Radio Frequency & Integrated Circuits Systems Lab

Spring 2021 Tapeouts

Kamal 1 Projects

· Fault-Tolerant CLB:

Application: Radiation-hard space electronics

Cadence RTL Process

· Approximate ALU:

Application: Image Processing

Cadence RTL Process for Design

· Hardware TRNG:

Application: Cryptography and 5G systems

Analog Blocks Design: Cadence ADE, Digital Filters Design Cadence RTL

· mm-Wave Phase Shifter:

Application: Massive MIMO

Analog Blocks Design: Cadence ADE

RF Modeling: RF Pro in Cadence Virtuoso

Kamal 2 Projects

· TENG Harvester:

Application: Nano Energy Harvesting

Cadence ADE Design & Implementation

· AC Logic Family:

Application: IoT Smart Dust

Cadence ADE Design & Implementation

· ΣΔ ADC:

Application: Massive MIMO

MATLAB Modeling

Cadence ADE Implementation & Verification

· mm-Wave Phase Shifter:

Application: Massive MIMO

Analog Blocks Design: Cadence ADE

RF Modeling: RF Pro in Cadence Virtuoso

Fuel Sensor

· The proposed sensor is based on the recently reported phenomena of energy tunnelling. Therefore, the basic idea behind contamination detection is unique and new.

· The proposed sensor is low power, rugged, simple and highly sensitive; it can detect a minor change in the dielectric constant of the fuel.

· The operational power requirements of the sensor are extremely low.

· The proposed fuel sensor is self-calibrated to tackle the effect of temperature on measurements. No separate temperature measurements are needed unlike the current state of the art sensors.

Markets interest

· Oil industry

· Automobile Industry, inside the engine for continuous monitoring of the fuel quality to the engine.

· Fuel tanks of the automobiles

· Fuel stations (Petrol Pumps)

· Fuel transportation vehicles

· Aerospace industry,

· Jet engine oil quality monitoring in flying airplanes, to detect the water vapor condensation in oil due to low temperatures.

· Fuel tanks in the wings of airplanes

· Oil storage tanks, where the oil is stored for long time

· Oil tankers ships, for possible water and microbial contaminations from the sea.

High-Frequency Dielectric Sensor

· A new class of Microwave Energy Tunneling-Based Dielectric sensor for solid and Liquid samples

· Can detect Minor variation in the Dielectric Constant

· Can detect minute variation in the dielectric properties of human blood.

· Design for explicitly for the medical industry

Key Features

The Proposed Sensor can detect,

· Tumor and cancer cells

· Can tell the exact Blood group and its condition

· Blood Sugar level can be detect with more accuracy

· Can be used for forensic Analysis

· Gender detection in forensic

· More accurate with small samples and also works equally fines with THz frequency ranges

Plant Moisture Sensor

· Work on the phnomenon of phase dispursion

· Work for real leaf and foliage samples

· The technique is very simple yet very effective, it detects the permittivity of water inside the sample

Key Features

· The proposed sensors are self-powered

· The sensors are more sensitive and stable then the market available sensors

· These sensors have huge market in agriculture industry

· The techniques used are non-invasive

· These sensors also have prompting applications in the timber market and furniture market where moisture level inside wood is very important

Brest Tumor Detection

· The Unit cell simulation is done in lab and soon will tested for metasurface.

· The sensors are very low cast and extremely sensitive and can be installed in daily wears for early detection.

· Complete electromagnetic imaging is possible

· Can detect a tiny size of the tumor inside the Brest sample

· The same technique can be extended to detect the Brain Tumors

· Combination of receiver and transmitters can be used to detect the tumor in other body parts.

· Tumor at very early stage can be detect using phase detection methods.

Address

Department of Electrical Engineering,

FAST-NUCES,

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