Projects

ANUSAT

ANUSAT is the Microsatellite being developed jointly by the Integrated Systems Laboratory and Indian Space Research Organization. Its purpose includes testing indigenous communication technologies like On-Board GPS Receiver, Store and Forward Link etc.

I have developed the 1553 Mil. Std. Communication Link between the Bus Control and the 2 Remote Terminals catering to 3 payloads.

I have developed the UART interface used for real time testing the payloads using computers.

I have developed the Navigational Solution Algorithm for the GPS Receiver in 80186 Processor.

I'm also a part of the team in charge for validating the S&F receiver front end consisting of a high speed ADC.

 

Intel India Student Research

I’m currently working on a project titled “Modeling and Optimization of Interconnect and Packaging for High Throughput On-Chip and Off-Chip Communications” mentored by Dr. Arun Chandrasekar of Intel India (Semiconductor and Packaging division). This project attempts to find modeling and optimization techniques of interconnect and packaging for better performance in High Speed VLSI circuits. This project has been presented as poster at the Intel India Student Research Contest 2005.

 

Signal Processing

I’m currently involved in developing a general purpose Genomic Signal Processor. This processor-implemented in an Altera NIOS Soft Core processor on an Altera Cyclone FPGA platform- uses Hidden Markov Model to identify coding regions in a given genetic sequence and also finds common functionalities in protein sequences

Passive Power Transfer and Telemetry for Implanted Device (My undergraduate final year project)

This project, which form a part of my final semester curriculum, marks my entry into analog design. This project does not target any specific Bio-Medical application. This project aims at building a wireless passive power transfer using inductive coupling from the external world into the chips implanted inside human body. Primary coil, which resides in a small gadget carried by the patient inductively couples power into the secondary coil embedded inside the chip implanted in the patient's body and hence gets rid of any wires or any need for surgery for changing batteries. This involves design of Low Drop Out regulator, a DC-DC step up converter, Op-Amp and a Start-Up circuit. We also intend to build a BPSK link to serve a means for external control for the sensors which are implanted. This part of the project (BPSK demodulator) deals with the design of a high-speed VCO, chopper multipliers and  hard limiters. The preliminary departmental review of this project is complete and we have started our work with the design. Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits by Behzad Razavi is serving as our guiding theory (in designing Analog Circuits) in this venture. Our target is 0.35 micron standard CMOS process and we expect this project to reach the lay-out stage. Our project guide is Prof. P. V. Ramakrishna. 

Microcontroller based Automatic Navigation System

I have developed an 8051 Microcontroller-based Automatic Navigation System where in an automobile navigates itself through a Matrix of roads through the shortest path. This project was presented at Pragyan- the National level technical symposium of NIT, Trichy

 

Software implementation of Iris pattern recognition 

This is a software implementation of recognition of a person’s identity using his/her Iris pattern by using Fourier Miller Transform.