Name: Erwin Ofner
Position: FH Professor for Microelectronics
Address: Europastrasse 4   A - 9524 Villach
Room nr: ST 2.05
Phone: +43 4242 90500 2117
Fax: +43 4242 90500 2010
Email: e.ofner(at)fh-kaernten.at

Course of Education

• Electrical Engineering at the University of Technologies in Graz, Electronics and Communications

Working Experience

• FH-Professor for Microelectronics at the Carinthia University of Applied Sciences in Villach, Austria, program director of master degree program ISCD - Integrated Systems and Circuits Design
• Research projects funded by industry, national sources or the European Commission
  Reviewer for the European Commission in FP5, Information Technologies (mixed-signal and low-power cluster)
• IC design and management of IC-design groups, responsible for a variety of mixed-signal and DSP based ICs at austriamicrosystems (formerly AMS) in Unterpremstätten and Santa Clara, USA.

Fields of Interest

• VLSI Digital Signal Processing, especially hard-wired digital filter structures for VLSI
• Mixed-signal integrated circuits

Publications

• E. Ofner, C. Zhang, H. Zhou: "Integration of Low-Power Decimation Filters", in Tagungsband 3. Forschungsforum der Österreichischen Fachhochschulen 2009, Villach, Austria, April 2009, pp147-151, ISBN 978-3-853-91285-0.
• C. Zhang, E. Ofner: "A 2.5V, 5mW UMTS and GSM Dual Mode Decimation Filter for Sigma Delta ADC", in Proceedings of A-SSCC 2007 in Jeju, Nov 2007, pp272-275, ISBN 1-4244-1359-1.
• S. Hainz, E. Ofner, D. Hammerschmidt, T. Werth, H. Grünbacher: "Position Detection in Automotive Application by Adaptive Inter Symbol Interference Removal", in Proc. IEEE Sensors 2006, Daegu, Korea.
• E. Ofner, J. Nurmi, J. Madsen, J. Isoaho and H. Tenhunen, "SoC-Mobinet – R&D and Education in System-on-Chip Design," in Proc. International Symposium on System-on-Chip SoC2004, November 16-18 2004, Tampere, Finland.
• E. Ofner, A. Pester, H. Grünbacher, "A Matlab Toolbox for VLSI-Design of Bit-serial FIR Filters as Example of Problem Based Learning in Microelectronics Education", in Proc. of 4th European Workshop on Microelectronics Education EWME 2002, May 2002, Baiona, Spain.
• K. Riedmüller, R. Forsyth, A. Gierlinger, G. Grimm, E. Ofner, S. Sattler, K. Windsheimer, "A Mixed-signal ASIC with Embedded DSP Core for Power Meter Application", in Proc. ESSCIRC, September 1998, The Hague, The Netherlands, pp. 460 - 463.
• E. Ofner and S. Sattler, "Design of Hard-wired Digital Filters for ASICs Using Module Generators", in Proc. ECCTD'97, September 1997, Budapest, Hungary, pp. 783 - 788.
• T. Karema and E. Ofner, "A Single Chip GSM Vocoder with Analogue Frontend", in Proc. ESSCIRC, September 1994, Ulm, Germany, pp. 132 - 135.

Personal Interest

• Family
• Outdoors (climbing, skiing, biking)