name: Manfred Ley

position: Professor Digital Systems Design
address: Europastrasse 4; A - 9524 Villach 
room nr: ST 2.07 2nd floor 
phone: +43 5 90500 2119
fax: +43 5 90500 2010
email: m.ley(at)fh-kaernten.at

Course of education

• Elementary school
• Secondary modern school
• Technical high school - communications- and RF-engineering
• Ms.C. from the technical university Graz - medical electronics

Working experience

• Microelectronics design: Analog and digital design with bipolar and mos-technologies, CAD tool and design flow evaluations, test support, project coordination
• Medical electronics: Equipment design for ultrasonic therapy applications
• Embedded systems: Embedded control systems and safety related systems design for semiconductor manufacturing equipment, FPGA design, quality verification
• At Carinthia University of Applied Sciences: Setup of CUAS microelectronic lab's, lectures and labs in microelectronics design and embedded systems design, industry cooperation projects in the field of ASIC design and FPGA design

Fields of interests

• Microelectronics design methodologies and CAD tools
• Design and application of mixed signal integrated circuits
• Digital Systems Design for ASIC and FPGA technologies

Selected Publications

• Low-Power Decimation Filter for 2.5 GHz Operation in Standard-Cell Implementation. in: IAENG (Hrsg.): IAENG International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists 2011, 13-16 Mar 2011, Hong Kong, p933-937, Certificate of merit paper
• A 2.5 GHz CMOS Standard-Cell Decimation Filter for Mobile Communication. in: MIPRO (Hrsg.): 34th International convention on Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics, 23-27 Mai 2011, Opatija, p124-129
• Decrease of power consumption in digital non-recursive filters using unsigned arithmetic. SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL JOURNAL ELECTROTECHNIC AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS, 2010/77(01): p131-135
• USB Audio Streaming System with FPGA, an Example of Project-Based Education in Microelectronics, Presentation on 30th International Convention MIPRO07, 21.05. – 25.05.2007, Opatija, Croatia, Proceedings Microelectronics, Electronics and Electronic Technologies p170-174, ISBN 978-953-233-032-8
• Distributed Embedded Safety Critical Real-Time Systems, Design and Verification Aspects on the Example of the Time Triggered Architecture,  Invited paper 39th International Conference on Microelectronics, Devices and Materials MIDEM03, 1.10 - 3.10.2003, Ptuj, Slovenia,  Proceedings p51-62, ISBN 961-91023-1-2
• TTA-C2 a SINGLE CHIP COMMUNICATION CONTROLLER for the TIME-TRIGGERED-PROTOCOL,   Proceedings ICCD, IEEE International Conference on Computer Design 2002, Freiburg, Germany -  ISBN 0-7695-1700-5, p450-453
• VLSI COMMUNICATION INTERFACE FOR TIME-TRIGGERED REAL-TIME SYSTEMS,  e&i Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik 7/8-2002, p223-227
• Matlab Toolbox for VLSI-Design of Bit-serial FIR Filters, Proceedings of Austrochip 2001, October 2001, pp. 85-91
• A SINGLE CHIP COMMUNICATION INTERFACE FOR TIME-TRIGGERED REAL-TIME SYSTEMS, Proceedings Austrochip 1999, October 1999, Villach, Austria, pp117-122
• One patent in the field of microelectronics

Private interests

• Travelling to see other parts of the globe, preferable off beaten tracks
• mountaineering
• Caving, member of Austrian Cave Rescue Association