<p>Chamith\u2019s paper &#8220;Systolic Array Architecture for 2D IIR Wideband Dual-Beam Space-Time Plane-Wave Filters&#8221; (with Dr Len Bruton) has been accepted for publication at IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS\u20182010) in August. Congratulations Chamith!<\/p>\n<p>April 2010<br \/>\nDan, Eric, and Matt joins the group as undergraduate summer researchers. Jimmy will start in the Fall. Welcome guys !<\/p>\n<p>Rimesh joined the group as an MSc student. Welcome Rimesh!<\/p>\n<p>Awarded a Firestone Research Initiatives grant.<\/p>\n<p>January 2010<br \/>\nThe paper titled &#8220;Multidimensional Raster-Scanned LC-Ladder Wave-Digital Filter Hardware for Directional Filtering in Space-Time&#8221; (with Dr. Len Bruton) has been accepted for publication at the IEEE 2010 International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS&#8217;2010). Paris, here we come!<\/p>\n<p>Nilanka and Chamith joined the research group as MSc students. Welcome!<\/p>\n<p>December 2009\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Arjuna Madanayake joined the University of Akron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello and welcome to Dr Arjuna Madanayake\u2019s research homepage. Old news items for the period December 2009 &#8211; August 2013 is given below. August 2013 The paper \u201cReconfigurable Phase-Linearizer for 2-D IIR RF-to-Bits Antenna-Array Digital Beam Filters\u201d is accepted at IEEE ICICS\u20182013 to be held in Taiwan. Congrats Sewwandi, Len and Hari! 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