Analysis, design and implementation of reliable, robust, low power, wideband analog IC and VLSI systems

电子设备是我们日常生活的一部分。电子设备或系统旨在以电信号的形式处理信息。在真实的物理世界中，信号随时间不断变化。这种信号被称为模拟信号。目前的研究工作将涉及发明新的电子设备，可以使用现代亚微米（小于百万分之一米）集成电路技术。该设备和使用这些设备构建的任何更大的系统应该在不同的环境条件下可靠地运行。重点将放在节省电池功率和处理随时间变化非常快的模拟电信号上。因此，工作将涉及低功耗，高频，鲁棒性，可靠的模拟集成电路和系统的分析，设计和实现。我们的研究将集中在能够处理每秒变化数亿次（或更多）的电信号的设备上。这些信号被称为高频信号。这些装置可用于各种电子系统，例如光纤通信、计算机、个人通信装置、无线通信等。然而，可以使用特殊的优化技术来降低这种功耗。因此，我们的工作将涉及低功率高频电子设备的创新。所有使用模拟信号工作的电子设备都随着环境条件的变化而表现出功能的变化，即，温度变化、电池电压变化等。通过应用特殊的反馈技术，可以将这些变化降至最低。因此，我们的任务将涉及创造可靠和强大的模拟电子设备和系统的研究。欧洲和亚洲在模拟和射频电子方面有着非常强大的基础。我们希望我们的研究将为加拿大人提供一批在电气工程这一竞争领域非常熟练的技术人员。

Electronic devices are part of our day to day lives. An electronic device or system is meant to handle information in the form of electrical signal. In the real physical world, the signals change continuously with time. Such signals are referred to as analog signals.The current research work will involve inventing new electronic devices that can be built using modern sub-micron (smaller than one-millionth of a meter) integrated circuit technologty. The device and any bigger system built using these devices should operate reliably under varying enviromental conditions. The emphasis will be on to save the bettery power and to process analog electrical signals that changes very rapidly with time. Thus the work will involve analysis, design and implemenattion of low power, high frequency, robust, reliable anlog integrated circuits and systems. Our research will concentrate on devices which can work with electrical signals that change several hundred million times (or more) in a second. These signals are referred to as high frequency signals. These devices may find use in variety of electronic systems such as fiber optic communication, computers, personal communication devices, wireless communication and so on. It is known that devices operating at high frequencies consume substantial power from the battery. However, special optimization technique can be used to reduce this power consumption. Thus our work will involve innovations for low-power high-frequency electronic devices. All electronic devices working with analog signals exhibit changes in functionality with changes in environmental conditions i.e., temperature change, battery voltage change and so on. By applying special feedback techniques, such changes can be minimized. Thus our task will involve research for creating reliable and robust analog electronic devices and systems. Europe and Asia have very strong base in analog and radio frequency electronics. We hope that our research shall provide Canadians with a group of very highly skilled technical personnel in this competitive area of electrical engineering.