Radio and radar receivers
Research and design of energy efficient receivers with high-speed analog-to-digital converters. We can connect the receiver to the A-Core RISC-V processor to utilize the programmability of the processor to enable flexible digital signal processing, calibration and correction algorithms.
Additionally, we research new programmatic analog and mixed signal design methodologies. For this we utilize open-source The System Development Kit (TheSyDeKick, https://github.com/TheSystemDevelopmentKit) framework for design and verification and Berkeley Analog Generator (BAG, https://gitlab.com/mosaic_group/mosaic_BAG) as the programmatic circuit construction framework. The Python-based combination allows us to develop design procedures and algorithms that can automatically design circuits from specification to implementation, to achieve high performance. We can use the same environment to define and model the system, then design the individual components and replace them with circuit implementations and eventually even measure the fabricated chip.
The radio and radar receiver research combines programming and integrated circuit design in a new and challenging way, which teaches our designers both programmatic methodologies and fundamentals of microelectronics design.