EMS - Embedded Microelectronic Systems

Embedded microelectronic systems are complex, integrated circuits consisting of analog and digital interfaces, signal processing modules with digital filters, DSP cores, controller cores and hard-wired modules for time critical tasks.

EMS goal is to build up competence in this field by carrying out various projects. EMS work is carried out from 1.10.2001 till 30.9.2004 and funded by bmvit and industry.

Major EMS Project Activities of the Microelectronics Group:    

One major activity concentrated on the development of Matlab toolbox functions for the design and implementation of digital multi-rate filters. This work is partly funded by SoC-Mobinet. Major activities are:

• OPTIMIST-FIR, a student project carried out in 2000/2001. OPTIMIST stands for Optimized Implementation of Bit-level Structures.
• OPTIMIST-Biquad, in this project the Matlab toolbox is further enhanced with cascaded biquads.
• Design and implementation of various multi-rate decimation and interpolation filters.
• OPTIMIST-Polyphase, a project to extend the Matlab toolbox developed in OPTIMIST-FIR for the implementation of poly-phase FIR structures (internship and diploma thesis).
• Development of script-based design flow for multirate decimation and interpolation filters.

Other microelectronics activities in the field of digital and mixed-signal VLSI design are:

• Design of a configurable CORDIC processor (diploma thesis).
• Full custom VLSI design of a parallel multiplier module.
• Feasibility study for the integration of a floating point multiply and accumulate (MAC) unit.
• Design and implementation of an integrated temperature sensor (project POSITIV). This project started as student project (2002/2003) and continued as internship and diploma thesis (2003/2004).

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